List of Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo episodes

Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo DVD, Volume 1 boxset released in Japan.

The Japanese anime series Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo, which aired on July 5, 2008 to September 27, 2008 for 13 episodes, was directed by Tarō Iwasaki and animated by Dogakobo studios.^[1] News of a TV adaptation for the light novels series by Yoshiki Tanaka was announced in 2007.^[2][3] The shows is centered on a police officer named Ryōko Yakushiji, a graduate of Tokyo University's Law Faculty and currently the most youngest Superintendent in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, she investigate paranormal/supernatural cases with her subordinate Junichirō Izumida on their own in Japan when the police cannot handle it. Ryōko later gets involved as she is targeted in a secret conspiracy involving an influential socialite named Ruriko Isurugi with extremist factions in the Japan Private Police, Shiba and the JGSDF to create a true Japanese military by taking out the Yakushiji's security company called JACES.

Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo had been aired previously at BS11 Digital, Chiba TV, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, Television Saitama and TVK.^[4][5][6] Names of the opening and ending theme musics were named in French, with the opening theme Thème Principal and ending themes À demain sur la lune (#1,3), Ryoko 2 (#2,6), Songe d'une nuit d'été (#4,7,9,10,12), La Vie en rose (#5), and Le combat (#8,11)^[7] are done by KATSU.^[8] However, the song Theme principal La chanson d'atsuko was sung at KATSU for episode 13.^[9]

DVDs of the show were released in Japan on September 26, 2008, October 22, 2008, December 25, 2008 and January 21, 2009.^[10] All of them have 3 episodes each, except for the 3rd volume as it has 4 episodes included.^[10]

