Box of Goblins

Synopsis

Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji.

First Air Date: 2008-10-08

Last Air Date: 2008-12-31

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 14

Networks: Nippon TV

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Top Cast

Hiroaki Hirata as Akihiko Chuuzenji (voice)
Hidenobu Kiuchi as Tatsumi Sekiguchi (voice)
Takaaki Seki as Kiba Shuutarou (voice)
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Reijiro Enokizu (voice)
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Noritada Amemiya (voice)
Showko Tsuda as Kimie Kusumoto (voice)
Rikiya Koyama as Sasagawa (voice)

Seasons

Specials (2009)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: The Case Files of Atsuko Chūzenji: The Case of the Spirits in the Boxes (2009-05-22)

In 1953, after the events surrounding the Musashino dismemberment case, Atsuko Chūzenji reflects on her participation in the investigation. She recalls how the descriptions by the witnesses who reported seeing a white-gloved man reminded her of Kubo and how strange Kubo's story "The Woman inside the Box" was. She also recalls her earlier investigation of a murder of a man by his wife and wonders why she is drawn to bizarre and violent stories. She concludes that writing about them is a kind of act of purification.