Plot:
High school student Kirigamine Ryo (Kawaguchi Haruna) is the
vice president of the detective club at Koigakubo Academy, a school on
the outskirts of Tokyo’s Kokubunji. Posing as a famous detective, she
makes deductions to solve various cases that occur within the school.
But because her deductions are flawed, she never solves the cases. She
is helped by her biology teacher Ishizaki Hiromi (Hayami Mokomichi),
detectives and suspects, as the cases are solved.
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Cast: Kawaguchi Haruna, Hayami Mokomichi, Takashima Masanobu
Story:
Kirigamine Ryo, a cute, 16-year-old girl, with a great fast ball (as she puts it), that always gets mistaken for a boy because of her name and the way she talks. And always gets made fun of for having a name like an air conditioner.
Ishizaki Hiromi is Ryo's biology teacher and soon head of her Detectives club. He's a bit eccentric (i think a bit is an understatement!) but really smart and able to solve crime cases almost immediately.
Ryo had picked up an interest in mystery cases and became the vice manager of her detectives club. Every episode she witnesses a crime and takes it into her own hands to solve the case, or more like, butts in. After writing down all her information, she takes a look through her student handboook with all her notes. When she finally gets to the last page, she witnesses her favorite baseball player's picture and her idea of who the criminal is comes about.
She always picks the most obvious suspect, but under Ishizaki-sensei's advising, he tells her she's wrong. Turns out in most cases she's actually right, its just her assumption of how the crime played out is what's wrong.
Arc #1: A member of the school track team was knocked out unconcious at the sand pit. Ryo tries to figure out who attempted to murder him. (turns out he stepped on a sand rake that was left there,hidden in the sand, and it smacked him in the back of the head.)
Arc #2: An acting group of former students from Koigakubo come back to put on a play for the students. The most popular girl in the group was attacked at night. Ryo accuses the other girl in the group because of her jealousy, but she had an alibi. (turns out Ryo was correct, but her alibi was a cover up of her attempted murder)
Arc #3: Ryo's friend, Nao is sad that her grandpa had been injured which could have been due to an attempted murder. When she goes to visit Nao's family's house, her grandpa had been poisoned. Ryo accuses the maid because she was the one that served them drinks. Ishizaki-sensei tells her she had no reason to kill him and that her accusation details dont make sense. (turns out Ryo was correct, but the maid's reason for murder was different).
Story #4: Ryo's rival, Arakida, was attacked in the fine arts room. Ryo runs through this building and finds suspects lurking at all exits of the building. She accuses everyone and all the possibilities as to why they would attack him. Ishizaki-sensei leads Ryo to the right suspect and possible reason of attack (turns out Ryo had at least accused one of the suspects correctly but the reason was completely off. Mistaken identity is the reason for the attack, because of Ryo)
Arc #5 (Final): A teacher loses consciousness after a student falls from the roof of a building and lands on top of her. It is assumed that the student was trying to commit suicide but the student regained consciousness saying she didnt and that someone tried to kill her. The case is presumed as a closed-case because all the doors were locked and a student on the stairway did not see anyone. (turns out the attack was by the teacher that lost consciousness. Pushing the student off the building in an attempt to avenge her sister who committed suicide because of bullying due to the student. The students body was dangling in a tree before dropping to the ground on top of the teacher).
Comments:
The drama only has a slight connection episode-to-episode. Besides
having 2-episode arcs, stories dont usually connect, meaning that if you
watch the series midway, not having watched the first episode wont stop
you from understanding the rest of the series. I mean, she introduces herself in the beginning of each episode, and explains what had happened the episode before and there the episode continues.
The only thing that does connect is due to character development.
- There's an ongoing creepiness that Ishizaki-sensei has about a woman's body hidden inside a cooler. Buying her things to prepare for a wedding he wants them to hold. In the end the woman that was hidden in the cooler was a doll named Mariko.
- Ryo and Arakida's ongoing rivalry, which im still confused about. Does he like her? I'm pretty sure he does, it's just the things he says makes me think otherwise lol.
I was really excited at the time the drama was announced. I love both Hayami Mokomichi and Kawaguchi Haruna. When I first skimmed through the first episode I wasn't really feeling it, it seemed kind of "tacky" so I was close to dropping it. The day that I was actually going to get rid of it, subs were actually getting released. So I gave it another try and I ended up actually liking it.
The type of comedy and acting is something that people need to get used to. If you don't watch enough comedic dramas, then the acting will get on your nerves really badly because of all the over-exaggeration. I can't even really say much more about it. It's a fun drama. Not your typical tantei stories, but still pretty good. I'd give this a 6 out of 10. It's a quick drama to get through so even if you don't like it, it wont take you long to finish, though i wouldn't see a reason to finish the drama if you didnt like it in the first place haha
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