Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi (2020)
Synopsis
Detective Goro Akechi has a passion for fine dining. Good-looking but incredibly quirky, he solves food-related crimes by using, well, food. He treats Ichigo Kobayashi like his assistant and drags her into all sorts of cases, even though she's perfectly happy just running her food truck.
Network
Nippon TV, Hulu
Episodes
Episodes
Sex and food, which is more important for a married couple?
Goro Akechi is a private detective and his office is located near Omotesando in Tokyo. He is a big fan of gourmet food. It's important to Goro Akechi to eat delicious meals three times a day. A client visits Goro Akechi’s private detective office.
I love you so I killed you. A woman is like that, right?
Akechi and his assistant, Ichigo, trace a suspect who murdered a man in a hotel.
In this city, everyone is crazy...
A customer choked to death on bread in a French restaurant. Akechi believes the incident is related to Maria.
It's my favorite and delicious, let's fill this pure white refrigerator
A housewife is upset as her husband’s aunt keeps sending her homemade food. Maria encourages her to kill her husband.
While cooking can make people happy, sometimes it becomes a weapon
Ichigo helps Katono to find out why his daughter is acting strange. They discover that she’s being bullied at school.
I will, for the people I love, give my life without hesitation
Akechi goes on a blind date and sees Maria at the restaurant. When the date ends, the girl he was with suddenly dies.
Can you see these pure white wings on my back? No one can take them
Ichigo is consulted by a friend, Koko, a member of an underground idol group, about a stalker fan. Akechi accompanies them as a bodyguard. He figures out that Koko is suffering from an eating disorder. Meanwhile, Maria receives a DM on SNS...
It's just you... I like it, so don't go!
Akechi realizes that Koko made her stalker eat a venomous mushroom. Maria appears and tells him she is planning to kill Ichigo next. Worried, Akechi begins to live in the office with Ichigo in order to protect her. He is out with Momoko following Koko as Maria edges ever closer to Ichigo.
Living is eating, eating creates hope for life
Akechi and Maria disappear. Akechi reappears in front of the worried Ichigo. Half a year later, Akechi is brought by her mother to an important event held at a family hotel. After government officials are killed by poisoned sweets and Ito kidnaps Ichigo, Akechi goes to the "The Last Supper" that Maria invites him to.
Cast
Details
Original Title
美食探偵 明智五郎
Status
Ended
Seasons
1
Episodes
9
Production
Nippon Television Network Corporation, AX-ON
