The crime novel “The Dinner Table Detective” will be adapted into an anime in 2025

Shogakukan opened a Web page on Monday to announce that the novel series The Dinner Table Detective (Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de), of Tokuya Higashigawawill have a television anime that will premiere in 2025.

The manga creator Oreko Tachibana (Firefly Wedding, Promise Cinderella) is designing the original characters of the anime, and made the following visual that shows Kageyama lifting the lid of a silver tray and two detectives on it.

Synopsis: The novels are set in Kunitachi, Tokyo, where Reiko Hōshō, daughter of the owner of the world-famous Hōshō Group, has become a rookie detective. His boss is Inspector Kazamatsuri, son of the owner of Kazamatsuri Motors. The two work to solve difficult cases. When approaching her cases, Reiko always consults her butler and driver Kageyama, who uses harsh words insulting Reiko, but always manages to solve the case brilliantly.

About The Dinner Table Detective

The story debuted in 2007 and Shogakukan published three novels in 2010, 2011 and 2012. A novel version «Best» published in 2019, and two novels Shin Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de published in March 2021 and September 18. Yusuke Nakamura He made the illustrations for the novels Shin Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de.

It has also previously inspired a stage play, a live-action series in 2011, live-action specials in 2012 and 2013, and a live-action film in 2013.

At the moment it is unknown who makes up the production team, and in what month its premiere will be.