John Grizzly

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**John Grizzly** (ジョン・グリズリー, *Jon・Gurizurī*) is the former "closed circle" instructor at BLUE.

## Physical description

Grizzly has gray, combed-back hair and bushy eyebrows. He also has green eyes and a stern-looking face.

He most often wears a white turtleneck sweater, beige-colored pants, and a long, brown coat. Grizzly owns that ensemble in reverse colors too: a brown sweater with a beige coat.

## Biography

### History

Five years ago, Grizzly attended the faculty meeting in which it was decided that Ron Kamonohashi would partake in the next practical exercise.

### Benizome Hot Springs Murder Case

The vice principal gathers gathers Grizzly, Aimee Emmerich, and several other instructors, i.a. Spitz Feier and Fin Fennec, to inform them that Ron has apparently resumed his detective work although he is no longer licensed to investigate any cases after he was expelled five years ago. The timetable instructor notes that this could lead to a tragedy, and Grizzly agrees. Aimee ultimately orders that Ron should be investigated to confirm the rumor. Spitz volunteers and is sent to Japan.

### Island Observatory Murder Case

Grizzly is called to Nandan Island to act as a bodyguard at Nandan Observatory for a meteor viewing event. He eventually joins the observatory's director Takumi Jumonji, the cook Minami Unno, and some of the guests—Ron Kamonohashi, Totomaru Isshiki, Eisaku Donzawa, and Kayoko Onodera—in the observation dome.

Grizzly and Ron instantly recognize each other, and Ron asks him why someone of his status has been invited as a bodyguard. Grizzly then explains that, ten years ago, during another viewing party for the meteor shower in the constellation of Leo, all the guests and the director at that time, Jumonji's father, were shot to death. The murder weapon was never found, and the culprit never identified and caught. Thus, Jumonji invited Grizzly and Totomaru as a precaution. When he states that he is holding the party today to "overcome" that tragedy, everyone cheers for him. The last guest, Princess Ori, arrives then. Shortly afterward, Ron flips the lever to open the dome, and everyone watches the dome open and the telescope turn.

That night, everyone gathers on the roof for the meteor viewing and the standing buffet party. Totomaru approaches Grizzly to find out more about the Bloody Field Trip Case and Ron's illness. Grizzly readily tells him everything that happened and adds that, if he had judged Ron back then, he would have given him the death penalty instead of "only" expelling him from BLUE.

After the meteor shower, the dome suddenly starts to move and a gunshot is heard from within it. Immediately, Grizzly, Toto, Jumonji, Donzawa, and Princess Ori hurry to the observation dome. Because the door is locked and Jumonji cannot find the master key, Grizzly, Jumonji, and Toto need to break the door open. On Jumonji's order, Unno brings flashlights, and when they search the room, they find Ron with a gun beside him and Onodera's corpse on the other side of the room.

Grizzly checks Onododera's body and confirms her death, scolding himself in the process for being so "foolish" despite predicting that something like that could happen. Princess Ori screams at the sight of the body which wakes Ron up. He testifies that he does not remember anything after going to bed. Because the other guests cannot be ruled out as suspects, Grizzly and Totomaru begin investigating.

After they inspect the room, Grizzly concludes that only Ron could have murdered Onodera as it was a perfect locked room situation. Surprised, Ron sits up because he did not know that the door had been locked; in the process, he discovers the missing master key in his pocket. Grizzly, subsequently, orders Toto to arrest Ron, though he should bring him his boots first; otherwise, Ron might cut himself on the glass shards covering the ground.

Grizzly later returns to the observation dome with a stepladder and finds Totomaru looking through the telescope data. Although they have opposite goals, Grizzly gives Toto everyone's testimonies: Onodera went to her room shortly after 11 p.m. and was killed at 1 a.m. And because the others all have alibis for that timeframe—Jumonji was at his office from 11:30 to midnight, Donzawa only briefly left the roof to go to the restroom, Unno was in the kitchen from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. taking to Ori who got something to drink after broadcasting a performance from midnight to 12:40—only Ron could be the culprit. Still, Toto insists that Ron did not kill Onodera because Ron is his friend and he knows him. He then shows Grizzly his findings, and when Grizzly sees the telescope data, he realizes that Ron is indeed not the killer. He gives Toto the key to Ron's handcuffs and remarks they need to hurry to capture the culprit before they kill again.

While Toto leaves to free Ron, Grizzly continues to inspect the dome, as he still needs to identify the true culprit. He discovers a fishing line tied to the telescope and solves the case. Immediately, Grizzly seeks out the culprit, Jumonji, who lures him to the roof. There, Jumonji shoots Grizzly, and Grizzly falls from the roof. When he lands on the ground, he reaches out and warns Ron that it is a trap with the last bit of his strength before he dies.

## Trivia

* Grizzly is one of the few BLUE instructors Ron acknowledges as his superior.

### Out of Universe

* Grizzly is often mistakenly referred to as BLUE's locked room instructor in the MangaPlus translation. The actual locked room instructor is Fin Fennec.
* The only time Grizzly is not depicted in his standard ensemble—turtleneck and coat—is in a flashback; in it, he wears a white suit.

## References

1. ↑ S1E2 Voice actors — Official Ron Kamonohashi TV on Twitter
2. ↑ "Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions Anime Reveals 9 More Cast Members" — Anime News Network
3. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 3, page 3
4. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 74, pages 2-3
5. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 3, pages 2-5
6. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 9, pages 14-26
7. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 9, pages 30-35
8. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 10, pages 3-16
9. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 11, pages 3-12
10. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 11, pages 17-18
11. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 13, pages 5-6
12. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 11, pages 21-27
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 9, page 15
14. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 10, page 2
15. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 11, page 2
16. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 12, page 2
17. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 74, page 3