Spoiler warning: This article covers Kansuke Yamato’s past and reveals the shooter and memory twist in One-eyed Flashback.
The manga and television anime connect Kansuke’s damaged left eye to an avalanche. The movie adds a rifle shot immediately before it. In the film’s account, these are successive events, not competing explanations.
The distinction matters because the shooting is movie-only evidence. It should not be described as a scene already shown in Volume 59, and the film does not give a precise medical account of which injury caused every part of the damage.
The avalanche account and the movie’s added detail
| Source | What it establishes | What it does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| Manga and television anime: the Furinkazan case | Kansuke was caught in an avalanche while pursuing a suspect, disappeared for six months, and returned with injuries to his left eye and leg. | A rifle shot immediately before the avalanche. |
| One-eyed Flashback | A rifle bullet grazes his left-eye area before an avalanche engulfs him. His missing memories connect the old incident with the current case. | The exact medical contribution of each injury, or how each line of the X-shaped scar formed. |
Kansuke already has the scar and walks with a cane when he enters the manga. The avalanche explains that background, while many details of the ordeal remain outside the original account.
The film returns to that gap. On Mount Miho, in the Yatsugatake range, Kansuke is pursuing a man through the snow when a distant rifle shot grazes his left-eye area. The avalanche follows immediately afterward.
He is not shown having his eye shot through with a handgun. Equally, it would go too far to assign the entire loss of sight to the bullet alone. The film presents a violent sequence; it does not isolate every physical cause within it.
Ten months since the accident is not six months unconscious
The film places the mountain incident ten months before its present-day story. The six months mentioned in the earlier account describe the time Kansuke was missing after the avalanche.
Those periods can coexist: the disappearance occupies part of the longer interval between the accident and the film. Recovery and his return to work follow, but there is no complete day-by-day schedule.
Missing for six months does not establish that he was unconscious for all six months. The time before he was found and the details of his treatment are not explained closely enough to support that claim.
The X-shaped scar still has unexplained details
The shot and avalanche explain the larger ordeal in the movie’s version. They do not show exactly when each line of the scar was formed.
It is reasonable to associate the scar with that incident. It is not established that one bullet made the entire X, or that particular rocks or branches made its separate lines. Keeping that small uncertainty is more accurate than inventing a physical explanation the film never supplies.
Who shot Kansuke, and why?
In the movie, the shooter is Atsunobu Hayashi. Kansuke’s pursuit of Mikuriya brings him close to conduct Hayashi needs to conceal, making him a witness who could expose the secret.
The attack is an attempt to silence a detective whose investigation has reached dangerous ground. It is not presented as a personal grudge against Kansuke. That gives the wound a particular connection to his character: he was targeted because he kept following the case.
The rifle shot is deliberate. The avalanche follows it, but the sequence does not establish that Hayashi precisely predicted or controlled the natural disaster.
How the missing memory returns
Kansuke has seen something crucial, but the ordeal leaves him unable to retrieve the full memory. In the film’s present, pain around his injured eye accompanies the return of impressions connected with the mountain incident.
The parabolic antenna, Mikuriya, the snow, and the avalanche all bring elements of the past back into reach. The pain works alongside those surroundings as a trigger; his eye does not literally store and replay an image of the culprit.
“The culprit is in my memory!” (unofficial translation)
Kansuke Yamato
The recovering memory joins the old attack to the current investigation. The person he once saw has not vanished from his history simply because he temporarily cannot recall him.
That is the film’s strongest reversal for Kansuke. A wound associated with what he lost becomes part of the route back to evidence he still carries.
The episodes, volume, and movie to look for
| Where | Reference | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Manga | Volume 59, Files 5–10 | Kansuke’s debut in the Furinkazan case; avalanche and disappearance background. |
| Television anime | International episodes 564–566; Japanese episodes 516–517 | The adaptation of that case. Japanese episode 516 is a longer installment, split into international episodes 564–565. |
| Movie | One-eyed Flashback (2025) | The shooting before the avalanche, the shooter, and Kansuke’s returning memories. |
The television installments are Furinkazan – The Mysterious Armored Warrior and Furinkazan – Shadow and Lightning Conclusion. Their different episode counts are a numbering difference, not an extra television scene containing the rifle shot.
Start with the Furinkazan case to see how Kansuke’s history was originally introduced. The movie then explores its own additional account of the moments before and after the avalanche. Reading or watching them in that order makes the boundary between the sources clearer.
Why Kansuke also walks with a cane
The avalanche injured Kansuke’s left leg as well as his eye. The lasting effects on his leg are why he uses a cane from his first appearance.
The movie’s added shot concerns the area around his left eye; it does not provide a separate gunshot explanation for the leg injury. The earlier avalanche account remains the basis for that part of his condition.
His return to active investigations makes the cane more than a visual shorthand for an intimidating detective. It is evidence of an ordeal he continues to live with while still choosing to go into the field.
What the injury adds to Kansuke’s character
Kansuke’s eye and leg injuries are not merely visual traits. They connect his determination as a detective, his history with Yui Uehara and Takaaki Morofushi, and the movie’s account of his recovered memory.
Kansuke’s rough manner can initially make him look like someone who advances through force alone. His deductions show something more careful: he notices inconsistencies, reads other people’s actions, and continues investigating despite physical limitations.
The six-month disappearance also belongs to the people waiting for him. Yui is his childhood friend, and Takaaki has known and competed with him since they were young. Their present-day exchanges carry a history in which someone familiar could have been lost for good.
It is an interpretation to see that fear beneath every ordinary remark. Still, knowing the background changes the texture of the trio’s arguments and cooperation: they have more behind them than a routine working relationship.
The movie gives the injury another role by connecting it to the recovered memory. Kansuke’s old pain does not simply interrupt the new case; it helps draw him back toward a fact the case needs.
That is why the scar feels different after One-eyed Flashback. The manga and television anime establish a detective who survived an avalanche. The film builds a separate story around what he saw just before it, and what it takes for him to remember.
Further reading (contains spoilers): Kansuke Yamato and Yui Uehara's relationship.
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