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Wax Doll Castle Murder Case is the 3rd case in anime Kindaichi Case Files : 1997 Series.
Story[]
Characters[]
Suspect List[]
- Edward Colombo (17) -Los Angeles Police Inspector.
- Maria Friedrich (19) -Forensics Analyst, German Police.
- Kusaburo Bando (47) -Mystery Novel Critic.
- Richard Anderson (47) -Criminal Psychologist.
- Megumi Toma (47) -Detective.
- Jin Makime (30) -Crime Journalist.
- Kahoru Takigawa (45) - Mystery Novelist.
- Shunzo Minamiyama (35) - Butler.
- Kengo Akechi (??) - Superintendent of Metropolitan Police Office.
Cases[]
First Case[]
Second Case[]
Third Case[]
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Manga to Anime Differences[]
- Ryuji Saki doesn't appear
- Cut the scene at Fudo High School in the beginning
- The process leading up to Kindaichi's participation in the Mystery Night has been changed
- Inspector Kenmochi was also scheduled to participate, but he lost in the lottery and ended up going on a hot spring trip himself.
- Along with that, the detective who takes Kindaichi to Baltic Castle is changed to Inspector Kenmochi, just like in the drama version.
- This is the first appearance of Superintendent Akechi, and Kindaichi and Superintendent Akechi will meet for the first time in this work.
- The place where Kindaichi meets Maria is changed to the entrance of Baltic Castle.
- In the original story, Kindaichi was talking about the electric light, but in the anime version, it was changed to solve the code to open the entrance.
- The scene where Redrum says the names of the participants is cut.
- After dinner on the first day, Akechi changed from suggesting, "Why don't we play billiards?"
- Like the drama version, the 300 million yen case was changed to the 400 million yen case.\
- Takigawa's ring lights up with SE every time something happens, making it easy to understand the hints for solving the mystery. Even after the ring is lost, the angle of the hand on the face is drawn close-up for a friendly design.
- Richard and Maria speak Japanese fluently from the beginning.
- There are no scenes of Makime playing tricks in the torture room or tricking Maria.
- Scenes in the torture room are completely cut, including Makime's case above
- Kindaichi changes the way he calls Superintendent Akechi, who answered correctly in the quiz in the game room, from "Akechi-kun" to "Superintendent of the First Investigative Division".
- When Kindaichi explains the reason for the reasoning error, he explains with a smile.
- In the original story, the story of how Miyuki found Toma's "corpse" remains unknown, but in the anime, there is a scene in which Hajime invites Miyuki to a billiard hall in the middle of the night and makes him the first to discover the wax figure murder. Drawn. Moreover, he pissed off Miyuki when he told the story
- After Toma's murder, Hajime sleeps in Miyuki's room at her request.
- The scene where Bando mispronounces the dying message as "dining~" was changed to the scene where Hajime explains the dying message to Miyuki.
- The scene where Richard asks Minamiyama about the package sent by Redrum is cut.
- It depicts a scene in which a mobile phone collected from a participant is destroyed and thrown away at the gate.
- Cut the scene where Akechi warns Richard
- The scene where Richard looks at his wax figure and explains to everyone that he has a scar behind his ear is cut.
- "Iron maiden" does not appear. Along with that, Richard's killing method was changed to beating (in the original, he only fainted when he was hit with a blunt weapon).
- There are many Maria-related cutscenes (a cut in which she licks blood while examining Toma's corpse, a scene in which Maria is confined, and an entanglement with Kindaichi just before she rushes to Akechi's room, etc.).
- Maria's motives for participating in Mystery Night are revealed.
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Wax Doll Castle Murder Case Suspect List