MPD Psycho ·多重人格探偵サイコMalice spreads like disease
Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned to a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From the shock of the incident, he suffers from multiple personality disorder and becomes Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after, he manages to hunt down and kill his wife's murderer.
- Created By
Takashi MiikeEiji Ōtsuka
- First Aired on
May 02, 2000
- Popularity: 10.5889
- 5 votes
- Networks
- (JP)
- Production
Excellent Films (JP)KADOKAWA Shoten (JP)MPD Psycho ProjectPony Canyon Toskadomain Co. Ltd
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till May 07, 2000
Last episode: Soaring Souls and Human Bondage
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 6 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Memories of Sin/Drifting Petals54 min
A sadistic criminal is turning his victims into human flower pots. Detective Amamiya Kazuhiko is called out of early retirement to work on the case, which is tied to horrific events in his past. His new wife goes missing and a mysterious cult with barcodes tattooed on their eyeballs surfaces to wreak havoc on the city.
Episode 2How to Create a World54 min
A brutal serial killer cuts babies from their mothers' womb in what appears to be a copycat crime from five years earlier. All of the women have barcodes tattooed on their eyeballs. The victims, under some sort of hypnosis, purchase the surgical quality knives used to kill them the day before their murders. As Detective Amamiya's wife wanders the city in a trance, he discovers someone from his past is involved in the crime wave.
Episode 3Life Is a Constant Double Helix54 min
Detective Amamiya and the police team are investigating the mass suicide of forty girls from a posh high school. Amamiya goes undercover as a high school teacher to find out why and learn more about a new generation of barcoders, many of whom are students at this militaristic high school. Chiaki Kuriyama guest stars.
Episode 4The Crushed Ant54 min
Perfectly severed body parts with numbers cut into them are discovered in a field. In a nearby arcade, two rival youth gangs battle each other and Amamiya's wife is taken prisoner by a gang leader. The Police Chief tries to put together more of Amamiya's hidden past with the assistance of a one-eyed snuff filmmaker.
Episode 5Coronation of the Cursed King54 min
Cult members spontaneously combust when the barcoder network is infected. The burn victims are taken to the local hospital where a lonely employee's cyber girlfriend tells him to kill people. Detective Amamiya and his team lock down the hospital, while strange things happen on the secret 13th floor.
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