History Literature / TanteiTeamKZJikenNote

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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of (currently 22) children's mystery novels. It is a remake of Hitomi Fujimoto's 1992-1993 {{light novel}} ''KZ Shonen Shoujo Seminar'' by Ryou Sumitaki and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011 under the ''Aoitori Bunko'' imprint, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Signal.MD[[note]]A subsidiary of Creator/ProductionIG that concentrates on CG and family-friendly works; ''KZ'' is its first project.[[/note]] starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}, adopting 4 of the novels as 16 9-minute episodes. It is being [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/tantei-team-kz-jiken-note streamed by Crunchyroll]] in most parts of the world[[labelnote:list]]United States, Canada, Central and South America (including the Caribbean), South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa[[/labelnote]]. It also currently has a manga adaptation by Megu Sakura, published in the anthology ''Magazine/{{Nakayoshi}}''.

The series also has two spinoff:
* ''Genie Team G Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Genie Team G''), which centers on Aya's younger sister Nako, set at four years after the beginning of ''KZ'', when Aya is 16 and Nako is 11.
* ''KZ Deep Files'', a more mature mystery novel series starring the KZ Detective Team, written by Hitomi Fujimoto.
%%Series site: http://aoitori.kodansha.co.jp/series/KZ/ (KZ), http://aoitori.kodansha.co.jp/series/G/ (G)
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Two examples so far.

* AcademicAthlete: Most of the boys in this series are members of Soccer Team KZ, chosen by [[CramSchool Shumei Seminar]] to be a group of this. Much of the athlete part is already evident in the anime, but the ''first page'' of every novel reminded readers that the KZ team's minimum academic requirement is... to be at top 2.2% in nationwide testing[[note]]The exact language used in the novels is the deviation value of 70; translated into statistics it is equivalent to two standard deviations above mean in a normal distribution.[[/note]]. The only exceptions are Sunahara, who ''was'' in the team but expelled due to conduct reasons, and Kozuka, who is never in the team in the first place.

* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The four Detective Team KZ boys have "Kazu" in their first names: '''Kazu'''omi Wakatake, Taka'''kazu''' Kuroki, '''Kazu'''nori Uesugi, '''Kazu'''hiko Kozuka. [[spoiler:Broken as of ''The Disappearing Bishoujo Knows'', when Tazuku Mikado joins.]]

* AmateurSleuth: The Detective Team KZ is essentially this, somehow of a modern-day ''Literature/TheHardyBoys''.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: This is why Aya ignores Detective Team KZ and even her mother's warning against Sunahara; he shields her from verbal abuses at least once.
* BelligerentSexualTension: For those who ship, the relationship between Aya and Wakatake can be categorized as this. Wakatake is brash, impatient and InnocentlyInsensitive to the point that Aya decided to [[HeyYou call him without any honorifics]], but it's also the only pair where both have gone {{Green-eyed|Monster}} to each other--in ''The Egg Hamburg Steak Knows'', Aya found herself in jealousy when she found Wakatake have been recently dumped, and in ''The Valentine Knows'', Wakatake (together with the rest of the Detective Team KZ) are obviously jealous when they knew Aya is far closer to Sunahara than they think.
* BigFancyHouse: Wakatake's large house is surrounded by olive trees, something Aya awed about when she first see it in episode 5. In particular it has a very large library, of which [[ParentalAbandonment during Wakatake's father's absence]] Wakatake uses it as the meeting spot for Detective Team KZ.

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: {{Downplayed|trope}}. The Detective Team KZ is not exactly {{bishonen}}, but they are good-looking enough that western viewers often wonder the possibility a case of reverse harem. Being a series written for tweens, that is obviously unlikely. However, this is played the most straight in the ''G'' spinoff; [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/g_2shokai_s1.png the male cast]] there is the most {{bishonen}} allowed in a ChildrensLiterature artwork.

* ChickMagnet: The AcademicAthlete nature of Soccer Team KZ make their members to be this. Because of this, Aya's classmates were utterly jealous of Aya being friends with them. Even [[CramSchool Shumei Seminar]] that organizes the soccer team realizes this; to avoid the problem of its members personally receiving a large amount of ChocolateOfRomance over Valantine's, its members are not allowed to accept them personally while the fangirls have to put their chocolates into a collection box, with the recipient written on it.

** [[AcademicAthlete Soccer Team KZ]]'s member are [[ChickMagnet so popular with the girls]] that they're no longer allowed by their CramSchool to accept those personally.

** The ending of the arc actually makes the situation between the members of Detective Team KZ ambiguous--they made a chocolate cake at Wakatake's home on Valentine's Day, and share among each other. This can be interpreted from TrueCompanions to ReverseHarem.

