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Major manga spoilers for Rum's identity, the murders seventeen years earlier, and File 1150. This discussion follows the manga through File 1150. Rum's left eye is prosthetic. His covered eye helps connect him to Kanenori Wakita, while t...

Spoilers for the full Scarlet School Trip case: the culprit, the film-credit mystery, and discussion of a character's death by suicide. Michio Deguri is not the killer in The Scarlet School Trip. He died before the murders began. He is t...

Major spoilers: the elderly man's identity, Rum, the FBI hunt in Volume 100, and Camel's later encounter with Wakita in the Volume 108 manga material. The elderly man Andre Camel warned during the FBI operation two years earlier was Rum....

Spoilers: Wataru Date's death, Natalie, the notebook cases, the Police Academy Arc, and later flashbacks through Volume 107. This article also discusses fictional deaths by suicide. Wataru Date is dead in the main story's present. A driv...

Major spoilers for Bourbon's identity, the Mystery Train and Scarlet stories, and Black Iron Submarine. Vermouth and Bourbon work together on Black Organization missions, but their cooperation rests on useful skills and dangerous secrets...

Manga spoilers through Volume 108, File 1153: Mary's de-aging, the hotel bombing case, Rum, and the later photographs. The elderly man with the breathing apparatus has not been identified in the events covered here. Yasuharu Haneda is a ...

Spoilers: Iori's former career, the exchange in Volume 102, and the backstory explored in Volumes 104-105. Sakakibara is an alias Muga Iori used during an undercover assignment. Hyoue Kuroda calls him by that name out of an old habit, an...

Spoilers through manga Volume 104, including Rum's identity and the events seventeen years ago; the discussion of Zero the Enforcer is identified separately. Hyoue Kuroda is Rei Furuya's public security superior, and he is not Rum. His e...

This article examines Haibara and Ran through jealousy, romantic tension, Akemi Miyano's influence, and the movie Black Iron Submarine. Major spoilers follow. Haibara and Ran are not enemies. Their relationship grows from distance into t...

This article discusses the wild-plants case, the truth from seventeen years ago, Koji Haneda, Asaka, Rumi Wakasa, RUM, and the Black Organization. Major spoilers follow. Koji Haneda's proverb describes a bishop that influences the game f...