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Ryoko's Case File (TV)

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Alternative title:
Le recueil des faits improbables de Ryoko Yakushiji (French) 
Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo (Japanese) 
薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿 (Japanese) 
Genres: mystery , supernatural 
Themes: corruption , crime , girls with guns , maids 
Objectionable content: Significant 
Plot Summary: Based on a series of light novels written by Tanaka Yoshiki. The story revolves around Ryōko Yakushiji, a brilliant 27-year-old elite investigator with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Together with her subordinate Junichirō Izumida, the two often investigate bizzare and supernatural cases. In addition with the paranormal, Ryōko also has a longstanding rivalry with Yukiko Muromachi, another talented police investigator. 
User Ratings: 204 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Excellent: 37 votes (sub:35, raw:1, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Very good: 48 votes (sub:46, dub:2)
 Good: 64 votes (sub:58, raw:2, others:4
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Decent: 25 votes (sub:24, raw:1)
 So-so: 14 votes (sub:13, others:1
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Weak: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 368 users, rank: #2672 (of 10058)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.172 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.5514, rank: #3152 (of 10233)
Weighted mean: 7.143 (Good), rank: #3102 (of 10233) (seen all: 7.19 / seen some: 7.66 / won't finish: 5.11)
Bayesian estimate: 7.163 (Good), rank: #2807 (of 7687)
Running time: 23 minutes per episode 
Number of episodes: 13 
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2008-07-05 to 2008-09-27 
Release dates: We have 4
Opening Theme:
#1: "Thème Principal" by KATSU 
Ending Theme:
#1: "La Vie en Rose" by KATSU 
#2: "Theme principal La chanson d'atsuko" by KATSU (ep 13) 
Review:
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Tarou Iwasaki 
Series Composition: Hiroyuki Kawasaki 
Script:
Hiroyuki Kawasaki (9 episodes
eps 1-3, 6, 9-13
) 
Kenichi Kanemaki (eps 4, 8) 
Storyboard:
Hiroshi Haraguchi (ep 3) 
Masahiko Otsuka (ep 5) 
Nanako Sasaki (ep 11) 
Naoyuki Kuzuya (ep 7) 
Sōichi Masui (ep 4) 
Takahiro Natori (ep 12) 
Takao Abo (ep 6) 
Tarou Iwasaki (ep 1) 
Tatsuo Satō (ep 13) 
Tomoki Kyoda (ep 2) 
Episode Director:
Hiroshi Haraguchi (ep 3) 
Mamoru Hamatsu (ep 9) 
Masahiko Otsuka (ep 5) 
Masahiko Watanabe (ep 4) 
Naoki Murata (ep 6) 
Takashi Kawabata (ep 2) 
Takenori Mihara (ep 12) 
Tarou Iwasaki (eps 1-2, 13) 
Tomoaki Ohta (ep 10) 
Original creator: Yoshiki Tanaka 
Original Character Design: Narumi Kakinouchi 
Character Design: Junichirō Taniguchi 
Art Director: Manabu Otsuzuki (KUSANAGI) 
Chief Animation Director:
Atsuko Sasaki 
Junichirō Taniguchi 
Animation Director:
Atsuko Sasaki (eps 2, 13) 
Atsuko Watanabe (eps 7, 12) 
Emi Kamiishi (ep 13) 
Hajime Watanabe (ep 3) 
