Alternative title: Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri
Manga Adaptation by Diomedéa
Streaming on Crunchyroll

Premise

Ron Kamonohashi has a 100% record in solving criminal cases yet spends his days at home, forbidding himself from further work. Totomaru Isshiki, a young detective, manages to secure his help for an unsolved murder case, but soon learns why Ron considers himself a danger to investigations.

Euri’s verdict: Sherlock has a Geass now

It’s been a little while since I last watched something that made me wish I enjoyed it, but alas, here we are. Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions isn’t a bad show either, just to be clear, but the biggest takeaway from episode one is that the two main characters are just very annoying.

Totomaru, the bumbling but well-meaning investigator who is sent to work with Ron early in the episode, is very much a “speak first, think later” character. It’s definitely played for laughs, but hearing him make quips after everything Ron says gets old very quickly, and this is just the first episode. Ron himself is Hot Sherlock; he investigates crimes in an over-the-top, quirky fashion, and there really isn’t much else to his personality.

There is something here that you won’t find in a Sherlock show though, and it’s that they gave Ron his own Geass. The show doesn’t actually name this power, if it even is a power, but Ron uses his magic eyes to make the murderer throw himself from the top of a building just by commanding him to do so. It’s… a novel take on a detective story I suppose, but I hope that they eventually use it in fun ways to actually solve crimes. It’ll be a shame if it only shows up at the end of each investigation, just for Totomaru to have to save the life of whatever criminal they’ve caught.

All in all, it’s worth a look if you’re generally interested in Sherlock-adjacent shows, but I think your tolerance of Totomaru is going to dictate whether you make it through the episode as a fan or not.