Japan / SEASON

Season 1

24 listed episodes · First aired January 12, 2020

EPISODE GUIDE

Episodes

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E1One Eye, One Leg

Shortly after her hospital visit, Kotoko meets Kurou, the young man she helped two years prior. She takes the opportunity to confess, she who has the appearance of a schoolgirl, who has one leg, a glass eye, and who com…

E2What the Guardian Serpent Heard

Kotoko receives a request for help from a giant snake, who is the guardian spirit of Tsukuna Swamp. It appears that a murderer named Tanio Aoi disposed of a body in the snake’s swamp, but there’s something that’s just n…

E3The Rumors of the Steel Lady

Kotoko is asked why a suspect had thrown a dead body into the Guardian’s swamp and she starts constructing a story. This ends up being a rather tragic tale about Tanio Aoi filled with love and regret that the Guardian i…

E4Idol Dies by Steel Beam

Kotoko arrived in Makurazaka City to take care of the incidents with Steel Lady Nanase and happens to run into Saki, who had become a police officer. Saki decides to research Nanase Karin a bit more and learns that the …

E5A Monster of the Imagination

Kotoko happens to spot a man fighting with Steel Lady Nanase. She gets closer and realizes that it was actually Kuro that was struggling in this battle. Saki then also joins in and after talking with her, Kotoko remembe…

E6Logical Fiction

Kotoko realizes that Steel Lady Nanase is a spectre that was born from her own wiki site. In order to defeat Steel Lady Nanase, who is made up of people’s imaginations, she has to come up with a story that’s more intere…

E7Preparing to Conquer the Steel Lady

Detective Terada is killed by Steel Lady Nanase. The Internet goes crazy about the fact that Steel Lady Nanase killing a person. Kotoko and Kuro discuss the matter and figure out the person who is truly behind all of th…

E8She Who Spins Fiction

Saki remembers the first time she met Kuro’s cousin, Sakuragawa Rikka. Saki had heard that Rikka had passed, and tries to get more information out of Kotoko. Meanwhile, the forums on the wiki site become rather active a…

E9The Committee to Conquer Steel Lady Nanase

Everything is finally in place, and the committee to conquer Steel Lady Nanase is now in session. Does Steel Lady Nanase actually exist? Perhaps she’s just a made up urban legend. A battle between the truth and lies beg…

E10Dueling Fictions

Just as it looked like the site readers accepted Kotoko’s solution, it ends up getting shot down. However, Kotoko had another solution ready. In order to defeat Steel Lady Nanase, she unleashes a second and third soluti…

E11The Ultimate Fiction

Kotoko came up with three solutions, but they all got shot down. Kuro keeps trying to grasp the future where they can defeat Steel Lady Nanase, but Rikka made it disappear once again. But Kotoko wasn’t done yet. Steel L…

E12She Who Defends Order

Yokai, ayakashi, spectres, demons, mononoke, and ghosts... Everything has order, and you must never go against the order. Kotoko's fourth solution is accepted by the users on the wiki site and Kuro is able to give the f…

E13That God's Name Is

A bound spirit asks Kotoko for some advice about a mysterious supernatural presence that showed up at its apartment complex. Every night, strange sounds can be heard from an empty apartment, and a doll with four arms wa…

E14The Yuki-Onna's Dilemma

Eleven years ago, Muroi Masayuki's life was saved by a Yuki-Onna up in the snowy mountains. Betrayed by his friends and his wife, he ended up anti-social and unable to trust anyone and eventually moved to the town at th…

E15The Yuki-Onna's Alibi

Masayuki is suspected of killing his ex-wife when the police find her dead. There was a message written in blood on her hand that put Masayuki at a great disadvantage. The only one who can vouch for his innocence with a…

E16The Yuki-Onna's Innocence

Kotoko presents the case's resolution to an astonished Yuki-Onna and Masayuki, and makes an important decision about their future.

E17Rikka Returns

Kotoko and Kuro discover where Rikka, his cousin with the same powers, has been living since their last encounter. They go to investigate the apartment, which has a grisly history.

E18Electroshock Pinocchio

Tae is an active octogenarian who lives with an unusually talkative cat. Why do the fishermen in her seaside town find dead fish coming in with the tide every morning?

E19Or You Could Wish Upon a Star

Tae talks about her past and Kotoko figures out a way they can defeat the Electroshock Pinocchio.

E20And So, the Ruler Disappeared

A hotel chain magnate asks Kotoko for help in solving a murder… that he may have committed.

E21The Silenced Children

The heirs to the hotel chain begin discussing what they're going to tell Kotoko, but some unexpected details come to light.

E22Uninvited Judge

Rion talks to her father and, realizing something important about her grandmother, proposes an answer to the president's assignment to her relatives.

E23Sleeping Murder

Kotoko offers her own explanation of Sumi's death, which awakens the memory of a crime that had slept for decades.

E24A Lucky Day at the Unagi Restaurant

Two friends meet for dinner in a classy unagi restaurant, and get distracted by an apparently young girl who is confidently dining there alone. Somehow, this leads to talk of murder...