is a Japanese television detective series that first aired on TV Asahi on June 3, 2000. It has been adapted into six films: AIBOU: The Movie (2008), AIBOU: CSI Files (2009), AIBOU: The Movie II (2010), AIBOU: X-DAY (2013), AIBOU: The Movie III (2014) and AIBOU: The Movie IV (2017).
The drama features , a police inspector assigned to the fictional of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and his partners as from 2000 to 2009 and again from 2022 onward, from 2009 to 2012, from 2012 to 2015, and from 2015 to 2022. In Season 15 Episode 3, Roland appears as a host.
AIBOU is also broadcast with English subtitles in Hawaii by the television station KIKU under the name Partners, and in Los Angeles by the station Japan Hollywood Network (before UTB 18.1) under the official English name AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo.
Seasons Season Episodes Debut Ending Ukyo Sugishita The Partner Pre-Season 3 June 3, 2000 November 10, 2001Yutaka MizutaniYasufumi Terawaki 1 12 October 9, 2002 December 25, 2002 2 21 October 8, 2003 March 17, 2004 3 19 October 13, 2004 March 23, 2005 4 21 October 10, 2005 March 15, 2006 5 20 October 11, 2006 March 13, 2007 6 19 October 24, 2007 March 19, 2008 7 19 October 22, 2008 March 18, 2009 8 19 October 14, 2009 March 10, 2010Mitsuhiro Oikawa 9 18 October 20, 2010 March 9, 2011 10 19 October 19, 2011 March 21, 2012 11 19 October 10, 2012 March 20, 2013Hiroki Narimiya 12 19 October 16, 2013 March 19, 2014 13 19 October 15, 2014 March 18, 2015 14 20 October 14, 2015 March 16, 2016Takashi Sorimachi 15 18 October 12, 2016 March 22, 2017 16 20 October 18, 2017 March 14, 2018 17 20 October 17, 2018 March 20, 2019 18 20 October 9, 2019 March 18, 2020 19 20 October 14, 2020 March 17, 2021 20 20 October 13, 2021 March 23, 2022 21 21 October 12, 2022 March 15, 2023Yasufumi Terawaki 22 20 October 18, 2023 March 13, 2024 23 19 October 16, 2024 March 12, 2025 24 19 October 15, 2025 March 11, 2026
Films "AIBOU: The Movie" (2008) directed by Seiji Izumi "AIBOU: The Movie II" (2010) directed by Seiji Izumi "AIBOU: The Movie III" (2014) directed by Seiji Izumi "AIBOU: The Movie IV" (2017) directed by Hajime Hashimoto
Spin-off series "AIBOU Series: Yonezawa Mamoru no Jikenbo" (2009) directed by Yasuharu Hasebe, It stars Seiji Rokkaku.
Cast Yutaka Mizutani as Ukyo Sugishita Yasufumi Terawaki as Kaoru Kameyama Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Takeru Kanbe Hiroki Narimiya as Toru Kai Takashi Sorimachi as Wataru Kaburagi Saya Takagi (Ikue Masudo) as Tamaki Miyabe Anju Suzuki as Sachiko Tsukimoto Yoko Moriguchi as Mari Koide Sawa Suzuki as Michiko Kameyama née Okudera Sei Matobu as Etsuko Usui Kazuhisa Kawahara as Kenichi Itami Atsushi Yamanishi as Rokuro Kakuta Kōji Ishizaka as Mineaki Kai Ryosuke Otani as Shinsuke Miura Ittoku Kishibe as Koken Onoda Yosuke Asari as Toshio Aoki Yukie Nakama as Miyako Yashiro Yukiko Shinohara as Reon Izumo Ryo Ono as Teruo Nakazono Satoshi Jinbo as Haruki Okochi Takaaki Enoki as Yahiko Kusakabe Ryuji Katagiri as Kanji Uchimura Seiji Rokkaku as Mamoru Yonezawa Takashi Yamanaka as Keiji Serizawa
Video game A Nintendo DS game called Aibou DS was published by Tecmo in March 5, 2009.
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External links
Official video game website (Japanese)