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It's still a detective mystery but it's a Clueless Mystery where you're just here for the fun of the ride rather than encouraged to actually solve it. Clueless doesn't mean literally no clues, it simply doesn't give enough of them to qualify as Fair-play. The most important rule broken here is that we have to actually be introduced to all suspects before the culprit is revealed; the fact that the Idol was revealed as the culprit at the same time we "met" her is pretty unfair, given that it would have to be a completely wild guess to say it was the Idol Spica was watching all this time and not any of the other introduced characters.While usually that would imply a detective approach, in this case it does not. It is a manga about crime mysteries -- but they're solved by psychic powers, not by detective powers.
Edit: Skimmed over the early comments... Well, that turned into a trash talking tennis match. Amusing, but it became a little hard to follow the arguments/points.
Again, it is a crime mystery. But it is not (so far) about mysteries that are solved by detection. Thus we don't have the usual game of "author will lay out clues, and the reader will try to figure out the solution before the author reveals it".
As for whether solutions are asspulls... "Asspull" is a legit concept, though whether or not something qualifies as an asspull is highly (but not entirely) subjective. And in this case, where things are being solved by psychic MC, any "clues" that we see are quite likely useless. After all, this series is (apparently) about cases that can't be solved by normal detection -- almost by its nature every solution is going to look like an asspull. But then you end up with the "expect the unexpected" paradox.
What's obnoxious about this discussion and the dude saying it isn't an asspull is that he's up in arms to defend the series against any and all criticisms no matter how valid when it isn't even necessary. People are allowed to be disappointed that this series isn't fair-play, but Clueless Mysteries aren't "bad", just a different take on the genre. I already readjusted my expectations last week and still think this series is a fun read, so long as you aren't trying to "play along" and getting upset the author isn't playing fair.