{"rewrite":{"id":"r_36c53275a59f6bfb295756b8","clusterId":"c_4947846d688b3d81c78b61f8","slug":"aibou-season25-opens-with-a-prime-minister-and-a-salwine-secret","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Aibou season25 Opens With a Prime Minister and a Salwine Secret","summary":"Aibou season25 begins its run on TV Asahi with a two-hour special, \"PM Crisis: The Prime Minister's Secret and the Trap of the Secret Pact,\" airing at 9 PM on the 21st. A former student of Kaoru Kameyama from Salwine asks to meet, while a prime ministerial aide is stabbed to death in Tokyo. Ukyo Sugishita questions incumbent Prime Minister Hikoma Mizoguchi as a possible motive from four years earlier surfaces.","whyItMatters":"The special ties the season's opening case to Kaoru's Salwine past at the moment the show has announced his partner role will pass to Mamoru Kobe, giving the departing character a story built around his own history.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe premiere folds two threads together. Kaoru\u0026#39;s former student, who came to Japan from Salwine to study, reaches out and describes a country back under military rule where contacting family abroad is difficult. Daijiro Mitsuya, an assistant at the student\u0026#39;s study-abroad lab with knowledge of programming and the internet, advised on how to find Kaoru.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeparately, a prime ministerial aide is stabbed at a high-class izakaya in Tokyo. Ukyo hears from Prime Minister Hikoma Mizoguchi, who was close to the victim, and a possible grudge from a redevelopment project four years earlier comes up. Miwako then shares that a weekly magazine received an anonymous call about leaking a secret concerning the Prime Minister.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Aibou season25 opens by putting Ukyo Sugishita across from Prime Minister Hikoma Mizoguchi, a suspect four years after the fact. The show hands its detective the one interview he cannot conduct as a cop.","twitterPost":"Aibou season25 opens with Ukyo Sugishita questioning Prime Minister Hikoma Mizoguchi over a four-year-old motive. A suspect he cannot arrest.","threadsPost":"Aibou season25 opens with Ukyo Sugishita questioning Prime Minister Hikoma Mizoguchi, a suspect tied to a motive from four years earlier. The Salwine request from Kaoru Kameyama's former student runs alongside it, so the premiere couples a case he cannot close with a past he cannot file away.","newsletterBlurb":"Aibou season25 starts its TV Asahi run with a special episode at 9 PM on the 21st. Kaoru's former student from Salwine asks to meet while a prime ministerial aide is stabbed in Tokyo, and Ukyo questions the incumbent Prime Minister. The season also sets up Mamoru Kobe as Ukyo's new partner.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157508\",\"title\":\"Aibou season25 Starts Tonight: The Nation's Darkness × Kaoru Kameyama's Past Intertwine\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4451,"outputTokens":656,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792536728,"createdAt":"2026-10-20T22:46:21.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-20T22:51:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T22:51:05.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_4947846d688b3d81c78b61f8","canonicalTitle":"今夜「相棒 season25」スタート　国家の闇×亀山薫の過去が交錯する","representativeArticleId":"a_f29f3402d2eab55f23199822","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Aibou\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-20T21:32:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-20T21:32:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T22:51:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Cinema Today","url":"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157508","title":"今夜「相棒 season25」スタート　国家の闇×亀山薫の過去が交錯する"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Aibou"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}