What if your boring government job was actually hiding time-traveling refugees from the future?
Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestTsuboi, a time traveler from the future, has been killed and the group of suspects is now on the run. Aratani and Kaoru search for the group in order to get back Tsuboi's book that tells the future…
Protagonist Shinji Aratani is a man who lost everything around him—successful career, family, and friends—due to a twist of fate. His current job title is Chief of Registry Supervision Division of Ministry of Justice. Colleagues in other divisions look down on the Division saying nobody cares about their job and it's unneeded. But what they don't know is that the Division's true duty is to accomplish the top-secret mission from Parliamentary Secretary of Justice to "isolate time travelers in a special residential district and keep them under a close watch." In the near future, it's expected that time machine will be invented and there will be time travelers, each with their own purpose, coming back from the future to the present time. Registry Supervision Division was newly established in order to not let these time travelers change or affect the present and also to prevent big confusion from happening when the existence of time travelers gets revealed.
Acting
Michitaka Tsutsui's haunted performance as broken bureaucrat Shinji
Writing
Premise that weaponizes Japanese workplace hierarchy into sci-fi tension
Production
Crushingly mundane offices hiding universe-altering secrets
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'unneeded division' premise satirizes Japan's actual bureaucratic redundancies, where ministries famously create busywork to justify budgets.
Riko Narumi's casting as Kaoru was deliberate—her youthful energy against Tsutsui's exhaustion visualizes the crushing weight of time itself.
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