* CramSchool: To put it this way, the cram school called Shumei Seminar is more central to this series than any other school, since Detective Team KZ goes to different schools in the day. This series also got into the cram school system a bit further than most works:

* EvilCounterpart: The "elite team" that "Phantom X" Onozuka attempts to recruit in ''The Valentine Knows'' is referred as the JapaneseDelinquent version of Detective Team KZ in the novel. In the anime it's more nuanced, recall Onozuka is a former member of the KZ Soccer Team, while one of his recruits, Sunahara is one as well. [[spoiler:Of course the bad news is Sunahara is only there for infiltration.]]

* JustFriends: [[ReverseHarem Despite how some viewers think about Aya's social life]], she sees her relationships with Detective Team KZ as this, to the point of thinking they're not the people she's going to give ChocolateOfRomance over Valantine's.
* KidDetective: Detective Team KZ are middle-schooler {{Amateur Sleuth}}s.
* LastNameBasis: The four boys from the Detective Team KZ are usually referred this way. Of course, [[AlphabeticalThemeNaming with all the "Kazu"'s]], [[JustifiedTrope it's rather confusing the other way round]].

** From ''The Ripped Page Knows'' on, the first chapter (titled ''Aya Tachibana's Monologue'' from ''The Keychain Knows'' on) of every novel would include a summary of [[AcademicAthlete what Soccer Team KZ is]], followed by a Recap/{{recap}} of what is essentially the first few minutes of anime, then followed by some different materials. The exceptions are ''The Angel Knows'' and ''The Blue Diamond Knows'', as they are written in Uesugi and Kozuka's voice respectively. And then since the 21st novel, the title of this chapter drops any pretense and just calls it ''To all first-time readers'', but the text has not changed significantly (other than adding a bit about Nanaki of course).

-->I'm Aya Tachibana. I couldn't have imagined that my encounter with four super-eccentric boys would change my life so much. This is the story of the exciting cases that we, Detective Team KZ, solve.

** In episode 14, all four boys from Detective Team KZ gets jealous when Aya says she doesn't mind giving ChocolateOfRomance to Sunahara.

[[folder:''Genie Team G Jiken Note'' and ''KZ Deep Files'' novels in release order]]

''KZ Deep Files''

* OnOneCondition: In ''The Youkai Computer Knows'', Nanaki is supposed to inherit the family fortune at 20, on the condition that [[MinorLivingAlone he doesn't leave his house before that point]]. He doesn't mind this arrangement, but Aya, recalling her FriendlessBackground, finds this appalling. [[spoiler:Rendered completely moot at the end of that novel, due to the bankruptcy of the family.]]

** From ''The Ripped Page Knows'' on, the first chapter (titled ''Aya Tachibana's Monologue'' from ''The Keychain Knows'' on) of every novel would include a summary of [[AcademicAthlete what Soccer Team KZ is]], followed by a Recap/{{recap}} of what is essentially the first few minutes of anime, then followed by some different materials. The exceptions are ''The Angel Knows'' and ''The Blue Diamond Knows'', as they are written in Uesugi and Kozuka's voice respectively.

* MeddlingParents: PlayedForLaughs in the ''G'' novel ''The May Donut Knows''. Aya complained to [[DitzyGenius Nako]] that their mom wants the former to marry one of the boys (she's still with them after three years' TimeSkip, the viewer considers it a case of ReverseHarem while Nako sees them as her sister's boyfriends, but Aya still thinks they're JustFriends). Mom goes on discussing some of the boys ''in a completely utilitarian way'', stating, for example, [[TheSmartGuy Uesuki]]'s genes is worth inheriting, or [[{{Adorkable}} Kozuka]] is {{Nice|Guy}} and is unlikely to [[YouCheatingHeart cheat]]. Later that novel mom also wants Nako--11 at the time--to consider dating from her circle of boys, but made it clear she won't like [[RetiredOutlaw Mei]].

* ProductDisplacement: The novels doesn't mind talking about the absolute top schools in Tokyo. [[TeenGenius Kuroki, Uesugi and Kozuka]] went into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisei_Academy Kaisei Academy]], one of the most prestigious schools in Japan, and Mikado mentioned [[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AD%91%E6%B3%A2%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E9%99%84%E5%B1%9E%E9%A7%92%E5%A0%B4%E4%B8%AD%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E3%83%BB%E9%AB%98%E7%AD%89%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1 Tsukuba University High School at Komaba]], which on par with Kaisei. These names are displaced in the manga and the anime adaptations. Despite Wakatake and Aya's schools are fictional in the first place, they were anonymized as well.

