Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective

Nightwalker — The Midnight Detective
Cover of the original Nightwalker game
Nightwalker 真夜中の探偵
(Naitouōkā Mayonaka no Tantei)
Genre
Video game
Developer
  • Tomboy (PC-9801)
  • Arieroof (Windows 2000)
Platform
Released22 December 1993 (PC-9801)
25 May 2001 (Windows 2000)
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Yutaka Kagawa (1-4)
  • Kiyotoshi Sasano (5-12)
Produced byHiroaki Inoue
Kinya Watanabe
Written byRyota Yamaguchi
Music byAkifumi Tada
StudioAIC
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run 8 July 1998 23 September 1998
Episodes12
Manga
Written byUnited Soji
Published byMediaWorks
MagazineMonthly Dengeki Comic Gao!
DemographicShōnen
Original runSeptember 1998February 1999

Nightwalker — The Midnight Detective (Japanese: ナイトウォーカー真夜中の探偵, Hepburn: Naitouōkā Mayonaka no Tantei) is a late night anime TV series created by Ayana Itsuki that is adapted from a PC-9801 game of the same name.

Nightwalker incorporates elements of the horror, detective story and vampire genres, and is critically noted as a vampire story "with a bit of a twist". The main character is Shido, a vampire who protects humans from other supernatural creatures. A private investigator by day and a demon hunter by night, Shido solves murder cases caused by monsters called Nightbreeds.