Drama: Bull Doctor ep05-11 Final

Official Site: NTV - Bull Doctor

I have decided to discuss all the episodes together instead of doing individual posts.  At least now I can discuss the drama as a whole, especially since there are a couple different plots.

Story:
(in no particular order)
*Plot A - Tamami and her family:
Tamami is trying to juggle her family and work at the same time, but usually its her family that gets the backseat.  It's not that she doesn't care about her family, she worries about them as well, but with her passion for forensic pathology, she wants to know the truth.  In ep06 her son was kidnapped, and here she shows another side of herself to her colleagues.  Ep07 and onwards, you see the marital problems she endures with her husband and how she overcomes them.  Tamami needed to understand where her husband was coming from and not just rely on him for everything.

*Plot B - Chika and Nakura-sensei:
From ep05 and onwards, Chika has to choose whether or not her and Nakura-sensei are meant to be together or not.  She finally tells him she loves him and he does so as well, but as the series progressed, he never showed his affection or even acknowledges their relationship.  Ultimately they break up along the way, but in the end, they realize the love that they have for each other and end up together.

*Plot C - Takeda Family problems:
While the drama is about following Tamami and her, I guess shenanigans, the whole backbone of Bull Doctor is about the Takeda family and their past.  The story about Nobuo's drinking problem unfolds as we learn who's been sending him the texts messages.  Yashiro-sensei was paid to antagonize Takeda-sensei about his criminal past.  Takeda-sensei had for years, forged death certificates under the advisory of the head of the hospital.  It all started with the transplant surgery from his wife to Mia.  A medical error had occurred and his wife had lost her life while on the operating table.  If they were to investigate, Mia wouldn't have had her transplant and would have passed away as well.  The doctors in the room had all agreed to cover it up and claim she had passed away after the surgery in order for Mia to get her kidney.  The cover was blown and Takeda-sensei was being blackmailed in order to forge death certificates since then. 

He was pushed down the stairs and endured severe head trauma.  During recovery, he felt it was finally time to tell the public truth, with Mia's permission.  When preparations were ready, the head of the hospital beat him to it and announced Takeda-sensei's leave from the hospital and that an investigation will have to go on at the hospital.  Because of his leave, Nakura-sensei was now the head professor of the forensic department.

Chika and Tamami commit a crime by stealing the body of the assistant in the hospital department, and examining it, when a forged certificate was written for his death without a primary examination.  In a confrontation, it turned out Nakura-sensei was actually helping the department by recording the conversations he had with the Head.  Before something serious had happened, the Head was arrested.  Takeda-sensei was also arrested for his part in this investigation, but Chika and Tamami were on probation for about a year before coming back to work.

Comments:
While the ratings fluctuated for the rest of the series, the finale gained more than 3% above it's first episode gaining the highest rating of the series ending with 16.4%.

I anticipated each week for episodes to get released and I really liked how the series turned out.  While I don't think the drama name matches the series in its entirety, I think it done a great job following Tamami's life and the work that revolved around her.  Adding in the sub plot with her family was kind of boring, but while I didn't care for it, it was necessary in order to give Tamami more than one-dimension. 

I didn't like that not all the other forensic doctors got a chance to have a storyline.  In fact, none of them had any relevance to the story but just to be fillers and make it more realistic in the department.  The only other person that had a story that involved the main cast was Yashiro-sensei.

I do like how Mia had her relevance in the story, finally, as it revolved around her transplant surgery as a child.  At the cliff hanger, we knew that Takeda-sensei had committed a crime, but I didn't think it would have evolved his family.  It wasn't like it was a twist ending, but it was a shocker at how it started.

I think overall I can give this drama a 7, maybe a 7.5 out of 10. It was a great series to go through, but it's not one where I'm compelled to rewatch it over and over again.

Drama: Ouran High School Host Club ep05

Official Site: TBS - Ouran High School Host Club

The ratings went up for this episode, I don't know the exact number, but I'm guessing it went up because fangirls wanted to stare at some nekkid guys haha.  For me, this is probably my favorite story of the series itself, not just in the drama.  I don't know what it is about this storyline, but it really sticks to me out of all them.

I also gotta mention that I went a little Kyouya-Happy with this episodes caps haha.
Also, I made too many caps (which i'll try to cut down on in this post), so my summary will be shorter, if I can help it LOL

Story:

The host club heads to the beach for summer vacation.  As it turns out, they're still fulfilling their host club duties even during vacation by taking along some customers to the beach with them.  While the boys would have loved to see Haruhi in a bathing suit, it'd be impossible since they brought along some people.  As it turns out, they are staying on Nekozawa's family's private beach.  Instead of staying at their own private villas, they chose to stay at Nekozawa's since Haruhi doesn't have a passport, so wouldn't be able to travel to the members' places.

