Trickster(2016)

6.5
1 Seasons
Action & AdventureAnimationMystery

Overview

It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Kogorō Akechi, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using their unique skills. One day, a member of the club, Kensuke Hanazaki, meets the boy Yoshio Kobayashi. Kobayashi's body cannot die due to the effects of the "Unidentifiable Mist," but he yearns for death, and shirks from contact with other people. Taking an interest in him, Hanazaki invites him to join the Boy Detectives Club. Their meeting is connected to the fate tying together Kogorō Akechi, and the era's greatest villain, the Fiend With Twenty Faces.

Episodes

Mirage on D. Hill
Ep 1

Mirage on D. Hill

The Boy Detectives' Club searches for answers when a security robot goes on a rampage in Shibuya in the year 203X.

04/10/201624 min
The Golden Tracker
Ep 2

The Golden Tracker

A young woman approaches the Boy Detectives' Club and asks them to find the intended recipient of a series of threat letters her boyfriend made.

11/10/201624 min
The Hopeless on the Tower
Ep 3

The Hopeless on the Tower

Kobayashi somehow feels that maybe he can die if he stays with Hanasaki, so he joins the Boy Detectives' Club.

18/10/201624 min
Underground Labyrinth
Ep 4

Underground Labyrinth

After school, Inoue watches Katsuta's tennis club practise before heading home, and Hanasaki tests out some tools of the Boy Detectives' Club trade.

25/10/201624 min
Spider's Thread
Ep 5

Spider's Thread

kobayashi and Inoue are trapped in the underground channels as a result of Twenty Faces' manoeuvring.

01/11/201624 min
Holiday Stalker
Ep 6

Holiday Stalker

Hanasaki has been trying to help Kobayashi die, but nothing has worked; while Akechi is away, Hanasaki takes the liberty of accepting six job requests.

08/11/201624 min
Pure Tryst
Ep 7

Pure Tryst

Akechi is relaxing at a spa to relieve the exhaustion of his recent cases; Nakamura asks him about his history with Twenty Faces, and Akechi recounts the trauma of his youth

15/11/201624 min
Paradise in a Miniature Garden
Ep 8

Paradise in a Miniature Garden

The residents of the Kokorogaoka Housing Complex refuse to vacate their homes for the sake of urban development, so they declare its independence from Japan as an autonomous borough.

22/11/201624 min
Fallen Hero
Ep 9

Fallen Hero

Isuzu negotiates with the police for three billion yen in exchange for the removal of the residents of the housing complex.

29/11/201624 min
Innocent Scale
Ep 10

Innocent Scale

Hanasaki flees the office after an argument with Akechi and the others; after, Twenty Faces makes an appearance.

06/12/201624 min
Cruel Tool
Ep 11

Cruel Tool

Hanasaki's act is successful in convincing Akechi and the Boy Detectives' Club that he was kidnapped by Twenty Faces.

13/12/201624 min
Shade by Haze
Ep 12

Shade by Haze

Hanasaki is brought to tears by the conversation between Twenty Faces and Akechi, even with a gun pointed at him.

20/12/201624 min
Nocturnal Dance
Ep 13

Nocturnal Dance

With the Le Waqua incident resolved and Twenty Faces in custody, the world appeared to be at peace again but the trauma of the incident left Hanasaki psychologically unstable

10/01/201724 min
The Spiral Ladder
Ep 14

The Spiral Ladder

Yamane Tasuku, a member of the Scientific Experiments Club, is troubled by three things: Ohtomo picks on him, he's always left behind in conversations, and he doesn't know how to become a member of the Boy Detectives' Club.

17/01/201724 min
Beetle of Conviction
Ep 15

Beetle of Conviction

After being out of touch for so long, Akechi calls the office; the Boy Detectives' Club receives an odd request.

24/01/201724 min
The Beast Reborn
Ep 16

The Beast Reborn

To escape the enemies targeting Fukiya, the death row prisoner they're guarding, the Boy Detectives' Club takes refuge in the abandoned building that Kobayashi had once been using as his base

31/01/201724 min
Scattered Recoil
Ep 17

Scattered Recoil

Inoue and the other detectives are disheartened after being told that the Boy Detectives' Club would be disbanded; the strange air around Kobayashi has returned and is working hard to heal his wound.

07/02/201724 min
Pure Evil Mistake
Ep 18

Pure Evil Mistake

Inoue and the other detectives are disheartened after being told that the Boy Detectives' Club would be disbanded; the strange air around Kobayashi has returned and is working hard to heal his wound

14/02/201724 min
Response to Malice
Ep 19

Response to Malice

As he's resting to recover from his gunshot wound, Kobayashi has an odd dream in which he sees a woman in a bed and a man approaching her; he doesn't recognize them, but the dream gives him a strange headache.

21/02/201724 min
Fallen Clown
Ep 20

Fallen Clown

Kobayashi searches for the place that he saw in his dream; Hanasaki and Hide-chan then show up and offer to help.

28/02/201724 min
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Ep 21

Veracious Victim

Miyanishi was shot to death by Nakamura; during her interrogation, Nakamura testifies that Twenty Faces is actually Akechi.

07/03/201724 min
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Ep 22

Small Moth Flying into a Flame

Akechi, stunned to learn that Nakamura was brainwashed by Twenty Faces, ends up captured by the special security force. Meanwhile, at the New Tokyo World Fair, the plane built to carry people to the stratosphere is involved in a catastrophic crash

14/03/201724 min
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Ep 23

Return of the Evening Star

The Boy Detectives' Club arrives at the Space Expo; Hanasaki and Kobayashi board the shuttle for Twenty Faces' base, where Akechi is being held captive, but things don't go as planned.

21/03/201724 min
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Ep 24

The Boy Detectives Club

Hanasaki left Kobayashi behind and took off for Twenty Faces' hideout alone, planning to put an end to everything; Kobayashi can't accept that, so he follows him even though the aura surrounding him has already disappeared.

28/03/201724 min

Show Info

StatusEnded
NetworkTokyo MX
TypeScripted

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