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キューティクル探偵因幡

Cuticle Detective Inaba

In a world where half-human, half-animal chimeras live and work alongside normal people, there are sure to be a few bad apples in the bunch. Unfortunately, half-human criminals means non-human clues that often leave the police stumped. That's where lone wolf detectives like Hiroshi Inaba come in. He's literally part wolf and has the amazing ability to extract critical information just by examining or tasting a sample of someone's hair! Of course, that ability has also resulted in Inaba having a little bit of a hair fetish, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for his two assistants. (Well, at least the cross-dressing one isn't complaining much.) And it's nothing compared to the strange tastes of Inaba's nemesis, the omnivorous (and half goat) crime boss Don Valentino, who has an appetite for green legal tender instead of tender young greens! Inaba's sworn to cut Valentino out of the criminal flock before the Don can wolf down more ill-gotten dough, but he's going to have to chew his way through a lot of evidence to get his goat. Can sheer dogged detective work put the baaaaad guys behind bars? (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Names

Originalキューティクル探偵因幡 (japanese)
RomajiCuticle Tantei Inaba
EnglishCuticle Detective Inaba
ChineseQ弟侦探因幡 (simplified · via bangumi)
Also known asInaba, detective cuticular

Facts

FormatTV series · 12 ep · 23 min · 5h total
Aired2013-01-04 → 2013-03-22 (Winter 2013)
StatusFINISHED
StudioZEXCS
SourceManga
OriginJapan (Anime)
DemographicShounen
GenresActionComedyMysterySupernatural
ThemesSurreal ComedyDetectiveEnsemble CastShounenPrimarily Male CastMale ProtagonistKemonomimi

Reception

Community score6.80 / 10
Bayesian score6.95 / 10
Composite46.5
On lists22,178
Favourited245 (1.1%)
Completion70.6%
Drop rate13.0%
In backlog45.7%
Score spread σ1.90

Score distribution

110229031924317563261,03071,64381,249959910451

Where it places

CohortValueTierRank
StudioZEXCSC24 of 59
Broadcast seasonWinter 2013D39 of 60
Year2013D190 of 330
GenreMysteryD485 of 652
GenreSupernaturalD861 of 1,234
EraEarly 2010sD940 of 1,627
Season (all years)WinterD954 of 1,557
DemographicShounenE989 of 1,219
LengthSingle-courD1,629 of 2,668
GenreActionD1,895 of 2,765
Source materialMangaD2,157 of 3,025
FormatTV seriesD2,188 of 3,322
GenreComedyD2,227 of 3,488
OriginJapanD4,522 of 7,157

Key staff

DirectorSusumu Mitsunaka, Hideo Takahashi, Miyako Yatsu
Series compositionMakoto Nakamura
Original creatorMochi

AniList id 15109 · MAL id 15109 · Bangumi 46829 · record updated 2026-08-27