Season 2 • Episode 10
LatestEiji, an average high school student, and his 2 friends stumble onto a crime scene. When he touches something with one of his hands, he is able to receive brief impressions of the past of the object - psychometry. Determined to solve crimes, a woman detective finds out about his ability and tries to persuade him to use it, even resorting to food bribes for he and his friends.
Acting
Matsuoka's panic-to-brilliance whiplash is perfectly teen.
Direction
Psychometry sequences: dated effects, genuinely unsettling execution.
Writing
Detective Shima's manipulation arc deserves study.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from the manga by Yuma Ando and Masashi Asaki, this 1997 live-action predates the psychic detective boom by years.
The hand-specific limitation (left receives, right doesn't) was invented for this adaptation to heighten visual tension.
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