text; un:✨🕵️GOLDEN WEEK SPECIAL RELEASE

[paperpusher]

Happy Golden Week, everyone! Natori Shuuichi here, hoping everyone is doing well-- especially our new faces! Please let us know if we can help you adjust.

I'm excited to announce that my new movie Fiance of the Funeral Procession, the second film in the Sparkling Detective Akeboshi Koutarou series, is now available in theaters! It's a historical mystery involving a beautiful woman and her beautiful fiance and the dark secrets that they keep. Each film in the series stars a new case with only the detective as the recurring character, so you don't have to have seen the first one! It would mean a lot to me if you could support my coworkers by watching the film.

Thank you and I hope you enjoy ✨

[What Natori didn't make clear is that he is playing Akeboshi Koutarou, though that becomes obvious to anyone who know what he looks like as soon as they come across a movie poster. Shockingly, this is canonically a good movie. A summary of the plot is available here! Feel free to have characters already seen posters/seen the movie if you'd like.]

Comments

[paperpusher]

Exactly! Now, if it was one of my movies, it would be something like The Case of the Inimitable Young Maiden or The Tale of the Broken Heart and would end in a love story, but I don't know how true to life that is for a real detective.

[retroductions]

It might surprise you to learn that these titles are not too far removed from similar ones that grace the published tales of my adventures. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle is but one of the more recent examples.

[paperpusher]

You're not only a detective, but a published detective! How exciting. I guess I need to ask, then: is there as much romance in real life as there are in these sorts of detective novels?

[retroductions]

The cases worth investigating are filled to the brim. Conspiracies, betrayals, passions running high.

They are not all like that, of course, but the more mundane cases do not make for particularly enthralling reading.