I was going to review Don Quixote, but I might not in the end of it. Ive watched half of the first episode and as much as I want to finish it, I just can't keep myself glued to the computer to watch it. I will definitely finish it, one day, and keep with the drama, but it's not gonna be in my priority.
I've already lost any interest in HanaKimi 2011. It's on my drama list still, just has no priority, not even sure if I'll even watch the series in its entirety. I've skimmed the first 2 episodes and arent really feeling it.
I'm adding IS ~Otoko demo Onna demo nai Sei onto my list. I over looked this drama when i was looking at the summer list and I'm glad I went back and got a chance to read more about it. Ive watched the first couple minutes so far, but havent gotten a chance to watch the rest. I might be doing that just now.
I've watched a bit of Ikemen desu ne, and then skimmed the rest. The acting by Takimoto Miori seems horrible. It's so exaggerated. I've lost interest. It'll stay on the list, but I don't see myself ever actually watching it.
Ouran I've watched the first episode and am ready to review it, but I have a test coming up and wont be able to do so until Tuesday. I'll also go ahead and do Bull Doctor and Soredemo, Ikite Yuku then also.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Drama: Meitantei Conan ep01
Plot:
High school detective Kudo Shinichi and his childhood friend, Mori Ran, hear a male voice shout right after coming out of a nail salon on the first floor of an apartment building. When they rush over to the scene at the entrance of an apartment, cameraman Tsuboichi Yuhei is bleeding from his forehead and his assistant Kishi has collapsed. Shinichi and Ran burst into the apartment to discover that Aida Momoko, the model who lives there, has died. An investigation is conducted. Kishi gives evidence that he had been hit with what seemed like an iron bar by a man who darted out of the room. Tsubouchi says he would like to have the murderer arrested. He is the dead Momoko’s brother-in-law. Shinichi feels something is wrong with Tsubouchi and Kishi’s statements. If the attacker was the same person, he should have struck Momoko with the bar too, but Momoko was strangled by a pair of hands. This makes Shinichi turn his suspicion toward Tsubouchi. Will he be able to expose the murderer’s secret trick and arrive at the truth?
Credit: DramaWiki
Cast: Mizobata Junpei, Kutsuna Shiori, Otsuka Nene, Akimoto Sayaka, Ibu Masato, Jinnai Takanori
Official Site: YTV - Meitantei Conan
Comments:
I had no idea this was a half hour drama. I should have figured since its a midnight drama. But the ratings were significantly high for a drama that airs around midnight with a 5.7%.
The episode starts off with Kudo Shinichi (Mizobata) waking up in a dark room, he realizes he's handcuffed to his childhood friend Mori Ran (Kutsuna) and wakes her up. A spotlight flashes behind them in the corner of the room revealing Mori Kogoro (Jinnai), Mori's father. The three of them get up and the lights turn on completely revealing a sealed white room with no windows or doors. Shinichi finds a letter taped to the one of the tiles on the wall. A "fan" praises the work he's done and claims the white room is a present for him. Trying to think of a way out, a podium with a screen on it appears out of no where showing a date. Shinichi remembered the date and crime that happened that day immediately and on goes the story..
The case that happened that day was a photographer that had killed his wife's sister, who happened to be his lover. Now I know It sounds weird for me to spoil the story immediately, but the fact is, I didn't spoil it, they mentioned it even before the story begun. We're basically just watching a flashback and im pretty sure this is going to be the trend for the rest of the season.
We see the photographer murder his lover because she broke up with him. He ransacks the place to try to cover up the murder. That day, he was supposed to hold a photography session with her, so he leaves and comes back to her place later on, meeting up with a colleague of his. When the colleague opens the door, he gets attacked.
It just so happens that Shinichi and Ran are over in that area. They hear something as theyre about to leave the nail place and find Tsuboichi and Kishi on the floor. Tsuboichi tells Shinichi that Momoko is inside still and finds her dead. While Kishi is unable to identify a suspect, Tsuboichi has a description of this guy and it resembles the face of a serial robber. Shinichi just so happened to have a picture of the wanted poster on his cellphone. This kid is seriously in the right place at the right times for some reason.
Shinichi isn't easy to fool. he immediately knows that this crime wasn't done by a serial robber. If it were a robber, this person would have been an amateur as the room was completely cluttered and wrecked and even have locked the front door.
Ran unknowingly helped Shinichi figure out who the culprit is by checking herself out in a full-length mirror that was set up near the front door. With the warm "strobe" light that Shinichi found in the closet, he figures that the culprit blinded Kishi as he opened the unlocked door with a camera flash using the mirror to reflect it towards the door. The culprit must have hit Kishi in the head with a tripod (not a lead pipe that he thought hit him). All these to be handled by a professional photographer. Shinichi accuses Tsuboichi as the culprit, and while he acts offended, he gets a bit hesitant as Shinichi asks him if he can borrow his camera knowing that the camera he had stolen from the room was actually key to proving he was guilty.
While the pictures don't prove to him being guilty, it wasn't the pictures that Shinichi was after, but testing the camera itself. It appears that flowers that had been bought that day by Momoko had been spreading pollen throughout the house, which also appears on the camera in possession of Tsuboichi. Pollen should not have been on the camera if in fact he had been carrying it before he showed up to Momoko's.
The pictures in the camera show Momoko mouthing the word "Aishiteru" (Love) when you flip through the pictures. What I don't get is, how can a standard film camera produce that many pictures, and how did they dry them so fast? I worked in a photo lab before and there was no way that can legit happen, though I know that even as a drama, it can't always be accurate with time. In the end, it is presumed that Momoko loved Tsuboichi despite breaking up with him and that's for her sister's sake. Tsuboichi breaks down and they flash back towards the present day, typing in the "password" on the screen "A-I-SHI-TE-RU", unlocking a door which lead back to another white room.
