UN-GO
| Category: | TV Series |
| Adult: | No |
| Romaji: | Un-Go |
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| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Aired: | Oct 14, 2011 [13 years 3 months ago] |
| Ended: | Dec 23, 2011 [13 years 1 month ago] |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Links: | ANIDB |
* Loosely adapted from Sakaguchi Ango's novel Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonochou. A full-fledged detective story about a detective and handsome boy combo who tackle the world's most difficult crimes together for reasons of their own. The profession of private detective fell out of favor long ago, and yet, that's how the young man, Yuuki Shinjuurou identifies himself. With his superior deductive powers, Shinjuurou solves various challenging cases. Meanwhile, Inga, an attractive young lad, serves as Shinjuurou's buddy. But contrary to his cute looks, he's a sharp, arrogant rogue. Why Inga sticks with Shinjuurou is as of yet unknown. The setting of the story is a postwar, future Tokyo that still bears the scars of war. Ruling the land is Media King Kaishou Rinroku, who through politics and industry has the communications infrastructure under his thumb. Kaishou has used a clear head and the massive amount of information at his fingertips to lead to the solution of a great number of cases. But there's an underside to Kaishou's brilliant deduction work, which is that Yuuki Shinjuurou, the Last Great Detective, is the one who actually uncovered the truth in those cases. However, the public doesn't know this and thus refers to Shinjuurou as the Defeated Detective. Still, Shinjuurou, together with Inga, can't help but search for the truth.
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Episode 1: Murder at the Ball
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-10-14
In a near-future, post-war Tokyo, the war hero president of a major corporation is murdered at his own party. Will the brilliant, young Shinjurou prove his self-proclaimed title as "the last great detective" by solving the case, or will devious "Media King" Rinroku Kaishou beat him to it, leading to a questionable outcome and the branding of Shinjurou as the "Defeated Detective" once again?
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Episode 2: Pitiless Song
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-10-21
A trunk is delivered to a mansion by an unlicensed taxi driver. Inside is the corpse of the mansion's owner, Osada Hisako. Based on Kaishou Rinraku's deductions, a manhunt begins for the suspect, Aramaki. But An, the daughter of Osada Hisako, tells Shinjurou that Aramaki isn't the killer. This leads the "Defeated Detective" into a search for the real murderer as well as the secret behind wartime pop group Yonagahime.
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Episode 3: Masked Mansion
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-10-28
Rie pays Shinjurou a visit, thinking he'll be able to solve the mystery that occurs at the Sassa house. The deceased is the head of the Sassa household, Kazamori Sassa. Kazamori's father, Komamori, was a brilliant researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, but during the war, his research was suppressed and he was subsequently killed in an explosion. Seven years later, his son, Kazamori, also dies suddenly in an explosion. Is it murder, suicide, or perhaps a curse...?
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Episode 4: House, Unmasked
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-11-04
The former head of the Sasa family, Komamori Sasa, developed a groundbreaking artificial intelligence known as RAI (Real A.I.), but the technology was banned by the government and consigned to oblivion. Shinjurou's brilliant reasoning follows a trail to the past and exposes the Sasa family's hidden truth. But even then, a mystery remains, until a certain event provides the young detective with a hint, dispelling all of his doubts!
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Episode 5: The Statue of Illusion
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-11-11
During the war, three students bravely volunteered to prevent a terrorist bombing . After the war, it became taboo to speak of their actions, but the unveiling of a bronze statue is held to praise the three young heroes. The sponsor is Hakurou Shimada, the leader of the "Rising Sun Party", a political organization the three students had been involved in. But then, during the ceremony, two corpses are discovered inside a hidden cavity in the statue. Shinjurou had been invited to the unveiling, so with two murder victims right in front of him, he gets caught up in the puzzling case.
