History Literature / TanteiTeamKZJikenNote

* UnfortunateName: Probably when the team check up the German dictionary in Episode 3, they didn't check for "KZ"--it's short for "Konzentrationslager", or (UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's) concentration camps. To their credit, KZ does mean something--it comes from "Katsu," Japanese word for "victory," through the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseRomanization Kunrei-shiki form]] "'''K'''a'''z'''u."

''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of KZ Detective Team'') is a series of (currently 28) [[MiddleGradeLiterature tween'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 [[MiddleGradeLiterature 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 and aired in Creator/{{NHK}} Education. 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}}''.

** Within ''KZ'' itself, the title of a previous novel is often raised when a later novels refers to something that the readers may not recall, for example:

* CornerOfWoe: Wakatake has one of this (on top of his dad's swiral chair) at episode 8, due to [[AttentionWhore losing the chance to publicly name and shame Sunahara Meats]].

* CrashIntoHello: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Aya's first impression with Wakatake, Kuroki and Uesugi comes in this way. Specifically, Wakatake crashing his bike on Aya, with Uesugi and Kuroki stopping by. First, Wakatake calls Aya a "moving mailbox." And then Kuroki [[TheCharmer 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.

* DisabledMeansHelpless: [[spoiler:This is one way to explain Uesugi's behaviour in ''The Backyard Knows'', animated as episodes 9-12. It's no longer possible to {{hid|ingthehandicap}}e the fact that his vision has deteriorated to a point that he can no longer read standard print, something of a DreamCrushingHandicap for a boy best known as a [[GoodWithNumbers math]] [[TeenGenius whiz]]. What he does is attempting to leave his social circle quitely and without any explanation, so as to avoid invoking this trope--as a person who seems to be fixated in maintaining his face, [[DontYouDarePityMe he probably can't deal with sympathy well.]]]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The criminals in ''The Backyard Knows''. Basically speaking: they steals some rare butterfly samples from the museum, wanting to sell to collectors. The problem is one of them is particularly poisonous.

* ItsNotYouItsMe: Sunahara used that twice in ''The Valentine Knows'' in an attempt in distancing from Aya. Neither of them work, Aya's having a crush on him and was overly troubled on his apparent association with JapaneseDelinquents.

* LastNameBasis: The four boys from the KZ Detective Team are usually referred this way. Of course, [[AlphabeticalThemeNaming with all the "Kazu"'s]], [[JustifiedTrope it's rather confusing the other way round]].

* LoveConfession: By episode 15 Aya and Sunahara has quite clearly confessed to each other.

** In ''The Valentine Knows'', Sunahara twice invoked ItsNotYouItsMe to try to distance himself from Aya. In both cases, those lines are right after words that confesses his "likeness" to her.

** In episode 11, when she learns from Uesugi the reason behind the latter's [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness strange behavior during the arc]]: [[spoiler:his eye are so bad that he can't even see text any more. And a moment later, ''both'' the speaker and the listener gets this, as Uesugi mentions any treatment has at most 40% success rate, and bears the real risk of ''a complete loss of vision''.]] And then when she relayed this information (with HiddenEyes) to Kuroki and Kozuka in episode 12, they both get this!

* ScienceFoils: The KZ Detective Team is formed by a group of loopsided students. Two of them particularly fit in this mold: Uesugi, the StoicSpectacles mathematician, and Kozuka, the BoyNextDoor biologist. In addition, [[TheProtagonist Aya]], the NervousWreck linguist and Nanaki, TheShutIn computer scientist, also adds to this trope.

* ShipTease: One really can't blame older viewers from seeing a harem forming around Aya. Even talking about the 4 (of 19) arcs that has been animated, Aya has been ship-teased with all boys with the exception of Kozuka.

* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: In episode 5, Aya as ClassRepresentative was plainly ignored ''when she makes an announcement''. Sunahara saved her by asking the class to keep quite and invited her to start again, which brought forth her BecauseYouWereNiceToMe despite his reputation.

* WhamLine: In the anime, expect the third episode of every arc to contain at least one of them. However, among those the straightest example would be the one in Episode 11 (''The Backyard Knows, Part 3''). Up to this point, while the rest of the cast [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness have been concerned]] about [[TeenGenius Uesugi's]] recent performance drop and withdrawal from from their activities, they assume it as a problem of time management. Only when he comes to Aya's house to say farewell he incidentally blurbs out the ''real'' reason for his own behavior.

* FreshmenFears: one of the first problems Aya meets when she enters junior high is its social dynamics. She is appointed the ClassRepresentative for some reason, but the local AlphaBitch and her posse immediately ignores her, owing to a rumour about class appointees being the top student of the homeroom (which is TruthInTelevision in some Japanese schools). This is where [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood Sunahara]] enters her life; he saves her by asking the class to keep quiet and invites her to start again. Aya's response? BecauseYouWereNiceToMe.

* FiveMinuteRetirement: ''The Moth Fly Knows'' have the KZ Detective Team briefly changed to KZ ''Social Service'' Team, and the five kids are already on the way to home visits to local elderly... only when their first client is not in house, while a men in his thirties said he went to hospital...

-->-- '''Aya Tachibaba''', OpeningNarration.

->'''Aya Tachibaba''', OpeningNarration.

