Mystery novel Kitsutsuki Tantei Dokoro (Woodpeckers Detective Office) will get an anime adaptation.

The series will be produced at Liden films with Shinpei Ezaki as the general director. Series composition will be done by Taku Kishimoto and the original character design comes from the popular illustrator Kaoru Saki.

A first teaser visual by Saki has been released that features the two main characters Takuboku Ishikawa and Kyosuke Kindaichi. Kenjiro Tsuda, Rikiya Hayashi, and Hayato Furusawa were cast for the series. The anime will be released in 2020.

Kitsutsuki Tantei Dokoro

2020 | Anime Info

Story

A ghost has been seen at the Ryounkaku skyscraper in Asakusa. We’re in Meiji 42 (1909) and Takuboku Ishikawa has come to the scholar Kyosuke Kindaichi because of newspaper articles that report about the ghostly disturbance. Tokuboku opens a detective agency only because he wants to save his family from starvation and Kyosuke joins him as his assistant.

Staff

Original Work: Kei Ii
General Director: Shinpei Ezaki
Series Composition: Taku Kishimoto
Original Character Design: Kaoru Saki
Animation Production: Liden films

Cast

Kenjiro Tsuda, Rikiya Hayashi, Hayato Furusawa and more

Web

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