In/Spectre

Name: In/Spectre
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 2020-01-12
Cast: Akari Kito, Mamoru Miyano

ENDED1 Season24 Episodes★ 7.7

In/Spectre is an animated comedy series on tv asahi that ran from 2020 to 2023, ending after 1 season and 24 episodes.

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Networktv asahi

First AiredJan 12, 2020

Last AiredMar 27, 2023

GenreAnimation, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Runtime24 min

Original Title虚構推理

LanguageJapanese

CountryJapan

ProductionNAS, Brain's Base, Crunchyroll

Overview from TMDB

Kotoko Iwanaga became the god of wisdom to the supernatural beings and spends her days solving problems for them. However, the boy who she fell head over heels for, Kuro Sakuragawa, is someone that is feared by all supernatural creatures. The two of them face various mysterious incidents involving the supernatural in this love x romance x mystery series. Where will these fantastical incidents lead them and what will happen with Kotoko’s crush?

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Cast

Akari Kito

Kotoko Iwanaga (voice)

Mamoru Miyano

Kuro Sakuragawa (voice)

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Seasons & Episodes1 season · 24 episodes

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E1One Eye, One Leg

Jan 12, 202024m★ 7.9

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 communicates with spirits…

E2What the Guardian Serpent Heard

Jan 19, 202024m★ 7.4

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 not sitting right with the snake. After learning about Kuro’s powers, Kotoko asks Kuro to accompany her on this journey, but Kuro declines for a certain reason…

E3The Rumors of the Steel Lady

Jan 26, 202024m★ 7.7

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 is also shocked to hear. Two years later, random acts of violence were happening in Makurazaka City. The suspect seems to be the ghost of the former idol, Nanase Karin…

E4Idol Dies by Steel Beam

Feb 2, 202024m★ 7.6

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 former idol had died a mysterious death. In order to defeat Steel Lady Nanase, they would need more details, but…

E5A Monster of the Imagination

Feb 9, 202024m★ 7.6

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 remembers the story about Kuro when he was younger that he told her about. Kotoko realizes they will need a special method to defeat Steel Lady Nanase because she is not an ordinary spectre...

E6Logical Fiction

Feb 16, 202024m★ 7.4

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 interesting than Steel Lady Nanase’s. Kotoko ends up asking Saki for help to defeat Steel Lady Nanase. She then meets up with a ghost that is at the site where Nanase Karin died, who also happened to see her die...

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E7Preparing to Conquer the Steel Lady

Feb 23, 202024m★ 7.4

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 this. So that there are no more victims, Kotoko decides to finish off Steel Lady Nanase that night.

E8She Who Spins Fiction

Mar 1, 202024m★ 7.7

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 again, making Steel Lady Nanase’s presence even stronger...

E9The Committee to Conquer Steel Lady Nanase

Mar 8, 202024m★ 7.6

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 begins to figure out her existence. Kotoko gets on her PC and starts posting her own deductions...

E10Dueling Fictions

Mar 15, 202024m★ 7.4

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 solution, but Sakuragawa Rikka and Steel Lady Nanase continue to get in her way. Will they be able to vanquish the ghost?

E11The Ultimate Fiction

Mar 22, 202024m★ 7.6

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 Lady Nanase is not a ghost. What is Kotoko’s 4th solution that may finally put an end to Steel Lady Nanase’s existence once and for all?

E12She Who Defends Order

Mar 29, 202024m★ 7.3

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 final blow to Steel Lady Nanase. Will that be enough to finish her off?! And what exactly was Rikka's motive?

E13That God's Name Is

Jan 9, 202325m★ 7.0

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 was found in the room. In order to find out what's behind this, Kotoko and Kuro go to investigate. Kotoko begins her inference yet again so she can protect the order among the supernatural beings!

E14The Yuki-Onna's Dilemma

Jan 16, 202325m★ 8.0

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 the base of the mountains where he met the Yuki-Onna. As he was wandering around town, he coincidentally runs into a woman who looks just like the Yuki-Onna...?!

E15The Yuki-Onna's Alibi

Jan 23, 202325m★ 7.8

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 an alibi was Yuki-Onna, who was with him at the time of the murder. But there's no way he can let a yokai provide a statement for him. Yuki-Onna asks Kotoko for help to track down the real killer.

E16The Yuki-Onna's Innocence

Jan 30, 202325m★ 7.8

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

E17Rikka Returns

Feb 6, 202325m★ 7.5

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

Feb 13, 202325m★ 7.7

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

Feb 20, 202325m★ 7.2

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

E20And So, the Ruler Disappeared

Feb 27, 202325m★ 7.3

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

E21The Silenced Children

Mar 6, 202325m★ 7.6

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

E22Uninvited Judge

Mar 13, 202325m★ 7.3

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

Mar 20, 202325m★ 7.5

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

Mar 27, 202325m★ 7.5

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...

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About In/Spectre

In/Spectre is an animation, comedy, mystery, sci-fi & fantasy series on tv asahi. The show first aired on Jan 12, 2020 and currently has 1 season and 24 episodes. In/Spectre has ended. It has a rating of 7.7/10 based on 207 votes. The cast includes Akari Kito, Mamoru Miyano.