History Anime / CaseFileNoTwoTwoOneKabukicho

* AlternateUniverse: While roughly the same as the actual Shinjuku, the chief difference is that something major happened that was used as the basis of splitting the area into west and east sectors and walling off the east one with a single gate (but several alternate routes known to criminals). "The Dream of Fuyuto Kyokgoku, the Ace" shows that security barriers are located in the middle of Shinjuku with security guards roaming with handheld metal detectors and x-ray body scanners for anyone using the pedestrian sidewalks to go from the east to the west and vice versa. The rooftop pink elephant that trumpets hourly stands in for the actual rooftop Godzilla that roars hourly. And the 54-story building called "city hall" in "Not Breathing" best matches the 48-story Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building #1.

* AlternateUniverse: While everything is mostly the same with the actual Shinjuku, the chief difference is that something major happened that was used as the basis of splitting the area into west and east sectors and walling off the east one with a gate. "The Dream of Fuyuto Kyokgoku, the Ace" shows that security barriers are located in the middle of Shinjuku with security guards roaming with handheld metal detectors and x-ray body scanners for anyone using the pedestrian sidewalks to go from the east to the west and vice versa. The rooftop pink elephant that trumpets is similar to the actual rooftop Godzilla that roars hourly.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: In "See You In Kabukicho", the Pipe Cat detectives continue taking up cases [[spoiler:after Sherlock finally moves on with Moriarty's death]].

The show primarily takes place in Shinjuku, in the red light district of Kabukichō, which has been walled off somehow in the middle. On the advice of a yakuza oyabun named Kaneko, John Watson heads to Kabukichō in order to seek out a detective named Sherlock Holmes. Holmes happened to be TheQuietOne who doesn't say much. But he happens to be a very intelligent person who's able to hunt for clues and information by studying the evidence at crime scenes and deduce his theories... most in the form of rakugo.[[note]]Rakugo is a traditional Japanese art of storytelling, developed as a form of entertainment for ordinary citizens during the Edo Period (1603–1868). At first, many different kinds of entertainers would perform the generally humorous monologues, but gradually specialists emerged. These are now known as rakugoka. Dressed in a kimono, the storyteller remains seated throughout the performance, playing the parts of several characters and acting out different scenes with only a fan and a hand towel as props. Unable to fall back on costumes and scenery, it is the job of the rakugoka to inspire the imagination of the audience through the skill employed in portraying the world of the story. The punch line is known as the ochi (literally, the "drop") and a good delivery is essential to a successful performance.[[/note]]

Holmes and Watson started to work together when they investigate a murder case alongside some private and actual detectives of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department dubbed ''Jack The Ripper''. From there, they tackle on cases that occur in Kabukichō and the surrounding areas. That's if... they can work together [[WeAreStrugglingTogether despite the other detectives trying to upstage him in cracking a case for the money]].

Like Creator/{{BBC}}'s ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' and CBS' ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', it's basically Franchise/SherlockHolmes transplanted in modern society set in Japan.

* AlternateUniverse: While everything is mostly the same with the actual Shinjuku, the only difference is that something major happened there that it was used as the basis of splitting the area into the west and east sectors and wall it off with a gate. "The Dream of Fuyuto Kyokgoku, the Ace" shows that security barriers are located in the middle of Shinjuku with security guards roaming with handheld metal detectors and x-ray body scanners for anyone using the pedestrian sidewalks to go from the east to the west and vice versa.

* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler:James Moriarty a.k.a James Moran lost his twin sister in the hands of Jack the Ripper. He feels responsible for her death because he let her go to the East Side alone while wearing his clothes]].
* ArtisticLicenceGeography: The show portrays Kabukicho as a multi-layered area with bridges and elevated walkways. In reality the place is completely flat without any kind of vertical element besides the buildings, themselves. It also gives an impression of far greater size than the actual Kabukicho.

