[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: Kindaichi and Miyuki visit the village of Hitokui, deep in the mountains, to meet up with Mayu Midorikawa, a friend from junior high school. In the village, which looks like a re-creation of a town from the Showa period (1926-1989), Mayu heads the Hitokui Village Future Energy Development Institute, also known as the Hitokui Laboratory. While Mayu is happy to be reunited with her old friend, a series of horrifying murders occur in ...
Wordy
Already was a fan of 金田一 from watching the anime. I read this volume and the rest of the case, which is the first 3 parts of the next volume.
Basically, 金田一 is like a longer, more serious version of コナン. It also has furigana (except the latest 30th anniversary series)
This is really wordy. I roughly counted ~200 words on an average page... there aren't many pages that aren't full of text 😅
The vocab/grammar here isn't hard (apart from some small science bits). There's just a lot of it...