Haruka Tanaka (ep 5) 
Hiroyo Izumi (eps 4, 13) 
Junichirō Taniguchi (ep 1) 
Katsuji Matsumoto (ep 6) 
Kazuchika Kise (OP) 
Kazuhiro Ono (ep 8) 
Kiyomitsu Sato (ep 8) 
Takahiko Yoshida (ep 11) 
Takahiro Gotō (ep 8) 
Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi 
Director of Photography: Kunihiko Ito 

Animation Cooperation: Tadashi Hiramatsu (ep 5) 
Art Setting: Kazushige Kanehira 
Color Check: Chiharu Yoshihara (ep 8) 
Color design: Kei Ishiguro 
Color setting: Chiharu Yoshihara (ep 8) 
Costume Design: Atsuko Sasaki 
Finish Animation:
Erika Tanaka (Wish; ep 9) 
Junko Mochizuki (Wish; ep 9) 
Michiko Watanabe (Wish; ep 9) 
Yumi Fujiwara (Wish; ep 9) 
Yuu Takahashi (Wish; ep 9) 
In-Between Animation:
Kyōko Nakajima (Wish; ep 9) 
Mao Yumoto (Wish; ep 9) 
Masashi Nishida (Wish; ep 9) 
Takahiro Inoue (Wish; ep 9) 
Yutaka Sugiura (Wish; ep 9) 
Key Animation:
Akemi Hayashi (ep 5) 
Asuka Shimizu (ep 3) 
Atsuko Sugawara (ep 6) 
Atsuko Watanabe (eps 1, 13) 
Atsushi Itou (ep 5) 
Atsushi Komatsu (ep 1) 
Atsushi Okuda (ep 3) 
Atsushi Satō (ep 12) 
Atsushi Soga (ep 2) 
Ayako Hata (OP; ep 7) 
Chiaki Nakajima (ED; eps 1-2, 7, 11) 
Chiyo Hosokawa (ep 3) 
Daisuke Agata (ep 9) 
Daisuke Itō (ep 4) 
Emi Kamiishi (ED; eps 1-2, 7, 11) 
Fujiko Aoyagi (Studio Flag; ep 7) 
Fumiaki Kouta (ep 13) 
Hanako Enomoto (ep 5) 
Haruka Tanaka (eps 5, 13) 
Hideaki Tsukioka (ep 3) 
Hiroko Shigekuni (ep 5) 
Hiroko Yaguchi (eps 3, 11) 
Hiromi Ariga (ep 2) 
Hiromi Muranaka (eps 3, 6) 
Hiromi Taniguchi (ep 5) 
Hiroyuki Horiuchi (ep 8) 
Hokuto Sakiyama (OP; ep 4) 
Ikuko Ito (ep 13) 
Junichi Nagano (ep 12) 
Junichirō Taniguchi (OP; ep 1) 
Kanako Ōyabu (eps 3, 6, 11) 
Kaori Ikeda (ep 4) 
Katsuji Matsumoto (ep 3) 
Katsuyuki Tamura (ep 5) 
Kazuchika Kise (OP) 
Kazuhiko Yano (ep 9) 
Kazuhiro Ozawa (ep 4) 
Kazuyuki Yamayoshi (ep 4) 
Keiichi Ishida (ep 2) 
Keisuke Katayama (ep 8) 
Keisuke Watanabe (ep 5) 
Kenji Nishikawa (ep 13) 
Koichi Nakaya (Studio Flag; ep 7) 
Koji Haneda (ep 11) 
Kōji Kataoka (ep 6) 
Kōji Ogawa (ep 3) 
Kumi Ishii (ep 13) 
Maki Murakami (ep 5) 
Makoto Itō (ep 8) 
Makoto Oda (ep 13) 
Mamiko Nakanishi (ED; eps 1, 7) 
Manabu Yasumoto (ep 6) 
Mariko Kubo (ep 12) 
Masafumi Yokoi (ep 5) 
Masahito Onoda (ep 5) 
Masaki Tachibana (ep 9) 
Masaru Yoshioka (ep 9) 
Masashi Kanou (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 7, 11, 13
) 
Masayuki Shimizu (5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 6-7, 11
) 
Miho Uemura (ep 9) 
Minami Tokunaga (ep 1) 
Misao Abe (ep 2) 
Motoaki Satō (ep 12) 
Motohiro Taniguchi (ep 4) 
Mutsumi Sasaki (ep 5) 
Naoaki Hōjō (ep 8) 
Naoyuki Asano (ep 13) 
Natsuko Takeuchi (ep 3) 
Nobuyuki Mitani (ep 12) 
Noriko Hatta (Studio Flag; ep 7) 
Noriko Takahashi (ep 1) 
Noritaka Tateguchi (eps 1, 4) 
Osamu Miwa (eps 1, 13) 
Rie Kawai (ep 1) 
Ryōta Furukawa (ep 13) 
Ryouji Masuyama (ep 5) 
Ryouta Hayatsu (ep 5) 
Ryūta Amano (ep 13) 
Sachiko Okumura (eps 3, 11) 
Shingo Fujii (ep 4) 
Shinichi Iimura (5 episodes
eps 2, 4, 6, 11, 13
) 
Shino Ikeda (ep 5) 
Sōichirō Sako (ep 3) 
Sung-Chul Kim (UNION CHO; eps 7, 10) 
Takafumi Torii (ep 4) 