Episodes

#	Title[11]	Animation director[11]	Screenwriter[11]	Original air date[11]
01	"FILE01 Ginza Crime Tower (1st part)" "FILE01 Ginza kuraimu tawaa (zenpen)" (FILE01 銀座クライムタワー(前編))	Taro Iwasaki	Hiroyuki Kawasaki	July 5, 2008
Superintendent Ryōko Yakushiji and her subordinate, Assistant Inspector Junichirō Izumida of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, launch an investigation after they witness a man combust somewhere in Ginza. The two officers learn that the combustion cases may be tied with a known religious cult, but Ryōko has to endure her rivalry with fellow superintendent Yukiko Muromachi and an assassin out to get her. Near the end of episode the manga author Yoshiki Tanaka makes his cameo appearance autographing for a female restaurant visitor.
02	"FILE02 Ginza Crime Tower (2nd part)" "FILE02 Ginza kuraimu tawaa (kouhen)" (FILE02 銀座クライムタワー(後編))	Taro Iwasaki	Hiroyuki Kawasaki	July 12, 2008
Ryōko nearly survives an assassination attempt with the assassin sacrificing herself by ingesting a suicide pill that made her combust. She and Izumida continue to investigate, with their case getting complicated when a forensics scientist the two officers knew for a long time is the leader of the cult and that they had been using growth hormones to make an ordinary snake grow large.
03	"FILE03 The Sakuradamon Incident" "FILE03 Sakuradamon jihen" (FILE03 桜田門事変)	Hiroshi Haraguchi	Hiroyuki Kawasaki	July 19, 2008
Two newspaper reporters try to follow Ryōko and Izumida around to get a potential story to be used against the former, but are seemingly thwarted in their plans when JACES security forces intervene on Ryōko's behalf after following the two for some time.
04	"FILE04 Musashino Twilight" "FILE04 Musashino sumire irodoki" (FILE04 武蔵野すみれいろどき)	Masahiko Watanabe	Kenichi Kanemaki	July 26, 2008
Ryōko and Izumida investigate a former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare due to illegal human experimentation of human cells with cells from an unknown species, which resulted in a monster-like infant. The two officers try to eliminate the creature before they decided to let it die due to rapid cell degeneration.
05	"FILE05 The Bug That Crawls the Omotesando" "FILE05 Omotesandō o Hau Mushi" (FILE05 表参道を這(は)う蟲(むし))	Masahiko Otsuka	42 Script Cell	August 2, 2008
An anti-terrorist security robot goes haywire after a traffic accident and kills armed security guards. Ryōko and Izumida are drawn to the situation after the former claimed of hearing gunshots. The situation becomes complicated when Izumida's elementary school cousin Mana gets involved and armed tactical teams of the Japan Private Police (JPP), a JACES rival and a known PMC-type security company, are secretly deployed to destroy their own invention and conceal evidence on the victims the robot had killed.
06	"FILE06 Made in Kasumigaseki" "FILE06 Meido in Kasumigaseki" (FILE06 メイドin霞ヶ関)	Naoki Murata	Hiroyuki Kawasaki	August 9, 2008
Marianne and Lucienne, Ryoko's maids, arrived in Narita International Airport after the two subdued a thief by kicking their baggage cart to knock him out. The two maids, with Ryoko and Izumida, investigate the appearance of a giant salamander beneath the Greater Tokyo Area within a secret underground resort used by corrupt politicians who send gunmen to kill the creature.
07	"FILE07 Okinawa, Kounoshima" "FILE07 Okinawa, Kounoshima" (FILE07 沖縄, 神の島)	Kiyotaka Itani	42 Script Cell	August 16, 2008
Ryoko and Junichiro head to Okinawa to investigate the reclusive JPP founder Ryojin Tadomura. As the two begin their stay in the island, seeds from mutant mangrove trees that were experimented on by JPP scientists turned JPP personnel against other humans until the mutated mangrove in the destroyed Tadomura villa is destroyed by Marianne by napalm.
08	"FILE08 Tamagawa Suicide" "FILE08 Tamagawa suusaido" (FILE08 多摩川スーサイド)	Yasushi Murotani	Kenichi Kanemaki	August 23, 2008
When numerous people are committing suicide, including a well-known police forensics scientist, Ryoko and Izumida investigate it and find out that a university professor and a new species of ultrasound crickets are responsible for the mysterious suicides.
09	"FILE09 Queen of Shiba" "FILE09 Shiba no joou" (FILE09 芝の女王)	Hama Tsumamori	Hiroyuki Kawasaki	August 30, 2008
Ryoko goes into hiding after the media broadcasts negative articles and news reports about her fame and her standing with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Ryoko takes Izumida to a JPP stronghold in the Greater Tokyo Area after being defamed by a secret organization of renegade police officials led by a woman named Ruriko Isurugi. In the JPP stronghold, Ryoko and Izumida discover a child who has the identical facial features like the Ryoko.
10	"FILE10 Linen Trap" "FILE10 Azabu no wana" (FILE10 麻布の罠(わな))	Tomoaki Ota	Hiroyuki Kawasaki	September 6, 2008
Ryoko and Izumida find out that the child had no memories of herself, dubbing her Monami. Meanwhile, Ruriko makes an alliance with the Defense Minister on taking on Ryoko after reports of explosions have hit the DK Pharmaceuticals and other public buildings. Distraught over Ryoko planning on keeping her out of Japan, Monami runs away only to be captured by JPP operatives in an ambush with centipede robots until a giant toad came out of a nearby lake and assisted Izumida.
11	"FILE11 Takanawa Princess" "FILE11 Takanawa no purinsesu" (FILE11 高輪のプリンセス)	Mitsuru Nakasumu	Hiroyuki Kawasaki	September 13, 2008
Monami seeks refuge with Izumida after escaping from captivity. Ryoko reveals that Ruriko had co-founded JACES as the Japanese Empire Security Service but left after her grandfather Masamoto refused to allow Ruriko to use JESS as a refuge for ex-Imperial military servicemen to reestablish a new Japanese military. Izumida learns from Kazuma, Ryoko's personal assistant, that Monami was cloned to wrestle control of JACES away from the Yakushiji family using a combination of ancient technique of making people called Hangon and cloning technology.
12	"FILE12 Tokyo Dead or Love (1st Part)" "FILE12 Tōkyō Deddo oa Rabu (Zenpen)" (FILE12 東京デッド·オア·ラブ(前編))	Takenori Mihara	Hiroyuki Kawasaki	September 20, 2008
Ruriko and other conspirators in the JGSDF and the JPP had planned to crush Ryoko Yakushiji and JACES under the guise of anti-terrorist exercise for the Greater Tokyo Area. Ryoko decides to fight Shiba on her own with JPP forces attacking both her and her subordinates. Izumida leaves the Yakushiji residence to see Ryoko, who had been previously attacked by an AH-64 Apache and a Type 90 MBT when a Type 10 tank arrives in a harbor to finish off Ryoko for good.
13	"FILE12B Tokyo Dead or Love (2nd Part)" "FILE12B Tōkyō Deddo oa Rabu (Kōhen)" (FILE12B 東京デッド·オア·ラブ(後編))	Taro Iwasaki	Hiroyuki Kawasaki	September 27, 2008
The Type 10, revealed to be under the control of Marianne and Lucienne, is used by Ryoko and Junichiro to head to Central Tokyo as they take out renegade JGSDF Type 90s. They later proceed to take out Tokyo Tower with Type 81 Surface-to-air Missile, which is the source of the radiowaves that had been used to mind-control JGSDF soldiers. Monami was rescued by Ryoko and Junichiro after defeating Ruriko and Kazuma. With the mind-control signal removed, the JGSDF personnel involved in the plot collapsed and the remaining JPP operatives fled in fear due to the destruction of Tokyo Tower. The actions of Ryoko and her group were credited in the media as various training accidents.

References

General

• "Starchild's Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo episode guide" (in Japanese).
• "Tokyo MX's Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo episode guide" (in Japanese).

Specific

1. "Dogakobo Studio's Official Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo Production Page" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-03-28.
2. "Galactic Heroes Author Does Yakushiji Mystery TV Anime (Updated)". 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
3. "Starchild's Official Cast/Staff Page" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-03-16.
4. "「ドラ寄せお涼」がアニメに登場！ 「薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿」7月より放送開始". Dengeki Online. 2008-06-04. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
5. "Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's On Air Schedule Page, Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's Starchild Page" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-03-16.
6. 薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-03-26.
7. "Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's CD Page, Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's Starchild Page" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-03-16.
8. "Tokyo MX's Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo cast/staff page" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-03-16.
9. "遂にクライマックス！TVアニメ「薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿」のDVDが9月26日よりリリース開始！" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-03-16.
10. "Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's DVD Page, Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's Starchild Page" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-03-16.
11. 薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿(2008) (in Japanese). All Cinema. Retrieved 2012-02-12.

External links

• Starchild's Official Site (Japanese)
• Tokyo MX's Official Site (Japanese)