I wasn't expecting this drama to turn out the way it did. I thought it was going to be just like any other detective show where you see the murder or crime, but you're trying to figure out who did it, with what and how. But with this, it's already revealed what the crime was about, and they're showing it as a flashback. That's a little disappointing to me because you already know what's going to happen. The acting was just, OK, to me. I like Mizobata Junpei, but I wasn't really feeling his acting in this drama. It seems a little fake when he's in the white room, but when they do the actual crime stuff, it goes along smoother. I can't really say if I like this drama or not since it wasn't what I was expecting, but it wasn't bad or anything. After this episode, I wont be reviewing it anymore as I'll be pushing this drama back within my priority. I will continue watching it, but I won't be doing it on a weekly basis.
High school detective Kudo Shinichi and his childhood friend, Mori Ran, hear a male voice shout right after coming out of a nail salon on the first floor of an apartment building. When they rush over to the scene at the entrance of an apartment, cameraman Tsuboichi Yuhei is bleeding from his forehead and his assistant Kishi has collapsed. Shinichi and Ran burst into the apartment to discover that Aida Momoko, the model who lives there, has died. An investigation is conducted. Kishi gives evidence that he had been hit with what seemed like an iron bar by a man who darted out of the room. Tsubouchi says he would like to have the murderer arrested. He is the dead Momoko’s brother-in-law. Shinichi feels something is wrong with Tsubouchi and Kishi’s statements. If the attacker was the same person, he should have struck Momoko with the bar too, but Momoko was strangled by a pair of hands. This makes Shinichi turn his suspicion toward Tsubouchi. Will he be able to expose the murderer’s secret trick and arrive at the truth?
Credit: DramaWiki
Cast: Mizobata Junpei, Kutsuna Shiori, Otsuka Nene, Akimoto Sayaka, Ibu Masato, Jinnai Takanori
Official Site: YTV - Meitantei Conan
Comments:
I had no idea this was a half hour drama. I should have figured since its a midnight drama. But the ratings were significantly high for a drama that airs around midnight with a 5.7%.
The episode starts off with Kudo Shinichi (Mizobata) waking up in a dark room, he realizes he's handcuffed to his childhood friend Mori Ran (Kutsuna) and wakes her up. A spotlight flashes behind them in the corner of the room revealing Mori Kogoro (Jinnai), Mori's father. The three of them get up and the lights turn on completely revealing a sealed white room with no windows or doors. Shinichi finds a letter taped to the one of the tiles on the wall. A "fan" praises the work he's done and claims the white room is a present for him. Trying to think of a way out, a podium with a screen on it appears out of no where showing a date. Shinichi remembered the date and crime that happened that day immediately and on goes the story..
The case that happened that day was a photographer that had killed his wife's sister, who happened to be his lover. Now I know It sounds weird for me to spoil the story immediately, but the fact is, I didn't spoil it, they mentioned it even before the story begun. We're basically just watching a flashback and im pretty sure this is going to be the trend for the rest of the season.
It just so happens that Shinichi and Ran are over in that area. They hear something as theyre about to leave the nail place and find Tsuboichi and Kishi on the floor. Tsuboichi tells Shinichi that Momoko is inside still and finds her dead. While Kishi is unable to identify a suspect, Tsuboichi has a description of this guy and it resembles the face of a serial robber. Shinichi just so happened to have a picture of the wanted poster on his cellphone. This kid is seriously in the right place at the right times for some reason.
Shinichi isn't easy to fool. he immediately knows that this crime wasn't done by a serial robber. If it were a robber, this person would have been an amateur as the room was completely cluttered and wrecked and even have locked the front door.
Ran unknowingly helped Shinichi figure out who the culprit is by checking herself out in a full-length mirror that was set up near the front door. With the warm "strobe" light that Shinichi found in the closet, he figures that the culprit blinded Kishi as he opened the unlocked door with a camera flash using the mirror to reflect it towards the door. The culprit must have hit Kishi in the head with a tripod (not a lead pipe that he thought hit him). All these to be handled by a professional photographer. Shinichi accuses Tsuboichi as the culprit, and while he acts offended, he gets a bit hesitant as Shinichi asks him if he can borrow his camera knowing that the camera he had stolen from the room was actually key to proving he was guilty.
While the pictures don't prove to him being guilty, it wasn't the pictures that Shinichi was after, but testing the camera itself. It appears that flowers that had been bought that day by Momoko had been spreading pollen throughout the house, which also appears on the camera in possession of Tsuboichi. Pollen should not have been on the camera if in fact he had been carrying it before he showed up to Momoko's.
I wasn't expecting this drama to turn out the way it did. I thought it was going to be just like any other detective show where you see the murder or crime, but you're trying to figure out who did it, with what and how. But with this, it's already revealed what the crime was about, and they're showing it as a flashback. That's a little disappointing to me because you already know what's going to happen. The acting was just, OK, to me. I like Mizobata Junpei, but I wasn't really feeling his acting in this drama. It seems a little fake when he's in the white room, but when they do the actual crime stuff, it goes along smoother. I can't really say if I like this drama or not since it wasn't what I was expecting, but it wasn't bad or anything. After this episode, I wont be reviewing it anymore as I'll be pushing this drama back within my priority. I will continue watching it, but I won't be doing it on a weekly basis.
