Aibou TV Season 7 Episode 13 - The Boy with Supernatural Powers(超能力少年)

Subtitle: The Boy with Supernatural Powers(超能力少年)

 Takumi Nawate(縄手 拓海), a child who supposedly has the ability to tell the future, predicts that a Ginza club will be robbed. Takumi's mother goes to the police to tell them about his prediction, but no one believes them. Finally, they are sent to Inspector Ukyō and while he is listening to Mrs. Nawate's claims, Superintendent Kakuta receives a report that a host club in Ginza was robbed the previous night. The owner's husband was shot and killed. The police can't find any significant clues and relies on Takumi's prediction to find the murder weapon from a lake in a local park. Can Takumi really predict the future, or is there another explanation for his abilities?

Locations

Ginza(銀座) - Ginza.

Konparu Dōri(金春通り) - A street in Ginza.

Ginzasho(銀座署) - Ginza Police Station.

Suginamiku Naganuma(杉並区, 長沼) - Suginami District Naganuma. Takumi and his mother lives here.

Nakano YūhiDōri(中野の夕日通り) - Moko Māto is located on this street.

Moko Māto(モコマート) - Takumi claimed that this store will be robbed, but the real estate company next street down was robbed instead.

Kugayama Kōen(久我山公園) - The police find the handgun used to kill Takao Ashida(芦田 孝男) in a lake in this park.

Kyassuru Esuteito(キャッスルエステイト) - Castle Estate. Takao Ashida(芦田 孝男) worked at this real estate company. The thief took Mr. Ashida's key to the company safe after killing him and later stole about 10 million yen from the company safe.

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Junko Nawate(繩手 順子) - Takumi's mother. She appeared on TV as a young girl with ESP skills, but failed on national TV. Her parents divorced shortly afterwards.

CSI Yonezawa discovers that her home was bugged. The device was planted in the house about a month ago.

Takumi Nawate(縄手 拓海) - Junko's 10 year old son who lives in Suginami District Naganuma(杉並区, 長沼 Suginamiku Naganuma) with his mother. He has the ability to tell (something about) the future (sometimes) because he hears voices in his head on the way to or from school. About two weeks ago, he claimed that a grandfather (who lives in Sendai) of a family living in a houses he passed by is going to die, and he died shortly afterwards. He also predicted that a couple living in a nearby apartment was going to divorce. That couple had discussed getting a divorce only a day before.

His mother tells him not to play video games nor watch TV saying that those activities are bad for his psychic abilities. He does however play Monster Hunter on PSP secretly in his room when his mother is not there. He even asks CSI Yonezawa's help getting past a section in the game.

He just had his cavity treated by a dentist.

Toshiya Saiki(斎木 敏也) - Junko's former husband. They divorced last year because he doesn't believe in supernatural powers. He hasn't seen Takumi for a month: his mother claimed that Takumi doesn't want to see him. He guesses that this is probably because Takumi's abilities have recently "bloomed." His only relation to Takumi now is just sending child support.

Maki Ashida(芦田 真紀) - Proprietress of a high class hostess club in Ginza(銀座). Someone broke into her hostess club after the other employees had left and tied her up. Her husband, who had come to pick her up, was shot after opening the club's front door. The robber stole that day's earnings and left her next to her husband's corpse until the morning when Sakamoto came by to exchange wet napkins. She says that even when the times were good, the club earned around a million yen in a single night.

Takao Ashida(芦田 孝男) - Maki's husband and manager(課長 kachō) of a real estate agency. Ten years ago, he entered a life insurance policy worth 50 million yen with his wife as the beneficiary. He is killed at the start of the episode during the robbery at his wife's club (around 2:30 AM on 1/27/2009). According to his wife, he had been picking her up after work to save on the cab fare since the club wasn't doing recently.

Akira Sakamoto(坂本 明) - 31 year old towels (wet napkins) deliveryman. He was the first person to find Mr. Ashida's body, He recently moved into a cheap apartment near Takumi's path to school because his business had failed. CSI Yonezawa and Inspector Ukyo later discover a bug located in a electrical socket in the apartment near his telephone. The last resident of the room was a young woman who was a victim of a stalker.

He got to know Mrs. Ashida when he talked to her after he happened to see the Ashida couple argue over the club's financial status.

Atsuko Muroga(室賀 厚子) - Housewife who recently discussed ending their marriage with her husband. The husband was unusually jealous of her, going through her cellphone and private notebooks, asking questions about her to their neighbors, and even placing an electronic bug in their household.