1 Season
14 Episode
Box of Goblins
Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji.
- Year: 2008
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation, Crime, Mystery
- Studio: Nippon TV
- Keyword: buddhism, detective, based on novel or book, journalism, kidnapping, blackmail, police, supernatural, murder, unrequited love, religion, post war, seinen, neo-noir, japanese mythology, shinto, anime, psychological
- Director:
- Cast: Hiroaki Hirata, Hidenobu Kiuchi, Takaaki Seki, Toshiyuki Morikawa