The Daughter of Twenty Faces

Season 1

2008

22 Episodes

Eleven-year-old Chizuko Mikamo is a victim; she is aware that her cruel relatives have been slowly poisoning her, but she can't do anything to escape her fate except starve herself. Luckily for her, the infamous thief, Twenty Faces, has arrived to steal her household's most valuable treasure: Chizuko herself. Alongside Twenty Faces, Ken, Skipper and the rest of the gang, Chizuko travels to exotic lands and strange places in search of valuable treasure. But, as she soon discovers, there's much more to the mysterious Twenty Faces than she could ever have bargained for.

Episode 1 : ‎ Doorway

Chizuko Mikano is living with her aunt and uncle who are slowly poisoning her. However, her sharp intuition allows her survive long enough for the thief Twenty Faces, by chance there to steal the Anastasia Ruby, takes her away to join his band of thieves. They escape from the police in a car and are then ambushed by Tiger, who they shake off by escaping in the airship and heading toward an island.

Episode 2 : ‎ East Crimson Evening

Chizuko, now nicknamed "Chiko", is introduced to the rest of thieves, who gradually warm up to her and her determination not to be a hinderance. The group is forced to abandon when the police, who were following the airship, arrive at the island. They flee to an Asian country and are betrayed by Chen, a man who sells information to thieves for money, but manage to escape with the treasure anyway. ...

Episode 3 : ‎ Castle at the Bottom of the Ocean

Chiko helps out with the domestic chores of the thieves, including cooking meals. Twenty Faces arranges for the group to explore and recover something important from a sunken underwater fortress, only for the submarine captain to betray them. However, by overlooking Chiko, the captain and his crew find themselves at the mercy of Twenty Faces instead.

Episode 4 : ‎ Aspirations of a Thief

As the thieves continue to train Chiko in various skills relating to their line of work, Chiko has yet to participate in any missions. When Ken is injured, Chiko steps up, despite the reservation of some of the thieves, and successfully accomplishes her role in the theft, establishing herself as a member of the group and her new family.

Episode 5 : ‎ The Star Performer Lily

Twenty Faces' group work as circus performers in a local town, with Chiko starring as tightrope walker Lily, as a cover to gather information and steal an artifact known as the Clock of the Magi. During Chiko's visits to the museum where the clock is contained, she meets and befriends a girl named Angie. During their last performance, the thieves go about stealing the clock while everyone is atten...

Episode 6 : ‎ Dreaming of a Prior World

The gang is on a train returning back to their hideout after successfully stealing the Clock of Magi. Tiger and his gang (including Angie who deceived Chiko into thinking she was her friend) all of Twenty Faces' gang is subsequently killed excluding Ken, Chiko, and Twenty Faces himself. In order to save Chiko from an explosion, Twenty Faces and Tiger supposedly die in an explosion. Ken runs off fe...

Episode 7 : ‎ Akechi Appears

Chiko, remains shocked and depressed, returns to her "home" after being "rescued" by Akine, a detective hired by her aunt. There, her aunt continues to poison her while a new maid called Tome is now Chiko's servant. Despite Tome's efforts, Chiko still refuses to eat, talk or sleep. However, a detective called Akechi showed up and hinted that Twenty Faces may still be alive. Chiko cheered up and st...

Episode 8 : ‎ The Human Tank

Chiko slowly settles into a normal life at school and makes friends, though the excitement craving Shunka remains adverse to Chiko. Meanwhile, Uncle Genji, an old family friend of Chiko's, asks for Akine's help for a pharmaceutical company looking for two rogue scientists: Nozomi Kayama and Takashi Tsuya. The missing scientists, who had been researching ways to create an ulimate soldier, a human t...

Episode 9 : ‎ The Remaining People

Chiko's aunt further plots Chiko's demise with her lawyer. Shunka finds out about Chiko's experience with Twenty Faces and offers that the two become detectives and search for Twenty Faces. Ken, who is following Chiko, decides that he has been abandoned by Twenty Faces. While at the theater, Chiko sees a jewel that was once the possession of Twenty Faces in a movie. Chiko uses the film's shooting ...

Episode 10 : ‎ White Hair Island

Chiko uses an movie shoot as an excuse to visit "White Hair Island", where she may find information regarding Twenty Faces. Upon entering the island, Chiko spots Ken whom she had thought dead. Later, when the two get a chance to speak to one another, Ken reveals that he blames Twenty Faces for all the misfortunes that have befallen him after his "death". A man is murdered on the island, and Chiko ...

