TV series
Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation
Overview
Shōtarō Tatewaki is a normal high school student with a serious demeanor hangs around with Sakurako Kujō. Sakurako is an extraordinarily beautiful woman in her mid-20s from a rich family who loves "beautiful bones." The two live in the city of Asahikawa in Hokkaido, and they get involved in various incidents regarding bones.
Details
- First air date
- 2015-10-08
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 12 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Crime, Mystery, Drama
- Network
- Tokyo MX
- Production
- TROYCA, DAX Production, Lantis
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Junya Enoki as Shōtarō Tatewaki
- Shizuka Itoh as Sakurako Kujō
- Kikuko Inoue as Sōko Chiyoda
- Ayaka Imamura as Yuriko Kōgami
- Akira Ishida as Itsuki Isozaki
- Masako Isobe as Ume Sawa
Creators and crew
- Kenjiro Gomi - Producer
- Makoto Kato - Director
- Makoto Bessho - Director
- Shu Watanabe - Director
- Yuu Kinome - Director
- Katsuya Kikuchi - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: Bone-Loving Princess
Shotaro is an average kid, but when he’s with Sakurako, they find dead bodies. Under Sakurako’s orders, Shotaro unearths a human skull, leading to another mystery!
Episode 2: Where’s Your House?
A little girl waits for her mom outside a store, wearing a backpack stained with blood. Sakurako might be the only one able to figure out who she is and what happened to her.
Episode 3: The Bones That Sleep in Summer
Shotaro and Sakurako find a skeleton in the mountains. The deceased’s granddaughter believes the police wrongly determined the death a suicide, and asks for the duo’s help.
Episode 4: The Cursed Man (Part One)
Officer Utsumi asks for Shotaro and Sakurako’s help with a friend who thinks he’s going to die prematurely due to a curse.
Episode 5: The Cursed Man (Part Two)
Sakurako solves the mystery of Fujioka’s “curse,” which brings to light the existence of a mysterious art dealer. Despite celebrating, Fujioka makes a dangerous choice.
Episode 6: Asahi Bridge Irregulars
Kogami searches alongside her teacher, Isozaki, and Officer Utsumi for a mysterious woman among the crowds of a summer festival, certain that the woman is in danger.
Episode 7: The Entrusted Bones (Part One)
At Shotaro’s school festival, Sakurako is asked to sort the school’s bone collection. Shotaro discovers something about her that may alter their relationship.
Episode 8: The Entrusted Bones (Part Two)
Shotaro volunteers to aid Sakurako in delivering Sasaki’s remains to his family and the two find themselves in the middle of another semi-investigation.
Episode 9: Grandma’s Pudding
Sakurako and Shotaro attempt to help Yuriko find out which painting of her grandfather’s her grandmother wanted to give her.
Episode 10: A Butterfly Disappeared in November (Part 1)
As Sakurako enlists Shotaro’s help for the year’s final bone search, Isozaki calls to request their aid in finding a missing student.
Episode 11: A Butterfly Disappeared in November (Part 2)
Three of Isozaki’s students were inseparable until one vanished. As one of the remaining two disappears, Sakurako begins to assemble the bones of a more nebulous skeleton.
Episode 12: What Lies Beneath Sakurako...
With his life once again becoming far too normal, Shotaro recalls his initial impression of Sakurako and the first mystery they solved together.
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