Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji.
Seasons and episodes
1 season · 14 episodes
The story follows a series of bizarre murders of schoolgirls who have been dismembered and stuffed into boxes. The private investigator hired by a missing daughter's mother joins forces with an antique book seller and others to unravel the
S1 E1Five Death Omens of an Angel
Oct 8, 200823 min
Tatsumi Sekiguchi reads part of a transcript, titled "The Woman inside the Box" by Shunkō Kubo; and imagines himself as the story's protagonist. In it, he is traveling to his grandmother's funeral on a train with another man, who possessed
S1 E2The Raccoon's Trick
Oct 15, 200823 min
Sekiguchi reads more of "The Woman inside the Box," imagining himself as the protagonist. In it, he attends his grandmother's burial. Afterward, he continues to think about the girl in the box. In the main storyline, Kiba fails to get a coh
S1 E3Incident of Euphoria
Oct 22, 200823 min
Kiba thinks about the events of the last few days. In a non-linear flashback, Fukumoto escorts the transfer of Kanako to Mimasaka's hospital, a virtually-windowless box-like building in the middle of a forest. This facility is staffed by on
S1 E4The Kasha Incident
Oct 29, 200823 min
Sekiguchi reads more of "The Woman inside the Box", imagining himself as the protagonist. In it, he dismembers girls and wonders why he is unable to keep their heads alive. He resolves to meet the doctor that kept the girl alive in the box.
S1 E5The Incident of Clairvoyance
Nov 5, 200823 min
Sekiguchi reads a section of his own work titled "Vertigo" and imagines himself as the story's protagonist. In it, he pursues a woman through a large, empty house. In the main storyline, a flashback to 1880 recounts scholars testing Ikuko N
S1 E6The Box Incident
Nov 12, 200823 min
Atsuko interviews several kids in the area of the crimes. They all report seeing a man in dark clothes with white gloves. Sekiguchi and Toriguchi continue to meet with Chūzenji. Chūzenji describes the differences among espers, diviners, med
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- How many seasons of Box of Goblins are there?
- Box of Goblins has 1 season and 14 episodes. Status: Ended.
- Will there be a new season of Box of Goblins?
- Box of Goblins has ended; no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on December 31, 2008.
- Who stars in Box of Goblins?
- Box of Goblins stars Hiroaki Hirata, Hidenobu Kiuchi, Takaaki Seki, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Nobuyuki Hiyama.
