Itaru Mizuno
Director
Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi (2020)
Season 1
Detective Goro Akechi has a passion for fine dining. Good-looking but incredibly quirky, he solves food-related crimes by using, well, food. He treats Ichigo Kobayashi like his assistant and drags her into all sorts of cases, even though she's perfectly happy just running her food truck.
Released April 12, 2020
Episode 54 min
None+
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Keywords: imdb.japanese-dorama, imdb.japanese-drama, imdb.detective, imdb.live-action-manga-adaptation, imdb.live-action-adaptation, imdb.private-detective, imdb.food, imdb.gourmet-food
Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Doki Amazon Channel
Production Companies: Nippon Television Network Corporation, AX-ON
Network: Hulu
7.0
S1E1 - Sex and food, which is more important for a married couple?
Goro Akechi is a private detective and his office is located near Omotesando in Tokyo. He is a big fan of gourmet food. It's important to Goro Akechi to eat delicious meals three times a day.
A client visits Goro Akechi’s private detective office.
April 12, 2020, midnight
7.0
S1E2 - I love you so I killed you. A woman is like that, right?
Akechi and his assistant, Ichigo, trace a suspect who murdered a man in a hotel.
April 19, 2020, midnight
6.0
S1E3 - In this city, everyone is crazy...
A customer choked to death on bread in a French restaurant. Akechi believes the incident is related to Maria.
April 26, 2020, midnight
8.0
S1E4 - It's my favorite and delicious, let's fill this pure white refrigerator
A housewife is upset as her husband’s aunt keeps sending her homemade food. Maria encourages her to kill her husband.
May 3, 2020, midnight
S1E5 - While cooking can make people happy, sometimes it becomes a weapon
Ichigo helps Katono to find out why his daughter is acting strange. They discover that she’s being bullied at school.
May 10, 2020, midnight
8.0
S1E6 - I will, for the people I love, give my life without hesitation
Akechi goes on a blind date and sees Maria at the restaurant. When the date ends, the girl he was with suddenly dies.
May 17, 2020, midnight
8.0
S1E7 - Can you see these pure white wings on my back? No one can take them
Ichigo is consulted by a friend, Koko, a member of an underground idol group, about a stalker fan. Akechi accompanies them as a bodyguard. He figures out that Koko is suffering from an eating disorder. Meanwhile, Maria receives a DM on SNS...
June 14, 2020, midnight
9.0
S1E8 - It's just you... I like it, so don't go!
Akechi realizes that Koko made her stalker eat a venomous mushroom. Maria appears and tells him she is planning to kill Ichigo next. Worried, Akechi begins to live in the office with Ichigo in order to protect her. He is out with Momoko following Koko as Maria edges ever closer to Ichigo.
June 21, 2020, midnight
9.0
S1E9 - Living is eating, eating creates hope for life
Akechi and Maria disappear. Akechi reappears in front of the worried Ichigo. Half a year later, Akechi is brought by her mother to an important event held at a family hotel. After government officials are killed by poisoned sweets and Ito kidnaps Ichigo, Akechi goes to the "The Last Supper" that Maria invites him to.
June 28, 2020, midnight
Network: Hulu
Episode Runtime: 54 min.
Season Runtime: 486 min.
Released: April 12, 2020
Last Air Date: June 28, 2020, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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