ARGHGHGHHH This drama is SO aFREAKING GOOD I CAN'T Stand IT!!!! So many different threads, arcs and characters and finally one by one they are all coming to a HEAD!
SO many plot elements and characters I'd forgotten about and as they are all introduced in the bigger picture of the show, my mind is CONSTANTLY BLOWN AWAY!
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| Shota (Kei Tanaka) and Mikiha Ono (Nao) |
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| Mother Sumika Kitagawa (Sei Matobu) and son Sora (Rei Tanaka) |
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| Yankee Tenants Airi (Karen Otomo) and Ryo (Masaki Nakao) |
Remember me mentioning how much I loved Nurse Ruri Sakuragi, (played by Miwako Kakei) and how I lamented that once Fujii's story was written out we wouldn't see her any more? I should have KNOWN that such an intriguing character was going to be in the drama for the long haul and she is STILL stealing the scenes she's in!
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| A perplexed Fujii (Jin Katagiri) |
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| Scene-stealing Nurse Ruri (Miwako Kakei) |
Newer characters to the story are just as ineresting, especially New Tenant Nikaido (Ryusei Yokohama) who, along with Kuroshima, become Shota's partners in trying to decipher the clues and solve the mystery.
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| Shota and Nikaido (Ryusei Yokohama) |
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| Nikaido and Kuroshima (Nanase Nishino) |
And speaking of Sawa Kuroshima, this is a good time to mention how freaking CUTE Nanase Nishino is in this! Really, I thought she was cute in Video Girl Ai, but she is just flat out precious here!
As time goes on, each suspect/tenant's character becomes more fleshed out and people are revealed as both allies and enemies, but probably the most surprising development of all is how Detective Mizuki (Sarutoki Minagawa), who started off as the bumbling butt of jokes, may just be the SOLE law enforcement agent who actually cares about the case!
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| Mizuki and the sketchy Kamiya (Kodai Asaka) |
This is one drama that I am constantly eyeing the amount of time on the video as it plays because I don't want it to END!
MAN, is there ANY chance this drama's conclusion can LIVE UP TO the BUILD UP It's made??????
PS: I call this episode of Anata No Ban Desu episode 13, (as the subtitling team is labelling it), but more accurately this is episode 3 of the NEW season, "Anata No Ban Desu Counter-Attack".
Newer characters to the story are just as ineresting, especially New Tenant Nikaido (Ryusei Yokohama) who, along with Kuroshima, become Shota's partners in trying to decipher the clues and solve the mystery.
As time goes on, each suspect/tenant's character becomes more fleshed out and people are revealed as both allies and enemies, but probably the most surprising development of all is how Detective Mizuki (Sarutoki Minagawa), who started off as the bumbling butt of jokes, may just be the SOLE law enforcement agent who actually cares about the case!
