Reiko Houshou, heiress to a large conglomerate, seems like any other wealthy lady. However, not many people know that she is a rookie detective for the Kunitachi Police Department. In addition, she hides her identity from her incompetent boss, Kyouichirou Kazamatsuri, a flashy heir to his family's motor business.
During an investigation involving her college friends, Reiko has trouble identifying the culprit and their motive. Out of nowhere, a man approaches Reiko and introduces himself as Kageyama, her newly assigned butler. As soon as Reiko confides in him about her worries, he criticizes her lack of deduction skills and helps her quickly crack the case. Now with the sharp-tongued Kageyama at her side, Reiko may just become the detective she desires to be.
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5iv3_
To be honest, this show was not what I had imagined this show was gonna be, but I really enjoyed it! It's honestly just a lot of fun comedy with a bunch of different little mysteries to solve (this show did make me realize i'm so bad at mysteries though, omg). The artstyle is fun and very comic book-y, animation is pretty nice. Nothing over the top, but it's better than decent. Plot was fun and I think the characters are quite entertaining and make for some fun interactions. Truly, it's a fun show. (don't understand why it isn't liked :/. it's funn). Also, asa little tidbit, i cried a bit (granted I cry really easily haha. i have a soft heart 💕) But the episodes that were a little sad/bittersweet were really well done (Episode 6 especially).
Anyways, It's a good show 👍 You 🫵 should watch it :)
kiyo_seibah
Exceeded my expectations! Actually enjoyable and entertaining. Yes, it's a detective story so of course the main theme will be mystery. But the type of mystery that's light and not too complex and confusing. There'll be new case every 1-2 eps so the mysteries are pretty quick to solve. Not really bothering me tho bcs they aren't dark psychological anime in the first place, in fact it's a comedy mystery so u can expect few good comedy scenes. And other things i really like is the artstyle. It was lovely and unique, kinda reminds me of great pretender tbh. Scoring also decent and fitting thescenes very well.
Although yea i feel like sometimes the case was too quick to solved because the moment the detective are meet dead end, kageyama the butler was there to quickly solved the case. And the case also not complicated at all, just ur basic criminal case, nothing too serious or psychologically complex.
So if u want a mystery comedy anime with unique art style and won't make u confused and stressed, then this anime is for u. But if u want more psychologically complex and confusing and stressful then ofc don't pick this up
Marinate1016
When we talk about hidden gems of Spring 2025, Dinner Table Detective needs to be near the top of the list. This is such an underrated detective series with some decidedly good writing and one of the most unique detective premises in the genre. Not to mention a loveable MC and fun supporting cast. Finally, a detective who has just as much of an idea what’s going on as I do! Reiko being totally unqualified to solve any of these cases made this hilarious to watch because we, as the audience, will think she’s on to something just to realize how stupid we all arewhen Kageyama comes around to solve the case. The “dinner table detective” of it all referring to Reiko’s butler solving all her investigations over dinner every night is different. A lot of these detective anime feature brilliant protagonists who can make everyone look dumb and never take an L, not here. Reiko is constantly made to look silly and couldn’t be further from the mark most of the time. That’s not a knock against her either, I love her as a character. She’s the classic spoiled rich girl with split personalities, she’s hilarious, beautiful and badass when she wants to be. What she lacks in criminal investigatory acumen, she makes up for in spirit. Worst detective, but number 1 in our hearts.
The most important thing in detective shows is of course, the cases. This show genuinely had some of the best twists in criminal investigations I’ve seen. There wasn’t a single case where I actually had the suspect/motive correct. The author is a master of false flags and red herrings and I was constantly second guessing and changing theories often at multiple points in the same episode. There’s a nice variety in the cases as well. From crimes of passion to obsessed vtubers to financial greed. I actually found most of them to be very realistic and sadly the motives to be quite real as well. There’s a big focus on moral ambiguity/morally grey culprits who you kind of sympathise with. This made me even more invested in the stories. Sometimes in detective anime, things are just so detached from reality that it’s hard to really care about them, fortunately this series doesn’t have that issue. I think that’s thanks, in-part, to this being a novel adaptation as opposed to a Light Novel. There’s only a few episodes where I’d say the culprit was genuinely just an awful person. Most of the times I was going “well, they kinda had a point..” when we found out the motives and that just makes things way more fun. People and life is complex and rarely black and white.
