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After School is Mystery Time!

2012 · 1 season

A breezy, puzzle-box school mystery that invites you to play detective, mixing gentle comedy with tidy weekly whodunits.

Created by
Tokuya Higashikawa
Genres
Mystery, Comedy
Starring
Haruna Kawaguchi, Mokomichi Hayami, Masanobu Takashima
Overview
A huge fan of the Hiroshima Carp baseball team, you the viewer become the story protagonist, Ryo Kirigamine, vice-president of the Young Detectives Club at Tokyo’s Koigakubo Academy. In the search for truth, each week the school club gets tangled in perplexing local crimes and mysteries, including murder! Ryo is a self-avowed super detective, but tends to get lost in the maze of clues at critical junctures of a case. But never fear; there are plenty of people to come to get her back on track, including the biology teacher, Hiromi Ishizaki. Take part in an intricately-constructed, hardcore mystery every week.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Created by
Tokuya Higashikawa
Genres
Mystery, Comedy
Starring
Haruna Kawaguchi, Mokomichi Hayami, Masanobu Takashima
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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • deception
  • loyalty
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour6
Realism6
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness3
Complexity6
Emotional weight3

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Genres
mystery, comedy
Created by
Tokuya Higashikawa
Starring
Haruna Kawaguchi, Mokomichi Hayami, Masanobu Takashima, Alice Hirose, Shotaro Mamiya, Noriko Iriyama, Nobuhiro Nishihara, Yoko Saito
Length
1 seasons, 9 episodes
Network
TBS
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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