Episode 11 : ‎ At The Summer Resort

Chiko and Shunka visit Shunka's summer home by the beach. It becomes clear that Shunka it obviously disturbed by a past experience at the home, but follows through with the trip regardless. Eventually Shunka reveals that she had blamed herself for her own twin sister's death because she was not able to stop her from drowning. Once the two arrive back home, the "White-haired Devil" exploits the fea...

Episode 12 : ‎ The Devil vs. The Mystery Man

Chiko, still on the run, encounters Akechi, who is still searching for Twenty Faces. To save her friends, Chiko goes to the island with Twenty Faces' first hideout to confront the White Haired Devil. Outraged by Tome's apparent death, Chiko fights the White Haired Devil only to be sorely outmatched. Akechi finds and frees Akine from the Devil's hypnosis and they head for the island. Chiko, after b...

Episode 13 : ‎ White Flame

The White Haired Devil kidnaps Chiko, forcing Twenty Faces and Ken to chase after her and onto an airship. Meanwhile, the real Akechi appears and finds Akine, Tome, and Shunka bewildered but alive and well. After the Devil kills everyone on board the airship, she confronts Twenty Faces and reveals the past together as scientists and a project to create artificial bodies, which she had subjected he...

Episode 14 : ‎ Airship of Death

After Ken tells Chiko that Twenty Faces likely lived from falling from the airship, the two move to pilot the airship. People on the airship who had been poisoned wake up as they had not been poisoned. In the meantime, Tome manages to get parental rights over Chiko and attain a mansion for them to live in. Back on the airship, bombs planted on the airship force Ken and Chiko to land the airship in...

Episode 15 : ‎ The Detective Girls

Now living in their own mansion, Tome invites Shunka over to visit. As Shunka continues to express her fantasy of the "Detective Girls", consisting of herself, Chiko, and Tome, Tome becomes suspicious of Akine, who has dropped by for an unexpected visit. Chiko's aunt, still wishing to kill her niece, sends two assassins and plans to use Akine to take the fall for Chiko's death, only for Chiko to b...

Episode 16 : ‎ Cipher

Chiko has found a "secret spot" which she now visits regularly (as stated by Shunka). While there one day, a man she's never seen before is sitting alone. He tells her about the memories the hill brings back to him. Chiko remembers a song Twenty Faces taught her. Later, the man introduces himself as Kakashima Kouhei, a teacher of Twenty Faces from long ago. He tells Chiko she is just another pawn ...

Episode 17 : ‎ Giant Dark Room

Chiko goes with Kouhei, leaving a note on her bed for Tome that she will "definitely be back". Ken sees Chiko in the car and follows but is attacked by a girl who is very much like the boy who attacked Chiko last time. It doesn't seem she can be wounded as she is hit by a metal object of some sort on the road and has no injuries from it. Ken lights the girl on fire, destroying his motorcycle, yet ...

Episode 18 : ‎ Terror Tower

Twenty Faces and Kouhei go head to head. Twenty Faces manages to distract Kouhei long enough to let Chiko rescue Shunka, only to be captured by the emotionless girl/weapon. Ken and Dr. Kayami meet up and discuss Twenty Face's "legacy" while heading towards Kouhei's laboratory. Kouhei seems to have the upper hand as he unleashes his human experiments on both Chiko and Twenty Faces. He succeed in in...

Episode 19 : ‎ Scenery of Hell

Twenty Faces and Chizuko escape from the research facility. As Chizuko goes to see the destruction caused by the "Fourth State of Water," Kohei shows up on a rooftop, and while claiming to be Twenty Faces, says he plans to steal Tokyo. The crowd around the destruction breaks into mass hysteria. They see Chizuko among the crowd and decide to use her to stop Twenty Faces. As they give chase, Chizuko...

Episode 20 : ‎ Twenty Faces the Mystery Man

Chizuko, Ken, and Dr. Kayami Head towards the tower to stop Kohei and meet up with Twenty Faces. When almost there, the genetically enhanced children fire a rocket at the airship. Chizuko hops off onto the tower, while Ken and Kayami crash land onto the roof. As Ken and Kayami fight the children formulating a plot to defeat them, Twenty Faces appears in the control room of the tower, where he meet...

Episode 21 : ‎ Dawn

Episode 22 : ‎ Chiko

Three years have passed. Shunka goes to visit Chiko in England. There is a killer on the loose in the city, and Shunka finds out Chiko seems to have lost interest in playing detective. Chiko says she has no intention of returning to Japan, because school is fun for her now. They find a lost Japanese boy, and in a search for his parents; they come upon the killer, who appears to be something more t...