Trick

Name: Trick
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Rating: 77
Cast: Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Yoko Nogiwa, Masumi Okada

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Worth a look

2000–2003 · TV · 3 seasons · 31 episodes

Comedy Drama Mystery

The read

A Balasaur Score of 77 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.9/10. The series ran 3 seasons across 31 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. After being fired once again, her boss shows her an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real. Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda. Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an "X-Files" meets "Scooby-Doo"...