The seiyuu castings in this are incredible. Some real big name talent and it shines through. All of Reiko and her detective partner Kazamatsuri’s interactions were comedic gold, as were those with Reiko and Kageyama. The show also looks really bright and pretty. Animation isn’t crazy, but it doesn’t need to be. Madhouse gave this a ton of love and care and it shows.
If you’re a fan of mystery and criminal investigations, this is a must watch. It’s one of the best ones we’ve got recently and we’ve got some very good ones. It’s unique, has a silly and loveable MC and some very well written cases!
Dinner Table Detective gets 8 out of 10.
CinaGinger
It's not extraordinary, just another story about detectives. However, I started to see some potential when I finished watching all the episodes and realized this was just the beginning of something very special and particular. Maybe watchers wanted her to be extremely intelligent and smart from the start-go and the comedy is silly, like every Japanese anime that we are familiar with, but the butler character seems to be a key point in this and seems to have some mysterious reason as to why he's serving her, maybe to teach her about the profession and of course, make her mature.
Kumoiro_Shizuki
I can see that this anime isn't exactly a hit with fans, and I can understand why. This little series has several flaws that tarnish the picture, but it still has a certain charm. So I'm going to elaborate on a few points that might, perhaps, encourage you to give it a chance. Animation: 9 Art direction: 9.5 Visually, the anime does well with its polished animation and distinctive art direction. For my part, I saw strong inspiration from Great Pretender, particularly in the color palette. Madhouse, without reaching the level of Frieren of course, delivers a visually sparkling series that should appeal to the widest possible audience. Music:9
Dubbing: 5.5
As for the music, there's a very pleasant jazz-funk ambience, a real pleasure for the ears. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the dubbing... I'm not talking about the Japanese dubbing, but the French version. I'm usually a big advocate of French dubbing (be it in Great Pretender, Spriggan, and many others), but here, the final rendering sounds rather amateurish. With the exception of the main trio, the majority of secondary characters unfortunately prove the detractors of VF dubbing right. Many of the dubbers seem to be either beginners or poorly directed - which is regrettable, given the quality of the dubbing of the main trio.
Story: 6
Characters: 8
Development: 5
Don't expect much in the way of storytelling. It's more like a short episodic series, with one (sometimes two) investigation(s) per episode. The format is reminiscent of American crime series such as CSI: Manhattan, Bones and Criminal Minds. And, as with the latter, the development over 12 episodes remains fairly anecdotal. None of the characters really undergoes any significant evolution.
That said, despite these shortcomings, the characters are colorful and give rise to a number of zany situations. I can't really say why, but I found many of them endearing.
In my humble opinion, a different format might have reached a wider audience. Nevertheless - and even if my review wasn't particularly glowing - I hope I've succeeded in titillating your curiosity. Perhaps you'll let yourself be tempted by this charming little series.
LunaPKL
Definitely a hidden gem of the season. The mysteries are pretty decent, I solved a few of them on my own with the clues mentioned, which makes Kageyama calling MC an idiot even funnier. The ending is a great show of how all the characters have improved. The only setback is that this girl WEARS THE SAME RED DRESS EVERY DINNER SCENE! SHE'S RICH! SHE HAS A BUTLER AND YOU'RE TELLING ME SHE ONLY WEARS THAT OUTFIT???? WE'VE SEEN HER CLOSET! SHE HAS OTHER CLOTHES LIKE WHAT???!!!! But other than that small detail, this is a decent detective anime. The op is also pretty good andthe comedic moments aren't half bad.
KANLen09
The Dinner Table Detective — Solving detective cases at the comfort of your own dining table? Now that's something never done before, where the stakes of life are tantamount to the judgment of what's on the table. Listen, I dig detective stories like the plague, and throughout the last few years or so, we've been through some of the best detective-esque settings that the AniManga industry has to offer, the likes of Summer 2023's Undead Girl Murder Farce and the series of Yuukoku no Moriarty a.k.a Moriarty the Patriot, which saw both seasons in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021, respectively. However, not every detective show isa whiz out from the mystery hat, which is why we find ourselves underwhelmed by the mystery shows this Spring 2025 season: from the famed mystery author of Aki Shimizu's Chuuzenji-sensei Mononoke Kougiroku: Sensei ga Nazo wo Hodoite Shimau kara. a.k.a The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei: He Just Solves All the Mysteries, to the crux of this show of novelist Tokuya Higashikawa's Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de a.k.a The Dinner Table Detective, which saw a rather short run from late 2010 to 2012, and the rather weird decision to have Madhouse's adaptation a full 15 years apart.