Aya Tachibana is a sixth-grader who frets and obsesses over {{fri|endlessBackground}}[[IJustWantToHaveFriends ends]], [[MiddleChildSyndrome family]], grades, and more. One day, she joins the "Tantei Team KZ" with four very idiosyncratic boys she met at CramSchool. There is the glib and {{attention|whore}}-grabbing leader Kazuomi Wakatake, the mysterious "[[TheSocialExpert expert of personal relationships]]" Takakazu Kuroki, the smart and {{stoic|Spectacles}} [[GoodWithNumbers math genius]] Kazunori Uesugi, and the [[{{Adorkable}} sweet-hearted]] Kazuhiko Kozuka who is good at [[EncyclopaedicKnowledge social matters and science]]. Aya finds her place among them as the "language expert." "Tantei Team KZ" gets involved in modern-day cases, and even if they bicker from time to time, they collaborate by pooling each of their talents and skills to solve these cases.

** 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 KZ Soccer Team 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).

* In the anime Kaisei only referred to as "the elite private school." Wakatake and Aya's schools were not named.
* In the manga, Aya's own school is now named ''Kodan'', after the publisher Kodansha, and Kaisei is only referred as "the academically strongest school in Japan."

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Played straight in episode 9 when everybody else's being gravely concerned with Uesugi's well-being after (1)Dropping off Top 50 in math when [[GoodWithNumbers he usually gets the first place]], (2) skips both CramSchool and the Detective Team's proposed investigation, and (3) for an AcademicAthlete, the impossible feat of [[StaircaseTumble slipping off the staircase]]. Kuroki has to skip the case because of it, possible to handle Uesugi's problem. [[spoiler:Of course. His vision has deteriorated to a point that a complete loss of vision is not impossible.]]

* ScienceFoil: The KZ Detective Team is formed by a group of loopsided students. Two of them particularly fit in this mold: Uesugi, the StoicSpectacles mathematician, and Kozuka, the BoyNextDoor biologist. In addition, [[TheProtagonist Aya]], the NervousWreak lingiist and Nanaki, TheShutIn computer scientist, also adds to this trope.

* IShouldWriteABookBoutThis: This is all implied during the ''The Birthday Blues Knows'' novel that the series is Aya taking her senpai's advice of WriteWhatYouKnow to heart. [[invoked]]

* WriteWhatYouKnow: {{Discussed|Trope}} InUniverse. In ''The Birthday Blues Knows'', Aya's senpai at the Literature club recommends her doing this to start creative writing. It is all implied that this series is [[IShouldWriteABookBoutThis Aya following this advice to heart]].

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All novels, and by extension anime episode titles, are in the format of ''[Item related to the case] Knows''.

* HeroicBSOD: Aya [[FragileFlower isn't good at handling pressure]], but [[spoiler:her Valentine's card to Sunahara being posted in the open in the part of ''The Valentine Knows'' animated as episode 15]] just sent her to TroubledFetalPosition.

''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of KZ Detective Team'') 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 and aired in Creator/{{NHK}} Education. 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}}''.

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: {{Downplayed|trope}}. The KZ Detective Team 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; [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/g_2shokai_s1.png the male cast]] there is the most {{bishonen}} allowed in a ChildrensLiterature artwork.

* GadgeteersHouse: [[TechnoWizard Nanaki]]'s house as shown in ''The Youkai Computet Knows''. He uses his skills to transform his house that [[TheShutIn he's forced to stay before majority]] into this. Specifically, it is pretty much managed by artificial intelligence, including driverless cars, robotic servants, and large numbers of sensors that reports literally everything in the house (to the point of enabling precision agriculture and horticulture). It's also self-sufficient in terms of food production, involving a fish farm and what the novel refers as miniature farm animals.

* TheSeriesHasLeftReality: the series is purely realistic for most of the time--it's an {{edutainment|show}} series for [[ChildrensLiterature tweens]], after all. However, Nanaki, introduced in the twentieth novel, claims [[ISeeDeadPeople he has the ability to see spirits]]; and since then there have been paranormal subplots for subsequent novels--but the main plot maintains realistic.

* ShoujoDemographic: As ChildrensLiterature it is only marketed by its age group--10-12--without discussion of gender. Yet its manga adaptation is published in ''Magazine/{{Nakayoshi}}'', a shoujo anthology, hence putting the series into this demographic.
* TheShowOfTheBooks: The anime, being adapted from a series of ChildrensLiterature.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Originally intended to be a children's rewrite of ''KZ Shonen Shoujo Seminar''.

''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of KZ Detective Team'') 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 and aired in Creator/NHK Education. 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}}''.

''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of KZ Detective Team'') 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}}''.

* ContinuityNod: The title of a previous novel is often raised when a later novels refers to something that the readers may not recall.

# ''The Dangerous Birthday Brew Knows'' (July 2017)

* CoolHouse: Nanaki's house in ''The Youkai Computer Knows'' to the point it looks quite jarringly fantastic for a premise within realistic Greater Tokyo backdrop. Not only Nanaki uses [[TeenGenius AI skills]] to manage a LargeFancyHouse while in the state of MinorLivingAlone, including driverless cars, robotic servants, and large numbers of sensors to reporting literally everything in the house (to the point of automating the gardening). It's also self-sufficient in terms of food production, involving a fish farm and what miniature farm animals. On top of it it's egg-shaped, highly unusual in Japan where strict building codes mean most houses are modular.