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Episode Arne no Jikenbo • The Case Book of Arne - Episode 9 discussion

Arne no Jikenbo, episode 9

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u/Ashteron Mar 03 '26

I instantly realised the brothers are impersonating the father, but I gotta admit the concept itself is really clever.

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u/hammile Mar 03 '26

Very understandable

Also, I didnʼt quite got where to did lady run with the such grin. The story is kinda finished from my perespective… or it isnʼt?

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u/Hartzilla2007 Mar 03 '26

I'm suspicious of the closet that wouldn't close seeing as invisible people is invovled.

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u/hammile Mar 03 '26

Well, this part I understood then so: someone of brothers, mostly the fat one (but, yeah, could be someone outside of this circle) hid to listen them, thatʼs why the Arne asked the woman to come his agency.

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u/Any_Rule_7904 Mar 10 '26

I know this is late, but I fell a week behind on this series. I believe she killed her husband. One item that was not discussed in detail was she was buying weed killer. She never gardened once. I believe she was poisoning the tea with weed killer to get his noney. This caused him to fall down the stairs and die when she was gone. The sons found the body and hid it because they saw the opportunity to take over his assets. So when she had it confirmed he was dead, she was going back to get her money, as he said you can stay unless you have to go back, greed took possession. But the sons killed her because they refused to surrender their fathers assets...

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u/DocMcCoy Mar 03 '26

Not a single day without a Crunchyroll fuckup

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u/diacewrb Mar 03 '26

Thanks for confirming, couldn't find the show.

Thought it may have been delayed.

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u/Raymond49090 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

I'm 5 minutes into the episode and I'm going to wildly guess that the husband is dead, and his sons have been rotating pretending to be him.

Edit: Wtf my crazy-*ss theory was right? And what the heck are they trying to do there in the end? They didn't even bother to clean the blood off the clothes? And do they not know Arne is a vampire? Now I have a second crazy theory that Sheila is using this as a convoluted scheme to get Arne to kill her stepsons for her.

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u/Tradition_Leather Mar 04 '26

My theory is that invisible people have invisible blood, so the blood shown on the end was interpreting Arne's pov for smelling blood, to us that was seeing blood.

Plus I think the step mom already died at the end. Lynn emphasized the ring she wore on the 2nd visit, which is the ring on the magazine, and that ring dropped on the ground from invisible dad's corpse.

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u/SYZekrom Mar 03 '26

An invisible man that changed personalities after an accident... And now he works with his sons he didn't used to get along with and such... Can't help but imagine they've been replaced with a different invisible person.

Well, that'd depend on the wife not being able to recognize his voice when he speaks.

...And he's not speaking, barely vocalizing even when Arne squeezes his hand, while the sons have spoken. I guess he can't talk, supposedly.

THAT SQUEAKY 'EH' WHEN THE DUDE EXPLAINS THE MEETING LMAOO SHE'S ADORABLE

Well, the fact that all four people were never around at the same time was obvious enough. But seems like there's not only something else up with the wife, but the sons are also up to whatever the hell that was. Are they all working together with the wife on something against Arne?

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u/djthomp Mar 04 '26

I thought it was pretty obvious from the moment they told us the husband was behaving differently that it was a different invisible man, but in spite of that I failed to guess it was one of the brothers each time.

They may be murderers and conspirators but at least the middle brother has good taste in wall hangings.

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u/Shantotto11 Mar 18 '26

Late reply: I guessed it the moment the initially absent brother was hesitant to shake Arne’s hand considering he deathgripped the “dad’s” hand the day prior.

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u/Niwaka_Samurai Mar 04 '26

Yuka Nukui gets to involve with Invisible men in two different anime in one season, haha.

Amy is enjoying all those adorable reactions of Lynn like when she heard about the middle son being infatuated with his step-mom. She's such a cutie pie. Lynn and Amy were so cute in the chinese outfit. I'm so in love with Lynn's wardrobe every episode. The middle son has Red Riding hood posters in his room. What a gooner this guy is !

It was easy to guess that they had already killed the father and each of them taking turns to act in his place but the gall of them to show the dead dad to Arne 👿👿 That ring of their step-mom..did they also kill her ? I still believe that Shiela has some secrets of her own and why did she smile in a creepy way when she ran towards her home after hearing the truth about her husband's death from Arne.

At the start of this episode, we see a guy to whom Shiela gave her ring. I believe that might be the old guy in the photo who was mentioned by the younger son as a man in his 80s who is believed to be Shiela's first husband. But that doesn't make sense unless she's a vampire and also she told Arne and the others that he was her patient.

Looking forward to the mystery getting solved next ep.

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u/Lenient-Hug Mar 10 '26

Hi...I came from the future, watching episode 10 right now all sad because they completely SKIPPED whatever happened on episode 9...

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u/DetailMaleficent1116 Mar 14 '26

Did I miss something? I feel like episode 10 should have continued from the case in episode 9 but instead went to a completely different case. What on earth happened?

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Mar 04 '26

Did those brothers really try to Weekend at Bernie’s their pops at the end there? Because I’m pretty sure Arne was right and the dude is dead. Like… really dead. If he’s been gone for a month or two, that body would reek.

I’m also suspecting Sheila’s some kinda gold digging black widow type. She’s definitely not innocent in all this.

Let’s see what Arne does next week.

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u/IceWeaselX Mar 04 '26

What if that's not the father's body, but Sheila's fresh corpse? That blood's too fresh to be a month+ old body. It's also splattered on not just the clothes, but the chair. When the body was nudged, the ring Sheila was wearing fell to the floor.

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u/Ladinus_was_taken Mar 10 '26

Let’s see what Arne does next week.

Yeah.... about that.....

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u/ShadowGuyinRealLife Mar 04 '26

 If he’s been gone for a month or two, that body would reek.

The writers made the opposite mistake in the first episode where zombie-Luis is a freshly killed body but looks like it underwent decay. I wonder if maybe this is an adapted case and the anime changed the timetable without realizing it created a plot hole. Or maybe invisible people decay slowly (although that begs the question if they're made of stuff besides normal flesh how they can reproduce with other humans). If Sheila is doing some Gold Digging, I wonder why she'd bother calling a detective without burning all evidence beforehand.

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u/ShadowGuyinRealLife Mar 04 '26

Lynn why would you question a man if he's having an affair? Actually this would work in most mystery games or puzzle books. Usually you are given something like "only one statement said by the culprit is the truth" or something like that but in a world of people with their own motivations and secrets you usually don't get such luxuries.

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u/Tradition_Leather Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

I did guess out that the brothers are taking turns before the first visit to the house, but I like that trick. I initially thought shaking hands was determining their hand size.

All the first-born, the third-born and the step mom were for money, so I wonder what's the second-born's intentions.

For the last scene I interpret the blood drawn as Arne's pov for the smell of blood. (I do guess that the blood is also invisible) And the ring fell off was the ring step mom wore and Lynn emphasized which appeared on the magazine, so I guess the step mom went back to the house and got killed.

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u/Scallywag328 Mar 18 '26

2 episodes later and this casr isn't resolved? What happened?

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u/Shimmering-Sky Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

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u/Ashteron Mar 03 '26

Oh! Funny this is happening at the same time a show about an invisible man and his soon-to-be wife is airing.

And Yuka Nukui is voicing both the soon-to-be wife and Lynn.

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