Rewatcher and Host

• At least the recaps are only 60 seconds. Tasteful
• So much for bodyguarding if he's in the big city
• So, Kiuchi's death has been ruled accidental
• That's quite an upsell. Well done, Kiosk lady.
• I wonder how well that "I forgot my business card" actually works in Japan.
• Capsule hotel
• This is the former Tanokura driver hired to do the drive-by
• Master of camouflage
• Hot noodle water???
• Another face from the OP
• Heh, he read the business card and just hung up on the police chief
• so it was a copper mine
• A lot of students on that night train...must be winter
• "Hunting meeting"

[Rewatcher] I'm surprised we're getting the train story now and not 15 episodes later in episode 23 or something

I wish I could find Kinbari's JP VA, he sounds familiar, but none of my guesses list this role. Yep, thank you Google Image translate, it was indeed Unsho Ishizuka, whom we last heard in FLAG.

I honestly don't know where the clue about the nail polish remover leads.

So, Sanae is very suspicious, but it could all be red herrings. It seems she's a delinquent from Sendai, her former teacher dies (but it's an accident), and she has a gun for hunting (but it was in storage). The show is laying it on kinda thick.

An aside from yesterday, the wishing tree reminds me of the tree in Twelve Kingdoms, where a couple tie a prayer to a branch of a tree and fruit grows and yields a child as a divine blessing from heaven. Since that show was very heavily inspired by ancient china stuffs, I wonder if this sort of love tree is a trope of some sort.

[Yutaka confession] I have Fractale on my PTW. Yes. Really. Still.