The era is the end of the Meiji era. The talented poet Ishikawa Takuboku, who suffers from poverty, starts a detective agency based in an apartment because of a murder case. The name is Woodpecker Detective Agency. The ghost of the Twelve Steps of Asakusa is rioting, and the cannibalistic puppet Takuboku wanders the streets on snowy nights. He always takes the initiative to participate in various strange events, and his assistant is his fellow countryman and senior, Kindaichi Kyousuke. With civilized Tokyo as the stage, the versatile and talented poet Ishikawa Takuboku leads the trend and pulls his fellow literati peers Nomura Kodo, Yoshii Isamu, Hagiwara Sakutaro, Wakayama Bokusui and others to start a new life together!