/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>29056778
Trick, a long-running (2000-2014) mystery dramedy. I've heard some people compare it to the X-Files, but it's more like Jonathan Creek if you've seen that. Yukie Nakama plays a shitty street magician with no social skills, Hiroshi Abe plays an arrogant physicist who's making a career out of debunking fraudulent supernaturalists (and solving the seemingly impossible crimes they commit). She can't hold down a job performing, so he's able to persuade her to come along to every case just by covering her rent or providing lunch; and she uses her knowledge of magic tricks to expose each villain's miraculous feats (essentially, she solves the crime, he writes the book about it). Gets more absurd as it goes on, with a lot more slapstick and wordplay by the third series, but the whole premise is on the ridiculous side since it revolves around there being a new folkloric/psychic/religious cult leader to deal with every week. There's a nyaa torrent of the whole thing, series specials and movies, with good subs that explain all the wordplay. Great chemistry between the leads and even the supporting cast (a pair of bumbling corrupt cops assigned to every case with absolutely no interest, magician's rural calligrapher mother who's ironically a swindler herself) holds up generally convoluted plots that aren't always fully resolved. They've also kept the same soundtrack for 6 years so far (I'm just up to the second movie) and it's honestly an impressive exercise in how to get the most out of a dozen tracks