Title: Shibatora
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Detective, comedy
Episodes: 11
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2008-Jul-08 to 2008-Sep-16
Theme song: Atarashii Hibi by Every Little Thing
FanSub: Querbeet

Production Credits
Original writing (manga): Shibatora by Ando Yuma
Screenwriter: Muto Shogo
Producers: Inada Hideki, Yanagawa Yukiko
Directors: Sato Yuichi (ep1-2,5,8,11), Ishikawa Junichi (ep3-4,7,10), Iwata Kazuyuki (ep6,9)
Music: Kanno Yugo

Casts
* Koike Teppei as Shibata Taketora
* Ohgo Suzuka as Hosho Mizuki
* Fujiki Naohito as Fujiki Kojiro
* Tsukaji Muga as Hakuto Shinsuke
* Maya Miki as Chiba Sakura
* Miyagawa Daisuke as Shinjo Toru
* Minami Akina as Ayukawa Tamaki
* Uchida Shige as Nanbara Kantaro
* Matsuda Tamaki as Manabe Yuna
* Konno Narumi as Miyagi Mei

Synopsis
No matter how you look at him, Shibata Taketora is just a quiet, ordinary junior high student. He looks so vulnerable that bullies try to rip him off on the streets, but he is actually a police detective and an expert swordsman in kendo. Taketora has a special ability to see the "hands of death" around people whose life is nearing the end. One day, Taketora is assigned on undercover operations. He sneaks into a high school, a maid cafe and a juvenile detention center... With the cooperation from his various friends, he gets to the bottom of the matters.

SP 1
Released: May 9, 2009

Synopsis
The popular Fuji TV drama series "Shibatora," which starred Teppei Koike as a baby-faced cop working in the juvenile division, will be returning to television. During a DVD release event on Monday, it was announced that a two-hour special is scheduled to air sometime this spring.

Naohito Fujiki, Miki Maya, and Suzuka Ohgo are among the returning cast members.

SP 2
Released: May 22, 2010

Cast
Koike Teppei, Ohgo Suzuka, Tsukaji Muga, Miyagawa Daisuke, Minami Akina, Kato Masaya, Kato Ai, Mizobata Junpei, Fujiki Naohito, Maya Miki

Synopsis
Shibata Taketora (Koike Teppei) goes to meet Hosho Mitsuki (Ohgo Suzuka), a female high school student who was arrested as the ringleader of the ‘Kishin case’ and placed in a juvenile corrective institution. Mitsuki is scheduled to for release a week later. At the same moment, Fujiki Kojiro (Fujiki Naohito) and Shirobuta (Tsukaji Muga) have already begun preparations to welcome Mitsuki at the second-hand clothes shop … Meanwhile, a bomb attack using a distinctive time bomb occurs, and many people are killed and wounded. Shibata is partnered with the Assistant Inspector Kirino Yayoi (Kato Ai) from the First Investigative Division of the prefectural police to investigate the case. Before long, a prisoner called Igarashi Gento (Mizobata Junpei) emerges as a suspect through the type of bomb used. Igarashi had bombed a university hospital five years ago and was sentenced to a juvenile corrective institution for the death of eleven people. However, he claims that someone is trying to frame him for this incident and says he will show the evidence. Shibata, who is the only person to believe Igarashi’s words, takes him out and runs away …

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