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The Detective is Already Dead

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The Detective is Already Dead	comment	The Detective is Already Dead (探偵はもう、死んでいる。, Tantei wa Mō, Shinde Iru.), is a light novel series written by Nigojū with illustrations done by Umibōzu, which began publication by Media Factory in Japan in 2019. It has a manga adaptation illustrated by Mugiko, which was serialized in Monthly Comic Alive from 2020 to 2023. Both the novels and the manga are licensed in English by Yen Press. The series also has an anime adaptation by ENGI which aired as part of the Summer 2021 anime season, with the first episode airing as a one-hour special. It was announced that it will see another season.Kimihiko Kimizuka is an average middle school student who happens to be Born Unlucky and constantly seems to attract the worst kind of attention possible. One fateful day, he is recruited by a teenage detective named Siesta to serve as her assistant in the course of her work, and they enjoy a memorable 3 years of adventuring and going on investigations together. The good times end, however, when Siesta is killed in an investigation of a secret criminal organization called SPES that consists of pseudohumans. One year after her death, Kimihiko, now a high school senior, is trying to manage ordinary school life as he tries to move on from his loss... until SPES resurfaces again and he is roped back into the fight against them.Definitively not related with Fist of the North Star, especially with Kenshiro's catchphrase.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
The Detective is Already Dead / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: For some unspecified reason, the original novel in Japanese has a Spanish translation of its title, La detective está muerta,note Not quite an exact translation; in Spanish, the right title would actually be La detective ya está muerta. as a subtitle. Given that "siesta" is a Spanish word (and a very Spanish concept), maybe this explains it.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Detective is Already Dead / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: At the end of the first episode. Happens again near the end of the prequel Volume 6, as Siesta reflects on the death of the previous Ace Detective and Kimihiko's guardian Danny Bryant, whose legacy she now continues.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Detective is Already Dead / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Fubuki Shirakami and Matsuri Natsuiro make an appearance as news casters in Episode 3.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_2222a43e	type	Nebulous Evil Organisation
The Detective is Already Dead / int_2222a43e	comment	Nebulous Evil Organisation: SPES is a criminal organization that has pseudohumans in its ranks. They're also the subject of Siesta's investigations before her death.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
The Detective is Already Dead / int_370aad9	comment	Episode 9: Alicia turns out to be Hel's Split Personality, and it's revealed how Siesta died - she pulled a Heroic Sacrifice to save Kimizuka.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Detective is Already Dead / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Back in Lost Judgment, Xanthe Huynh played Kyoko Amasawa, who leads the Mystery Research Club who wanted to jump at the chance to be a detective. She's now playing Siesta, who's an actual detective.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Detective is Already Dead / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The very end of the first episode jumps ahead three years to the time after Siesta died. In the light novels, Volume 7 takes place after a two year time skip, and all of the characters are now adults with the one exception of Yui Saikawa.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
The Detective is Already Dead / int_73328e84	comment	Volume 5 has by far the biggest example of such, when Kimihiko manages to stun Siesta silent during her Suicide by Cop gambit when he tells her he loves her, even though he admits to himself he hasn't quite figured out whether he loves her as a woman or as family or as a friend.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_733f713f	comment	Another set of plot points, namely the evil organization creating artificial humans, spreading a memory-affecting drug created from strange lifeforms to control students in a high school, and being in relation with a Human Alien entity capable to be cloned, are both together and separately references to Boogiepop Series, where the Towa organization does all of them. Hel also has elements of Boogiepop itself in her androgyny, cape, and being the alternate personality of a troubled girl, while Nagisa resembles a young Nagi Kirima in looks, role and personality, and again, the appendages used by Bat in the anime are designed similarly to how the 2019 Boogiepop anime portrayed those of Eugene.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
The Detective is Already Dead / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The series starts when Siesta and Kimihiko confront Albert Coleman aka Bat when he starts a hijacking of a passenger plane.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_870bbf64	type	Show, Don't Tell
The Detective is Already Dead / int_870bbf64	comment	Show, Don't Tell: After being shot by Siesta's special bullet, Bat's extended appendage is no longer able to attack her. Years later, Kimihiko visits him in prison with Nagisa, with the hopes that he'd be able to help her find the person her donated heart wanted her to subconsciously meet. He says explaining it would take too long, so simply lunges his appendage at Nagisa, only for it to disappear. It turns out Nagisa's donated heart came from Siesta after she died a year prior, and its subconscious influence on Nagisa wanting to meet someone was none other than Kimihiko himself.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Detective is Already Dead / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The anime pulls many false baits, such as Siesta is badly injured and the screen fades to black, or she is seen unconsious whenever Kimizuka isn't nearby, tricking the viewers to think that is how she died, just to see her alive and well again. Not until Episode 9, however. Siesta pulled a Heroic Sacrifice to save Kimizuka, and Hel ate her heart, proving she was gone for good.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
The Detective is Already Dead / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The light novels are written out of chronological order, and the anime goes even further in adapting material out of order of the novels. The anime's official Twitter account even had to post a chart showing which light novel volume the material covered in episodes 1 to 6 came from. It also shows what light novels received manga adaptations (Volumes 1 & 2 as of that tweet). After the anime's season finale, the light novel's editor put up his own chart showing how all 12 episodes corresponded to Volumes 1 and 2 of the novels. Is your head spinning yet?
