Underplayed Gems

Nijū Mensō no Musume

Nijū Mensō no Musume poster
Genre
mystery fiction
Country
Japan
Length
22 episodes
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A young girl gets caught up with a charming thief who has many faces. Together they go on the run and find a makeshift family while trying to solve a puzzle.

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What happens

Nijū Mensō no Musume (Japanese: 二十面相の娘; lit. "The Girl of Twenty Faces") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by manga author Shinji Ohara. The manga was serialized in the seinen manga magazine Comic Flapper between 2003 and 2007, but continued serialization in the same magazine with the title Nijū Mensō no Musume Utsushiyo no Yoru since October 5, 2007. An anime adaptation aired in Japan from April 12, 2008, to September 27, 2008, and was co-produced by Bones and Telecom Animation Film. The characters in this series have been used with permission from surviving members of the family of Edogawa Rampo, the Japanese detective fiction author who had originally created the fictional characters of Kaijin Nijū Mensō and Kogoro Akechi. The series is set in the Shōwa period, starting around 1953 in the anime. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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