* BreatherEpisode: "No More Nyan-Nyan" shows the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper case [[spoiler:where Moriarty got arrested for killing the Ripper and his detective friends are all shocked by the events that occurred most especially when one of their compatriots happened to be the Ripper herself]]. Then, Mrs. Hudson forces the detectives to find her missing cat, [[TeamPet Pipe]], as an attempt to cheer them up. At the end of the day, they manage to find Pipe safe and sound and Mrs. Hudson throws a party in celebration of Pipe's return.
* CastingGag: Both Junichi Suwabe and David Wald have been previously casted by coincidence as Itami back in GATE.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The idea of VTY bankrolling a criminal act [[spoiler:including a mass poisoning attack]] behind the facade of a friendly face is a reminder of what Aum Shinrikyo has done in 1995 when it was known at first as a religion trying to gain popularity.
* DraggedIntoDrag: In the OVA, Kyogoku and Kobayashi are forced to wear a dress and put on make-up by a culprit inside a truck. Turns out the culprit is Mrs. Hudson who tricked them into doing it so that she can make a V-Tube channel. Both men are not pleased with this though Kyogoku outright tells Kobayashi that [[AttractiveBentGender he looks better than him]] which cause a fight between them
* FictionalSocialNetwork: The show has ''Onstagram'', its fictional counterpart of Instagram.

* ForegoneConclusion: If you have a character named after Sherlock Holmes' ArchEnemy, then you do know that he's going to be the bad guy eventually. [[spoiler:And it took nineteen episodes for that to reach it]].
* FunbagAirbag: Irene and Sherlock hide in Milverton's sauna bed when the latter enters his room. Unfortunately, Irene is on top of Sherlock, who is very distracted with her boobs on his face causing to recite the rakugo ''Jugemu''. Irene has to shut him up by smothering her boobs, causing him to pass out.
* {{Gaslighting}}: In a very brutal fashion: [[spoiler:Sherlock and Moriarty made Watson into suspecting that the latter is Jack the Ripper so they can get Kyogoku who is obsessed with the drive despite that Watson is clearly saddened and traumatized with what had happened to Irene]].

* HappyEndingOverride: "Don't Take Off Your Swimsuit" ends with Milverton dead and all his blackmail evidence destroyed by Sherlock, saving all the blackmail victims while Irene helps Agatha cover up her involvement on Milverton's death. [[spoiler:TheStinger pulls a cruel twist where Agatha ends up being Jack the Ripper's victim and her ear is sent to Irene as a threat to give the Ripper the USB egg drive]].
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: After learning the truth behind Alex's death, [[spoiler:James furiously beats up the Ripper who taunts him about how Alex died. Sherlock, Watson and the rest of their detective friends try to convince James not to give in to the Ripper's taunts. But it's too late as James slashes the Ripper's throat in front of his friends]].
* JackTheRipoff: "Hello Detectives" has Sherlock and the other detectives assume that the murder victim, who's a failed recruit into the cabaret club White Rose, is killed by the ''actual'' Jack the Ripper. [[spoiler:Turns out that the cabaret owner's personal driver killed the woman by accident when she bumped her head into a table edge. He tried to cover up by fixing the scene to look like Jack did it.]]
* MarketBasedTitle: In Japanese, it's known as Kabukicho Sherlock. Outside Japan, it's known as Case File nº221: Kabukicho. This is most likely due to strong copyright enforcement and trademark issues from the Doyle estate since a few SH stories were not yet in the public domain at the time.
* MassOhCrap: When Sherlock mentions in his usual rakugo deductions to his fellow detectives that Kyogoku is desperate of getting the USB drive because he was drugged and manipulated by his lover, [[EurekaMoment this led Michel, Mary and the other detectives including Kyogoku]] to realize that [[spoiler:Maki is Jack the Ripper]].
* MistakenForGay: After he decided to stay in the East Side to become Sherlock's assistant, Watson offers him a handshake only for Mary to show up and assume that the two men are getting together. Then, she drags Watson to announce it in front of the Pipe Cat Bar gang.

** The second half deals with [[spoiler:a bunch of convicts who some of them escaped from the same prison where Moriarty was confined ended up committing suicide after they were apprehended. Several things that common about these deaths were they uttered some strange code in front of Sherlock]].
* NeverFoundTheBody: After the events in "Not Breathing" [[spoiler:where Moriarty jumps off from a 50ft building, the authorities are unable to find his body. Together with the kidnapping case caused by another escapee from Moriarty's prison, this leads Sherlock to assume that Moriarty is alive. However by the end of the show, it seems that Moriarty is indeed dead and Sherlock chooses to move on]].
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Kyogoku and Maki end up together in "That Woman's Pad" and they even have sex together. Then subverted when it turns out Maki is the Ripper who manipulated Kyogoku to get the USB drive]].

