Nijū Mensō no Musume
| Nijū Mensō no Musume | |
Cover of the first volume of Nijū Mensō no Musume, as published by Media Factory | |
| 二十面相の娘 | |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shinji Ohara |
| Published by | Media Factory |
| Magazine | Comic Flapper |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 2003 – 2007 |
| Volumes | 8 |
| Manga | |
| Nijū Mensō no Musume Utsushiyo no Yoru | |
| Written by | Shinji Ohara |
| Published by | Media Factory |
| Magazine | Comic Flapper |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | October 5, 2007 – September 5, 2008 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| CHIKO, Heiress of the Phantom Thief | |
| Directed by | Nobuo Tomisawa |
| Produced by | Kōji Yamamoto Yūki Mori Yoshihiro Iwasaki Kyōtarō Kimura Noritomo Yoneuchi Osamu Taniguchi |
| Written by | Michihiro Tsuchiya |
| Music by | Kazunori Miyake |
| Studio | Bones Telecom Animation Film |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | April 12, 2008 – September 27, 2008 |
| Episodes | 22 |
Nijū Mensō no Musume (Japanese: 二十面相の娘; lit. "The Girl of Twenty Faces") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by manga author Shinji Ohara. The manga was serialized in the seinen manga magazine Comic Flapper between 2003 and 2007, but continued serialization in the same magazine with the title Nijū Mensō no Musume Utsushiyo no Yoru since October 5, 2007. An anime adaptation aired in Japan from April 12, 2008, to September 27, 2008, and was co-produced by Bones and Telecom Animation Film.
The characters in this series have been used with permission from surviving members of the family of Edogawa Rampo, the Japanese detective fiction author who had originally created the fictional characters of Kaijin Nijū Mensō and Kogoro Akechi.
The series is set in the Shōwa period, starting around 1953 in the anime.