TRICKSTER

Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Episodes: 24
Rated: Rated 13

Kensuke Hanasaki meets a mysterious boy named Yoshio Kobayashi, who wishes his own death due to an undying body. Hanasaki takes an interest in him and invites him to join the Boy Detectives Club. Their meeting is connected to the fate tying together Kogoro Akechi, and the era's greatest villain, the Fiend With Twenty Faces.

EPISODES

#1 Mirage on D. Hill

In the year 203X, a security robot goes on a rampage in Shibuya. Nakamura Nao, a police detective with the public safety department, commissions detective Akechi Kogorou to solve the case... but Akechi, along with Inoue Ryou of the Boy Detectives Club, is already heading toward Hinomoto Heavy Industries, the robot's manufacturer. Meanwhile, Hanasaki Kensuke of the Boy Detectives club is pursuing a lost dog after receiving a report from the club's technical whiz, Noro Makoto. As Hanasaki corners the dog in an abandoned building, he finds himself face-to-face with a mysterious boy...

#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. They accept the job and begin to tail her boyfriend. Meanwhile Kobayashi, after missing his chance to return Hanasaki's dropped wallet, uses it to buy a desperately needed meal. Hanasaki finds out by checking his electronic money usage history, and he convinces Kobayashi to join him on the current investigation in a second attempt to get him to join the club...

#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. His first mission is to help find a jobless young man who's gone missing. The club starts by receiving files on missing persons from Detective Nakamura and her subordinate, Miyanishi, who are facing an investigation of their own now after a medical examiner went missing. They were all set to begin the search, but when the mysterious and socially awkward Kobayashi perpetually clashes with Inoue and Noro, he tries to make a run for it.

#4 Underground Labyrinth

After school, Inoue watches Katsuda of the tennis club practicing before heading home, and Hanasaki tests out some tools of the Boy Detectives' Club trade with Scientific Experiments Club members Ohtomo and Yamane. Meanwhile, a police car is found overturned after a crash. A film reel labeled "For Akechi-kun" is found in the car, and one of the passengers, Senior Officer Kanda, is missing. The film reel depicts Twenty Faces telling Akechi that if he can't find Kanda by 9:00 PM, the senior officer may lose his life...

#5 Spider’s Thread

Kobayashi and Inoue are trapped in the underground discharge channels as a result of Twenty Faces' maneuvering, and a massive amount of water is pouring into their chamber. Worried about the police officers searching elsewhere in the channels, Inoue tells Kobayashi to escape with the message that the map they were given is fake and they need to evacuate immediately. However, the officers still end up trapped. Hanasaki rushes to rescue them and talks the former Boy Detectives' Club member Katsuda into helping him get to the scene faster. But as they're en route, more and more water surrounds Inoue...

#6 Holiday Stalker

Hanasaki has been trying various things to help Kobayashi die, but nothing has worked. Then, while Akechi is away, Hanasaki takes the liberty of accepting six job requests. He's noticed that all the times Kobayashi has been injured were after completing a job, so he thinks that if they complete lots of jobs, his wish will come true... but things don't go exactly as he planned.

#7 Pure Tryst

Akechi relaxes at a spa to relieve the exhaustion of his recent cases.

#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.

#9 Fallen Hero

Kensuke is bewildered when Haruhiko invites him to live together, while Isuzu negotiates with the police for three billion yen in exchange for the removal of the residents of the housing complex.

#10 Innocent Scale

Hanasaki runs out of the office after an argument with Akechi and the others, only to end up confined by Twenty Faces.

#11 Cruel Tool

Hanasaki's act is successful in convincing Akechi and the Boy Detectives' Club that he was kidnapped by Twenty Faces. Akechi takes off to try to save him.

#12 Shade by Haze

Hanasaki is brought to tears by the conversation between Twenty Faces and Akechi at gunpoint.

#13 Wild Dance of the Luminous Man

With the Le Waqua incident resolved and Twenty Faces in custody, the world appeared to be at peace again. However, the trauma of the incident left Hanasaki psychologically unstable, and the Boy Detectives' Club is reluctant to let him return to the ranks.

#14 The Spiral Ladder

Yumeko approaches Yamane, mistaking him for a member of the club and asking him to investigate a case in which the school's most attractive boys are becoming victims of theft. But Yamane is so pleased by the mistake that he accepts the job.

#15 Beetle of Conviction

The Boy Detectives' Club receives an odd request: a death-row prisoner who's received a death threat has asked specifically for them to guard him when he's escorted to the district court.

#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.

#17 Scattered Recoil

Kobayashi is in extreme pain after taking a gunshot. Has the mysterious power that protected him disappeared?

#18 Mistaken Absolute Evil

Inoue and the other detectives are disheartened after being told that the Boy Detectives' Club would be disbanded.

#19 Cycle of 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.

#20 Fallen Clown

Kobayashi, along with Inoue, searches for the place that he saw in his dream.

#21 Veracious Victim

Nakamura testifies that Twenty Faces is actually Akechi. Determining that she may have been under his control, the police conduct a search of the Akechi Investigation Firm office.

#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. The Boy Detectives' Club is at a loss, and their attempts to reach Akechi fail. Then, suddenly, Twenty Faces appears on their monitor...

#23 Return of the Evening Star

The Boy Detectives' Club arrives at the Space Expo. Hanasaki and Kobayashi board the shuttle for the craft in the sky that Twenty Faces uses as his base, where Akechi is being held captive.

#24 The Boy Detectives Club

Hanasaki leaves Kobayashi behind and takes off for Twenty Faces' hideout alone, and plans to put an end to everything.

CHARACTERS

Hanasaki Kensuke

A hyperactive boy, he constantly seeks cases and adventures for thrill and has an easy going and friendly demeanour. Although emotionally detached, blunt and indifferent of others at first, he begins to slowly grow a soft spot for the rest of the club.

Kobayashi Yoshio

A mysterious boy with supernatural abilties, including immortality who seeks to die but is unable to do so. He's recruited by Hanasaki as part of the Boy Detectives Club after Hanasaki takes an interest in him.

Inoue Ryo

Akechi's right-hand man and the most senior member of the Boy Detectives Club. He was left paraplegic and wheelchair bound following a case in which him and a comrade worked on.

Noro Makoto

The sole female of the group. She's a thorough shut-in girl who never leaves her department, and only checks events outside through her owl, with her speciality being communications and hacking.

Akechi Kogoro

A famous detective and the founder of the Boys Detective Club. Akechi is a master detective with keen insight and deduction ability, but is mostly seen as laid back and lazy.

CREW

Illustrator
Yamada Shinya

Director
Mukai Masahiro

Artists Voice
Ohsaka Ryota as Hanasaki Kensuke; Yamashita Daiki as Kobayashi Yoshio; Umehara Yuichiro as Inoue Ryo; Kido Ibuki as Noro Makoto; Ono Daisuke as Akechi Kogoro; Gackt as Fiend With Twenty Faces

Artists Opening
"Kimi dake no Boku de Iru kara" by Gackt

Artists Ending
"Tsumi no Keishō ~Original Sin~" by Gackt