SPEC: Zero vs The Kid Detective

SPEC: Zero has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.6/10 for The Kid Detective). The Kid Detective is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 2h 18m. SPEC: Zero is the older of the two (2013 against 2020). Both are comedy, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

SPEC: Zero posterSPEC: Zero2013 VS The Kid Detective posterThe Kid Detective2020
SPEC: ZeroThe Kid Detective
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 6.6/10
Year20132020
Length2h 18m1h 39m
GenresComedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, TV MovieComedy, Drama, Mystery
CountryJapan–
DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiEvan Morgan
Main castRen Osugi, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Erika Toda, Tetsushi Tanaka, Ryo KaseSarah Sutherland, Adam Brody, Maurice Dean Wint, Wendy Crewson, Peter MacNeill

Synopsis

SPEC: Zero

High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has a high possibility that they were killed by people who have spec." That was the first time she heard of "spec". 6 years later, Saya Toma, who has never forgotten what the Detective said, decides to become a detective. She returns to Japan after receiving training by the FBI in the United States…

The Kid Detective

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

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