In the predictable but ever so elusive vision of the detective mystery world, you'd have your Sherlock Holmes - Watson duo plays with the antagonist of James Moriarty, or you'd have the more simple but still complex and enjoyable ones from the likes of Detective Conan and Inspector Gadget. However, it's the fictional character of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, created by the famous English writer Agatha Christie, her most famous and longest-running character, who has produced countless novels and stories, that only a relatively few of the most literature-based minds will know. And it's in this setting where we find the series's titular group of not-so-ordinary characters: a wealthy heiress who works double duty with her rookie detective job for the police, which is supervised by a rather eccentric boss that exudes forced comedy for the sake of his glamour, and accompanied by a rather ordinary-looking butler that's as humble as he comes, taking Chuuzenji-sensei's rhetoric as the one whom "He Just Solves All the Mysteries."
For one, for those well in the know about Hercule Poirot's character and how Agatha Christie portrays him to be, that's who the dignified heiress of Reiko Hosho has to deal with: Kyoichiro Kazamatsuri is an inspector serving the Kunitachi Police Department and also the heir to his own family-run car company. This is probably one of a fair few times that you would see literate heirs secretly running their side gig (though not so much with Kazamatsuri), though the outcomes are very different when compared against each other. On the outset, Reiko is as proud as a high-pitched crow as an heiress of sizable reputation, largely because she HAS to maintain her image in front of friends and clients, though this is in stark contrast to how much she tries to maintain this to her cool, calm, and collected butler, who's simply named Kageyama, who is the ONLY one "allowed" to dig her grave when she's trying to rack her brain into solving the usual detective cases and gives her advice on how those cases can be solved, always. Compare that to Kyoichiro Kazamatsuri, and he's the total opposite of how Hercule Poirot carries himself despite his short height and weird body and facial contraptions, but done with dignity. Rude, narcissistic, bombarding — call Kazamatsuri whatever you want, but his role as an inspector, I feel, is a major disservice in regard to how he's supposed to mentor Reiko, yet feels every bit like he was supposed to be portrayed as Batman's Joker character in Sherlock Holmes's body to the female Watson, who, despite her good looks and hidden clumsiness, at least is a decent character at best. I love eccentricity, especially when done right, and this variation of Undead Girl Murder Farce's Tsugaru Shinuchi, Aya Rindo, and Shizuku Hasei are gravely not the case here.
There was a time when series were in episodic form, and there are still series amping that very same rhetoric, which I guess plays its fiddle well to the detective setting it corroborates efforts from, and one that I'll give credit to. The stories here are quite the mixed bag of simple but weird or complex but stupidly compounded. For sure, this is not a series where you want to attach the "detective mystery" genre to it, but if it's for pure entertainment, I guess they'll do.
While I'm not surprised to find Madhouse working on this project, which, to be fair, looks decent and alright for the entity that's been dabbing on different genres of works since post-COVID, it's the choice of the staff team that intrigues me, most particularly the veteran in-house director Mitsuyuki Masuhara. The Diamond no Ace a.k.a Ace of Diamond series' director, has not been around since Act II's adaptation in the pre-COVID days, which is quite a sizable time away from any form of major involvement towards the studio itself. And although he did make a short return with the 2023 movie adaptation of Nao Iwamoto's Kin no Kuni Mizu no Kuni a.k.a Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom and as episode director for Madhouse's most recent series of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite a.k.a Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, to be picked to helm this show, it feels like a cop-out that Masuhara wanted to pick up his directorial skills again, but there's little to no work scheduled for him, so this show is what he had to work with for the time being (while Madhouse focuses all their efforts on Season 2 of Sousou no Frieren: Beyond Journey's End).
The music is rather plentiful and fine, though if you're like me and are sensitive to even the most repetitive of sounds, Kento Nakajima's OP, composed by the man, the myth, and the legend of Hiroyuki Sawano himself, I don't know about you, but the OP song feels so egregiously overdone with the usual [nZk] twerks for what should be a relatively calm song at best. And while I appreciate that change with Billy Boo's ED song, it too was just alright. But to my ears, definitely the better song of the two.
If you'd come into this show for anything else but the story itself, Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de a.k.a The Dinner Table Detective is one that gives you entertainment aplenty for the most part, thanks to its unhinged comedy. However, as a detective series, if the short run of the 3-volume-long novel itself isn't a red flag of an indication enough that the series just goes nowhere with the mystery plot, then you're in the wrong place trying to enjoy some police-and-thief action.
It's like having expensive cheese and caviar, but without the complimentary biscuits to support and hold it altogether. What a shame.