Takahiko Yoshida (OP) 
Takahiro Gotō (ep 8) 
Takahiro Ninagawa (eps 11, 13) 
Takahito Nakajima (ep 9) 
Takao Maki (OP) 
Takashi Mukouda (ep 2) 
Takayuki Kidou (ep 5) 
Takenori Tsukuma (ep 13) 
Takeo Ōhira (ep 4) 
Takeshi Miyamoto (ep 6) 
Tatsuya Tanaka (ep 3) 
Tetsuya Ishikawa (ep 3) 
Tomoko Satō (ep 1) 
Tōru Yoshida (ep 6) 
Toshiaki Satō (ep 2) 
Toshiharu Matsuno (Studio Flag; ep 7) 
Toshiyuki Yoshioka (ep 9) 
Yasushi Tanizawa (ep 12) 
Yōko Iizuka (ep 8) 
Yoshie Kimoto (Studio Flag; ep 7) 
Yoshie Sakata (ep 6) 
Yoshifumi Nakamura (Studio Flag; ep 7) 
Yoshimichi Kameda (ep 4) 
Yoshitaka Katō (ep 9) 
Yū Kobayashi (ep 6) 
Yuichi Hirano (ep 3) 
Yūichi Nakazawa (ep 6) 
Yūji Miyashita (ep 5) 
Yūji Moriyama (ep 6) 
Yūji Shibata (ep 11) 
Yukari Matsuo (ep 4) 
Yūki Nakajima (Studio Flag; ep 7) 
Yukihiro Kobayashi (Studio Flag; ep 7) 
Yūko Kanai (ep 12) 
Yūko Yamamoto (ep 1) 
Yumi Shimizu (ep 1) 
Yuuka Tanaka (ep 4) 
Yuuko Yoshida (eps 1-2, 7) 
Layout Assistant: Takashi Mukouda (ep 4) 
Photography:
Akihito Odano (T2 Studio; ep 9) 
Atsushi Iwasaki (T2 Studio; ep 9) 
Daisuke Okumura (ep 5) 
Erika Kawajiri (Tripod; ep 6) 
Fumihiko Morohashi (ep 5) 
Haruhi Gotō (Asahi Production; ep 12) 
Hiroshi Ōhara (Dogakobo) 
Kōji Yamakoshi (Tripod; ep 6) 
Kumiko Tsuchiya (Dogakobo) 
Kunihiko Ito (Dogakobo) 
Megumi Fujisaka (Asahi Production; ep 12) 
Miki Kameda (Tripod; ep 6) 
Mizuho Koike (Tripod; ep 6) 
Naoyuki Wada (Asahi Production; ep 12) 
Takafumi Kuwano (Dogakobo) 
Tomohiko Komiya (ep 5) 
Tōru Fukushi (T2 Studio; ep 4) 
Toshiya Kimura (T2 Studio; ep 9) 
Tsubasa Yokoyama (T2 Studio; ep 9) 
Yasushi Kimura (Dogakobo) 
Yasushi Kudō (Dogakobo) 
Yoshiko Kumagawa (ep 5) 
Yukiko Kaga (T2 Studio; ep 4) 
Yukiko Nagase (ep 5) 
Yūko Ōkubo (Tripod; ep 6) 
Yūta Takahata (Dogakobo) 
Publicity Manager: Natsue Masuda (eps 1-13) 
Sound Manager: Nobue Yoshinaga 
Special Effects: Toshikatsu Tokoro (ep 8) 
Translation Collaboration: Thomas Romain 
Hidenobu Kiuchi as Junichirō Izumida 
Hitomi Nabatame as Ryōko Yakushiji 

Houko Kuwashima as Yukiko Muromachi 
Kenji Nojima as Akira Kishimoto 
Misato Fukuen as Satomi Kaizuka 
Otoya Kawano as Mario Abe 

Ao Takahashi as
Female newscaster (eps 3, 9) 
Woman (ep 8) 
Atsushi Miyauchi as Mishiba (eps 10, 12-13) 
Atsushi Ono as Masamoto Yakushiji (ep 6) 
Christelle Ciari as Lucienne 
Daisuke Hirakawa as Kazuma Nonagase 
Daisuke Kirii as Staff C (ep 10) 
Eiji Takemoto as Male announcer (ep 10) 
Fumie Mizusawa as Matsumura (ep 8) 
Hideki Nakanishi as Male announcer (ep 9) 
Hirofumi Nojima as Katsuhiko Azuma (ep 8) 
Hisafumi Oda as SDF member B (ep 13) 
Hitomi Nabatame as Monami 
Jun Hazumi as Eitarou Eguma (eps 9-10) 
Junko Minagawa as Keiko Kimura (ep 4) 
Katsumi Chō as Coffee shop manager (ep 11) 
Katsunori Kobayashi as Staff (ep 1) 
Katsunosuke Hori as Shūgorō Tatsumi (eps 1-2) 
Kazuhiro Ōguro as Kentaro Wakabayashi 
Kensuke Nishi as
Living Dead (ep 12) 
Voice (ep 11) 
Kōhei Fukuhara as Criminal (ep 4) 
Kōsuke Toriumi as Habara Satosh (ep 3) 
Kouichi Makishima as Mitsutoshi Uesugi (eps 9, 13) 
Mie Sonozaki as Kimeko Yakushiji 
