Episode 4

Strange Stories of the High Tower (高塔奇譚, Kōtō Kitan) is the fourth episode of the Woodpecker Detective's Office anime adaptation.

Summary
Mysterious things are happening in Asakusa. Day after day, in Ryonkaku there are several accounts being filed for cases involving an apparition. Rokuro, the man who sees to the running of Asakusa is the one receiving these requests. In order to deal with this once and for all, Rokuro commissions Takuboku to get to the bottom of this.

Takuboku takes the job to discover the truth of the matter. While en route to the site, Takuboku meets with an old friend named Yamaoka. Yamaoka is a former newspaper reporter that Takuboku met some time ago. Soon afterwards, however, Takuboku learns his friend is somehow connected to the ghost. When asked about it Yamaoka only says the words "throat moon".

Takuboku discovers the ghost's latest victim Masukichi. He was a lantern projectionist who months earlier, discovered a woman who had been sexually assaulted. Believing there is a link between the two, Takuboku begins investigating to see if these two cases are somehow related.

New Characters

 * Ryonkaku
 * Yamaoka
 * Masukichi