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Publisher's Summary: The story of 探偵はもう、死んでいる。follows Kimihiko Kimizuka, a young man who four years ago became the assistant of a mysterious detective known as "Siesta" on a hijacked airplane. Together, Kimihiko and Siesta went on mind-boggling, globe-trotting adventures while combatting a secret organization, but all of that came to an end when they were separated by Siesta's death. In the present day, Kimihiko tries to return to an ordinary, boring life as a high school student, but things are never that simple, even though the detective is already dead.
Review
Despite the name of the series somewhat implying this to be a mystery, it's really not. The series is more along the lines of what would happen if Marvel made a 'mystery' series: lots of quips, lots of action, a massively expanding info-dump driven world-building approach, and then a detective and assistant duo and some of the trappings of a mystery thrown in for flavor. Overall, this plays out much more like a superhero movie (mixed with spy film) than a detective series.
When this is doing what I enjoyed - fun banter between the characters, primarily - I was quite enjoying it. When it was doing what I didn't enjoy - info dumps about secret organizations and the like - I was just waiting to get back to some more silly action and banter.
Overall I had enough fun reading this to continue on with the series, but it is definitely not something you can take too seriously while reading and still enjoy it. For what it's worth, I do think once the whole cast gets assembled later on in the series it more hits its stride, but it never really strays from the formula established in this volume.