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I wasn't really impressed by this one. One of the things I love mystery shows for is their ability to show you clues and then piece them together in a way you didn't think of, and in that way the two cardinal sins are 1) making the puzzle too easy and 2) not even giving you all the pieces. I believe this anime (in this mystery at least) does both.
For the former, I was able to instantly guess the t-rex twist because it was the only large animal maw we'd been told about (though maybe also because Psych used it first). Similarly, when you're only given one suspect to work with, finding out whodunit ultimately can't be to surprising.
For the latter, medical mysteries are always going to have some element of "the detective knows more than you" because the audience really can't be expected to know the medical information they're acting on, but this additionally had stuff like the info on the gangs, which was only introduced when it was immediately relevant to peeling back a layer of the mystery. (Maybe we got a flash of it as a news story on a screen at some point? I know I didn't catch it, and it feels like there should be better ways to give the audience clues than making them pause and read seemingly-unimportant text)
Ultimately, the mystery felt to me like an "along for the ride" kind of deal, where you have no hope of feeling clever yourself or being impressed by the characters' cleverness, you just engage with the detectiving as if it's a normal drama. Which can definitely work well if the characters and their interpersonal relationships have meat to them (IMO that's how House worked well). But the characters here felt a little thin. Even the most fleshed out, Ameku MD herself, mostly just felt like a selfish and willful child who demands everyone around her do what she wants at all times.
Maybe this will get better. Maybe the characters will get more depth and more interesting dynamics and the future mysteries will be more engaging. But as it is, I don't really see a reason to stick around. Overall I give this two-part premiere a 3/5 - definitely watchable, but nothing special.
ETA: I always love seeing english signage in anime and this gave me some good ones, namely Famoly Mart and Bemmy's