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Toon houses Production I.G. and OLM have joined TV Tokyo to make "Keitai sosakan" (Cell Phone Detectives), a VFX action series with a line-up of helmers that includes Takashi Miike ("Imprint"), Mamoru Oshii ("Ghost in the Shell") and Shusuke Kaneko ("Death Note").

The 51-episode�series will debut on the six-station TV Tokyo network on April 2 at 7 p.m.

The stories revolve around a team of detectives who investigate digital-network-related crimes and a high school boy (Masataka Kubota) who helps them bust the bad guys with the aid of his trusty cell phone.

WiZ and Production I.G will supply scripts, while Miike will serve as overall series director. The cell phone the hero uses in the show will be marketed by Soft Bank, starting in April.

In addition to Oshii and Kaneko, helmers of individual episodes will include Kazuya Konaka ("Ultraman Moebius"), Hiroyuki Tsuji ("Karaoke"), Norio Tsuruta ("Ring 0"), and Kunihiko Yuyama ("Pocket Monster").