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Detective is Already Dead / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Episode 2: Siesta's heart was given to Nagisa Natsunagi in a successful transplant operation after she died. Episode 9: Alicia turns out to be Hel's Split Personality, and it's revealed how Siesta died - she pulled a Heroic Sacrifice to save Kimizuka. Episode 10: Siesta's heart destroyed Hel from within and erased her memories, creating a new identity named Nagisa Natsunagi. Episode 11: Siesta takes over Nagisa's body for an amount of time.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_9457dc3f	type	Not Allowed to Grow Old
The Detective is Already Dead / int_9457dc3f	comment	Not Allowed to Grow Old: An unusual subversion applied to teenage rather than adult characters. During the series' various chapters and flashbacks, Siesta and Kimihiko are shown in scenes set in a four years range, which should be a world of difference in people their age, yet their character designs in the anime remain just the same among all the episodes, down to the clothing.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_95dec9d2	type	Plant Aliens
The Detective is Already Dead / int_95dec9d2	comment	Plant Aliens: SPES turns out to be this.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
The Detective is Already Dead / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: Volume 6 is this with its Framing Device coming from two sources, with the first being Kimihiko telling Nagisa, Charl, and Yui the story of his past with Danny Bryant as his parental guardian, and the second being the Noches android reading Siesta's diary covering the same incident from her perspective when she was hunting down Danny Bryant as a traitor to the Federation Government.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_b59e09cd	type	Bifauxnen
The Detective is Already Dead / int_b59e09cd	comment	Hel is a (barely) gender-flipped version of Ayato Naoi from Angel Beats!, down to the cap, hair, personality, Daddy Issues, mind control abilities, and even the same red light effect on her eyes when she uses her powers. Not coincidentially, Angel Beats is another series where a serene, silver-haired girl with superhuman powers is involved with a supernatural heart transplant that moves the search of the main character.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_b96fdd94	comment	Extra-Long Episode: The first episode is actually two episodes long, with the first half being the meeting on the plane, and the second half being an adventure at Kimi's high school.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
The Detective is Already Dead / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: Volume 3 / Episode 7 shows Siesta getting slightly tipsy from "juice" after having dinner with Kimizuka, and later that night in their hotel room she invites him to sleep in the bed together with her. They have a heartfelt, intimate talk about how much the past 3 years have meant to her before she leans in to touch his face and softly ask if he'd like to try something "not so serious." The scene then fades to black. While Kimizuka insisted in Volume 1 nothing happened, the author of the story has said that he's an Unreliable Narrator due to missing some memories and only Siesta would truly know the truth. In the end, it's up to the reader to decide what happened between them that night (although it's notable that, at least in the anime adaptation, the two have their clothes on when they wake up).
