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KagiHeya Ep. 03: Drama Notes
Ep. 3: "Labyrinth of the Board Edge"
Episode Synopsis. Serizawa-sensei is called in by the police for questioning regarding the murder of a client, a professional shogi player. Apparently, he received a call by the deceased just before he was killed. Due to a matter of confidentiality, Serizawa refuses to disclose the topic of their phone conversation to the police. Fearing that the police will be giving him a hard time, Serizawa is anxious to have the case resolved quickly. So he tells Aoto to get in touch with Enomoto and enlist him to solve the case... since it happened to take place inside a locked room.
This time the 'locked room' is a hotel room, with its door held back by a door chain. The victim was stabbed dead in the back with a knife. He was found lying face down on the floor near the door. Inside the room were a shogi board, a bag, and other items belonging to the victim. The key to the room was apparently missing. Enomoto thinks there are two important clues: the door chain, and the murder victim's position... But perhaps, there's still something else?
(pic: taranamgabata)
Drama Notes:
The Keyword for this week's episode: "1-6 KEI"
Ep. 3 Murder weapon and clue:
Title sequence shows a knife and a door chain (Above left pic); while Serizawa
reaches out to a key with "16K" on it (Right pic).
Shogi. Japanese board game, similar to chess.
(info: wiki)
Shogi League Matches. For rules and procedures of shogi matches, we recommend 81dojo.
Shogi Player's Ranking. For details on this, here's a link: caltech.edu.
Shogi Ranking Matches. How is it like to compete in order to earn one's ranking? Here's an article from japantimes.
Japan Shogi Association's 'Shorei-Kai.' An association of talented elite young players, starting from from early teens to aged 26. It is managed by the Japan Shogi Association ('shorei' means 'encouragement' or 'promotion'). In this episode, Kurusu Nahoko (Aibu Saki) is a member of Shorei-kai, and as a 3-dan level player, she must turn pro at her current age of 26, or else she would have to leave the association. Her kouhai, Inagaki Mari (Yamashita Rio), a 1-kyu level player, has to reach 1-dan level if she turns 21, or else, has to leave as well.
(info: ja.wiki)
KagiHeya Author Kishi Yusuke, as "Busujima-Ryuoh"
Ryu-oh. Literally means "Dragon King." It's the name of a promoted piece in shogi. It is also the name of an annual competition of the world's top professional players. Its ultimate winner earns the title of "Ryu-oh." Meantime, the Ryu-oh in this episode was portrayed by Kagi no Kakatta Heya author, Kishi Yusuke (above).
(infor: wiki) (pic: fujitv)
Computer Shogi. Software designed and developed specifically to play shogi. There are tournaments that also pit machine vs. human pro-shogi players. "Gekisashi," developed by a team led by Tsuruoka Yoshikazu, won some of these tournaments for a total of 4 times so far.
(info: wiki)
"I lost to Busujima-Ryuoh." Warning: Spoiler ahead... For those (like me) who did not get this line uttered by Kurusu, she was referring to his 1-6 Kei move, an important clue that enabled Enomoto to find out that she was the culprit, therefore, she "lost to him." (thanks to danburi for this!)
Unlatching a Door Chain. A door chain is meant more to allow an occupant of a room or house to communicate with a person outside through the gap while still preventing non-permissible entries. Apparently, there are types that can be easy to unlatch from the outside as proven by these videos using a belt and a rubber band.
(info: wiki)
Thumb turn tool. A bent-shaped instrument used by lockpickers to unlock a thumb turn latch. It looks something like this. (Aren't we learning a lot of useful stuff? ^^ lol)
Of hurt knees and audible clicks. "(Ep. 3) was about shogi. So we had to kneel. My knees were already hurting, then when I went home they hurt some more. ... I didn't know how to play shogi; all I knew was how to move the pieces. And then when you're moving them to a different spot, it's best if you should place it down with an audible click.... I've become pretty good at that. So I'd deliver my line and when I finished, I'd be like, click! It was interesting. It'd be like, "Blah blah blah, don't you think?" *CLICK*. I think I went 'click' quite a fair bit. I wonder if it got too noisy?"
