✦The Armed Detective Agency handles crimes beyond ordinary police work, using eccentric investigators whose inhuman abilities shape every case.
Synopsis
Atsushi Nakajima leaves his orphanage hungry and alone, then encounters members of the Armed Detective Agency while they search for a white tiger. The office accepts cases too strange for ordinary police and employs people with inhuman abilities. Atsushi has found possible help, although the help appears to require additional supervision.
Hungry and pursued by a white tiger, Atsushi crosses paths with the Armed Detective Agency. Its gifted members investigate supernatural crimes, and their current search draws him toward the case. The agency offers a newcomer view into a city where unusual abilities belong in both police reports and office disputes.
Atsushi is having an awful time when he collides with the city's strangest detective office. Then the white tiger case puts supernatural abilities right in the middle of an investigation! Every agency member seems capable of derailing a briefing through personality alone. I love an ensemble that makes rescue look only slightly more organized than the danger.
The comedy can interrupt scenes that already have enough urgency, and the agency's eccentricity is pushed hard. Atsushi gives the premise a useful center. He is hungry and being stalked by a white tiger when gifted detectives enter the problem. Their inhuman abilities make the case more specific than an ordinary collection of quirky investigators.