* OvershadowedByAwesome: The Pipe Cat claims to have six of the best detectives in Kabukicho. But since the series focuses on Sherlock, the other five look incompetent by comparison. Though when Sherlock pushes his fellow detectives into the right direction after giving a summation on the cases, they're actually good on their own right.
* PhotoMontage: The second ending credits have Sherlock and Watson looking at the photos of their friends and one of them is holding a photo of Moriarty. The credits end with a group photo of the Pipe Cat Bar detectives.
* PoliceAreUseless: The TMPD has troubles lately in Kabukichō. For starters, they were nowhere in hunting Jack the Ripper that private detectives, including Sherlock, jump into the fray and work on the case. It helps that the mayor is angry at incompetence with the department that he contracted private detectives to take any cases that the police are having trouble with after his daughter was killed by Jack in an incident a few months ago.
* {{Ponzi}}: "Where is He?" introduces Vision To You which is an MLM scam that claimed to counsel people. Dilan, one of the regular Pipe Cat Bar employees, asks the detectives' help to look for his "fiancee", Cathy, [[ConArtist who left him with all his money]]. [[spoiler:Turns out the scam is much worse as it was run by Tetsuo Isshiki, who is wanted for terrorism and has been poisoning his clients for sadistic reasons]].

* RedHerring: In the second half of the show, the stranges codes uttered by the suspects who ended up killing themselves seems to be a message for Sherlock to crack it. [[spoiler:Turns out that Moriarty did that out of a whim and the codes were just his favorite numbers he likes to pick out]]. Subverted in "See You in Kabukicho" where it turns out that the codes really do have some use.

* SueDonym: When Watson bumps into Godfrey Norton in his house while trying to find the USB drive, he almost says his real last name so he just combines it with Torataro's surname. Godfrey mishears it as "Johnwa Kobayashi" and seems to buy it despite how ridiculous it sounds.

** Sherlock using a sensu (paper fan) as part of his rakugo sketch since it's a required item. He doesn't use a tenugui (small cloth) since it's a required item to do rakugo sketches.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The six detectives at Pipe Cat compete with each other to solve each case, and most of them resort to spying and sabotage to keep ahead the others. But at the end of the day, [[FriendlyRivalry they're all good friends with each other]].

** "No More Nyan-Nyan" has Moriarty apprehended by the TMPD [[spoiler:for his role in killing Maki once she's revealed to be Jack. No society will tolerate anyone going after a bad guy on their own since he brought justice to Alexandra's murder by killing the serial killer instead of calling in law enforcement.]]

** "That Woman's Pad" seems to be a lighthearted episode since one storyline involves Kyogoku trying to confess his feelings to Maki. But the other storyline involves Jack the Ripper going after Irene [[spoiler:and it ends with Irene dying and Watson suspecting Moriarty because no one knows about Irene's hideout except himself, and Sherlock]].
** "Jack the Ripper" reveals that [[spoiler:James is the late Alexandra Moran's twin brother, making the son of Mayor Sebastian Moran and he wants to find Jack the Ripper in order to avenge Alex's death. The Ripper turns out to be Maki who drugged and manipulated Kyogoku into getting the USB drive. After Sherlock and Watson confront the Ripper, James beats her and slashes her throat not before the Ripper tells him that Moran wants him dead and he hired the Ripper to kill his son except that Alex died in his place. And the most tragic part? James kills the Ripper in front of his detective friends and crushes the USB drive, destroying all the evidence connected to Mayor Moran and the Ripper]].
** "Lots of Animals" looked like a calm episode where Sherlock, Moriarty, and Watson investigate the deaths of some zoo animals until the second half of the episode [[spoiler:where one of the zookeepers was murdered by three crazed fangirls of Momotaros (the band that Sherlock, Moriarty, and Watson investigate in the previous episode). After the three girls confessed that they want the main trio to pay for disbanding their favorite band, they flee from the scene only to be cornered by Moriarty. By the time Sherlock arrives to apprehend the girls, he watches in horror when the girls utter another strange code and burned themselves to death while Moriarty watches on in a very disturbingly calm manner. Meanwhile, the media has published a story regarding Mayor Moran's connection to Jack the Ripper]].
** "The Curtain Rises on the Grand Guignol" reveals that [[spoiler:Moriarty is behind the suicide cases of the escaped inmates and he did this for his amusement for Sherlock to solve all of it. He also helped Albert assassinate a VIP Sebastian knows via IED attached to the car]].
** "Moriarty Savors" is possibly one of the most shocking in the entire show: [[spoiler:Moriarty is indeed a disturbed child who committed {{Matricide}}. Alex's death and his killing on the Ripper slowly brought the worse of him. Then, Moriarty kills his father and everybody in the Moran mansion except Mycroft, kidnaps Lucy and forces her sister, Mary, to kill Watson in exchange for her sister's freedom. The episode ends with Watson slowly bleeding to death while Mary tearfully apologizes to Sherlock on the phone]].

