Masahiro Mukai
Director
Trickster (2016)
Season 1
It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Kogorō Akechi, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using their unique skills. One day, a member of the club, Kensuke Hanazaki, meets the boy Yoshio Kobayashi. 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 Kogorō Akechi, and the era's greatest villain, the Fiend With Twenty Faces.
Released Oct. 4, 2016
Episode 24 min
10+
Genres: Action, Animation, Anime, Anime: Psychological, Drama, Mystery
Keywords: imdb.21st-century, tmdb.bromance, tmdb.anime, tmdb.psychological, tmdb.gay-subtext, mdblist.anime-dub
Watch Providers: Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Network: Tokyo MX
7.0
S1E1 - Mirage on D. Hill
The Boy Detectives' Club searches for answers when a security robot goes on a rampage in Shibuya in the year 203X.
Oct. 4, 2016, midnight
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S1E2 - The Golden Tracker
A young woman approaches the Boy Detectives' Club and asks them to find the intended recipient of a series of threat letters her boyfriend made.
Oct. 11, 2016, midnight
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S1E3 - The Hopeless on the Tower
Kobayashi somehow feels that maybe he can die if he stays with Hanasaki, so he joins the Boy Detectives' Club.
Oct. 18, 2016, midnight
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S1E4 - Underground Labyrinth
After school, Inoue watches Katsuta's tennis club practise before heading home, and Hanasaki tests out some tools of the Boy Detectives' Club trade.
Oct. 25, 2016, midnight
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S1E5 - Spider's Thread
kobayashi and Inoue are trapped in the underground channels as a result of Twenty Faces' manoeuvring.
Nov. 1, 2016, midnight
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S1E6 - Holiday Stalker
Hanasaki has been trying to help Kobayashi die, but nothing has worked; while Akechi is away, Hanasaki takes the liberty of accepting six job requests.
Nov. 8, 2016, midnight
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S1E7 - Pure Tryst
Akechi is relaxing at a spa to relieve the exhaustion of his recent cases; Nakamura asks him about his history with Twenty Faces, and Akechi recounts the trauma of his youth
Nov. 15, 2016, midnight
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S1E8 - Paradise in a Miniature Garden
The residents of the Kokorogaoka Housing Complex refuse to vacate their homes for the sake of urban development, so they declare its independence from Japan as an autonomous borough.
Nov. 22, 2016, midnight
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S1E9 - Fallen Hero
Isuzu negotiates with the police for three billion yen in exchange for the removal of the residents of the housing complex.
Nov. 29, 2016, midnight
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S1E10 - Innocent Scale
Hanasaki flees the office after an argument with Akechi and the others; after, Twenty Faces makes an appearance.
Dec. 6, 2016, midnight
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S1E11 - Cruel Tool
Hanasaki's act is successful in convincing Akechi and the Boy Detectives' Club that he was kidnapped by Twenty Faces.
Dec. 13, 2016, midnight
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S1E12 - Shade by Haze
Hanasaki is brought to tears by the conversation between Twenty Faces and Akechi, even with a gun pointed at him.
Dec. 20, 2016, midnight
S1E13 - Nocturnal Dance
With the Le Waqua incident resolved and Twenty Faces in custody, the world appeared to be at peace again but the trauma of the incident left Hanasaki psychologically unstable
Jan. 10, 2017, midnight
S1E14 - The Spiral Ladder
Yamane Tasuku, a member of the Scientific Experiments Club, is troubled by three things: Ohtomo picks on him, he's always left behind in conversations, and he doesn't know how to become a member of the Boy Detectives' Club.
Jan. 17, 2017, midnight
S1E15 - Beetle of Conviction
After being out of touch for so long, Akechi calls the office; the Boy Detectives' Club receives an odd request.
Jan. 24, 2017, midnight
S1E16 - The Beast Reborn
To escape the enemies targeting Fukiya, the death row prisoner they're guarding, the Boy Detectives' Club takes refuge in the abandoned building that Kobayashi had once been using as his base
Jan. 31, 2017, midnight
S1E17 - Scattered Recoil
Inoue and the other detectives are disheartened after being told that the Boy Detectives' Club would be disbanded; the strange air around Kobayashi has returned and is working hard to heal his wound.
Feb. 7, 2017, midnight
S1E18 - Pure Evil Mistake
Inoue and the other detectives are disheartened after being told that the Boy Detectives' Club would be disbanded; the strange air around Kobayashi has returned and is working hard to heal his wound
Feb. 14, 2017, midnight
S1E19 - Response to Malice
As he's resting to recover from his gunshot wound, Kobayashi has an odd dream in which he sees a woman in a bed and a man approaching her; he doesn't recognize them, but the dream gives him a strange headache.
Feb. 21, 2017, midnight
S1E20 - Fallen Clown
Kobayashi searches for the place that he saw in his dream; Hanasaki and Hide-chan then show up and offer to help.
Feb. 28, 2017, midnight
S1E21 - Veracious Victim
Miyanishi was shot to death by Nakamura; during her interrogation, Nakamura testifies that Twenty Faces is actually Akechi.
March 7, 2017, midnight
S1E22 - Small Moth Flying into a Flame
Akechi, stunned to learn that Nakamura was brainwashed by Twenty Faces, ends up captured by the special security force. Meanwhile, at the New Tokyo World Fair, the plane built to carry people to the stratosphere is involved in a catastrophic crash
March 14, 2017, midnight
S1E23 - Return of the Evening Star
The Boy Detectives' Club arrives at the Space Expo; Hanasaki and Kobayashi board the shuttle for Twenty Faces' base, where Akechi is being held captive, but things don't go as planned.
March 21, 2017, midnight
S1E24 - The Boy Detectives Club
Hanasaki left Kobayashi behind and took off for Twenty Faces' hideout alone, planning to put an end to everything; Kobayashi can't accept that, so he follows him even though the aura surrounding him has already disappeared.
March 28, 2017, midnight
Network: Tokyo MX
Episode Runtime: 24 min.
Season Runtime: 576 min.
Released: Oct. 4, 2016
Last Air Date: March 28, 2017, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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