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Trick

2000 · 3 seasons · 1h per episode · Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. After being fired once again, her boss shows her an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real. Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda. Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an "X-Files" meets "Scooby-Doo"...

Seasons

• Season 1 — 10 episodes (July 7, 2000)
• Season 2 — 11 episodes (January 11, 2002)
• Season 3 — 10 episodes (October 16, 2003)

Cast

• Yukie Nakama as Naoko Yamada
• Hiroshi Abe as Jiro Ueda
• Katsuhisa Namase as Kenzo Yabe
• Yoko Nogiwa as Satomi Yamada
• Masumi Okada as Yamada's father
• Riko Narumi as Young Naoko

Details

Created by

Yukihiko Tsutsumi

First aired

July 7, 2000

Episodes

31

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Network

tv asahi

Status

Ended

TMDB score

7.2 / 10 from 25 votes