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Detective is Already Dead / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The story is a Whole-Plot Reference to Gosick, another light novel about an unfortunate Japanese student teaming up with a cooler-headed, fair-haired superhuman detective girl to solve mysteries. It is also another Whole-Plot Reference to Aria the Scarlet Ammo, of the same artistic line as Gosick, which also features a legendary detective girl roping the main character along as her sidekick and taking down a criminal organization that employs superhuman members. Aside from this premise, the plane kidnapping in the first volume is a reference to the same in the first volume of Aria, Kimihiko's backstory of losing Siesta echoes Kinji's own of losing his brother, Cerberus is outright a clone of Vlad, the blood bullet used by Siesta in the first episode evokes the Scarlett Ammo, and the whole character of Alicia is basically a semi-parodic copy of Aria herself, all with her name, short height, long pink twin tails, personality, alternate personality taking over, true age higher than she looks, and relation to the leader of the villainous organization (and once the humor goes away, Alicia ends up being ascended to the same main character role Aria plays in her own series). Hel is a (barely) gender-flipped version of Ayato Naoi from Angel Beats!, down to the cap, hair, personality, Daddy Issues, mind control abilities, and even the same red light effect on her eyes when she uses her powers. Not coincidentially, Angel Beats is another series where a serene, silver-haired girl with superhuman powers is involved with a supernatural heart transplant that moves the search of the main character. Another set of plot points, namely the evil organization creating artificial humans, spreading a memory-affecting drug created from strange lifeforms to control students in a high school, and being in relation with a Human Alien entity capable to be cloned, are both together and separately references to Boogiepop Series, where the Towa organization does all of them. Hel also has elements of Boogiepop itself in her androgyny, cape, and being the alternate personality of a troubled girl, while Nagisa resembles a young Nagi Kirima in looks, role and personality, and again, the appendages used by Bat in the anime are designed similarly to how the 2019 Boogiepop anime portrayed those of Eugene. The bioweapon monster is a giant wink to Resident Evil, even having Nemesis' face on a body resembling a huge Licker, not to mention the term "bioweapon" being the same as used in the game. The description of Albert Coleman, a stylish, blond villain able to grow mutated tentacles who works for an evil organization that produces bioweapons, also fits Albert Wesker (the Coleman surname likely coming from another Resident Evil character who worked for the same party, Charles Coleman). Kimihiko's house has some weird objects at the background, among them a tribal mask, when the female main character intrudes in his house and wears his clothing. This whole scene makes a subtle reference to Haruaki's house and the introduction of Fear in Cube×Cursed×Curious. Siesta's seven items also echoe the cursed items employed by the characters of said series.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_d1d1f420	type	Connected All Along
The Detective is Already Dead / int_d1d1f420	comment	Connected All Along: Volume 6 reveals that Siesta's recruitment of Kimihiko on the plane as her assistant was not a coincidence or a random twist of fate, but something she had been planning for a long time. It turns out she's very well-acquainted with him due to having worked with him years ago while she was in disguise as a policewoman named "Gekka Shirogane." In the present day, Kimihiko still wonders where Shirogane is and if he'll ever meet her again, blissfully unaware that the woman in question has been right by his side for years.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Detective is Already Dead / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Upon learning who Nagisa's heart came from, Kimihiko's initial reaction is to play it down and act as though it's no big deal. Nagisa immediately slaps and berates him for belittling the heart's immense desire to reunite and meet someone she didn't know which turned out to be him. He then gives her a Cooldown Hug, and gives a tearful reunion to give some closure to Siesta suddenly dying a year earlier.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Detective is Already Dead / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: In "Attention Passengers: Is There A Detective on Board?", Siesta and Kimihiko get involved in an aircraft hijacking case. The latter lampshades it when he throws the question on whether a private detective was on board as the justification Albert Coleman aka Bat was seeking her out.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
The Detective is Already Dead / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Surprising as it might be, Siesta was originally planned to be a Posthumous Character soon to be displaced, with the starring role falling on Kimihiko, Natsunagi and Saikawa, but the success of the novel made the author keep making her appear.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Detective is Already Dead / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Loads of it between Siesta and Kimihiko throughout the entire story. They behave Like an Old Married Couple in the tail end of their 3 years adventuring together, and practically form a pseudo-family unit with Alicia in London while investigating SPES there. Volume 5 has by far the biggest example of such, when Kimihiko manages to stun Siesta silent during her Suicide by Cop gambit when he tells her he loves her, even though he admits to himself he hasn't quite figured out whether he loves her as a woman or as family or as a friend. In Volume 6, which is a prequel story, the reason Siesta took an interest in Kimihiko was because he saw through her metaphorical mask even when she was in perfect disguise in her "Gekka Shirogane" alias working with him and understood how desperately lonely she was, and told her he would break her mask one day. Prior to this, she had been planning to take him on as her assistant because he was the Singularity, but after those words from him, she wanted him as her assistant because she was interested in who he was as a person.
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The Detective is Already Dead / int_e303d198	comment	It is also another Whole-Plot Reference to Aria the Scarlet Ammo, of the same artistic line as Gosick, which also features a legendary detective girl roping the main character along as her sidekick and taking down a criminal organization that employs superhuman members. Aside from this premise, the plane kidnapping in the first volume is a reference to the same in the first volume of Aria, Kimihiko's backstory of losing Siesta echoes Kinji's own of losing his brother, Cerberus is outright a clone of Vlad, the blood bullet used by Siesta in the first episode evokes the Scarlett Ammo, and the whole character of Alicia is basically a semi-parodic copy of Aria herself, all with her name, short height, long pink twin tails, personality, alternate personality taking over, true age higher than she looks, and relation to the leader of the villainous organization (and once the humor goes away, Alicia ends up being ascended to the same main character role Aria plays in her own series).
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