Trickster
Trickster
TV ShowEnded

Trickster

6.5 / 10
2016
1 season
24 episodes
Action & AdventureAnimationMystery

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.

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Seasons

  • Mirage on D. Hill

    1.Mirage on D. Hill

    7.0
    04-10-201624m

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

  • The Golden Tracker

    2.The Golden Tracker

    7.0
    11-10-201624m

    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.

  • The Hopeless on the Tower

    3.The Hopeless on the Tower

    7.0
    18-10-201624m

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

  • Underground Labyrinth

    4.Underground Labyrinth

    7.0
    25-10-201624m

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

  • Spider's Thread

    5.Spider's Thread

    7.0
    01-11-201624m

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

  • Holiday Stalker

    6.Holiday Stalker

    7.0
    08-11-201624m

    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.

  • Pure Tryst

    7.Pure Tryst

    7.0
    15-11-201624m

    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

  • Paradise in a Miniature Garden

    8.Paradise in a Miniature Garden

    7.0
    22-11-201624m

    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 boroug...

  • Fallen Hero

    9.Fallen Hero

    7.0
    29-11-201624m

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

  • Innocent Scale

    10.Innocent Scale

    7.0
    06-12-201624m

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

  • Cruel Tool

    11.Cruel Tool

    7.0
    13-12-201624m

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

  • Shade by Haze

    12.Shade by Haze

    7.0
    20-12-201624m

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

  • Nocturnal Dance

    13.Nocturnal Dance

    10-01-201724m

    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

  • The Spiral Ladder

    14.The Spiral Ladder

    17-01-201724m

    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 b...

  • Beetle of Conviction

    15.Beetle of Conviction

    24-01-201724m

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

  • The Beast Reborn

    16.The Beast Reborn

    31-01-201724m

    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...

  • Scattered Recoil

    17.Scattered Recoil

    07-02-201724m

    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...

  • Pure Evil Mistake

    18.Pure Evil Mistake

    14-02-201724m

    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...

  • Response to Malice

    19.Response to Malice

    21-02-201724m

    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...

  • Fallen Clown

    20.Fallen Clown

    28-02-201724m

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

  • Ep 21

    21.Veracious Victim

    07-03-201724m

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

  • Ep 22

    22.Small Moth Flying into a Flame

    14-03-201724m

    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 c...

  • Ep 23

    23.Return of the Evening Star

    21-03-201724m

    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 plan...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Boy Detectives Club

    28-03-201724m

    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 au...

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