* DatingWhatDaddyHates: {{Downplayed|trope}}. Aya isn't dating Sunahara because Sunahara is always CommutingOnABus, and Sunahara [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood isn't really a delinquent]], but Sunahara is the only boy Aya has confessed, and her mom did warn her to not get close to him in the beginning of ''The Egg Hamburg Steak Knows''.

''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of (currently 20) children's mystery novels. It is a remake of Hitomi Fujimoto's 1992-1993 {{light novel}} ''KZ Shonen Shoujo Seminar'' by Ryou Sumitaki and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011 under the ''Aoitori Bunko'' imprint, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Signal.MD[[note]]A subsidiary of Creator/ProductionIG that concentrates on CG and family-friendly works; ''KZ'' is its first project.[[/note]] starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}, adopting 4 of the novels as 16 9-minute episodes. It is being [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/tantei-team-kz-jiken-note streamed by Crunchyroll]] in most parts of the world[[labelnote:list]]United States, Canada, Central and South America (including the Caribbean), South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa[[/labelnote]]. It also currently has a manga adaptation by Megu Sakura, published in the anthology ''Magazine/{{Nakayoshi}}''.

* BrokenPedestal: Aya's first impression with Wakatake, Kuroki and Uesugi. Specifically, Wakatake crashing his bike on Aya, with Uesugi and Kuroki stopping by. First, Wakatake [[InnocentlyInsensitive calls Aya a "moving mailbox."]] And then Kuroki [[HandsomeLech greets Aya as if he is picking her up]]. Followed by Uesugi coldly commented Kuroki for "hitting on a girl again." Understandably, it's hardly a very good first impression for her. Although her opinions on the boys were rebuilt after spending more time with them.

* EdutainmentShow: Being in a children's book imprint somehow enforces this trope, but the twentieth novel ''The Youkai Computer Knows'' takes one step further. That novel introduces a large number of computer science terms, ranging from the several flavours of C, to Deep Learning, and to DDoS .

# ''The {{Tanabata}}-hime Knows'' (July 2015)

* ComicBookTime: At least 16 novels were written when the Detective Team are seventh graders.

# ''The Demonic Computer Knows'' (March 2016)

* ProductDisplacement: In the novels, [[TeenGenius Kuroki, Uesugi and Kozuka]] went into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisei_Academy Kaisei Academy]], one of the most prestigious schools in Japan. Their school is no longer named in the anime, but only referred to as "the elite private school." Strangely, Wakatake and Aya's schools also get this treatment in the anime despite being fictional in the first place. This trend is followed in the manga as well; Aya's own school is now named after the publisher and Kuroki etc.'s school is only referred as "the academically strongest school in Japan."

The series also has a spinoff, ''Genie Team G Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Genie Team G''), centering on Aya's younger sister Nako, set at four years after the beginning of ''KZ'', when Aya is 16 and Nako is 11.

[[folder:''Genie Team G Jiken Note'' novels in release order]]

# ''The Blue Cherry Blossom Knows'' (March 2012)

* ShowOfTheBooks: The anime, being adapted from a series of ChildrensLiterature.

# ''The Keychain Knows'' (May 2011)

* ProductDisplacement: In the novels, [[TeenGenius Kuroki, Uesugi and Kozuka]] went into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisei_Academy Kaisei Academy]], one of the most prestigious schools in Japan. Their school is no longer named in the anime, but only referred to as "the elite private school." Strangely, Wakatake and Aya's schools also get this treatment in the anime despite being fictional in the first place.

''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of (currently 19) children's mystery novels. It is a remake of Hitomi Fujimoto's 1992-1993 {{light novel}} ''KZ Shonen Shoujo Seminar'' by Ryou Sumitaki and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011 under the ''Aoitori Bunko'' imprint, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Signal.MD[[note]]A subsidiary of Creator/ProductionIG that concentrates on CG and family-friendly works; ''KZ'' is its first project.[[/note]] starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}, adopting 4 of the novels as 16 9-minute episodes. It is being [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/tantei-team-kz-jiken-note streamed by Crunchyroll]] in most parts of the world[[labelnote:list]]United States, Canada, Central and South America (including the Caribbean), South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa[[/labelnote]]. It also currently has a manga adaptation by Megu Sakura, published in the anthology ''Magazine/{{Nakayoshi}}''.

* TeenGenius: While the academic requirements for the Soccer Team potentially puts most of the male cast in the main series as this, [[GoodWithNumbers Uesugi]] and [[EncyclopaedicKnowledge Kozuka]] plays this trope the straightest.