Dear Detective from RAMPO with Love

A quiet, literary mystery that unfolds with melancholic warmth, rewarding patience with subtle character work and period atmosphere.

Genres

Drama, Mystery

Starring

Gaku Hamada, Masao Kusakari

Overview

Hirai Taro is a writer, who admires detective novels by Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc, and Edgar Allan Poe. He tries to get his own novels published, but newspapers and publishing companies show no interest towards his stories. The only person who reads his novels is Murayama Ryuko. They communicate with each other through letters. While writing his novels, Hirai Taro works low paying jobs and lives in poverty. He meets elderly Private Detective Shirai Saburo. Shirai Saburo teams up with Hirai Taro and they do private detective jobs together.

How it feels

Melancholic, warm, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Identity, obsession, isolation, friendship

Content

Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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