Watashi no Kirai na Tantei 私の嫌いな探偵 [series]

Kill one bird with many many big fat stones. Please. 




 Main cast:

 Gouriki Ayame - Ninomiya Akemi 

 Tamaki Hiroshi - Ukai Morio 

 Shiraishi Shunya - Tomura Ryuhei 

 Watanabe Ikkei - Sunagawa Goro 

 Yasuda Misako - Miki Kaoru 

 Naito Risa - Satomi Shikanuma 

 Yuki - Moe 

There were many cameo and guests but I really cant be bothered to look them up and I've forgotten all of them apart from the hilarious Kurihara Louis (vampire miyabi from Higanjima) and Asari Yosuke from everything ever (negative happy chainsaw edge, pacchigi, rich man poor woman, code blue, tiger and dragon, code blue, bla bla bla bla bla). So no-one else is in my cast list.

 Director: Tsukamoto Renpei (wig, saru lock, god hand teru) 

 Director: Katayama Osamu (hana yori dango, tiger and dragon, mop girl) 

 Screen Writer: Fukuda Yuichi  (tokyo dogs, saru lock, 1 pound no fukuin, tenma san ga yuku) 

With a production team like this I really thought it would be great. I really did. But I found hardly anything in this drama I liked - I barely remember it and I only finished it a few months back. 

Nothing stuck with me really and I know you cant win them all but I was disappointed with this one. It wasn't ranty late night cheap drama therefore amazing type sh*t, it was just a bit sh*t. 

I liked Shirashi Shunya - a much better character for him than Higanjima. Not so serious, a bit cute and funny. It would have been nicer to have more of the banter between the two male leads rather than focus only on the beak faced wall paper paste musings of our leading ladybird.

It wasnt particularly funny, or interesting, or twisty turny. It was just a bit bland and the lead girl is so plain in her acting style I thought she might be from AKB47Rounin or something. 

She looks like a bird - yes they bring that up many times in the drama - and its not a cute thing. Even her clothes annoy me in the show. She just bugs me so much for a whole myriad of reasons and it made it boring and pointless to watch. 

Even more annoying was that the would be interesting other main character takes a back seat to her, and we could have got all our light relief from his stiff over serious greatness. But it didn't come through because I was so distracted by her annoying empty character. 

Played by the fantastic Nodame's Tamaki Hiroshi, it would have been nice to see a properly fleshed out rip off of Galileo as his character was supposed to be, but he was too busy swatting away the annoying buzzard flapping around him. Gouriki I mean. If you didn't hear my reference over the buzzing and flapping. Because she is a bird. And annoying. 

Nope. Sorry. I couldn't like it much. A few episodes I really tried to get into, and mainly when she was not around it was an ok drama. I had to just ignore every thing she said and plough on to finish it. 

I had no love for this idiot girl bouncing around this detective poser, and I didn't care what happened between them. Not the best way to watch a slightly will they wont they love hate relationshipy story between two potentially good characters. It just ended up being the bird faced sh*t clothes girl and uptight detective Galileo spoof man show. 

It really wasn't bad enough to be funny, so I just got no enjoyment out of that. It wasn't good enough to be gripping and make me look forward to each episode with glee face. So yeah. This one was a fail I'm afraid. I cant even make this rant amusing because it was just too flat and non anything to rant about. Shame really. 

Having said all this there were some good moments and I did like the over all idea, even though its been done to death - I'm not afraid of that. The squid mascot thing was... weird. Was that even in this drama? Did I imagine it?

Seriously I'm having trouble remembering anything else about this drama at all. Even after running through it again just now to get screen shots. It didn't make much impression at all.

Maybe I expected something from it and that didn't help - but I always expect things! Cant be that. I think we should just draw a line under this one. It was pants. Sorry.

I'm going to cut this one short because I don't care enough about the show to write anymore and also I've literally just received the original Katamari Damacy for ps2 that I ordered the other day and I wanna go play that forever. And even though my life sucks so hard right now, it makes it feel a little bit more awesome. Because Katamari. Joys.

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Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge ネガティブハッピー・チェーンソーエッヂ [movie]

Stupidest movie title since Turtles Swim Faster Than Expected

Cast:

Seki Megumi - Eri

Ichihara Hayato - Yosuke (poodle hair alert!)

Asari Yosuke – Watanabe

Miura Haruma - Noto

This review might be kind of short as lately I haven’t got as much time as I usually do, this month I want to get a few things blogged but seem to watch stuff so much quicker than I can review them. This movie is by no means worth a short review but to be fair it hardly needs an epic rant either.

I love this movie. There are countless half assed opinions of this film online, most people just didn’t really understand it. I thought the point was clearly outlined from the very beginning with Ichihara’s phenomenal narrator voice (lord the boy can smooth out a piece of dialogue) this film is all about fighting demons. Most likely inner demons. In Eri’s case, dressed up in the form of an immortal chainsaw wielding mentalist from the sky.

Yosuke’s demons seem to be dressed up as his disregard for his own life, maybe not quite as fatal as Eri’s chainsaw wielding dude, but then again maybe so.

We first meet yosuke, being an idiot. Never feeling he could live up to the immortal presence of his dead friend Noto, Yosuke has lost his place and just acts out in a restless attempt to fill a void left open by Noto’s immense personality. He meets Eri one night who is battling her own demon in the form of said chainsaw wielding weirdo from the moon of planet mental. Her demon dude is also caused by grief and she has no choice but to battle him every single night in an attempt to keep her despair at bay.

The two haphazardly join forces and become unlikely friends and there is not much more to it than that. Until stuff goes wrong and, y’know, the rest of the story happens.

Ichihara narrates this movie (NEVER a bad thing to have his lush Shige-twin voice drawl on for ages about nothing. Never gets old.) and obviously plays the main character troubled by the loss of his friend – who I should point out, is played by Miura Haruma AND we get to hear him sing in the movie AND the song is great AND his character is awesome which we see through lots of flash backs AND I know I’m biased but who cares we love Miura any day of the week.

Seki Megumi has huge watery eyes, I swear I’ve never seen her in a happy role but she can do sad and tormented like no-one else so who cares. And should i mention Ichihara's poddle afro...? it kind of speaks for itself. That boy's hair seriously... how... i mean... 

It isn’t meant to really be a big epic film, it is like a small section of the lives of the two main characters from a time when they were both grieving and feeling warped by their instability. Finding out who you are through hardships that happen, how you deal with your troubles, and who you cling to along the way, is the inevitable ebb and flow of life. That is kind of what this movie is about, though it doesn’t profess to be the most serious take on the whole thing. It is more like a wandering absent minded thought, than a meditation on a problem.

Well I’ve run out of time so that will have to do. Hopefully the screen shots help sum up whatever I couldn’t find the words to say. Don’t try to take the movie to seriously and read a whole bunch into it – you won’t get it if you do that. It really isn’t so complicated. It’s just a sweet film. And buy Miura Haruma’s single for this movie. (^_^)

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