Drama: Bull Doctor ep02
Official Site: NTV - Bull Doctor
I was excited to see that episode 2 was up, but ended up being really disappointed.
The level of this episode dropped significantly from the first and the ratings show for it. Going from a 13.9% rating to a 10.8%.
The episode starts with Nakura-sensei teaching his class, at the end of lecture all these girls rush the podium to ask him what his favorite foods are and stuff as if if he's the most popular guy in class. This really had no use in the episode, Why they had a need to show all the girls fangirling him, who knows? It's really cute how Mia always asks questions to her professors, you can really see how much she wants to be a forensics doctor.
So the first investigation of the episode is of an elder man in his 90's who is presumed to have died from choking on mochi. Tamami goes to the scene like a real boss she is and tries to take over the examination. When she confirmed the death, Chika gave out a "victory" fist pump behind Tamami's back, but of course she knew it. What I don't like about Chika is the attitude she gives to Tamami, the whole fake being nice thing with the know-it-all tone. It was hilarious though to see her reaction when Tamami told her she had a kid and is married.
They were sent to the next crime scene of a girl who had fell from one of the top floors of her apartment complex (guest starring Ichikawa Yui). It seemed like an aparant suicide, especially when they found cut marks on her wrist and found a psychiatrist medical card in her room. They also find her cell phone inside her room. She made 3 calls the night she died and they were to Nakura-sensei.
Chika went to the university to pick up Nakura-sensei for questioning. During interrogation, you can tell how angry and hurt Chika was and of course Nakura-sensei had the same attitude he always exhibits, which is pretty emotionless.
They continue their investigation and visit the psychiatrist that was listed on the medical card found in the apartment. They question the doctor and get interrupted by her son, who has kind of an attitude problem.
Chika is annoyed at her boss at the police station. She's not able to get permission to have an autopsy on the body despite what the mother wants because the police believe it to be a suicide. Upset, she heads off to the calligraphy place and sees Kousuke there again and interacts with him. I've noticed she comes here after she has a fight and needs to release some stress.
Kurokawa-san has a talk with the Nakura-sensei to see if there was any possibility for an autopsy, but he doesn't even try. Like a boss, Tamami interrupts and tries to push for one. As she was about to call the police station for permission, Takeda-sensei butted in and mentioned something along the lines like "I can be scarier" or something like that and talked to the police instead, but he was so calm about it, no raised tone or anything. After the call, he started getting the shakes again and Nakura-sensei just happened to be passing by to see it.
They were permitted to an autopsy. When the police chief let Chika know, she went super crazy, snapping her chopsticks in half with one hand and throwing them into the garbage. That sounds funny the way its written, but it wasn't supposed to be comedic.
During the autopsy, they discovered an injection mark on her skin which was tested to be an anesthesia that only doctors permit. They also found out she was 3 months pregnant at the time of death. Nakura-sensei is then brought back to the police station for questioning, but this time for a possible arrest. There is a benefit of the doubt that he would do such a thing, so Chika and Tamami (and Mia who always randomly tags along) head back to the crime scene and discover cigarette ashes in a planter in her room.
Chika doesn't smoke and neither does Nakura-sensei, so whoever it was, should be the culprit. Going through the room, Mia unknowingly witnessed a clue as to who the culprit is. They head back to the psychiatrist to question her about whether she prescribed something to Saori. While handing the medical records to Tamami, she drops the folder revealing a scar on her wrist. The medical records are clean and they head back out. The doctor's son arrives at the facility in his fancy car that almost ran over Mia. She looks through the window of his car showing a drink and a cigarette in his cup holder/ashtray. Mia remembers she's seen one of those drinks from Saori's room and Tamami and Chika make a dash for the interior of the car grabbing the cigarette. While they accuse him as the culprit, the mother says its her.
Through a small "weight" test, Tamami knew she couldnt be the one to throw Saori's body over the balcony. The son confesses it was him and of course he's the father of the baby.
Comments:
The episode was pretty boring, there wasn't anything really exciting about it. In the first episode, having the double investigation is what made it exciting. While the outcome is predictable, the way the deaths occured weren't. With this episode, there wasn't anything that kept you guessing, you kind of already knew who the culprit was and a motive. What's really sad is, even though i'm not a fan of hers, Ichikawa Yui only had like one line and it was at the end during a flashback scene. I'm just wondering when they'll start getting to the part about Takeda-sensei's alcohol problem.
The level of this episode dropped significantly from the first and the ratings show for it. Going from a 13.9% rating to a 10.8%.
The episode starts with Nakura-sensei teaching his class, at the end of lecture all these girls rush the podium to ask him what his favorite foods are and stuff as if if he's the most popular guy in class. This really had no use in the episode, Why they had a need to show all the girls fangirling him, who knows? It's really cute how Mia always asks questions to her professors, you can really see how much she wants to be a forensics doctor.
So the first investigation of the episode is of an elder man in his 90's who is presumed to have died from choking on mochi. Tamami goes to the scene like a real boss she is and tries to take over the examination. When she confirmed the death, Chika gave out a "victory" fist pump behind Tamami's back, but of course she knew it. What I don't like about Chika is the attitude she gives to Tamami, the whole fake being nice thing with the know-it-all tone. It was hilarious though to see her reaction when Tamami told her she had a kid and is married.
They were sent to the next crime scene of a girl who had fell from one of the top floors of her apartment complex (guest starring Ichikawa Yui). It seemed like an aparant suicide, especially when they found cut marks on her wrist and found a psychiatrist medical card in her room. They also find her cell phone inside her room. She made 3 calls the night she died and they were to Nakura-sensei.
