This book finally went out of the country and sprinkled flowers. "The Thread of Hope" also grasps the sprinkling.
"Parade of Silence" feels to me very much like "When the Prayer Ends." It's like a tribute to the series itself, which adds a lot of points to it. As for the content of the book itself, the biggest highlight is the word "parade". Anyone knows that the more people involved in an event, the harder it is to keep secrets and the more prone it is to go wrong. And what this book has to challenge is the story of a group relay crime. I still appreciate this idea, probably second only to the moment I figured out the most critical part of all the arrangements of the stone god in "The Dedication of Suspect X" ten years ago.
In addition, the tricks related to the modus operandi in this book are well designed, but the pace is somewhat fast, and may not be very happy for readers who like the more important modus operandi in the early works of the Yukawa series. The middle of the story, which turns into an old case 23 years ago, is the least fresh in the whole book, and a similar plot is found in "White Night", and in "When the Prayer Ends"... It can be seen that breaking through yourself is indeed not an easy task. The end of the book is a more surprising part, and it is still possible to see Higashino's sophistication in the case of the suspect's confession in succession.
So if you want to rate "Silent Parade", it is certainly not Higashino's best work, and it will not reach the top position in Detective Galileo, and it will probably be in the middle and upper position. It's certainly higher than The Redemption of the Virgins and Equation Summer, certainly not as good as The Devotion of Suspect X, and similar to Forbidden Magic.
(Yes, my least favorite thing about the whole series is Equation Summer.) The picture below is my expression after reading The Midsummer Equation. ）
But for Parade of Silence, it's not just that. Like When the Prayer Ends, it carries the weight of the entire series. The book is the first time after the series' storyline has developed for more than a decade, after "The Dedication of Suspect X", to make another clear portrait of yukawa Gaku's character.
Detective Galileo Galileo's series was first published in 1998, and the first volume contains five stories: Burning, Transfer, Necrosis, Explosion, and Disengagement. The second book after that is called "Foreknowledge Dream" contains five stories: "Dreaming", "Vision", "Agility", "Stranglehold" and "Foreknowledge". That adds up to ten stories. These ten stories were all compiled into the 2007 Japanese drama, that is, the first season of Detective Galileo, that is, the one of Uncle Fukuyama and Sister Chai. Later, the one-shot "The Dedication of Suspect X" was published in 2005 and quickly became Japanese dramatized, and was compiled into a theatrical version and broadcast in October 2008.
It is worth mentioning that many of the original works in this series are short stories, and there are not many long ones, so it is difficult to compare them together. But in the long story, I am very adamant that "The Dedication of Suspect X" is the best one, whether it is the original or the theatrical version. The acting skills of Uncle Fukuyama and Sister Chai are already quite good, but in the theatrical version, the stone god played by Shinichi Tsui completely suppresses Fukuyama's Yukawa Gaku. In particular, the scene where Yasuko Hanaoka, played by Yasuko Matsuyuki, was persuaded by Yukawa to turn herself in at the end, and all her efforts were in vain, collapsed and cried in the detention center. I highly recommend it for fat friends who have not seen it.
Along with the theatrical version of "The Dedication of Suspect X", there is also a "Detective Galileo Special". This SP took out the first two cases from the new short story collection "Galileo's Troubles" and put them together to make an SP. The series followed in two consecutive novels in 2008 and 2011, The Redemption of the Virgin and The Equations of Midsummer, followed by two short story collections, The Phantom Clown and Forbidden Magic. Most of the stories in these two short stories were adapted into the 2013 Japanese drama "Detective Galileo 2", and "The Redemption of the Virgin" was also included in the show, appearing as the last two episodes of the series. After the broadcast of "Detective Galileo 2", "Equation of Summer" was also changed to SP and put on the screen. It was 2013, a year dominated by Haenyeo and Naoki Hanzawa.
Although it is more difficult to believe, by this time, almost all of Yukawa Gaku's works in this series have been dramatized by Japan. The only two exceptions are the two stories of Perspective and Slam in Forbidden Magic. And "Slam Shot" was later expanded by Higashino into "Forbidden Magic", which is quite long but the key plot is the same. So it's fair to say that the series has been largely discontinued since 2013, and there's not much new content for a long time.
