“Police use post-mortem MRI to solve crimes, facing ethical dilemmas and a mystery surrounding a colleague's death.”
Top Secret: The Revelation
秘密(トップシークレット) The Revelation
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Synopsis
Police use post-mortem MRI to solve crimes, facing ethical dilemmas and a mystery surrounding a colleague's death.
In the future, a new MRI technology analyzes the brains of deceased crime victims and eyewitnesses within 48 hours of their death to extract images of their memories. Although this cutting-edge technology is responsible for solving various murder cases, it has raised several ethical concerns, placing Section Nine—the police division in charge of the MRI investigations led by Tsuyoshi Maki—under considerable pressure from the media and the government. The team members of Section Nine are not only forced to witness traumatic events through the eyes of both victims and murderers, but they also need to negotiate with the victims' families, whose consent is required for the post-mortem MRI scans. Freshly graduated from the police academy, Ikkou Aoki joins Section Nine to replace Maki's best friend Katsuhiro Suzuki—a former member who passed away under ambiguous circumstances after watching MRI footage from a particularly morbid criminal case. As a stream of seemingly unrelated events creeps closer to the case of Suzuki's death, Section Nine will have to face its greatest challenge to date, threatening its very existence.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
What 11 viewers settled on.
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σ 1.60 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.27
Running avg · Feb 2009 → Feb 2023
- 8 “This is a really good anime it's kind of under rated to me because its pretty unique its about looking into the brains of the recently deceased to see memories prior to death to determine exactly...”
- 10 “What if the police could look at the memories of dead victims and criminals? It would certainly provide clues for solving crimes but what other secrets would it reveal? What would be the...”
- 7 “Zero! Is the amount of development main character makes during this show. Do you think he has issue with watching people's memories while doing his job? Don't worry, he'll tell you at least couple...”
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- Format 26 × 22′ eps × min
- Total runtime 9h 32m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2008 – Oct 2008 Spring 2008
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-3325 catalog
Produced by
- VAP Producer
- Nippon Television Network Producer
- D.N. Dream Partners Producer