Season 1
In the twilight of the Meiji era, the financially strained genius poet Ishikawa Takuboku establishes a detective practice from his lodging, spurred by a murder case, naming it the Woodpecker Detective’s Office. He plunges into a sequence of uncanny cases with his hometown associate Kindaichi Kyosuke as his assistant. The specters of the Twelve-Story Tower in Asakusa and a man-eating figure wandering the snowy streets are among the cases Takuboku tackles. Other literary luminaries—Nomura Kodo, Yoshii Isamu, Hagiwara Sakutaro, and Wakayama Bokusui—are drawn into Takuboku’s exploits as he races all around Tokyo at the height of Westernization.
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Genius poet Ishikawa Takuboku relocates to Tokyo with the aid of his upperclassman, Kindaichi Kyousuke. Enraptured by drink and women, Takuboku constantly finds himself short of money. One day, the two men decide to drop by Asakusa and become primary witnesses to a murder. The victim, Tatsukichi, worked in the home of Oguri, the head clerk to the Arakawa mines. When the murder weapon and a letter of accusation written by Tatsukichi are discovered, Oguri is arrested for the crime, but Takuboku isn’t convinced…