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Episode 6: The Code Too Simple
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-11-18
Yajima, a man who has just gotten out of prison, pays Shinjurou a visit. It turns out that he's an old friend of Kaishou and he asks the young detective to break a secret code. Folded inside of a purloined book from Kaishou's library is a piece of paper from Yajima's own personalized manuscript paper with a series of numbers written on it. The decoded message indicates a planned rendezvous, which leads to the suspicion that Kaishou and Yajima's wife had an affair while Yajima was incarcerated. But where are the Yajima children, who suddenly disappeared one day?
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Episode 7: Daydream
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-11-25
Shinjurou Yuuki is working as a movie cameraman. His current project is "The Retard", a film set in a fictionalized modern-day Japan that is embroiled in war, though the story focuses on three young women who escape from different places only to wind up living together in the closet of a ramshackle house and being loved by the same man. The seeming disinterest of the director, Kichitarou Mitaka, is balanced by the passion of the three lead actresses. Their enthusiasm rubs off on Shinjurou, who becomes inspired to do the best work he's ever done. But then, one day, Director Mitaka is murdered and the prime suspect is Shinjurou himself, apparently the last person to see the director alive...
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Episode 8: King of Paradise
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-12-02
After searching for the missing Shinjurou on the net, Kazamori discovers that he's in the East Kantou Social Rehabilitation Program Center, a prison. Shinjurou's objective in going to this privately-run prison was to interview the criminal who calls himself "The Novelist" regarding a previous case. Through Rie, Rinroku, Koyama and Hayami also learn of Shinjurou's whereabouts. Rie tags along as Koyama heads to the prison, where they first meet the Novelist, the last person to see Shinjurou before his disappearance...
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Episode 9: Kaishou Rinroku's Crime
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-12-09
A group of crackers calling themselves "Full Circle" fix on JJ Systems as their target and begin attacking by leaking the company's data as well as revealing Rinroku Kaishou's private life. Amid those unfavorable winds, Kaishou appears on a TV talk show. The other participants, a politician, the president of a rival company, and the writer of a tell-all book are all critical of Kaishou. Just before, Full Circle spread the rumor across the net that Kaishou intends to gather together everyone who is hostile towards him and murder them. Then, right after the program starts, there is an explosion at the TV station. Eight people are dead or missing, including the participants on the program. Kaishou himself is seriously injured and taken to a hospital, but word spreads that he's the one behind the blast. Meanwhile, Shinjurou is on the trail of Bettenou when he gets called to the hospital by Rie, who requests that he prove Kaishou's innocence. Shinjurou is surprised by the irony, yet begins investigating...
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Episode 10: Kaishou Rinroku's Funeral
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-12-16
Inga has disappeared, but Shinjurou continues to search for the truth alone. While investigating the TV station bombing, Shinjurou, who suspects that Kaishou used Bettenou to do it, devises a plan to uncover the truth. Kaishou is requested to testify at a budget committee, but if done via video monitor while he's in his hospital bed, Bettenou's ability to manipulate people through a person's words should be blocked. Kaishou, who easily deflects the rigorous interrogation, says, "There are an innumerable amount of truths. Being satisfied with just one truth is no more than ceasing to think about it beyond that point." Angered at the words, Shinjurou questions Kaishou without thinking and asks Rie to testify as his trump card. Rie explains, "Right after the explosion at the TV station, I saw my father at home." Was the Kaishou at the TV station an illusion produced by Bettenou? Then Inga appears in womanly form to ask the truth of an unexpected person!
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Episode 11: I'm Just Searching
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2011-12-23
A mysterious invitation has been delivered to Shinjurou and several other people who have a connection to Chairman Kaishou. It contains the message, "An invitation to a party, in which the real person behind the bombing will be discovered" and seemingly bears the personal seal of Kaishou himself. And so, the people concerned gather together in the TV studio that had recently been bombed. A furious Izumi suspects Shinjurou of setting up the "farce", to which he responds, "I was called here, too. In other words, a crime is going to occur. And a major crime at that..." Was Kaishou behind the bombing? Shinjurou's final deductions begin and along the way, Inga and Bettenou's true identities are revealed. It culminates in a showdown between the two entities, but once everything is laid bare, what will be the relationship between Shinjurou, Inga and Rie?
Source: crunchyroll
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