Chika went to the university to pick up Nakura-sensei for questioning. During interrogation, you can tell how angry and hurt Chika was and of course Nakura-sensei had the same attitude he always exhibits, which is pretty emotionless.
They continue their investigation and visit the psychiatrist that was listed on the medical card found in the apartment. They question the doctor and get interrupted by her son, who has kind of an attitude problem.
Chika is annoyed at her boss at the police station. She's not able to get permission to have an autopsy on the body despite what the mother wants because the police believe it to be a suicide. Upset, she heads off to the calligraphy place and sees Kousuke there again and interacts with him. I've noticed she comes here after she has a fight and needs to release some stress.
Kurokawa-san has a talk with the Nakura-sensei to see if there was any possibility for an autopsy, but he doesn't even try. Like a boss, Tamami interrupts and tries to push for one. As she was about to call the police station for permission, Takeda-sensei butted in and mentioned something along the lines like "I can be scarier" or something like that and talked to the police instead, but he was so calm about it, no raised tone or anything. After the call, he started getting the shakes again and Nakura-sensei just happened to be passing by to see it.
They were permitted to an autopsy. When the police chief let Chika know, she went super crazy, snapping her chopsticks in half with one hand and throwing them into the garbage. That sounds funny the way its written, but it wasn't supposed to be comedic.
During the autopsy, they discovered an injection mark on her skin which was tested to be an anesthesia that only doctors permit. They also found out she was 3 months pregnant at the time of death. Nakura-sensei is then brought back to the police station for questioning, but this time for a possible arrest. There is a benefit of the doubt that he would do such a thing, so Chika and Tamami (and Mia who always randomly tags along) head back to the crime scene and discover cigarette ashes in a planter in her room.
Chika doesn't smoke and neither does Nakura-sensei, so whoever it was, should be the culprit. Going through the room, Mia unknowingly witnessed a clue as to who the culprit is. They head back to the psychiatrist to question her about whether she prescribed something to Saori. While handing the medical records to Tamami, she drops the folder revealing a scar on her wrist. The medical records are clean and they head back out. The doctor's son arrives at the facility in his fancy car that almost ran over Mia. She looks through the window of his car showing a drink and a cigarette in his cup holder/ashtray. Mia remembers she's seen one of those drinks from Saori's room and Tamami and Chika make a dash for the interior of the car grabbing the cigarette. While they accuse him as the culprit, the mother says its her.
Through a small "weight" test, Tamami knew she couldnt be the one to throw Saori's body over the balcony. The son confesses it was him and of course he's the father of the baby.
Comments:
The episode was pretty boring, there wasn't anything really exciting about it. In the first episode, having the double investigation is what made it exciting. While the outcome is predictable, the way the deaths occured weren't. With this episode, there wasn't anything that kept you guessing, you kind of already knew who the culprit was and a motive. What's really sad is, even though i'm not a fan of hers, Ichikawa Yui only had like one line and it was at the end during a flashback scene. I'm just wondering when they'll start getting to the part about Takeda-sensei's alcohol problem.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Drama Update #2
I actually didn't watch Meitantei Conan yet, but for some reason I ended up watching episode 2 of Bull Doctor which I will review within the next 2-3 days, or maybe even today if I finish it on time.
Since I just finished my exam (and wont be having one until another 2 weeks), my priority this week is:
- Bull Doctor ep02 (review)
- Meitantei ep01 (watch/review)
- Soredemo, Ikite Yuku ep02 (watch/review)
- Don Quixote ep01 (watch/revew)
- Hana Kimi ep01 (watch/review/compare)
- Ikemen desu ne ep01 (watch)
And I'll try to do this all before Ouran releases this weekend. My main priority will end up being Ouran when it airs on Friday and I'll just go for whatever I feel like watching at the time.
Since I just finished my exam (and wont be having one until another 2 weeks), my priority this week is:
- Bull Doctor ep02 (review)
- Meitantei ep01 (watch/review)
- Soredemo, Ikite Yuku ep02 (watch/review)
- Don Quixote ep01 (watch/revew)
- Hana Kimi ep01 (watch/review/compare)
- Ikemen desu ne ep01 (watch)
And I'll try to do this all before Ouran releases this weekend. My main priority will end up being Ouran when it airs on Friday and I'll just go for whatever I feel like watching at the time.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Drama Update
I was planning on doing Meitantei Conan tomorrow, but I'm not sure since I have an exam to study for on Monday. I'll probably have time to watch it tomorrow afternoon, but wont be able to comment about it until later on Monday afternoon. I skimmed through the first episode and it seemed kind of boring, but we'll see if it'll be interesting enough to keep.
I also have Don Quixote waiting to be watched as well, but I'm going to have to wait on that since I wasn't planning on watching it, but skimming through it, it seemed interesting enough. Piece Vote is also on queue but even though it's only a 22min drama (30min including cms), Im most likely going to drop it, unless it wows me within the first 2 episodes.
Since Hana Kimi 2011 is out, I've only heard negative comments about it and it's basically the same complaints that everyone's had since even before the drama came out. No one's actually mentioned anything else, so I might take that into consideration when I get a chance to watch it, meaning that, I'll criticize things that people haven't mentioned yet that doesn't have anything to do with Hana Kimi 2007 or at least attempt to. The only positive thing I've heard so far is people picking their favorite ACTORS, not characters. Also need to mention that after the first episode people were trending "Futsumen Paradise" meaning "Average guys paradise" haha. I honestly have to agree with that, not being biased, but it's most likely because of how old I am and how old the guys are.