Episode Synopsis. Serizawa-sensei is called in by the police for questioning regarding the murder of a client, a professional shogi player. Apparently, he received a call by the deceased just before he was killed. Due to a matter of confidentiality, Serizawa refuses to disclose the topic of their phone conversation to the police. Fearing that the police will be giving him a hard time, Serizawa is anxious to have the case resolved quickly. So he tells Aoto to get in touch with Enomoto and enlist him to solve the case... since it happened to take place inside a locked room.
This time the 'locked room' is a hotel room, with its door held back by a door chain. The victim was stabbed dead in the back with a knife. He was found lying face down on the floor near the door. Inside the room were a shogi board, a bag, and other items belonging to the victim. The key to the room was apparently missing. Enomoto thinks there are two important clues: the door chain, and the murder victim's position... But perhaps, there's still something else?
(pic: taranamgabata)
Drama Notes:
The Keyword for this week's episode: "1-6 KEI"
Ep. 3 Murder weapon and clue:
Title sequence shows a knife and a door chain (Above left pic); while Serizawa
reaches out to a key with "16K" on it (Right pic).
Shogi. Japanese board game, similar to chess.
(info: wiki)
Shogi League Matches. For rules and procedures of shogi matches, we recommend 81dojo.
Shogi Player's Ranking. For details on this, here's a link: caltech.edu.
Shogi Ranking Matches. How is it like to compete in order to earn one's ranking? Here's an article from japantimes.
Japan Shogi Association's 'Shorei-Kai.' An association of talented elite young players, starting from from early teens to aged 26. It is managed by the Japan Shogi Association ('shorei' means 'encouragement' or 'promotion'). In this episode, Kurusu Nahoko (Aibu Saki) is a member of Shorei-kai, and as a 3-dan level player, she must turn pro at her current age of 26, or else she would have to leave the association. Her kouhai, Inagaki Mari (Yamashita Rio), a 1-kyu level player, has to reach 1-dan level if she turns 21, or else, has to leave as well.
(info: ja.wiki)
KagiHeya Author Kishi Yusuke, as "Busujima-Ryuoh"
Ryu-oh. Literally means "Dragon King." It's the name of a promoted piece in shogi. It is also the name of an annual competition of the world's top professional players. Its ultimate winner earns the title of "Ryu-oh." Meantime, the Ryu-oh in this episode was portrayed by Kagi no Kakatta Heya author, Kishi Yusuke (above).
(infor: wiki) (pic: fujitv)
Computer Shogi. Software designed and developed specifically to play shogi. There are tournaments that also pit machine vs. human pro-shogi players. "Gekisashi," developed by a team led by Tsuruoka Yoshikazu, won some of these tournaments for a total of 4 times so far.
(info: wiki)
"I lost to Busujima-Ryuoh." Warning: Spoiler ahead... For those (like me) who did not get this line uttered by Kurusu, she was referring to his 1-6 Kei move, an important clue that enabled Enomoto to find out that she was the culprit, therefore, she "lost to him." (thanks to danburi for this!)
Unlatching a Door Chain. A door chain is meant more to allow an occupant of a room or house to communicate with a person outside through the gap while still preventing non-permissible entries. Apparently, there are types that can be easy to unlatch from the outside as proven by these videos using a belt and a rubber band.
(info: wiki)
Thumb turn tool. A bent-shaped instrument used by lockpickers to unlock a thumb turn latch. It looks something like this. (Aren't we learning a lot of useful stuff? ^^ lol)
Of hurt knees and audible clicks. "(Ep. 3) was about shogi. So we had to kneel. My knees were already hurting, then when I went home they hurt some more. ... I didn't know how to play shogi; all I knew was how to move the pieces. And then when you're moving them to a different spot, it's best if you should place it down with an audible click.... I've become pretty good at that. So I'd deliver my line and when I finished, I'd be like, click! It was interesting. It'd be like, "Blah blah blah, don't you think?" *CLICK*. I think I went 'click' quite a fair bit. I wonder if it got too noisy?"