is a mystery crime Japanese television drama based on the novels by . It narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie police detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a genius science professor, as the two pair up to solve mysterious cases. The series premiered on Fuji TV on October 15, 2007, with a second season premiering six years later on April 15, 2013. Season two includes a two-part adaption of the novel Salvation of a Saint.
The series released three special feature-length episodes. "Galileo: Episode Zero", set three years before the first episode of season one, aired on October 4, 2008, on the same day as the release of the film Suspect X. Special episode "Galileo XX: Kaoru Utsumi's Last Case" (ガリレオXX内海薫最後の事件), a prequel of season two, premiered on Fuji TV on June 22, 2013, followed by on June 29, 2013. The special episode "Galileo: The Forbidden Magic" (ガリレオ禁断の魔術) was premiered on Fuji TV on September 17, 2022.
Galileo became available on Netflix in January 2025. Season two on Netflix includes "Galileo XX: Kaoru Utsumi's Last Case" as episode 12.
Premise Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective who has just been reassigned to the criminal division, finds the investigation of her first murder case stalled by seemingly-supernatural phenomena surrounding the event. She seeks help from Shunpei Kusanagi, a senior detective at the police headquarter famous as a "Mystery Hunter". Kusanagi, however, reveals to Utsumi that he was only able to solve the cases thanks to his college friend, Teito University professor Manabu Yukawa. Yukawa is a tall, handsome, brilliant but eccentric scientist who is interested in nothing but physics, while Utsumi is a hot-blooded detective with a strong sense of justice. Together, the odd pair solves many difficult and seemingly impossible events with their individual talents.
Cast Season 1 Masaharu Fukuyama as Ko Shibasaki as Kazuki Kitamura as Hiroshi Shinagawa as Ikkei Watanabe as Tsuyoshi Hayashi as Hiroaki Fukui as Takahiro Itō as Miyako Takayama as Aoi as Miki Maya as Mami Yamasaki as Mayu Miura as Kinako Kobayashi as
Season 2 Masaharu Fukuyama as Yuriko Yoshitaka as Yu Sawabe as Ikkei Watanabe as Takafumi Imai as Soran Tamoto as Hayato Onozuka as Rina Aizawa as Aoi Yoshikura as Yuto Marick Yasuhara as Ko Shibasaki as Kazuki Kitamura as
Guests Season 1 1st episode: Toshiaki Karasawa as 2nd episode: Mantaro Koichi as 3rd episode: Ryōko Hirosue as 4th episode: Shingo Katori (SMAP) as Sora Aoi - victim of 4th episode 5th episode: Suzuka Ohgo as Miki Mizuno - wife of victim of 5th episode 6th episode: Maki Horikita as Hirofumi Arai - a fortune teller, stalking Remi 7th episode: Kyoko Fukada as Shigeyuki Sato as 8th episode: Yumiko Shaku as 9th and final episodes: Hiroshi Kume as Guests for Episode Φ (Zero) Masami Nagasawa as Ayaka Komatsu as Karina as Tomoharu Hasegawa as Kazuki Namioka as the victim Toshifumi Muramatsu as Bengal as Keizo Kanie as
Season 2 1st episode: Takao Osawa as 2nd episode: Haruna Kawaguchi as 3rd episode: Yuko Oshima as 4th episode: Seiichi Tanabe as Atsuya Furuta - Yanagisawa's training partner 5th episode: Mirei Kiritani as and (dual role) 6th episode: Yui Natsukawa as 7th episode: Yuu Kashii as 8th episode: Yū Aoi as 9th episode: Katsuhisa Namase as 10th and final episodes: Yūki Amami as Guests for Galileo XX Yuya Yagira as Yusuke Santamaria as Masato Ibu as Kimiko Yo as Megumi Oji as the victim Michie Ikeda and Koichiro Kanzaki as the victim parents Kenichi Takito as the second victim Masayo Umezawa as Koen Kondo as
Galileo: Kindan no Majutsu
Masaharu Fukuyama as Yuko Araki as Yu Sawabe as Kazuki Kitamura as Ikkei Watanabe as Nijiro Murakami as Nana Mori as Aki Asakura as Tetsu Hirahara as the victim Tomokazu Koshimura as Nakamura Kasho IV as Kosuke Suzuki as Masatoshi Nakamura as
Episodes Season 1
Season 2
Ratings Season Timeslot Season premiere Season finale Rating(Kanto) Rating(Kansai) 1 Monday 9:00 p.m. October 15, 2007 December 17, 2007 21.91 22.45 2 Monday 9:00 p.m. April 15, 2013 June 24, 2013 19.19 N/A
Film-length special episodes The following special episodes are over 60 minutes in length. Two were released theatrically.
Galileo: Episode Zero (2008) – TV movie Suspect X (2008) (aka "The Devotion of Suspect X") Galileo XX: Kaoru Utsumi's Last Case (ガリレオXX内海薫最後の事件) (2013) – TV movie Midsummer's Equation (2013)
Films post-series Silent Parade (2022) Forbidden Magic (2022) (Galileo: Kindan no Majutsu; ガリレオ 禁断の魔術) – TV movie
Video game An adventure game based on the series was developed by Tomcat System and published by D3Publisher for Nintendo DS on October 16, 2008.
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