Ok so, I WILL be doing a different kind of review/summary for Hana Kimi which is a comparison to the original. And I KNOW I shouldn't be doing that despite what I've just said, or what I've said previously, but I threw that all out after more info came out about the drama.
I also have Don Quixote waiting to be watched as well, but I'm going to have to wait on that since I wasn't planning on watching it, but skimming through it, it seemed interesting enough. Piece Vote is also on queue but even though it's only a 22min drama (30min including cms), Im most likely going to drop it, unless it wows me within the first 2 episodes.
Since Hana Kimi 2011 is out, I've only heard negative comments about it and it's basically the same complaints that everyone's had since even before the drama came out. No one's actually mentioned anything else, so I might take that into consideration when I get a chance to watch it, meaning that, I'll criticize things that people haven't mentioned yet that doesn't have anything to do with Hana Kimi 2007 or at least attempt to. The only positive thing I've heard so far is people picking their favorite ACTORS, not characters. Also need to mention that after the first episode people were trending "Futsumen Paradise" meaning "Average guys paradise" haha. I honestly have to agree with that, not being biased, but it's most likely because of how old I am and how old the guys are.
Ok so, I WILL be doing a different kind of review/summary for Hana Kimi which is a comparison to the original. And I KNOW I shouldn't be doing that despite what I've just said, or what I've said previously, but I threw that all out after more info came out about the drama.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Drama: Bull Doctor ep01
* The links to enlarging pictures got messed up for some of them and I won't be able to fix them unfortunately.
Plot:
Esumi’s character Tamami is the “bull doctor” of the show’s title, which comes from the word “bulldozer.” Ignoring any opposition from the people around her, she uses any means necessary to determine the truth behind the deaths of the bodies she examines. Because of her personality, she is constantly at odds with both Ishihara and Inagaki’s characters.
Credit: DramaWiki
Cast:
Esumi Makiko, Ishihara Satomi, Inagaki Goro, Shida Mirai, TOM, Ohno Takuro, Sakura, Ikeda Narushi, Anan Kenji, Ichikawa Kamejiro, Ichige Yoshie, Kohinata Fumiyo
Official Site: NTV - Bull Doctor
Comments:
The drama starts off in a lecture hall of Jyoto University for students of Forensic Medicine. This is when we first see Takeda Mia (Shida Mirai) and Takeda Nobuo (Kohinata Fumiyo). Nobuo is a professor at the school teaching about Forensic Medicine while his daughter, Mia, is a first year student. When I read character descriptions, I didn't put 2-and-2 together that Shida was going to play a college student. I think she comes off fairly young still, until I realized she IS 18 in real life. Moving on, Nobuo introduces the character Odate Tamami (Esumi Makiko) as a new professor who is coming from the US.
We see her riding her bike to the University when a man jogging nearly collides with her. He falls to the floor grabbing his chest and is taken to the hospital via ambulance.
Getting to the hospital, we see Kamatsuda Chika (Ishihara Satomi), an investigator for the police, get out of her squad car and into the hospital where she meets Tamami. They exchange a few friendly words and head off into the hospitals mortuary. Their first meeting was kind of awkward because it looked like Chika was trying hard to just get through her job. It didn't really seem like she had any intentions to get along with Tamami in the first place.
Already we're getting that stubbornness that Tamami exhibits when she doesn't believe that Akai-san's death was just a heart attack. While there aren't any bruises, cuts, wounds or anything that would indicate physical damage, she just doesn't believe that it was a heart attack that killed him. When a thorough examination isnt permitted for her and refuses to just let it go, Chika heads into the faculty room calling for Nakura Junnosuke (Inagaki Goro) who is an assistant to the head of the department, i believe. Nakura is quick to call the death a heart attack and puts an end to the matter.
While in the mortuary, Chika gets called to a different scene to investigate. This scene looks like a murder. There was head trauma to the male and they found sleeping pills in the bedroom. This body versus Akai-san's body was sent to the examiners. Tamami was the lead Forsensic pathologist and everyone in the room was shocked at the way she does her examinations (she didn't bow her head before starting procedure). It already seemed like it'd be a homicide case, but of course, Tamami wasn't having it and did not declare it was homicide while Chika did.
*From here I'm going to bullet some points to shorten this post, and also because I dont have screencaps for them everything. Caps will be placed where needed.*
- Chika vents her frustrations and concerns to her boyfriend who turns out to be Nakura. Really.
- Chika interrogates Taguchi Yoshimo over the murder of her husband. She thinks she has the murder weapon.
- Tamami tries to see if the murder weapon fits the wound, but doesn't. Chika tries to make it fit.
- Frusted Chika goes to calligraphy class and meets Odate Kousuke, who right now, doesn't know that's Tamami's son. This scene was really cute though. They showed off their inky hands and at first it seemed like Chika was just showing off her inky hands as like "im an idiot" kind of way, but when I rewatched that scene, it seemed she genuinely showed them off to say that her and Kousuke are alike
- One last look at the Taguchi household trying to find any chance of a murder weapon, Tamami, Chika and Mia (who happened to tag along) meet the Taguchi families daughter who's trying to clear her mother's name. From what I've seen so far, Mia is very ambitious to become a great forensics doctor, like her father, so ends up tagging a long to the scene of the crimes or during examinations with Tamami. I see this as a trend for the series.
- They find out that the father and mother, even though tended to fight, were actually trying to find a way to reconcile. Because their anniversary was coming up, they wanted to do something special for each other in secret. The father actually passed away because he slipped and hit his head on a cinder block and lost a lot of blood pressure to the brain when he fell asleep. This was a really touching scene and I did get teary eyed. I was just lucky to be home alone at this time haha.
