Shido Tatsuhiko Private Detective Agency

<div style="text-align: right;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/shido-1.jpg" /><!--right--></div><strong>Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective</strong> (真夜中の探偵, Naito Uōkā Mayonaka no Tantei) is an anime created by Ayana Itsuki that combines elements of the horror, detective story and vampire genres. The anime is based on a PC game titled Mayonaka no Tantei Night Walker (真夜中の探偵 Night Walker, Mayonaka no Tantei Night Walker), developed by TomBoy. The main character is Shido, a vampire who has promised to protect humans. A private investigator by day and a demon hunter by night, Shido solves murder cases caused by nightbreeds (low-class monsters) with his friends Riho Yamazaki, Yayoi Matsunaga and Guni. Music is written by Akifumi Tada. <div style="text-align: center;"> <img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/shido_agencysm.jpg" /><!--center--></div> The source material for the anime came from Mayonaka no Tantei Night Walker (真夜中の探偵 Night Walker, Mayonaka no Tantei Night Walker?), a 16-color PC eroge (erotic game) released in 1993, which may be a bit too explicit to qualify as softcore. Night Walker is an adventure game, focused mostly on character interaction and problem solving. While the main characters of this game have the same names and similar appearances to their anime equivalents, their personalities are generally more easy-going and their backgrounds are less tragic (they all have living relatives). Overall, the game takes itself less seriously than the anime does, and Shidō (with help from Guni) is the source of most of the humor. In 2001 the developer Arieroof remade this game for Windows 2000 under the title Night Walker. This version uses the same source drawings as the original game, except with 256-color displays, and plays similarly. The characters are recolored, and match the anime more closely. (Shidō's hair is purple, Guni's body is green. Inexplicably, Yayoi's hair is bubblegum pink.) <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/agency_doorsm.jpg" /><!--center--></div> Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwalker:_The_Midnight_Detective" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwalker:_The_Midnight_Detective</a> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/shido_agency_building.jpg" /><!--center--></div>