AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002)
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 9 October 2002 |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Genre | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
| Starring | Yutaka Mizutani, Takashi Yamanaka and Kazuhisa Kawahara |
| Seasons | 25 seasons, 463 episodes |
| Episode length | about 111 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 857 hours |
| Rated | NR |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.5/10 |
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What kind of watch this is
Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions, which sounds like a badge of honor until you meet the men who work for him. The series runs 857 hours across 25 seasons, a commitment that suggests you are either very dedicated or very bored. He starts with Kaoru Kameyama, a hot-tempered scatterbrain, then swaps him for Takeru Kanbe, a cool and conceited lanky detective. Later partners include Toru Kai, who earned his badge despite his father’s rank, and Wataru Kaburagi, a bureaucrat with zero police experience. The hook is watching a rigid man adapt to partners who are all, in different ways, a mistake.
How it did with audiences
TMDB users rate it 7.5 out of 10. That is the only number we have. Studios usually track box office, but for this one, the ledger is blank. You judge the work by the people who watched it. They did. The score sits there, steady and unbothered by the lack of financial data.
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