Misprint

Synopsis of The Misprint: New civil servant Nagata Sashi passes the exam and joins the National Police Agency, where he is assigned to the Special Cases Specialized Investigation Division as an aide. This is a special unit made up of famous detectives, tasked with taking on cases that the regular First Investigation Division has deemed "unsolvable." Not perfect crimes, but the opposite: "imperfect crimes." His partner is an eccentric detective who doesn't care who the culprit is or what their motive was. He cares about just one thing: what did the culprit get wrong? A locked-room murder: the door was bolted from the inside, but after pulling the bolt into place from outside with a string, the killer forgot to take the string away. A copycat murder: the scene imitates an old nursery rhyme, but the killer got the color of a crucial prop wrong. Every case is like a misprinted page: flawed, uneven, with something vaguely "off" about it. "Perfect crimes don't exist," says the detective, "because people always make mistakes. Our job is to find them." Alongside his strange partner, Nagata Sashi solves one anticlimactic case after another. Until he discovers that behind every imperfection lies the same source: a file buried inside the National Police Agency for twelve years. Those "mistakes" were deliberately left behind by the culprit. "The most perfect