Before we find out that they ruled Akai-san's death as a homicide, we get Tamami's monologue about why she became a forensics doctor. It's really inspiring, at least to me, on why she changed from the emergency to forensics which is that life just doesnt end at death. She wants to know why it happened. As she says, she can't pray for the dead until she finds out why. It's really touching... it reminds me the other drama that Ishihara Satomi was in about forensics which was "Voice." Forensic doctors are the voice for the dead, they want to know why it happened and let them rest in peace.
Ok so,
Strange, I'm not much of a fan of doctor dramas, shows, movies, etc, but I tend to like Forensic and Forensic Pathology ones. It's most likely because I major in microbio, so a lot of things that have to do with microcultures and discovering reasons why certain things happen appeal to me.
The story so far is keeping me interested. I thought Bull Doctor would be a drama I'd drop after the first episode, but it seems interesting enough to keep going, even without a cliffhanger from the first episode. I don't see much character chemistry yet, but it is only the first episode and we havent gotten a chance to see character development yet. This is the first time I'm seeing Esumi Makiko in anything so I wasn't sure what kind of acting style she has. To be honest, I'm not really impressed yet. Her stubborness comes across poorly in acting like you know she's acting stubborn, but she really shines when she smiles. I really liked the way she was with her son at the end of the episode, it's really precious.
I've seen plenty of dramas with Ishihara Satomi (which is one reason why I picked up this drama). I have a love/hate relationship to this girl, I really do. Some roles where she has to play a serious character are usually the ones I tend to hate because her acting gets a bit overdramatic and fake. Going through the first episode, I thought it was gonna start going that route, but she didn't overact this time around and delivered well.
I'm ready to watch the next episode just to see where things go after this episode. There's more to this drama than having the two leads butting heads, but the other characters need to unfold their backstories as well.
Plot:
Esumi’s character Tamami is the “bull doctor” of the show’s title, which comes from the word “bulldozer.” Ignoring any opposition from the people around her, she uses any means necessary to determine the truth behind the deaths of the bodies she examines. Because of her personality, she is constantly at odds with both Ishihara and Inagaki’s characters.
Credit: DramaWiki
Cast:
Esumi Makiko, Ishihara Satomi, Inagaki Goro, Shida Mirai, TOM, Ohno Takuro, Sakura, Ikeda Narushi, Anan Kenji, Ichikawa Kamejiro, Ichige Yoshie, Kohinata Fumiyo
Official Site: NTV - Bull Doctor
Comments:
The drama starts off in a lecture hall of Jyoto University for students of Forensic Medicine. This is when we first see Takeda Mia (Shida Mirai) and Takeda Nobuo (Kohinata Fumiyo). Nobuo is a professor at the school teaching about Forensic Medicine while his daughter, Mia, is a first year student. When I read character descriptions, I didn't put 2-and-2 together that Shida was going to play a college student. I think she comes off fairly young still, until I realized she IS 18 in real life. Moving on, Nobuo introduces the character Odate Tamami (Esumi Makiko) as a new professor who is coming from the US.
We see her riding her bike to the University when a man jogging nearly collides with her. He falls to the floor grabbing his chest and is taken to the hospital via ambulance.
Getting to the hospital, we see Kamatsuda Chika (Ishihara Satomi), an investigator for the police, get out of her squad car and into the hospital where she meets Tamami. They exchange a few friendly words and head off into the hospitals mortuary. Their first meeting was kind of awkward because it looked like Chika was trying hard to just get through her job. It didn't really seem like she had any intentions to get along with Tamami in the first place.
Already we're getting that stubbornness that Tamami exhibits when she doesn't believe that Akai-san's death was just a heart attack. While there aren't any bruises, cuts, wounds or anything that would indicate physical damage, she just doesn't believe that it was a heart attack that killed him. When a thorough examination isnt permitted for her and refuses to just let it go, Chika heads into the faculty room calling for Nakura Junnosuke (Inagaki Goro) who is an assistant to the head of the department, i believe. Nakura is quick to call the death a heart attack and puts an end to the matter.
(First meeting with Tamami, she still hadn't shown up to meet her colleagues yet either)
While in the mortuary, Chika gets called to a different scene to investigate. This scene looks like a murder. There was head trauma to the male and they found sleeping pills in the bedroom. This body versus Akai-san's body was sent to the examiners. Tamami was the lead Forsensic pathologist and everyone in the room was shocked at the way she does her examinations (she didn't bow her head before starting procedure). It already seemed like it'd be a homicide case, but of course, Tamami wasn't having it and did not declare it was homicide while Chika did.
*From here I'm going to bullet some points to shorten this post, and also because I dont have screencaps for them everything. Caps will be placed where needed.*
- Chika vents her frustrations and concerns to her boyfriend who turns out to be Nakura. Really.
- Chika interrogates Taguchi Yoshimo over the murder of her husband. She thinks she has the murder weapon.
- Tamami tries to see if the murder weapon fits the wound, but doesn't. Chika tries to make it fit.
- Frusted Chika goes to calligraphy class and meets Odate Kousuke, who right now, doesn't know that's Tamami's son. This scene was really cute though. They showed off their inky hands and at first it seemed like Chika was just showing off her inky hands as like "im an idiot" kind of way, but when I rewatched that scene, it seemed she genuinely showed them off to say that her and Kousuke are alike
- They find out that the father and mother, even though tended to fight, were actually trying to find a way to reconcile. Because their anniversary was coming up, they wanted to do something special for each other in secret. The father actually passed away because he slipped and hit his head on a cinder block and lost a lot of blood pressure to the brain when he fell asleep. This was a really touching scene and I did get teary eyed. I was just lucky to be home alone at this time haha.