Miki Nagasawa as Kikuno Mizoroki (eps 1-2) 
Minoru Inaba as Inspector Maruoka 
Narumi Takahira as High School Girl 
Noboru Yamaguchi as Operator B (ep 13) 
Osamu Saka as Heizou Katsuragawa (ep 4) 
Ryō Hirohashi as Mana 
Ryūichi Azuma as Press A (ep 12) 
Satomi Satō as Marianne 
Shigenori Sōya as Bar employee (ep 9) 
Shinji Kawada as Yamagishi (ep 4) 
Shinsuke Sakuragi as Staff A (ep 10) 
Shunzō Miyasaka as Press B (ep 12) 
Sumi Shimamoto as Ruriko Isurugi 
Taketoshi Kawano as NPP Soldier A (ep 13) 
Tomoaki Maeno as Katsuragawa's secretary (ep 4) 
Tomomichi Nishimura as Superintendent General (ep 13) 
Yoshiyuki Kaneko as Spokesperson (ep 3) 
Yukiko Monden as Operator (ep 12) 
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
AI 
Aniade 
Anime Roman 
APPP 
Asahi Production 
Bee Train 
Buyuu  (eps 1, 5) 
Daejin Animation 
DEXS 
Ekura Animal 
Frontline 
G&G Direction 
Gingaya 
GK Entertainment 
Hayashi 
Kyung Kang ANIA 
M.S.J Musashino Production 
P.A. Works 
Rising Force 
Satelight 
Shindō Production 
Studio Argo 
Studio Cj 
Studio Liberty 
Studio Wolf 
Tamazawa Dōgasha 
Tatsunoko Production 
Tezuka Productions 
TNK 
Triple A 
Wish 
Yuhodo 
Yumeta Company 
Animation Assistance:
Chaos Project (ep 6) 
GAINAX (ep 5) 
Gingaya (ep 8) 
Animation Production: Dōga Kōbō 
Background Art:
Kusanagi 
Studio Loft 
Broadcaster:
Aichi Television Broadcasting (2008-07-07) 
Chiba Television (2008-07-06) 
KBS Kyoto (2008-07-09) 
Kids Station (2008-07-23) 
Nippon BS Broadcasting Corporation (2008-07-11) 
Sun TV (2008-07-07) 
Television Kanagawa (2008-07-05) 
Television Saitama Co., Ltd. (2008-07-06) 
Tokyo MX (2008-07-07) 
In-Between Animation:
AI 
asread 
Bee Train (ep 5) 
Buyuu (ep 5) 
Daejin Animation 
Def.c 
DEXS 
Ekura Animal 
Fan Out 
Frontline 
G&G Direction 
GAINAX 
Gallop 
GK Entertainment 
Hayashi 
Jinbun 
Kino Production 
Kyung Kang ANIA 
Last House 
Mushi Production 
Nippon Animation 
Studio Bambino 
Tezuka Productions 
Triple A 
Wish 
In-between Check: Wish (ep 9A) 
Key Animation:
Chaos Project (ep 8) 
Studio Flag (ep 7) 
Studio Gimlet (ep 8) 
Studio Wolf (ep 9A) 
union CHO (eps 7, 11, 13) 
Paint:
A-1 Pictures 
AI 
D-COLORS 
Daejin Animation 
DEXS 
Fan Out 
Frontline 
GK Entertainment 
Hayashi 
Jinbun 
Kyung Kang ANIA 
M.S.J Musashino Production 
Rising Force 
Studio Elle 
Studio Road 
Triple A 
Wish 
Paint Check: Wish (ep 9A) 
Photography:
Anime Film (assist.; ep 13) 
Asahi Production (ep 9D) 
Dōga Kōbō (7 episodes
eps 1-3, 7-8, 9C-9D, 13
) 
Guernica (assist.; ep 5) 
T2 Studio (eps 4, 9A) 
Trans Arts Co. (assist.; ep 13) 
Tripod (ep 6) 
Production:
GANSIS 
King Records 
Production Cooperation:
Kinema Citrus (ep 9A) 
union CHO (ep 9B) 
Recording Studio: Tokyo TV Center 
Sound Effects: Anime Sound Production 
Sound Effects Production: Phoenicia 
Sound Production: Fonishia 
English staff
English companies
(none)
Internet Streaming:
RetroCrush 
Tubi TV 
English cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd. 
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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