General Tip – Police box duty posted:

Nobody is assigned to a detective post right after graduating from the police academy. Detective positions can be quite hard to come by; candidates are selected for detective training only after accumulating enough experience working at the local police box, a very small type of neighborhood station manned by only a handful of officers.

428 Tip – Man posted:

Taisei Yasuda. Proprietor of a knickknack shop in Udagawacho.

Roughly thirty minutes earlier, while he was wandering along the JR tracks picking up lost and abandoned items, Achi foisted off his trash onto him, and so he’s in a bit of a foul mood. Since then he’s been going along on his bicycle, still picking up things from the roadside. There’s a trunk on the back of his bike where he stores his finds.

428 Tip – Blimp posted:

428 Tip – Writing mode posted:

The state of being in a mood to write some text.

As Minorikawa goes about his job, he switches between writing mode, interview mode, food mode, and sleep mode. When busy, he’ll sometimes go into writing mode and food mode at the same time, sometimes even straying into sleep mode in the midst of food mode. When he’s even busier, he’ll eat and write mid-interview while nodding off; this is known as ultimate mode.

428 Tip – Waitress posted:

Ikumi Omiya.

Employee at Co-Labo Café.

While appearing cute and demure at first glance, she’s quite strong-willed, and frightening when angry.

She works nights at a place called “The Scolding Pub,” where customers rent private rooms in which they are scolded at length by attractive girls. One middle-aged businessman once told her: “Your face looks simply marvelous when you’re angry.”

428 Tip – Place that allowed smoking posted:

In recent years, many cafés and restaurants have phased out the concept of the ‘smoking section’ in favor of prohibiting smoking across the board. This makes a place like Lautrec especially important to smokers. There are large air vents in the ceiling to help keep the interior more agreeable for those who do not smoke.

ChaceRider posted:

I'm a little curious as to what Minorikawa would have said to Kano's (once upon a time, in a Bad End) father-in-law to have driven him out of the cafe,

HydroSphere posted:

Minorikawa thinks Rumi is an actress, but can't remember her name, and goes on about it enough (even involving the waitress) that Shizuo decides to leave.

428 Tip – Anagotchi posted:

A portable electronic game in which you raise a conger eel (anago), feeding it daily and clearing away feces. Depending how you raise your eel, it can wind up developing into various forms, from “Normal Eel” to “Ultimate Eel Sushi.” You can also use the infrared communication feature to bring over friends for your eel from another nearby “Anagotchi” device. There is also a sister product, “Troutwatch;” by connecting the two, you can view a special event where the eel and trout characters go to a pub together.

General Tip – Borderline catatonic posted:

The type of eel that gives “Anagotchi” its name anago, can be loosely translated as “the creature that lives in a hole.”

Mr. Yanagishita is probably wishing he could crawl into a hole right about now.

428 Tip – Anagotchi posted:

428 Tip – Miracle stone posted:

These stones are nothing more than simple glass beads that were purchased at 5000 yen apiece. The seller claimed, “Normally these sell for 10,000 a pop, but if you buy 100 of them, I’ll give you half off ,” at which the buyer declared, “It really is a miracle!” before joyfully agreeing to the purchase.

The fact that someone like Yanagishita actually exists to buy these things up is also a kind of miracle.

General Tip – Them posted:

Black. Flat. Quick. Long antennae. Often spotted in kitchens. Sometimes, somehow, their legs wind up in restaurant food. Eewww.

General Tip – Preconceptions posted:

Fixed notions one has about something before the facts are known. Can be a hindrance to thinking freely. If you think about it too hard, you might fall Victim to the preconception that preconceptions themselves are always bad.

428 Tip – BAMF's posted:

Shibuya’s number two gang. Its leader, Sohei Ikari, has gathered up some big, mean dudes in an attempt to make Shibuya his turf. The gang’s leadership is inferior to that of S.O.S., but on an individual level, its members tend to be stronger in a fight. Word is that the rise of the BAMFs is one of the reasons S.OS. has been growing more combative recently.

428 Tip – BAMF's posted:

That would be Achi Endo. Initially, S.OS. was nothing more than a small group of like-minded young people who hung out together, but as its membership grew, the general public began referring to the group as a “gang.” Word has it that back when Achi was in charge, gang members never started any conflicts themselves, but simply responded in kind when others brought fights their way.

General Tip – Disobeying a direct order posted:

A detective’s behavior is governed by the Local Public Service Act.

Article 32 states that a detective is to faithfully follow the orders of his superior in the course of his duties. Violating this is punishable by a warning, reduction in pay, suspension from duty, or dismissal. In the event of a warning, not only is the individual expected to submit a formal letter of apology, but pay raises may be delayed, or performance bonuses cut.

General Tip – Middle East posted:

Originally used to indicated Iran, Afghanistan, and the region surrounding them, in modern times, the term refers to part of Southwestern Asia (excluding India and Afghanistan) and the section of Northeastern Africa along the Mediterranean coast. However, in Japan, as well as the U.S., the term “Middle East” is often understood to refer specifically to those parts of the region with a strong Islamic influence.

General Tip – Middle East conflict posted:

The ongoing friction in the Palestine region between the Jewish people who founded the nation of Israel and the Arabs who had been living there previously. The religious and historical context of this cultural clash is well beyond the scope of what can be elucidated here.

General Tip – Marital discourse posted:

According to one survey, in roughly 6% of households, discourse between spouses is largely nonexistent. Various reasons for this were offered by the couples in question; many claimed that they were “too tired to have the energy to talk” or stated “we wind up fighting when we talk” or “we have nothing to talk about.”

428 Tip – Policy of not having pointless posted:

It is quite common for Kenji Osawa to make it through an entire day without having a single conversation. On many days he opens his mouth only to eat or brush his teeth. His current record is a streak of fourteen consecutive days during which he didn’t talk to anyone.

General Tip – Fingerprint authentication posted:

428 Tip – Storage facility posted:

Because a dangerous virus is also stored there, the lab where the antiviral is kept is protected by an I.D. checkpoint, as well as a sophisticated three-tiered lock system that requires fingerprint authentication. Multiple security guards are also posted outside the laboratory entrance 24 hours a day, making it all but impossible for an unauthorized person to get into the secured storage area.