Aibou TV Season 5 Episode 10 - The Famous Detective Appears(名探偵登場)

Subtitle: The Famous Detective Appears(名探偵登場)

 Hiroya Mitsuhashi(三橋 弘也), a second-year art student is stabbed to death outside his apartment. A middle-aged man was apparently looking for Hiroya a few days before he was killed. The Tokumeigakari pair track down the man and find out that he is none other than Akira Yagi (矢木 明), a self-employed detective at the Chandler Detective Agency, who fancies himself as a hard-boiled detective. Detective Yagi says that a sexy lady asked him to find the young artist who drew a graffiti painting, telling him that Continental Music Entertainment wanted to locate and hire the artist to make record labels for them before a competitor hired him. As expected, the sexy lady was not from the Continental Music Entertainment. Who was the mysterious sexy lady, and how is she related Mitsuhashi's murder?

Locations

Mezon do vu~iora(メゾン・ド・ヴィオラ) - Maison de Viola, the apartment Hiroya Mitsuhashi(三橋 弘也) lived in.

Chandorā tantei-sha(チャンドラー探偵社) - Chandler Detective Agency, the name of Akira Yagi (矢木 明)'s detective agency.

Tōto Bidai(東都美大) - Toto Art School, the art college Hiroya Mitsuhashi(三橋 弘也) attended.

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Akira Yagi (矢木 明) - He is a self-employed middle-aged detective who runs the Chandler Detective Agency.

A sexy woman came to his office some time ago asking him to find contact information for the artist who made a certain graffiti drawing so that the company she worked for could hire the artist.

To find out the identity of this young man, he first showed the street art to Chika chan and her friends, who realized that the artist made his drawings all over the city. Detective Yagi then went to a painting company that whitewashes graffiti to find out more about this artist. It turned out that the artist started making his drawings this summer. The paintings were made at night, on different days of the week, leading the detective to realize that either the painter was a part-time worker or a student. One of the Detective's homeless acquaintances had seen the artist in action. The homeless man said that the artist must have studied the basics of art, leading the detective to the possibility that the artist was a student.

He then marked the graffiti locations on a map and looked for the art colleges and vocational school in that vicinity to narrow down the possible schools the artist attended. The most likely school turned out to be the right one, since he found an artwork with a similar style in a book with a collection of that college students' artworks. From that book, he got the student's name, Hiroya Mitsuhashi(三橋 弘也).

Detective Yagi then used old-fashioned legwork and different aliases to gather information. He talked to the students on campus to find out that Hiroya had a girlfriend Mia Izawa(井沢 美亜). He claimed that he was from a student loan company when talking to Mia last Saturday on campus to get Hiroya's contact information. She declined, but did tell the Detective where Hiroya worked part-time. At the convenience store, he claimed to be Hiroya's high school classmate's father. The Detective told the manager that his son was involved in an accident and really wants to meet Hiroya. The manager bought the story and gave Hiroya's address to Detective Yagi. Detective Yagi then talked to Hiroya Mitsuhashi(三橋 弘也)'s landlord about four days ago to confirm that Hiroya lived there, claiming to be from the university's employment bureau.

Once Yagi finished his research, he gave Hiroya's address, phone number, the college he attended, and the hours Hiroya worked at his part time job to the sexy lade in exchange for a large amount of money.

Later, when the Tokumeigakari pair visit and reveal that Hiroya was murdered, Yagi attempts to track down and talk to his client who supposedly worked at Continental Music Entertainment, using the alias Yamashita(山下) from Blue Bird insurance(ブルーバード保険 Burūbādo hoken). He finds out, however, that whoever made the request borrowed Atsumi Kimihara(君原 敦美)'s name and title.

The Detective begs and is allowed to work with the Tokumeigakari pair to find Hiroya's killer. The Detective explains to the Tokumeigakari pair how he tracked down Hiroya. A short time after talking to the homeless man again, Detective Yagi decides to take separate actions from the Tokumeigakari Pair, but is caught by a suspicious looking pair of thugs wearing sunglasses and is beaten up. Fortunately, the Tokumeigakari pair find him and rescue the Detective from a pair of sun glass wearing thugs.

He is a fan of hard-boiled detective stories, and calls himself Marlowe "(マーロウ Mārou)" in his office. In the Nishinippori neighborhood, he is called Marlowe Yagi(マーロウ 矢木 Mārou Yagi). In Ginza, he is called Sam Spade Yagi(サムスペード 矢木 Samusupēdo Yagi).

Detective Yagi mentions that one particular quote by Philip Marlowe(フィリップ・マーロウ) from the novel Playback is his motto:

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

Otoko wa tafudenakereba ikiteikenai(男はタフでなければ生きていけない)

Yasashikunakereba ikiteiku shikakuganai(優しくなければ生きていく資格がない)

Atsumi Kimihara(君原 敦美) - He works in the advertising department at Continental Music Entertainment. Whoever came to Detective Yagi's office used Mr. Kimihara's name to make the request, without his knowledge.

Toshie Shinozaki(篠崎 敏江) - The true identity of the mysterious (sexy, thirty year old) woman who hired Detective Akira to track down a young man. She used a fake name Atsumi Kimihara(君原 敦美), gave Detective Yagi a photograph of a painting, and asked him to find the address and the phone number of the artist who made that drawing. Supposedly, her company wanted to use that artist's painting as the CD cover for a band that is making its debut next year. She further explained that her company wanted to track the artist down before any other company claimed him, and that this project was top secret even within the company, and so asked the Detective to contact her through her cell phone and not through the company phone.

She was a former event companion, but currently is Shūzō Segawa(瀬川 修三)'s mistress.

Shūzō Segawa(瀬川 修三) - Leader of the Yazkuza group Genrō-kai(元老会).

Hiroya Mitsuhashi(三橋 弘也) - Twenty year old second year art student and a street artist with a distinctive style who was killed with a single thrust to his left chest outside his apartment between 3 AM and 4 AM. On the night he was killed, he finished his part-time work at a convenience store at 2 AM, then went back to his apartment.

He made the drawing in question on the night of the fifth and called the police around 1 AM, but hung up without saying much. The people maintaining the building discovered the graffiti on the sixth and added locks to the building doors on the seventh. The mysterious woman also visited Detective Yagi on the sixth.

Yamamoto(山本) - He lives in the room above Hiroya and also goes to the same art college. He tells the Sōichi that Yuki Shōno(庄野 裕樹) might be the culprit who killed Hiroya.

Mia Izawa(井沢 美亜) - First year art student specializing in oil painting, She used to go out with Yūki Shōno(庄野 裕樹), but she recently started going out with Hiroya.

Yūki Shōno(庄野 裕樹) - Mia's former unemployed 23 years old boyfriend who lives in Shinjuku(新宿). He repeatedly harassed Hiroya, thinking that Hiroya stole his girlfriend from him. Yuki even waited near Hiroya's home two or three times this month, even threatening to kill Hiroya.

Chikachan(ちかちゃん) - "Yakki" asked her help to find the young man. She and her group of friends recognized seeing street art similar in style to the picture Yakki was given. These girls took pictures of the graffiti drawings with their cellphones and sent them to Yakki for a price of 250 yen each.

Mī-chan(みいちゃん) - The painting company owner's cat. Detective Yagi once found her after she went missing.