Aibou season25 Opens With a Prime Minister and a Salwine Secret
The special ties the season's opening case to Kaoru's Salwine past at the moment the show has announced his partner role will pass to Mamoru Kobe, giving the departing character a story built around his own history.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Aibou season25 begins its run on TV Asahi with a two-hour special, "PM Crisis: The Prime Minister's Secret and the Trap of the Secret Pact," airing at 9 PM on the 21st. A former student of Kaoru Kameyama from Salwine asks to meet, while a prime ministerial aide is stabbed to death in Tokyo. Ukyo Sugishita questions incumbent Prime Minister Hikoma Mizoguchi as a possible motive from four years earlier surfaces.
The premiere folds two threads together. Kaoru's former student, who came to Japan from Salwine to study, reaches out and describes a country back under military rule where contacting family abroad is difficult. Daijiro Mitsuya, an assistant at the student's study-abroad lab with knowledge of programming and the internet, advised on how to find Kaoru.
Separately, a prime ministerial aide is stabbed at a high-class izakaya in Tokyo. Ukyo hears from Prime Minister Hikoma Mizoguchi, who was close to the victim, and a possible grudge from a redevelopment project four years earlier comes up. Miwako then shares that a weekly magazine received an anonymous call about leaking a secret concerning the Prime Minister.
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- Cinema Today 今夜「相棒 season25」スタート 国家の闇×亀山薫の過去が交錯する