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Saikyou no Futari

2015 · 1 season

A calm, talky police procedural where two mismatched detectives trade legwork and charm, rewarding patient viewers with quiet reveals.

Genres
Crime
Starring
Yoji Tanaka, Isao Hashizume, Masato Wada
Overview
Shinonome Jinpachi has returned to the Kyoto Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division as a specially commissioned detective. Meanwhile, Natsuki Asako, a team leader, has just been assigned to the division. Shinonome and Asako solve the same cases with completely different investigation methods. Shinonome has many information sources that he cultivated through his years of investigation. He would hit the streets and gather information that is not considered to have a direct relationship with a case. Asako has many fans within the police because she has moved from post to post. She is adapt at mobilising these allies and makes use of her inexperience in investigations to carry out daring ones. When these two investigation methods overlap, there will never be a typical investigation and unknown facts a step ahead of the solution will emerge.

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Genres
Crime
Starring
Yoji Tanaka, Isao Hashizume, Masato Wada
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • crime
  • mystery
  • work
  • loyalty
  • deception
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
crime
Starring
Yoji Tanaka, Isao Hashizume, Masato Wada, Yuichi Haba, Natsuki Harada, Yūko Natori, Yurina Yanagi
Length
1 seasons, 8 episodes, 43 min each
Network
tv asahi
Languages
Japanese

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