** In "Where is He?", VTY CEO introduces her secretary to Watson and Mary and the name is revealed to be Tetsuo Isshiki, [[spoiler:who happens to be the same Isshiki who is charged for poisoning his wife and had helped Moriarty when he was bullied by his prison mates. The fact that he was out of prison two episodes ago and later appeared as one of the ringleaders of a Ponzi scheme looks very suspicious]].

* MarketBasedTitle: In Japanese, it's known as Kabukicho Sherlock. Outside Japan, it's known as Case File nº221: Kabukicho. This is most likely due to strong copyright enforcement and trademark issues from the Doyle estate since a few SH stories are not in the public domain.

Case File nº221: Kabukicho (or known [[MarketBasedTitle in Japan as Kabukicho Sherlock]]) is an original anime production directed by Ai Yoshimura and created by Taku Kishimoto with character designs by Toshiyuki Yahagi and music by Takuro Iga.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* RecycledInSpace: It's Sherlock Holmes IN MODERN JAPAN!

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** In "Wife Looks Into the Future", the Morstan siblings are detained by Adler's bodyguards while trying to go inside her house to look for the USB drive. They were never seen again for the rest of the episode as they're locked up in jail after they were passed into police custody.
** In "Jack the Ripper", Watson punches Sherlock on the face [[spoiler:after he found out that he's being manipulated and used as bait to lure Kyogoku and find the real Ripper]].
** "No More Nyan-Nyan" has Moriarty apprehended by the TMPD [[spoiler:for his role in killing Maki once she's revealed to be Jack. No society will tolerate anyone going after a bad guy on their own since he brought justice to Alexandra's murder by killing the serial killer instead of calling in law enforcement.]]

* RealityEnsues:

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Wife Looks Into the Future" is full of it, considering it involves a series of AI-powered life-sized, life-like dolls. Though it's never outright said, its, ahem, [[{{Sexbot}} "extra"]] duties in terms of companionship are pretty clear. When Toratarō appears in a queue for the latest model, Sherlock [[ADateWithRosiePalms wordlessly hands him an entire stack of tissue boxes he had bought for himself earlier.]] Toratarō ''thanks him''.

The show is animated by Creator/ProductionIG and airs currently on MBS, TBS and BS-TBS in Japan when the first episode aired on October 11, 2019 under the Animeism program block. The anime will also have a manga and novel adaptation, the former starting by January 4, 2020. A six-episode OVA is set to be released on August 26, 2020 and will cover the past and future of the main cast.

The show is animated by Creator/ProductionIG and airs currently on MBS, TBS and BS-TBS in Japan when the first episode aired on October 11, 2019 under the Animeism program block. The anime will also have a manga and novel adaptation, the former starting by January 4, 2020.

** The band Momotaro are based on the ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.

* NeverFoundTheBody: After the events in "Not Breathing" [[spoiler:where Moriarty jumps off from a 50ft building, the authorities are unable to find his body. Together with the kidnapping case caused by another escapee from Moriarty's prison, this leads Sherlock to assume that Moriarty is alive]].

* RedHerring: In the second half of the show, the stranges codes uttered by the suspects who ended up killing themselves seems to be a message for Sherlock to crack it. [[spoiler:Turns out that Moriarty did that out of a whim and the codes were just his favorite numbers he likes to pick out]].

* WhamShot: In "Where is He?", VTY CEO introduces her secretary to Watson and Mary and the name is revealed to be Tetsuo Isshiki, [[spoiler:who happens to be the same Isshiki who is charged for poisoning his wife and had helped Moriarty when he was bullied by his prison mates. The fact that he was out of prison two episodes ago and later appeared as one of the ringleaders of a Ponzi scheme looks very suspicious]].

** Episode 19 reveals that [[spoiler:Moriarty is behind the suicide cases of the escaped inmates and he did this for his amusement for Sherlock to solve all of it]].

* CerebusRollercoaster: The series is a LighterAndSofter version of Sherlock Holmes where there's a lot of comedy involved with the characters. It only gets serious when the actual Jack the Ripper is involved.

* ForegoneConclusion: If you have a character named after Sherlock Holmes' ArchEnemy, you do know that he's going to be the bad guy eventually. [[spoiler:And it took nineteen episodes for that to reach it]].