I like him best when he's being funny but that didnt stop me thinking he was great in maou. Ikuta toma is awesome whatever role you put him in.
Maou is Ikuta mostly running, pouting, shouting when he shouldnt be, uber serious face, more running - often when its not needed, more pouting (think he and Yamapi practiced together when they were growing up?)
More shouting, more running, more serious face, pouting, more running, serious face again, f*ck it - serious faces all round! Lots more running and pouting and frowning with serious faces filmed from obscure camera angles.
Also to add to the serious faces and frowning we have Ohno Satoshi from Arashi.
He plays mr mean lawyer serious face evil bad guy crazy man Naruse.
Ikuta plays, the guy Naruse is obviously out to get, cant stop running and pouting or running and pouting, rogue detective Serizawa.
It looks from the outset that it will be all supernatural but theres not much of that - just the character Shihori or as I call her little miss psychic hands massive eyes (kobayashi ryoko)
Everyone is great as they usually are - cant fault the casting. Ohno has mentally evil cold dead stares, Ikuta has that serious pout thing going on and Kobayashi looks like a fragile doll
This series is the Japanese original series but there has also been a remake Korean drama the devil starring joo ji hoon (antique bakery) which i will review at some point.
The basic premise is some sh*t happened in the past when Serizawa was a little f*ckhead yankii, Naruse is obviously someone related to that past, Naruse is all angry about said sh*t, Serizawa doesnt have a clue its all about him, Naruse worms his lawyery ways into Serizawa's cases, people die left right and center leaving a trail of tarot cards, cue little miss psychic hands massive eyes Shiori to explain them, she reads the after, effects of memories in a ghosty hallucinationy type way, it all gets pretty tense and Ikuta must have lost 3 stone just running about constantly. Phew.
it is pretty much just this man who appears to have the soul of a devil pitted against a driven but tainted police detective with a dark past.
It may sound like a standard premise but I have to say when I got to the end i cried my eyes out. I didnt realise how involved I had got and then bam it all kicks off and the showdown left me in a bit of an emotional mess. It was a really really good way to end it
No sweetness and light here. In the end it became a private messed up journey just for those two jaded guys to irreparably destroy each others minds and lives.
It is not like you couldn't guess how it all fits together but it doesn't matter that its kind of obvious - the point isn't to keep you guessing - the point is that Serizawa doesn't have a f*cking clue for ages, and Naruse is so messed up you wonder what he is planning next and whether he will start to regret his actions the closer he gets to little miss psychic hands massive eyes.
so thats pretty much it. running, pouting serious faces, frowning, and a big mess of dead people everywhere you look.
i really like the jacket ikuta wears - i want one. someone find me one.
ah, ive got the best idea, i will start practicing my pout and when ive got that jacket i can run around like a mental frowning an pouting then ruku-chan can just walk about in a suit staring with an evil expression at stuff. and things. and me. being my arch nemisis and plotting to kill me. (so, just like normal then) and i can run about some more pouting and shouting. (again, just like normal)it'll be just like the real thing! need that jacket.
serious face *Ikuta shock!*
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