Naniwa Junior Detectives (Naniwa Shonen Tanteida / 浪花少年探偵団)

Naniwa Junior Detectives

Sensei, look out!

Shindou-san!

Wrong, this isn't fate

It's Traffic Safety Day

Sensei, are you taking up a driver's license?

The news on TV are saying it

Accidents involving the old and children are on a terrible rise

That's where I thought. This cannot do

One way or another to protect the traffic safety of children

For that to work, the conventional teaching cannot do

Conventional?

Simply teaching on the surface won't

allow children to know the real horror of traffic accidents, right?

Well, that may be true

So for a start, from actually riding the bicycle

We'll be forced to grasp the reason for the cause of accident

Thus, the driving center...

Hey! What are you doing! That's the stop line isn't it?

Are you looking carefully, huh?

Thus, I thought I'd learn at the driving center

Ah...

For the sake of independence, I

wish to someday leave this house

House as in, that fried pork and beancurd house?

Mom, do you seriously mean that?

Sensei is exceptionally sharp

-Hideko-chan, you look compatible -Leave me alone

That...what's she doing?

Trying to feel standing next to Yong-sama

Sometimes, I'll suddenly feel empty

My whole life, with the fried pork and beancurd

could it end under the guys' care

I see...

Before being a mom, a wife, I wanted to be a woman

Then that again, why the driving license?

First it's a qualification

Don't you think so?

It's going to start

It's him again

Hey, doesn't he resemble him? There, number 32

Resemble who?

That guy whom I look at every night

Winter Sonata

Winter Sonata? That is really old school stuff huh

Old school?

No...anything will do

Mom, let's work together at driving. Test is soon anyway

See ya

Did you hear? 130 million yen

I don't believe that the house keeps so much money

But there's 20 million in cash

When you add the jewels and paintings, it totals 130 million yen

Harada lives closer yet he doesn't know about it?

Isn't that obvious?

Matsubara is this neighborhood's big landlord

130 million yen, how many fried pork and beancurd can that buy?

1,300? Amazing~

That's an absurdly wrong calculation

Hatanaka, fix that calculation and present it to me later.

Yes

Harada's little brother and that friend, quickly return to your classroom

Excuse us. Bye bye~

Now I'll take attendance

...Before that, let me ask a little question

Matsubara...are you referring to that big landlord Matsubara-san?

What kind of burglary? What time? How did they enter?

Sensei, that aside, isn't it lesson time?

That's right

That is it

Sensei, what is that book?

No way, number 32 again?

What's going on? Please

-Sensei, this is the 4th time already. -Eh?

Wakamoto-san. Yong Joon

Isn't it fate...

Fate huh...

Me, too, always the same. That uncle

Once more please

Furthermore...

What is it? Don't keep to yourself; quickly tell us!

This must be a secret from my son

He said he will...

teach me lessons 1-to-1

1-to-1 lessons?

The test is coming soon right

Previously I did the course, it was not good at all

And then, he said

specially just for the two of us, he will teach me

On top of which, it's free

Free?

What do you think of it, sensei?

I'm already a married woman

Wakamoto originally had racing ambitions

-But during training he got a severe injury... -Mom!

You just said it's free right? That 1-to-1 lesson

Yes

Yeah, switch on the turning indicator there

Let's pay attention as you turn left

Yup

Ah, what happened

It's okay. Calm down and let's do it

I can't learn anything at all like that

Well then, let's stop at that stop line at the crossing

Okay

-Hideko-san, calm down. -Ah!

Excuse me!

Um, mom

You really have a provisional license, right?

Mom?

Hey mom

I! Am not your mom

It's going to leak. Let dad go in first

Shinobu-chan. It's terrible

Something terrible happened in front of your home

What's wrong? Wait, why is mom here?

I took a walk. Whatever, hurry come!

What is this. Dog's poo-...

No! Don't say anymore! Here, use this

Mom, you couldn't have because of the poo-

picking up, waited for me?

No, don't say anymore. Use it

Shinobu-chan, look here again

-Oh sensei, what's up? -Ow

Eh?

Um, I'm truly sorry about this but

can I take a rest for tomorrow's 1-to-1 lesson?

Eh? Why?

I have a little stupid stuff to take care of

Yeah, yes yes

Well then, goodbye

It's really stupid stuff

Hideko-san, you've become better, haven't you?

Thank you

Pocchi, what are you doing. Let's go

That feels good huh, Ku-chan. Relieved now huh, let's go

Almost forgot about picking up. Let's go

I really have no time to do this. I'm late

Sensei, it's terrible

-It's terrible. -What's wrong. Did you fight with someone again?

Harada's...Harada's mom...

got into a traffic accident

Sensei

Harada, are you all right?

Mom is fine, but...

The driving instructor from the driving center is in a dangerous condition

He's in a coma, now in the ICU

What about mom?

She's having check up

-Mom -Mom

You, why did you do stupid things?

Sensei, what should I do...

Because of me

Wakamoto-san

Mom

-Goodbye. -Yup, bye

The accident happened at the intersection at east Osaka's warehouse street

Yes. This was where Harada-kun's mom while driving the car

ignored the stop line

And thus, carried on straight

Or rather, mom mistook and stepped the accelerator for the brake

There, a car from the right sped and hit the back like this

Then, after the car hit the wall, it ran away

That's how the instructor Wakamoto-san suffered severe injuries

Hey Detective-san. The accident,

does it have to be due to Harada's mom's fault?

How is it?

No...

It's regrettable, but in this case

I believe it's an inevitable situation

If we leave it, wouldn't mom become the criminal?

It's a violation of the Road Traffic Law due to blunder - causing criminal hurt

But is there no crime for the hit-and-run car?

Of course there will be. For not paying attention to the front

In such a case, both will be treated as suspects

Suspects?

The persons who committed the crime

What's that, I can't accept that. That aunt is the bad fellow

What's that, what happened?

-Ah, even vice principal. -No, that...

What happens when we can't get to eat fried pork and beancurd?

-Yeah, Detective-san. Please do well to help Harada's mom! -No...even if you say help...

Are you still a man? Can't you help her?

-How far do you want her to be depressed? -Please, just help her

-Please -No...

Vice principal, vice principal

The students of class 6/2 again are...

I am here

During that day, you did not go for the special training?

That's right. I was in a little situation

Situation?

Well, I can't really say it out loud...

Can lend me your ear for a bit?