Makoto Naganuma
Director
Detective Novice (2020)
Season 1
Totally inexperienced, all they have to fall back on are their youth, passion, and the lessons they're learning in class--and yet the two are already getting dragged into a string of complex cases. But thanks to the help of classmates and full-fledged detectives, they begin to solve one crime after another. Polar opposites end up complementing each other's shortcomings as they combine action with deductive reasoning in this comical yet serious police drama so fast-paced, it'll leave you breathless.
Released June 27, 2020
Episode 45 min
None+
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Keywords: imdb.japanese-drama, imdb.detective, imdb.japanese-remake
Network: Nippon TV
S1E1 - Episode 1
Ichinose Jiro and Honma Kai starts off as roommates at the police academy at Katanozaka campus. The classes are taught by Katanozaka Yuzuru, who at one point was an excellent criminal profiler, but got demoted due to speaking out against his superiors. His assistant is Oikawa Ranko, a strict and hard-ass instructor.
June 27, 2020, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
Jiro and Kai are finally allowed to leave the academy on the weekend and the first thing they do is… set up a double date! However, the girls they found on a dating app never shows up and as they find other girls to hit on, they witness a kidnapping!
July 4, 2020, midnight
S1E3 - Episode 3
Jiro and Kai managed to outrun both a group of thugs and their car… to reach a police officer, who helped them contact their instructor. They took their instructor and another detective to the scene but there was nothing left. According to the instructor, there’s nothing else to do but leave things to the headquarter. Jiro and Kai, however, can’t just sit still and do nothing…
July 11, 2020, midnight
S1E4 - Episode 4
Kai and Jiro’s classmate, Sayaka, is having a hard time keeping up with the police academy and she posts online that she “wants to die”. A man who goes by Yubitomo Yubisuke reaches out to her and offers to listen to her problems. She agrees to meet him but…
July 18, 2020, midnight
S1E5 - Episode 5
On Kai and Jiro’s first day out after their probation period, they show up at a club in the middle of a drug bust. Later, they learn that the police is chasing after the ringleader of the drug dealers, who also turns out to be Jiro’s childhood friend. The police asks Jiro and Kai for help, and thus they go on their first undercover mission.
July 25, 2020, midnight
S1E6 - Episode 6
The case that caused Detective Katanozaka to become a police academy instructor is finally revealed… And of course, Kai and Jiro are caught up in it again. They get taken hostage inside the police academy building.
Aug. 1, 2020, midnight
S1E7 - Episode 7
Jiro and Kai decides they’re going to help the Tenma siblings prove their father’s innocence. Jiro is allowed to leave the room in exchange for the new SAT member who arrived. Upon hearing Jiro’s plan, Takanozaka volunteers to become a hostage so he can go into the classroom and brainstorm with Kai.
Aug. 8, 2020, midnight
S1E8 - Episode 8
Jiro and Kai have finally started their on-site training! They are dispatched to South Kanagawa Koban (neighborhood police station) and… immediately put into a room to do nothing. Unbeknownst to them, Yanagida had called ahead and told the police officers to keep a tight watch on Jiro and Kai! However, of course, the two troublemakers find a way out of there and in the middle of another tricky case.
Aug. 15, 2020, midnight
S1E9 - Episode 9
None
Aug. 22, 2020, midnight
S1E10 - Episode 10
None
Aug. 29, 2020, midnight
Nippon TV
45 min/ep
450 min
June 27, 2020
Aug. 29, 2020, midnight
Ended
NR
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