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This preview was released in the first expanded special of the drama “Aibo season 22” (TV Asahi / every Wednesday at 9:00 p.m.), which co-stars Yutaka Mizutani and Yasufumi Terawaki. It has also been decided that Toshio Aoki (Yosuke Asari) will appear. This will be his first direct confrontation with the Ukyo/Kaoru duo.
Since the series was first launched in 2000, “Aibo” has released a number of dense and gritty mysteries into the world, establishing its status as a “national drama.” “Season 22”, in which the “legendary duo” Ukyo Sugishita (Mizutani) and Kaoru Kameyama (Yasu Terawaki) embark on a new challenge, will finally open on October 18th, marking their second year of reunion.
In the first expanded special, it was announced that Chiaki Kuriyama would appear as a guest in the role of “a woman searching for her missing fiancée”, which caused a lot of buzz, but it turned out that the “former third man in charge of special missions” Toshio Aoki (Yosuke Asari) ) will also appear. The “man of fate” who has been disturbing the story descends on the “Aibo” world for the first time in a while.
In the first extended special, the two members of the special mission team embark on a search request from Asako Uehara (Kuriyama), a woman Kaoru’s wife Miwako (Saba Suzuki) met at a cooking class. She reveals that she has not heard from her fiancé, Katsumi Makimura (Tomohiro Ichikawa), for two weeks, and asks him to search for his whereabouts. However, at his workplace, where he works as a freelance reporter, everyone seems to agree, saying, “We don’t know anyone like that,” and the investigation quickly runs into trouble.
Meanwhile, Kenichi Itami (Kazuhisa Kawahara) and the members of the First Investigative Division are investigating a case in which a man fell to his death from his apartment, but it turns out that the victim is a member of a religious group called “Smile Paradise”. . Moreover, the possibility that he was pushed down by someone has emerged.
A disappearance and a fall to death – these two incidents eerily overlap, and the special mission team embarks on an extremely dangerous undercover investigation. A thrilling mystery unfolds that will keep you on your toes for even a moment.
Toshio Aoki appeared as a guest character in the 15th episode of “Season 14”, became a regular in “Season 15” as a special investigator of the Cyber Security Task Force, and in “Season 17” he was a member of the special mission section for a time. A familiar figure to ‘Aibo fans’. In season 20, Wataru Kanjo leaves the Special Mission Section and retires from the Metropolitan Police Department at the same time. Due to Wataru’s recommendation, he was transferred to the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office.
In the first extended special, he runs into a special mission officer who is tracking Makimura’s whereabouts at a “certain crime scene.” Aoki did not know of the existence of Kaoru Kameyama, who went to the Salwin Republic in episode 9 of “Season 7”, and Kaoru only knew Aoki’s name through Ukyo, so this was their “first face-to-face meeting”. What kind of encounter scene will it be?
However, why did Aoki infiltrate the crime scene in the first place? There is no doubt that this was an order from his boss, the head of the Cabinet Intelligence Research Office, Shami Yakako (Yukie Nakama), but Aoki, who has always harbored a grudge against the Special Missions Section and has always acted in a perverse manner, is unable to understand his actions. Be wary of any suspicious movements. Ukyo and his friends eventually discover that a huge conspiracy lies at the root of a series of incidents, but it will be interesting to see how Aoki will be involved in these mysteries.
Additionally, the preview for the first expanded special was finally released today. The preview video vividly depicts Ukyo and Kaoru taking on a life-threatening and dangerous investigation, and expectations are skyrocketing. And at the climax of the video, someone shoots a gun… What kind of shock awaits us?
The drama “Aibo Season 22” will be broadcast on TV Asahi every Wednesday at 9:00 pm starting October 18th (the first time will be an expanded special).
