Yuya Yagira Leads TBS Sunday Theater Mystery Mr.MYSTERY? In January 2027
TBS is building a mystery around the part of a case that procedurals usually skip, the support work, and pairing it with inverted-episode structure puts the weight on dialogue between Yagira's character and each week's culprit rather than on whodunit plotting.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Yuya Yagira stars in Mr.MYSTERY?, an original one-episode-complete mystery series in TBS's Sunday Theater slot (Sundays at 9:00 p.m.) for the January 2027 season. Yagira plays Toru Aoyanagi of the Metropolitan Police Department Victim Support Unit, who does not investigate or interrogate, but draws close to culprits posing as people connected to the case. Each episode reveals the culprit at the start. Tomoki Kanazawa writes; Yoshihiro Ito directs.
Yagira plays Toru Aoyanagi, a Metropolitan Police Department employee whose job is emotional support for people bereaved or otherwise touched by a case. He does not investigate, does not suspect, and does not interrogate. Instead he turns up in the lives of culprits pretending to be connected to the case: going home with them, eating with them, joining their hobbies, appearing at their workplaces.
The show carries a built-in structure. The culprit is identified at the start of every episode, so viewers watch the psychological contest knowing the answer. Tomoki Kanazawa handles the script and Yoshihiro Ito directs. Guest culprits and the regular cast are still to be announced, and a teaser video is set to run after the October 25 broadcast of VIVANT.
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- Cinema Today 柳楽優弥、日曜劇場初主演 犯人が冒頭で明かされるミステリー「Mr.MYSTERY?」1月期放送