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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 1 - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Adechi sits down with the others, the handle of Kenmochi's cup of coffee faces Adechi in the first shot, Kenmochi in the next. (00:19:15)

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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 1 - S1-E10

Revealing mistake: When Kindaichi and Miyuki speak with Kenmochi, inspector Adechi is lurking in the background reading what turns out to be a French newspaper. At the beginning you can see its "Le Shinbun" logo on both the front and back cover, but later in the scene it has just one cover and the back page is just normal text (incidentally, the filler text is garbage; the headline says "Je vais essayer de répondre l'incident" and even breaks the words incorrectly, but you have to freeze-frame to spot this last detail). (00:17:10)

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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 1 - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Kindaichi reveals that someone in the room probably is the responsible, Mizogishi asks in a shot from behind if anyone knows anything. In that shot, the two adjoined desks he was using become a single supersized table. (00:16:00)

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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 1 - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Mizogishi concludes his deduction, he puts the evidence bag down, and it is on the right desk, or on the left desk depending on the shot. (00:13:00)

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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 1 - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: During the interrogation scene there's a student with the same purple uniform Miyuki and Hitomi wear. She keeps switching sides, being next to the teachers or next to Hitomi, the latter being her wrong spot; the student next to Hitomi Kaidou is in other shots Yurika Enami, with her cream jacket. (00:09:00)

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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 1 - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When detective Mizogishi begins his interrogation, the booklet inside the evidence bag is horizontal (longer side parallel to the longer side of the desk), then vertical (longer side perpendicular). (00:09:20)

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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 1 - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: Crazy-eyed Hitomi Kadou calls Kindaichi "dumb" out of the blue. Kindaichi is carrying his school bag over the right shoulder, but in the reaction shot his shoulder is clear. (00:06:05)

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The Alchemy Murder Case File 4 - S1-E9

Stupidity: Everyone mentions in the first episode that the various doors are made out of different metals (some rather unlikely; a door made out of pure manganese?) but they don't show it, all have the same color and weight (the door made out of lead and the one made of tin would be significantly different, and one is the treasure, 966 kg). More importantly, since it's a known fact that the doors are made out of different metals, each has a number that matches the periodic table, and they are looking for gold, the supposedly hard enigma concocted by the genius alchemist is something a high schooler would figure out in minutes; Miyuki even knows its atomic number by memory when randomly asked.

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The Alchemy Murder Case File 4 - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: In the flashback when we see the culprit holding the newspaper with the news about the suicide, their thumb is on the blue box, which is at the edge of the page. Then they fall on their knees crying, and there's suddenly an extra bit of newspaper to the right of the box and their hand is on that. (00:15:15)

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The Alchemy Murder Case File 3 - S1-E8

Plot hole: The locked room mystery is original, but besides the fact that it requires melting part of a door on the spot and being able to repair it absolutely flawlessly so that nobody would notice any bump and discolouring and irregularity when they check the lock later investigating the murder, it also requires them to do it in total silence so the other guests don't notice, and part of the process shown involved cutting through it with a screwdriver and bashing it with a hammer - they show that and there's even a loud sound effect for it. (00:18:00)

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The Alchemy Murder Case File 3 - S1-E8

Factual error: The Latin text on the supposedly old tome (which is written with a modern font) displays an alchemist diagram. It is a reproduction of a famous drawing meant to portray the Philosopher Stone in the Sylva Philosophorum, but whoever copied it does not know Latin, because certain words are misspelled ("Merceralia" instead of "Mercurialia", "Humides" instead of "Humidus"). (00:10:10)

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The Alchemy Murder Case File 3 - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: Mikage is startled by someone knocking at the door. She then puts the knife back on the desk when she realises who is it. The knife and the towel she partially hides it in are in the middle of the desk, but when they tell her that she is a likely target, the items are on the edge of the table. (00:05:10)

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Reika Hayami and the Uninvited Guest - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: In the hall where Reika holds the quiz, the participants keep changing clothes throughout the scene depending on the camera angles.

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The Hong Kong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case File 4 - S1-E4

Plot hole: Miyuki has been peacefully waiting for over a day at a stranger's house because she was told that the whole Hong Kong was under lockdown and her friends were in another location. That cover story (which would have been exposed if only she looked out of the window, people were NOT in lockdown) does not explain at all the kidnapping in the clothing stall or why she didn't have her phone or talk to Hajime at any point. She'd have to be braindead not to question even slightly what was happening.

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The Hong Kong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case File 2 - S1-E2

Plot hole: An essential part of the plot relies on the fact that thanks to Saki's handheld camera, Kindaichi can examine Ran's arse dragon and therefore investigate even in her absence. But what set the plot in motion was the fact that Ran appeared in a professional modelling photoshoot displaying it. Stupidity of the girl aside, that means that the culprit never needed the girl, having HQ shots of the tattoo at their disposal. They even work for the company.

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The Hong Kong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case File 1 - S1-E1

Stupidity: Saki is a high-schooler visiting Hong Kong with his parents, but at no point do they communicate; the plot unfolds for days without the slightest mention of them, mentioned again in one throwaway line in the last episode. He even has to sleep on the floor cooped up at the bellboy's house with Kindaichi.

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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 5 - S1-E14

Stupidity: The plot could work only if everyone part of the trip were completely silent during the day; even walking through the empty corridors to go from one class to the next at the top of the hour would have inevitably tipped the other group that there was someone else nearby. Some even scream or freak out hitting things.

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The Hong Kong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case File 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: A mysterious man spills beverage on Miyuki's tanktop, creating a large brown stain that forces her to go change clothes. When she steps into the changing room from the urban legend, though, her clothes are pristine, the stain is entirely gone. (00:08:10 - 00:09:15)

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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 5 - S1-E14

Plot hole: The victim managed to write a dying message with chalk on the inside of the locker, but the only moment when he could have done that was when his assassin was standing there watching him die waiting to drag his corpse away. Since the writing was basically the killer's name, it's absurd that the killer never bothered to wipe out the signs; it's chalk on hard metal, not a single trace would have remained. It also does not match the position of his hand in the second episode.

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The Prison Prep School Murder Case File 4 - S1-E13

Plot hole: The basic causality principle is reversed when explaining the murder with the corpse discovered on fire. The lesson was about combustion and took place before (or during, rather) the murder, so it couldn't be something used to disguise an unexpected problem that hadn't surfaced yet. Additionally, there's no reason why the murderer couldn't act as first responder or place the body near the river or in the bathroom.

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