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Region：Japan
Type：TV
English name：Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo / Ryoko's Case File
Official name：薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿
Chinese name：药师寺凉子怪奇事件簿
Premiered：July 5, 2008
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Urban / Supernatural / Suspense / Source novel
Original author：田中芳樹
Director：岩崎太郎
Scenario：川崎ヒロユキ / 金巻兼一
Storyboard：原口浩 / 京田知己 / 橘正紀 / 岩崎太郎 / 室谷靖
Co-director：三原武憲 / 太田知章 / 井硲清高 / 大塚雅彦 / 原口浩
Studios：動画工房
Producers：女王陛下執務室
Copyright：©田中芳樹・垣野内成美 / 女王陛下執務室
Family：Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo
Official website：http://www.mxtv.co.jp/yakushijiryoko/
Rating：12+

Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo

The story revolves around Yakushiji Ryouko, a 27-year-old multilingual investigator that graduated from Tokyo University's elite Department of Law, and the bizarre cases she faces while working for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.

Yakushiji not only has to deal with supernatural beings in her line of work, but also her rival Muromachi Yukiko, another equally talented and beautiful police investigator.

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Jul 5, 2008

EP1 - Ginza Crime Tower (1st part)

Superintendent Ryōko Yakushiji and her subordinate, Assistant Inspector Junichirō Izumida of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, launch an investigation after they witness a man waste away from rapid muscular atrophy, emit fumes and die in a mummified state within seconds while in downtown Ginza. Although a clue points to a known religious cult, additional investigation leads them to an amakudari haven which Yakushiji later decides to take down. To achieve her goal, she has to endure the presence of her rival, fellow superintendent Yukiko Muromachi, and survive an assassination attempt.At the latter part of the episode, the manga author, Yoshiki Tanaka makes his cameo appearance signing an autograph for a female restaurant visitor.
Jul 12, 2008

EP2 - Ginza Crime Tower (2nd part)

While investigating the series of mummifications, Superintendent Yakushiji survives an attempt on her life by a cult member who claims that the deaths were necessary experiments to achieve a divine purpose. Through their findings, a link between the owner of the amakudari establishment and the cult leadership is confirmed.Yakushiji and Izumida then embark on a mission to destroy the cult and come across surprising discoveries as they do so.
Jul 19, 2008

EP3 - The Sakuradamon Incident

It is Assistant Inspector Izumida's day off and while the rest of Superintendent Yakushiji's staff can only hope that things turn out well in his absence, Yakushiji impatiently bide her time.Two newspaper reporters take issue with the young Superintendent's well-known notoriety within the police force as the successor of JACES and, in spite of having been warned against it, decide to stalk her in the hopes of digging up dirt they could use to appeal to public sentiment. Yakushiji then leads them across town through several establishments with Izumida in tow, having picked him up the moment office hours - and his day off - ended.
Jul 26, 2008

EP4 - Musashino Twilight

A series of gruesome murders occur within the vicinity of a park.Having gotten past her rival and fellow Superintendent, Yukiko Muromachi; Superintendent Yakushiji and her subordinate, Assistant Inspector Izumida question a former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for his involvement in the illegal experimentation involving human cells and that of an unidentified primate. Their investigation reveals a lead to the whereabouts of the experiment which may just help put an end to the series of murders.
Aug 2, 2008

EP5 - The Bug That Crawls the Omotesandou

During transport, a minor traffic accident alters the defense systems of an anti-terrorist security robot and causes it to malfunction and go berserk, killing several security guards.Superintendent Yakushiji and her subordinate, Assistant Inspector Izumida, are drawn to the situation which becomes complicated when Izumida's elementary school cousin, Mana, gets involved. In addition, the two police officers discover the presence of armed tactical teams of the Japan Private Police (JPP), a JACES rival and a known PMC-type security company, secretly deployed to neutralize the situation and conceal the evidence of robot's existence.
Aug 9, 2008

EP6 - FILE06 Made in Kasumigaseki

Superintendent Yakushiji, Izumida and her newly arrived maids; Marianne and Lucienne, investigate the appearance of a giant salamander within a secret gaming resort for corrupt politicians beneath the Greater Tokyo Area. They encounter gunmen hired to destroy the creature.
Aug 16, 2008

EP7 - Okinawa, God's Island

Superintendent Yakushiji and her subordinate, Assistant Inspector Izumida, head to Okinawa - where several environmentalists have gone missing - to investigate the reclusive JPP founder Ryojin Tadomura. Her rival and fellow Superintendent, Yukiko Muromachi, also arrives to carry out an assignment. They find that the JPP founder's villa has been brought under the control of a mutated species of mangrove trees.
Aug 23, 2008

