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Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases.
About the show
Galileo (ガリレオ, Garireo) is a mystery crime Japanese television drama based on the Detective Galileo (探偵ガリレオ, Tantei Garireo) novels by Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾, Higashino Keigo). It narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie police detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a genius science professor, as the two pair up to solve mysterious cases. The series premiered on Fuji TV on October 15, 2007, with a second season premiering six years later on April 15, 2013. Season two includes a two-part adaption of the novel Salvation of a Saint.
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The series released three special feature-length episodes. "Galileo: Episode Zero", set three years before the first episode of season one, aired on October 4, 2008, on the same day as the release of the film Suspect X. Special episode "Galileo XX: Kaoru Utsumi's Last Case" (ガリレオXX内海薫最後の事件), a prequel of season two, premiered on Fuji TV on June 22, 2013, followed by Midsummer's Equation (真夏の方程式, Manatsu no hōteishiki) on June 29, 2013. The special episode "Galileo: The Forbidden Magic" (ガリレオ禁断の魔術) was premiered on Fuji TV on September 17, 2022.
Galileo became available on Netflix in January 2025. Season two on Netflix includes "Galileo XX: Kaoru Utsumi's Last Case" as episode 12.
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Behind the camera
- Created by
- Takashi Narita, Hiroshi Nishitani, Mizuki Nishisaka, Kensaku Sawada
- Music
- Masaharu Fukuyama, Yugo Kanno
Seasons
Ended 2013 · 2 seasons · 21 episodes
