I had no interest in watching this when I saw the poster with yet another character with super curly hair. I can't remember but there was a dorama or movie about a similar character that I did not like. I decided to give it a chance on a whim and episode 1 started out with university student Totono Kuno being suspected by police of committing a murder.
Totono is brought to the police station and must use his wits to solve the mystery while he is being interrogated at the police station. I thought that was a great idea for a first act because it was fun watching Totono turn his interrogation around to get information for himself.
Mystery to Iu Nakare is a Sherlock Holmes style mystery with the main character being a uni student who has never worked but has great powers of observation and his Watsons are the two police officers who interrogate him in episode 1. The humour is derived from the fact that Totono is otherwise a normal student who like curry but reluctantly keeps getting involved in murder mysteries.
The mysteries are quite interesting and the gimmick of the series is that Totono keeps having to match wits with colourful characters who are equally as smart. The only negative point of the series was the story sort of got slow for me towards the middle.
I enjoyed the humour of the show and the ending sets the story up for a sequel. If you like your mystery doramas, then Mystery to Iu Nakare is worth a peek especially since its not a Higashino Keigo show. Thanks to Blitz fansub for subbing! Watchable.