Trickster: Edogawa Ranpo "Shounen Tanteidan" yori: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Akechi Kogorou, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using their unique skills. One day, a member of the club, Hanazaki Kensuke, meets the boy Kobayashi Yoshio. Kobayashi's body cannot die due to the effects of the "Unidentifiable Mist," but he yearns for death, and shirks from contact with other people. Taking an interest in him, Hanazaki invites him to join the Boy Detectives Club. Their meeting is connected to the fate tying together Akechi Kogorou, and the era's greatest villain, the Fiend With Twenty Faces.

Series details

• Title: Trickster: Edogawa Ranpo "Shounen Tanteidan" yori
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Anime, Mystery
• Premiere date: 2016-10-03
• Final broadcast date listed: 2017-03-27
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Tokyo MX
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 25 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 19228
• IMDb ID: tt8851064
• TVDB ID: 315093

Cast and credited roles

• Ryōta Ōsaka — Kensuke Hanazaki
• Daiki Yamashita — Yoshio Kobayashi
• Gackt — Fiend With Twenty Faces
• Daisuke Ono — Kogorō Akechi
• Azusa Tadokoro — Nao Nakamura
• Ibuki Kido — Makoto Noro
• Makoto Furukawa — Hisashi Ōtomo
• Takuya Masumoto — Masaharu Katsuta
• Yoshitaka Yamaya — Tasuku Yamane
• Yuichiro Umehara — Ryō Inoue

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-10-03; final listed air date 2017-03-27; episode order: 24.

Source and licence

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