EP8 - Tamagawa Suicide

The unusual circumstances surrounding the death of a former classmate, the most recent victim in a series of suicides which have already claimed the life of a well-known police forensics scientist, along with an unusual tip prompt Superintendent Yakushiji and her subordinate, Assistant Inspector Izumida, to launch an investigation by searching for clues in an acoustic lab. They come across a bitter university professor and a new species of ultrasound crickets.
Aug 30, 2008

EP9 - Queen of Shiba

Superintendent Yakushiji receives an email from the Paris District Police Department and temporarily stops reporting to the office thereafter.Meanwhile, Assistant Inspector Izumida is invited by Superintendent Muromachi for a private discussion about an investigation she has been conducting, in a personal capacity, on Shiba and the mysterious woman who controls it from the shadows known simply as the Queen of Shiba.Weeks later, a bill regulating the practice of amakudari is voted upon and backed by a secret organization of renegade police officials led by the Queen of Shiba, a smear campaign is launched capitalizing on Yakushiji's notoriety in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.Amidst the controversy and media attention, Yakushiji shows up and takes Izumida away to infiltrate a JPP stronghold in the Greater Tokyo Area where they discover the existence of a kid in her early teens who looks exactly like her.
Sep 6, 2008

EP10 - Trap in Azabu

Superintendent Yakushiji and her subordinate, Assistant Inspector Izumida, take the child into their custody but find that the child has no idea of who she is. They then dub her later as Monami.Meanwhile, the Queen of Shiba destroys DK Pharmaceuticals along with other public buildings and reaffirm an alliance with the Defense Minister to further each other's ambitions.Yakushiji prepares to send Monami overseas to ensure that she is far from the clutches of the enemy. However, distraught over the nature of the plan, Monami runs away and is eventually captured by JPP operatives. She is then confined in an incubating apparatus.
Sep 13, 2008

EP11 - Princess of Takanawa

Superintendent Muromachi, continues her surveillance on Shiba amidst the ongoing preparations for the anti-terrorist exercise covering the Greater Tokyo Area.Superintendent Yakushiji confronts her rival about the latter's surveillance activities on Shiba just as Muromachi was preparing to visit Assistant Inspector Izumida. Yakushiji then identifies the Queen of Shiba as Isurugi Ruriko and reveals her involvement with JACES and then JPP.Around that time, having escaped from captivity and already a young woman, Monami finds her way to Izumida's apartment before passing out. When Yakushiji and Muromachi arrive, it is decided that Monami and Izumida will stay with Yakushiji at her place.Yakushiji and Izumida holds a discussion on Shiba while Nonagase reveals Yakushiji's infatuation with Izumida to Monami. It is around this time that Nonagase is unmasked. Nonagase then takes Monami to see Isurugi Ruriko who informs her of the true purpose of her creation and existence.
Sep 20, 2008

EP12 - Tokyo Dead or Love (First Part)

Monami leaves with Isurugi Ruriko upset after seeing Assistant Inspector Izumida shield his superior from a bomb blast.Later at Shiba, Isurugi Ruriko and other conspirators in the JGSDF and the JPP finalize their plans for the anti-terrorist exercise.Superintendent Yakushiji leaves the evacuation of her staff to her rival, Superintendent Muromachi, and makes the first move.Having regained consciousness, Assistant Inspector Izumida rushes over to Yakushiji who had by this time survived attacks from an AH-64 Apache and a Type 90 MBT. Yakushiji and Izumida are reunited at the harbor where they bravely face a Type 10.
Sep 27, 2008

EP13 - Tokyo Dead or Love (Last Part)

Superintendent Yakushiji and her subordinate, Assistant Inspector Izumida, head out to Shiba with the Type 10 under Marianne and Lucienne's control.Just as Yakushiji and Izumida are surrounded, a Type 81 SAM destroys Tokyo Tower severing the link to the JGSDF soldiers under mind-control. This time, it is Monami that Izumida shields from falling debris.Yakushiji destroys Isurugi Ruriko using a formula she had previously prepared but reveals that another clone will pick up where the failed Queen of Shiba left off.In the aftermath, just as the year was about to end, Yakushiji holds a press conference where, to everyone's utter dismay and terror, she declares her decision to continue her career as a law officer with more passion and conviction than before.