(The scrapbook the father was making)
So in the end, still not convinced that the Akai-san had died from a heart attack, Chika went on a stake out and ended up overhearing some stuff between Akai-san's wife and a friend of hers. Tamami also had found something out doing her own investigation and in the end, it turns out Akai-san was poisoned by his wife after taking a "vitamin capsule".
Before we find out that they ruled Akai-san's death as a homicide, we get Tamami's monologue about why she became a forensics doctor. It's really inspiring, at least to me, on why she changed from the emergency to forensics which is that life just doesnt end at death. She wants to know why it happened. As she says, she can't pray for the dead until she finds out why. It's really touching... it reminds me the other drama that Ishihara Satomi was in about forensics which was "Voice." Forensic doctors are the voice for the dead, they want to know why it happened and let them rest in peace.
Ok so,
Strange, I'm not much of a fan of doctor dramas, shows, movies, etc, but I tend to like Forensic and Forensic Pathology ones. It's most likely because I major in microbio, so a lot of things that have to do with microcultures and discovering reasons why certain things happen appeal to me.
The story so far is keeping me interested. I thought Bull Doctor would be a drama I'd drop after the first episode, but it seems interesting enough to keep going, even without a cliffhanger from the first episode. I don't see much character chemistry yet, but it is only the first episode and we havent gotten a chance to see character development yet. This is the first time I'm seeing Esumi Makiko in anything so I wasn't sure what kind of acting style she has. To be honest, I'm not really impressed yet. Her stubborness comes across poorly in acting like you know she's acting stubborn, but she really shines when she smiles. I really liked the way she was with her son at the end of the episode, it's really precious.
I've seen plenty of dramas with Ishihara Satomi (which is one reason why I picked up this drama). I have a love/hate relationship to this girl, I really do. Some roles where she has to play a serious character are usually the ones I tend to hate because her acting gets a bit overdramatic and fake. Going through the first episode, I thought it was gonna start going that route, but she didn't overact this time around and delivered well.
I'm ready to watch the next episode just to see where things go after this episode. There's more to this drama than having the two leads butting heads, but the other characters need to unfold their backstories as well.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Drama: Soredemo, Ikite Yuku ep01
I've mentioned before that I typically only watch comedies, but I do like the occasional dramatic drama types. I wasn't particularly anticipating this drama, but I did want to see it since the story sounded interesting.
Plot:
A man (Eita) whose younger sister was killed by a friend, who meets the friend’s sister (Mitsushima) 15 years after the incident. Both of their families have been burdened with grief, but through their meeting they struggle to find a brighter tomorrow
Credit: Dramawiki
Cast:
Eita, Mitsushima Hikari, Kazama Shunsuke, Tanaka Kei, Sato Eriko, Fukuda Mayuko, Murakawa Eri, Kurashina Kana, Ando Sakura, Emoto Akira, Danta Yasunori, Ono Takehiko, Fubuki Jun, Tokito Saburo, Otake Shinobu
Official Site: Fuji TV - Soredemo, Ikite Yuku
Comments:
So the story starts off with the title screen saying it's the year 1996. Doing the math, Eita's character Fukami Hiroki would have been 14 at the time, which makes Kazama Shunsuke's character "Amemiya Kenji" (in quotes because that's after he changed his real name) about the same age. So Hiroki's family is all doing their own thing and he's the one left in charge of watching his little sister, but he ignores the request and goes off to do some stuff
So while he's off illegally renting a porn vid, his little sister is off in the forest, or woods, or the mountains or whatever it was... there was a lake there... anyways, his little sister is off flying a kite and just so happened to have Kenji there with her.
After this incident, both families break apart due to different circumstances. Hiroki is sent to a juvenile facility, his father divorces in order to protect his wife (name change), but the family still lives together. Kenji's family is split up due to his father getting a little crazy and his wife just not wanting to deal with him anymore. Kenji ends up living with his father, running a fishing place while his mom takes his little brother and lives in the city (i believe).
I need to stop stating Kenji for now as Futaba (Mitsushima Hikari) is actually the leading co-star. So Futaba ends up going to Hiroki's fishing lake (this part I for sure missed why she went there in the first place, i'll look into it later) and all this awkwardness occurs between the two of them.
When they first met had so much awkwardness. Their movements on the dock and not being able to speak was so weird. In the end, Futaba says she's hungry, so Hiroki invites her in. So after all this stuff happens which I'm not going to mention, he lets her stay at the house, which makes me wonder if this is a house or a hotel, but Hiroki thinks Futaba is going to commit suicide (he doesnt mention it to her, but to his dad).
Turns out his epiphany was to kill Aki's murderer for his dad. After he pulls the knife out of the drawer, he gets a call telling him that his father had passed away. We find this out after he visits his mother for the first time in awhile. I didn't mention this earlier, but we got to see Hiroki's brother, Kohei (Tanaka Kei) after he drops off their drunk dad back to the house. Kohei seems like a douchebag, and their mother seems like one too. I know the family has been through a lot, but when compared to Hiroki, they weren't seen as the friendliest.
I've seen many dramas with Eita and I thoroughly enjoy everything that I've seen with him in (no bias haha). So far, he's delivering his usual quality performance, as for Mitsushima, I think she lacks a certain quality. So far, I'm not convinced with her performance, but that's primarily because all she had to do this episode was to listen to Hiroki's (Eita) story about how his sister died, cry a few times and yell to her brother. I'm really looking forward to the next episode though, I'm sure their performances will get better over the course of this drama when the story starts getting more in depth. They got a pretty average first episode rating (10.6%), hopefully after watching the first episode, the ratings will go up.