 While collecting some shellfish that was just laying out on the beach, one of the crabs had a bug attached to it, scary the guests.  Before the boys could help out, Haruhi steps in without hesitation, tossing the bug away.  Haruhi mentions she's not scared of it, which prompts the boys to have a competition to find out what her weakness is.  The prize are a couple private photos of Haruhi during middle school.  The twins try to scare Haruhi in the cave, Honey tries to scare her with heights and Mori tries to scare her with a harpoon (mori).  None of them scare her of course.

As Haruhi and some of the girls were collecting more shellfish, some guys harass them.  Haruhi tosses what she had in her bucket at the guy, causing a fight to start.  One of the guests frantically calls the host club for help.  One of the guys causing trouble, pushes Haruhi off the top of the cliff.  Tamaki jumps off the cliff after Haruhi.  Haruhi awakens on shore with the host club anxiously waiting for her to come to.  Tamaki gets angry at her for not asking the guys for help, but Haruhi feels she didn't do anything wrong.  Tamaki leaves mentioning that until she apologizes, he won't speak to her.

 Later in the mansion/resort/villa (whatever), Tamaki was sulking in the dark wondering why Haruhi wasn't speaking to him.  Haruhi flips the lights back on causing Nekozawa to run off, not before punching Tamaki in the face.  She flows down the stairs wearing a cute summer dress causing the guys (or most of them) to get flustered.  There was some awkward tension around the dinner table.  Haruhi ate happily and even shared some of her food with Tamaki, only that the crab leg she shared was empty.  Tamaki leaves the table with Kyouya while the others let Haruhi know that they were worried about her.

As she goes to apologize, she had the urge to throw up all the food she purged.  She ends up in Kyouya's room not realizing he was in there.  As she apologized to him, Kyouya wanted to know what they should do now that both of them are alone together.  He grabs her and throws her onto the bed, pinning her down.  Haruhi doesn't believe he'd do anything since there's no benefit.  He laughs and gets up.  Tamaki enters the room to find them alone and the bed messy.  Kyouya leaves them together only to realize theres something interesting about this situation.

While Tamaki is angry, Haruhi feels she needs to apologize.  As she's about it, thunder strikes leaving Haruhi helpless. She flees into the closet scared out of her mind.  Tamaki tries to comfort her, realizing that the reason why she didn't call for help in the first place was because she's always been alone.  He embraces her as another strike of thunder happens.  The group enters the bedroom to find Tamaki putting a blindfold and earmuffs on Haruhi thinking that it's some kind of S&M thing.  Back in the Host Club room, they make fun of Tamaki

Comments:
This episode features episode 8 of the anime, but follows the mangas story (vol 3).  At first I thought they wanted to incorporate Nekozawa some way, so they had it on his private beach, but I accidentally came across the info that that's what had happened in the manga.  Since I never read the manga, I'll just go off of what I know from the anime.

Since the private beach was Nekozawa's, and because they didn't include the artificial tropic park episode, Honey says they scattered a lot of shellfish around for them to gather (not the Ootori police force), as well as having his scaring option as heights instead of darkness.

They also had Kyouya jump in to save Haruhi after Tamaki... now why would the writers do that? hmm?  Don't tell me that the writers are gonna make all 6 of the host club members like Haruhi?  Because when Kyouya was showing the prize pictures, Mori took one too.

Other thing i've noticed was the harpoon that Mori was holding looked more like a pitch fork LOL  It was super tiny too and put on a long stick!  But it was cute when Haruhi laughed at the non-intended pun while in the anime she didn't.

I like to take notice of the little things in the drama for some reason like during dinner, Kyouya is eating during the awkwardness at the table while everyone else isn't while in the anime it was Mori who happily kept eating, even when Haruhi felt sick.  Kyouya drank from a water bottle in the bedroom just like he did in the anime, When the boys stopped the harassers from leaving, Honey and Mori stepped up front, while in the anime it was the twins who beat the guys up, and there was one more that I cant think of right now...
In fact, I totally lost my concentrations LOL  I was interrupted, and its also past midnight now so im not thinking well, so I guess I'll just leave it right here.

(I have so many caps, but I'm not gonna post them, theyre so unnecessary haha also you like how I totally failed at making a shorter summary? LOL)