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Originally Posted by AuraTwilight
Ryukishi took a trend he thinks was there, omitted multiple crucial details, like how protagonist detectives are often official officers of the laws or are hired by the people involved, but otherwise having LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY to tell people what to do. Ryukishi didn't want to put the effort into portraying these accurately, so he just went "Fuck it, I'm making Erika a goddamn Atheist Witch or something."
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Whoah hold your horses, where'd you get that idea.
You basically mixed up two big streams of detective literatur and again (like many people here) completely ignored anything that is going on in Japan's detective mysteries.
Yes, in the Golden Age detectives were mostly rather famous scholars or retired officials who were hired because they were regarded to be trustworthy to keep silent about the often scandlous cases that were discussed.
In the Hard Boiled genre we have retired officials or private detectives, who were a deconstruction of the detective of the Golden Age anyway.
But in modern Japanese detective fiction we have a whole bunch of amateur detectives not only due to manga characters like Young Kindaichi or Edogawa Conan. There is Ayatsuji's Shimada Kiyoshi, Kyôgoku's Kyôgokudo, Tsukatô's Mikikaze and even if you go as far back as the 60's there is Kindaichi Kôsuke himself, who is nothing more than a drifter who only gains fame throughout the series.
Sorry, but this was one of the points where your arrogance made you blind to the fact that Erika is very well a clever deconstruction of almost every famous detective in current Japanese detective fiction.
They are basically people who have no authority except that they are knowledgable and somehow accepted as the only objective source of information and therefore the only trustworthy person in the whole story. This was actually already deconstructed then and again by some authors like Tsukatô or Norizuki.