You never replied to my email, Rob, but I can see now that your latest story is the reply. I like the characters in Detective Academy Q and the individual mysteries are actually pretty good -- especially the first long arc. But the metaplot is so dumb sometimes, and I don't know how to remove the hypnosis element and still talk about Meiousei.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto