作品以日本著名推理小说家江户川乱步的诸多名作为原案，将乱步的幻想世界观与现代的舞台相结合。动画讲述在某所中学发生了教师被杀事件。就读于这所学校的少年小林，与前来搜查事件的天才侦探明智相遇。对于只搜查异常犯罪的明智感兴趣的小林，不顾朋友羽柴的反对，自愿成为其“助手”。在接连发生的奇怪事件当中，小林很快和明智展开了调查。
In this season, the show went back to airing one new episode a week, but stayed in the hour-length format, filling up the second half-hour with episodes from previous seasons and some of the prime-time specials from the 1980s. This entire season, along with the second half of season 6, is available on Garfield and Friends: Volume 5 DVD set. Also worth noting is that here, a new theme song was added that was written by J.R. Johnston and Neil Panton. The theme was sung by J.R. Johnston. This theme song was not shown internationally, and as a result, it does not appear on the DVDs (although Garfield's quotations are kept intact). This new introduction sequence used most clips from Seasons 5-7 and a few from the first two seasons, as well as Garfield in Paradise and Garfield's Feline Fantasies. The episodes stopped using a few seconds of the theme playing in the episode title cards after season seven's fourth episode; music from the episodes were used in the title cards until the show ended, even though season six used music from some of their episodes.
盛唐之时，蜀中有东杨西白、北鲜南宫，称锦四家。四家代代为官为商，彼此关系盘根错节、互为姻戚，踞于蜀郡睥睨四方，一时无人能匹。少女丹华承母衣钵入左骁卫从军，值此山雨欲来之际，与师兄校尉李岩承友人南宫家主南宫启之邀暂住成都，却未想连遇险案，直直撞进了漩涡中心……
幽冥殿之主，龙国最强人物夜修罗：贺云霆，机缘巧合之下重回故土云州。在所有人都以为他还只是贺家弃子、林家废婿时，他早已隐忍布局好了一切。亡母之恨、凌辱之仇，他发誓要寻回一个公道，势必要让所有迫害他的人血债血偿。