Plot:
A man (Eita) whose younger sister was killed by a friend, who meets the friend’s sister (Mitsushima) 15 years after the incident. Both of their families have been burdened with grief, but through their meeting they struggle to find a brighter tomorrow
Credit: Dramawiki
Cast:
Eita, Mitsushima Hikari, Kazama Shunsuke, Tanaka Kei, Sato Eriko, Fukuda Mayuko, Murakawa Eri, Kurashina Kana, Ando Sakura, Emoto Akira, Danta Yasunori, Ono Takehiko, Fubuki Jun, Tokito Saburo, Otake Shinobu
Official Site: Fuji TV - Soredemo, Ikite Yuku
Comments:
(Hiroki, right, and his friend, renting a porn video!)
So while he's off illegally renting a porn vid, his little sister is off in the forest, or woods, or the mountains or whatever it was... there was a lake there... anyways, his little sister is off flying a kite and just so happened to have Kenji there with her.
(Aki flying the kite)
Thinking back to this scene, I'm not sure if I missed it in the dialogue or not, but it made me wonder why Kenji was there in the first place. Did Aki ask him to fly the kite with her after Hiroki said no? Maybe I didn't miss something in the dialogue and they'll mention it in a different episode, especially since we only got to see Kenji for a total of 2 minutes or so. While Aki is flying her kite, Kenji pulls out this small hammer he had in his pocket and hits her in the head. We only see the reflection in the water and we only see him do it once, but according to Hiroki, he hit her "five, six, or maybe seven times."After this incident, both families break apart due to different circumstances. Hiroki is sent to a juvenile facility, his father divorces in order to protect his wife (name change), but the family still lives together. Kenji's family is split up due to his father getting a little crazy and his wife just not wanting to deal with him anymore. Kenji ends up living with his father, running a fishing place while his mom takes his little brother and lives in the city (i believe).
(Bottom Left: Hiroki now, Bottom Right: Kenji's family)
(Left: When they first meet, Right: Awkwardly holding an electric water cooker)
When they first met had so much awkwardness. Their movements on the dock and not being able to speak was so weird. In the end, Futaba says she's hungry, so Hiroki invites her in. So after all this stuff happens which I'm not going to mention, he lets her stay at the house, which makes me wonder if this is a house or a hotel, but Hiroki thinks Futaba is going to commit suicide (he doesnt mention it to her, but to his dad).
(Hiroki's dad and Hiroki visit their old house, with Futaba alongside)
Hiroki's dad goes crazy, ends up at the police station because he was found with a knife on him. It turns out that his father found out the whereabouts of Aki's murderer and had planned on killing him before he dies. We find out that Hiroki's dad has cancer and is very ill. While hearing all this and the pain and suffering that has been filling up, Futaba runs off back to her home and has a talk with her grandma (which is what I had missed about why she went to the fishing lake in the first place).
(Floating in the lake where Aki had died)
While Hiroki's dad is in the hospital, Hiroki finds out his father had been buying shoes for Aki, every year for her birthday and even kept her school backpack in their closet. Hiroki has some sort of vision and decides to make a kite and fly it where Aki was murdered. He envisions his sister and breaks down crying and soon after, he jumps into the lake. I swear at this part, I thought he was going to try to drown himself, especially with what he says.
(Hiroki chopping off his hair)
Hiroki goes home and cuts off his hair. Yep, while he was in the bath, he chops off his hair. How he did it so nicely without a mirror, is beyond me. Cutting hair is a symbol for starting anew, so I'm guessing this scene was to show an epiphany that Hiroki had.
(Hiroki pulling out a knife from a drawer)
Turns out his epiphany was to kill Aki's murderer for his dad. After he pulls the knife out of the drawer, he gets a call telling him that his father had passed away. We find this out after he visits his mother for the first time in awhile. I didn't mention this earlier, but we got to see Hiroki's brother, Kohei (Tanaka Kei) after he drops off their drunk dad back to the house. Kohei seems like a douchebag, and their mother seems like one too. I know the family has been through a lot, but when compared to Hiroki, they weren't seen as the friendliest.
(Left: Kenji, staring off into the distance, with... a lemon? Right: Futaba stopping Hiroki)
So, Hiroki sets off to the funeral of Kenji's parole officer (I think that's what I understood) to see if he'd be able to see him and then kill him there. Futaba shows up and has a monologue about little sisters which prompts Hiroki to ask her "who ARE you?" That's when he sees Kenji on an overpass (man, I swear I haven't seen Kazama in a LOOOONG time), pulls out the knife and heads toward him. Futaba intercepts and yells out to Kenji. By the time they get to the top, Kenji had gone. This is when Hiroki finds out that Futaba is Kenji's little sister and that's how the episode semi-ends (haha, it actually ends with Kenji on a fruit farm)
I've seen many dramas with Eita and I thoroughly enjoy everything that I've seen with him in (no bias haha). So far, he's delivering his usual quality performance, as for Mitsushima, I think she lacks a certain quality. So far, I'm not convinced with her performance, but that's primarily because all she had to do this episode was to listen to Hiroki's (Eita) story about how his sister died, cry a few times and yell to her brother. I'm really looking forward to the next episode though, I'm sure their performances will get better over the course of this drama when the story starts getting more in depth. They got a pretty average first episode rating (10.6%), hopefully after watching the first episode, the ratings will go up.
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