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美食探偵 明智五郎

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Detective Goro Akechi has a passion for fine dining. Good-looking but incredibly quirky, he solves food-related crimes by using, well, food. He treats Ichigo Kobayashi like his assistant and drags her into all sorts of cases, even though she's perfectly happy just running her food truck.

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3.5 / 5

12th April 2020 - 28th June 2020
Director
Itaru Mizuno
Producer
Norihiko Nishi
Top Cast
Tomoya NakamuraFuka KoshibaKanta Sato
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Sex and food, which is more important for a married couple?
12th April 2020

Episode 1

Goro Akechi is a private detective and his office is located near Omotesando in Tokyo. He is a big fan of gourmet food. It's important to Goro Akechi to eat delicious meals three times a day. A client visits Goro Akechi’s private detective office.

I love you so I killed you. A woman is like that, right? Still
I love you so I killed you. A woman is like that, right?
19th April 2020

Episode 2

Akechi and his assistant, Ichigo, trace a suspect who murdered a man in a hotel.

In this city, everyone is crazy... Still
In this city, everyone is crazy...
26th April 2020

Episode 3

A customer choked to death on bread in a French restaurant. Akechi believes the incident is related to Maria.

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It's my favorite and delicious, let's fill this pure white refrigerator
3rd May 2020

Episode 4

A housewife is upset as her husband’s aunt keeps sending her homemade food. Maria encourages her to kill her husband.

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While cooking can make people happy, sometimes it becomes a weapon
10th May 2020

Episode 5

Ichigo helps Katono to find out why his daughter is acting strange. They discover that she’s being bullied at school.

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I will, for the people I love, give my life without hesitation
17th May 2020

Episode 6

Akechi goes on a blind date and sees Maria at the restaurant. When the date ends, the girl he was with suddenly dies.

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Can you see these pure white wings on my back? No one can take them
14th June 2020

Episode 7

Ichigo is consulted by a friend, Koko, a member of an underground idol group, about a stalker fan. Akechi accompanies them as a bodyguard. He figures out that Koko is suffering from an eating disorder. Meanwhile, Maria receives a DM on SNS...

It's just you... I like it, so don't go! Still
It's just you... I like it, so don't go!
21st June 2020

Episode 8

Akechi realizes that Koko made her stalker eat a venomous mushroom. Maria appears and tells him she is planning to kill Ichigo next. Worried, Akechi begins to live in the office with Ichigo in order to protect her. He is out with Momoko following Koko as Maria edges ever closer to Ichigo.

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Living is eating, eating creates hope for life
28th June 2020

Episode 9

Akechi and Maria disappear. Akechi reappears in front of the worried Ichigo. Half a year later, Akechi is brought by her mother to an important event held at a family hotel. After government officials are killed by poisoned sweets and Ito kidnaps Ichigo, Akechi goes to the "The Last Supper" that Maria invites him to.