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There were 2 instances of logical anomalies in this episode that I didn't elaborate in my first post.

#1:
How could Shouma immediately conclude that the strange kid had anything to do with Emi? Out of many people inside the cafe, outside the cafe, and perhaps the other shops inside the building, how could he pinpoint that the strange kid knew anything about Emi's location? Why didn't he ask other people inside the building or outside the building first? Why didn't he ask the cafe employees first? Don't know!

#2:
How could Hanto think that he would be able to find Niwa the scammer guy without using Emi as a bait? Hanto didn't know that Emi was going to go to the cafe at the very last minute, since when she was at Sachika's shop she said she wasn't going to go to the cafe. Emi only went to the cafe as a last minute decision that Hana didn't even know about it.

The sequence of events are as follows:
@ 08:24 : Hanto was shown Niwa's profile picture and confidently stated that Niwa wasn't him.
@ 09:04 : Emi agreed to Hana's suggestion not to go to the date.
@ 09:16 : Hanto decided to make an article about Niwa as a payback for stealing his photo. He then asked Emi and Hana for the exact time and place of the date.
@ 10:22 : Hanto arrived outside the building where the cafe was located.
@ 10:42 : Hanto passed the strange kid aka Niwa the scammer guy aka the Granute in disguise.
@ 11:06 : Shouma voiced his concern to Sachika that Emi was going to go to the date anyway, which confirmed that previously Emi did agree not to go to the date.
@ 11:36 : Sachika received a call from Hana who was surprised and concerned that Emi had already gone from her apartment on her way to the date, which once again confirmed that previously Emi did agree not to go to the date.
@ 11:52 : Emi was walking to the cafe, and licked by the Granute aka the strange kid aka Niwa the scammer guy shortly thereafter.
@ 12:17 : Shouma and Sachika arrived outside the cafe building to met Hana who had already been there.
@ 12:36 : Shouma, Sachika, and Hana met Hanto who had been waiting 1 hour in the cafe.

As I've laid out above, Hanto never knew that Emi decided to go to the cafe at the very last minute, because it's a, duh, last minute decision. Hanto, Hana, Shouma, and Sachika didn't know about Emi's last minute decision which was the complete opposite of her promise to them the day before. So, if the only information Hanto had was the fact that Emi did agree to cancel her date as suggested by Hana, then how the frak was Hanto going to find Niwa the scammer guy without using Emi as a bait? Was he planning to ask every guy in the cafe to confirm their identity? Was he planning to ask every guy, "Hey, dude. Are you Niwa?", or worse, "Hey, dude. Are you Niwa who has planned to have a date with a girl named Emi at this cafe at this exact time?"? Of course Niwa, even if he didn't put on his human disguise (the strange kid), wouldn't have answered that question honestly. When a criminal is asked, "Are you a criminal?", of course they would answer, "No, I'm not a criminal."

Hanto's plan to meet Niwa and interview him made no sense at all. Those 2 instances of logical anomalies above are solid pieces of evidence of how laughably, hilariously sloppy the writing in this series is. The writers of this story are trying to emulate Riku Sanjo who often used this type of detective/investigative-style of subplots as shown in KR W and KR Drive, but they've miserably failed. It's only 11 episodes, and the writers are consistently shooting themselves in the foot in all 11 episodes. Very very very impressive.

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Originally Posted by Eclipyon

But he did.

Hanto did see the strange kid, but did he actually pay attention to the strange kid? Did he recognize the strange kid's face? He only passed the strange kid very briefly once, when he was walking to the cafe and the strange kid was waiting for Emi in the hallway. He didn't pay any attention to the strange kid because he did look like a normal, harmless kid, let alone look at and recognize the strange kid's face. So, even if the Granute put his human disguise back on as the strange kid in the scene @ 19:08, Hanto would've very likely not recognized him. He would've mistaken the strange kid again for just another random kid.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Hanto is clearly a patient and focused dude, as he once waited like a whole afternoon doing nothing outside Masako's house until his lead showed up. 60 minutes to us is probably like 6 minutes to him.

No, you misunderstood my argument. What took too long wasn't the fact that Hanto waited 1 hour, but the fact that the strange kid aka Niwa the scammer guy aka the Granute in disguise wait almost 1 hour to flee from the crime scene.

Someone might say that the strange kid aka Niwa the scammer guy aka the Granute in disguise only licked Emi shortly before Shouma, Sachika, and Hana arrived at the cafe, but that reasoning makes no sense. Emi was very eager to meet Niwa the scammer guy, so the only thing that makes the most sense is for her to arrive at the cafe on time, not 1 hour late, so she should've arrived at the cafe shortly after Hanto arrived there. Emi wouldn't have wanted to squander her only chance to meet Niwa the scammer guy by arriving late.

So, the most logical explanation is that Emi arrived at the cafe shortly after Hanto and then she was immediately licked and Hito Pressed by the strange kid aka Niwa the scammer guy aka the Granute in disguise. The perpetrator (the strange kid aka Niwa the scammer guy aka the Granute in disguise) waited 1 hour until he fled from the crime scene because the writers told him to do so in order to be discovered by Shouma (via another lazy, heavy-handed method). That's another piece of evidence of how sloppily written this story is.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

They must've mistook him for some kind of cosplayer.

Lango only looked edgy, like a rockstar. You usually encounter that kind of visually edgy characters in metal concerts, haha.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

"Niwa" is more clever wordplay from Komura, as it's Wani with the syllables reversed, meaning crocodile. Which sounds similar to Wana, meaning trap like the catfish scam. In goroawase, you get 2 (ni) and 1 (wa) which add up to 3, the amount of mouths that Granute Early has. Catfish in Japan are also blamed for causing earthquakes (like Oonamazu from Hibiki), comparable to the strong hit that caused Valen to dehenshin. Man, there's like 4 different hidden meanings in this one guy, it's crazy! Keep it up, Komura!

What's so clever about using puns? Japanese love puns, so puns are very common. If the writers of this show are clever, then they should've allocated their mental acuity to identifying and eliminating the many instances of logical anomalies and other forms of sloppiness in the writing. Instead of focusing on writing cheap puns, they should've focused on writing a story that makes sense. Writers write stories, not puns.