That's why "Silent Parade" is particularly eye-catching. At the end of Forbidden Magic, Yukawa suddenly tells Kaoru Uchiha that he is going to New York, but this is four years. He returned from the United States four years later and brought "Silent Parade", a story that was extremely kaga, but not at all Yukawa.
And, he was finally promoted to full professor.
That's actually the point. Yukawa's image is quite different in the early and late works of the series. The early Yukawa gaku was a more geek, focused on the truth and derivation process, and a relatively less intimate image. In the first season of the Japanese drama, there was once Kaoru Uchikai who became a criminal suspect and was on the run, and after Kaoru Uchiha spoke with him on the phone, Yukawa asked Inkai about the bridge section of "Don't you contact the people in your police station". In the later "The Dedication of Suspect X", his inhuman characteristics are most obvious - his good friend during college, the mathematical genius Shi Shen, set up a bureau to cover the female neighbor who killed her ex-husband, but he had to go to the root of everything to figure out, and then go to confront the female neighbor and the stone god separately, and completely raised the bureau, so that the stone god's painstaking heart was instantly invalidated.
Because of this, after the broadcast of "Detective Galileo 2", I saw that many people on Douban began to cry that Yukawa had changed, how such a handsome uncle who was rationalist to the extreme and thus exuded an ascetic atmosphere had become so broken, and he was patient to help students, and he was the noisy little policewoman who had been enduring Gigaku Yuriko like a preschool teacher, and he was fighting with antisocial personalities like a superhero... Especially in the episode of "Disguise", he even directly suggested to the character of Kashi Yuki to save her from perjury. Then the people began to howl, saying something like, "How did Xian Sai become like this!" Ji Gao shit! Something like that.
How to say it, I can't understand it. For a faction that has been exposed to the nine palaces of the camp, the role of Yukawa Gaku is obviously not a character of the orderly camp. He has his own standards for worldly affairs, and this standard is often in line with public order and good customs and the law, but not necessarily all of them. In this regard, he has never changed. Even in the second episode of the first season of the Japanese drama, that is, the story of "Detachment" in the original book, he looked at the little boy who was happy for his father and wanted to share his worries for his father and resolutely lied to the end, and did not chase after him, but did not say anything at the end, but only encouraged the aunt of the barbecue shop next door who had a good relationship with the child to comfort him. Don't forget, he's allergic to small children (hives get sick when he gets close), and it's not easy for him to do that.
From the perspective of the time relationship in the plot, "The Dedication of Suspect X" undoubtedly has a great touch on Yukawa. That story is ostensibly a love mind battle between two geniuses, but in reality, it is the first time in the entire series that yukawa Gaku's emotional world is implicitly and firmly expressed. After Ishijin says that he will hide it to the end, even if he sits in jail, he will not give anything unfavorable to Yasuko Hanaoka, Yukawa's performance is very intriguing (this part is actually better to watch Japanese dramas). From the perspective of a Japanese drama, this passage is Yukawa's only moment of gaffe in the entire series. In just ten minutes, his remorse went from not being able to save his best friend to even ruining his best friend's last wish (because he went to find Yasuko Hanaoka, and Yasuko Hanaoka agreed to turn himself in, so the whole bureau of the stone god was wasted). It is only in that moment that you will see this extreme rationalist, who seems to be unaffected by emotion, shed irrepressibly in tears.
By the time of Detective Galileo 2, he had devoted himself to helping Kishitani Misa, who was even less lovely than Kaoru Uchikai, grow up, and diligently played the role of a nursery schoolgiver, probably related to this experience. In "The Equation of Midsummer", Kyohei is almost unprincipledly covered, not to mention in "Forbidden Magic" to save Shingo Kushige. His attitude towards deliberate malice has never changed—you can see it by looking at The Redemption of the Virgin.
But there is no doubt that the scars on his heart left by the stone god incident have never faded, as he personally admitted to Rumi Shinkura at the end of the book. And as he grew older, this brilliant man must have realized more about human nature. Whether as a friend, as an elder, or as a teacher. But if you ask him, he will probably still tell you about human nature, "the 実に non-theoretical だ" (there is really no logic to speak of), but in fact? Perhaps in his heart, he had already admitted early on that human nature was actually "さっぱり分からない" (completely confused), but at the same time "実に面白い" (really interesting).
So four years later, such a slightly strange Mr. Yukawa returned from the other side of the ocean and brought such a story that was actually more Kaga.
It may be a little surprising, but you're welcome to come back.