Another show that couldn’t be more NHK if it tried, unsurprisingly this is a series of adaptations of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries, tied together through the addition of Mabel West and her pet duck. Yes. A pet duck. I have no idea either.
Despite the girl and the duck, they are pretty faithful adaptations. Certainly no less so than Suchet’s Poirot and definitely moreso than ITV’s recent Marple adaptations. Visually though it’s a little plain, unless you are big fan of the look of the humans in Pokemon as Sayuri Ichiishi does the character design here too and OLM are on production.