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| AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo | |
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| Also known as | Partners |
| Genre | detective fiction |
| Starring | Yutaka Mizutani |
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| Composer | Yoshihiro Ike |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of seasons | 24 |
| No. of episodes | 450 |
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| Network | ANN (TV Asahi) |
| Release | June 3, 2000 – present |
AIBOU (相棒, Aibō; Partners) is a Japanese television detective series that first aired on TV Asahi on June 3, 2000. It has been adapted into six films: AIBOU: The Movie (2008), AIBOU: CSI Files (2009), AIBOU: The Movie II (2010), AIBOU: X-DAY (2013), AIBOU: The Movie III (2014) and AIBOU: The Movie IV (2017).
The drama features Ukyō Sugishita (杉下右京) , a police inspector assigned to the fictional Special Missions Unit (特命係, Tokumei-gakari) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and his partners as Kaoru Kameyama (亀山薫) from 2000 to 2009 and again from 2022 onward, Takeru Kambe (神戸尊) from 2009 to 2012, Tōru Kai (甲斐享) from 2012 to 2015, and Wataru Kaburagi (冠城亘) from 2015 to 2022. In Season 15 Episode 3, Roland appears as a host.
AIBOU is also broadcast with English subtitles in Hawaii by the television station KIKU under the name Partners, and in Los Angeles by the station Japan Hollywood Network (before UTB 18.1) under the official English name AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo.
