The dark-haired bishounen is Sakon Tachibana, a puppeteer, and the other is Ukon, his favorite puppet and best friend. Sakon is the (only) grandson of Saemon Tachibana, a national treasure of Japan famous for his manipulation of Bunraku puppets. Ukon is a child doll puppet made in the early Meiji era by the famous female dollmaker Unosuke. Together they run into murders and solve them.

(Source: AnimeNfo)

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Studios

• Tokyo Movie Shinsha
• Victor Entertainment
• TMS Entertainment
• WOWOW

Staff

• KOKIA — Insert Song Performance (ep 20)
• Toshimitsu Kobayashi — Character Design
• Akino Arai — Theme Song Performance (ED)
• Hitoyuki Matsui — Director, Episode Director (eps 1, 26), Storyboard (eps 1-3, 8, 18, 26)
• Takuya Kawami — Color Design
• Kazuharu Satou — Script (eps 4-7)
• Takeshi Obata — Original Character Design
• Katsuyoshi Kobayashi — Sound Director
• Hideki Tonokatsu — Storyboard (eps 4, 7, 11, 16, 21, 23)
• Tsuyoshi Imai — Editing
• Kazuo Nogami — Episode Director (eps 9, 14, 19, 23)
• Yasuhiro Geshi — Episode Director (eps 2, 5, 12), Storyboard (eps 5, 12)
• Yuriko Nakamura — Music
• Yuuichi Higurashi — Script (eps 18-20)
• Humming Bird — Theme Song Performance (OP)
• Chiho Katsura — Script (eps 1-3)
• Norihiro Tsuru — Music
• Takeo Oono — Script (eps 21-23)