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Red Riding Hood: A Detective Story's First Episode Asks “What Does Murder in a Children's Story Look Like?”

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What would happen if Little Red Riding Hood was accused of murder? That's a question I never thought I would ever have to ask myself, but that is basically the premise of this first episode of Red Riding Hood: A Detective Story, which had its world premiere at New York Comic Con. When the episode first starts, it's framed in a very dramatic and overly stylized fashion to the point where I almost thought I was watching a Detective Conan episode. However, this opening sequence acts as both a misdirect and clever foreshadowing for the rest of the episode. Red Riding Hood is constantly touted as an exceptional girl with a good head on her shoulders, but what would happen when she upgrades from putting on a little puppet show about murder mysteries to actually being the main suspect in a murder mystery?

While the episode loses the dramatic style from the opening minutes, I do like the overall style that the show actually immerses itself in. This is a world filled with magical creatures and fairytale characters like Pinocchio and little talking foxes. There's even a scene where Pinocchio is just explaining his whole backstory right from the Disney movie. All the characters are drawn with this very soft, cartoony fairytale style. All of the normal humans are drawn with exaggerated shapes, the voice acting is delightfully over the top, and the designs, while looking a little bit flat, use bright colors to pop.

This premiere showcases what it would be like for a crime to take place in a fantasy world. The evidence presented for framing Red Riding Hood is based on fairy tale lore, like how Pinocchio declares that he saw Red Riding Hood commit the murder, and because his nose wasn't growing, that means he must not be lying, and that can technically be used as evidence. Granted, the premiere did overplay its hand, as I was actually able to solve the mystery fairly quickly given information that was set up at the beginning of the episode, and the episode did technically end before the crime was actually broken down. So there's still a lot left to be seen regarding how Red Riding Hood will get out of this situation or what the identities of a few additional characters are. However, I do think this is a fun premise that the show so far has made good use of. I'm curious if this will be an episodic murder mystery or if there is a larger story ready to be told here.

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