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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"...
Ueda and Yamada confront Genjyo, a man believed to have the power to control anything with his words. Though suspicious of his power, Yamada ends up following his words when her action puts Ueda's life at stake.
Yamada and Ueda try to solve the deaths of two brothers thought to have been caused by Genjyo, but when the truth is revealed, they discover that even Genjyo has been part of a corrupt plan from the beginning.
Ueda and Yamada visit a village to protect a precious earthen figurine from Slit Mikako, a woman believed to possess the power to teleport anything and possibly the reincarnation of a legendary figure with the same ability.
Slit Mikako succeeds in taking the figurine but claims she did so to protect it from illegal diversion. When her identity is revealed, her true purpose is uncovered-something no one anticipated.
Ueda and Yamada try to uncover the secret behind a mysterious nursing home where death seemingly does not exist. Their suspicion turns to shock when they witness Akachi, the facility's enigmatic psychic leader, bring the dead back to life.
Yamada and Ueda unravel the tricks behind Akachi's supposed miracles. But they have yet to realize that the nursing home itself was designed as a stage from the beginning. What truth lies behind the roles played by the home's residents?
Compelled to leave their home, the Kameyama family opens a forbidden room said to hold something dreadful. The act awakens a power hidden in their poetry and wordplay, and the language that once defined them begins to foretell tragedy.
Yamada deciphers the Kameyama family's pun-laden poems and concludes that the killer must be one of their own. But when the true motive comes to light, another truth is revealed, leading the family toward a shocking outcome.
Ueda and Yamada confront a psychic who has returned to exact revenge on those who branded her a fraud and expelled her 25 years earlier. But when Yamada attempts to expose her deception, she is met with an unexpected death.
Yamada is taken to a remote island. Pressured to reveal a secret word said to unlock a sealed door, she becomes entangled in a mystery connected to something her mother brought from her home island of Kokumon-tou.
