Having given up on life in Tokyo, a novel writer, Taro Mima moved to the Hayabusa district of Yaorozu Town in the mountains. There is a house, 'Sakura Yashiki' left to him by his late father, and Taro enjoys his life in the great outdoors. One day, he is invited by the community chairman to a local drinking party, where he is encouraged to join the 'fire brigade'. A few days later, during the fire brigade's initiation and dismissal ceremony, a siren suddenly rings out. A fire breaks out in the Hayabusa area. The fire brigade's desperate efforts to extinguish the blaze result in no injuries, but the incident leads to a serial arson case and then a murder case...
A number of suspicious characters appear one after another, including Aya Tachiki, a beautiful woman who is a video creator, and approaches Taro; Enishi, the priest of Zuimyoji Temple, who for some reason is very wealthy; Muraoka, the mayor of Yaorozu Town, who is strangely hostile towards the Hayabusa area; and Manabe, a solar panel salesman.
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 Ka
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Riku Kariyama, the director of the civil engineering design department of Teiwa Construction, a major general contractor, has been dedicating for several years to complete the "Ryujin Bridge", whic
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Freelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a wheelchair. He sets up a company called dele.LIFE in partnership with a law firm established by his late f
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“Gift”, an unknown killer coccus bacteria, is discovered by a pathologist, Tatsuomi Fujimaki after the suspicious death of a patient at Meikyo Medical University Hospital. Once “Gift” enters the bo
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Tsukiko Otonashi is a fashionista that is too beautiful to be a detective. She’s also into urban legends. So much so that she believes all kinds of crimes are somehow linked to the legends. She eve
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A family moves into a housing complex in the suburb of Tokyo.
They are Chikara, his wife Akari, their daughter Airi, and their son Kotaro.
Chikara is an indecisive man but very compas
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Kyujuro Fukakusa, who works at a small teahouse run by his kind-hearted father Shichiya, lives a modest but honest life. However, one fateful night, Shichiya is killed by Gengo Shonai, a Choshu sam
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Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and k
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