All Mai Kawai wanted to do was settle for a humble civil service job to please her Father. But with mediocre test result, the only one she was able to get was being a cop in a police box. It’s not what she wanted and after weeks of dealing with belligerent traffic violators and ungrateful townsfolk, Mai is just about ready to turn in her resignation.Before she can turn it in to her supervisor Igasaki (Muro Tsuyoshi), however, she is told she will be pairing up with a new partner, the former “ace” of the Metropolitan Police force Seiko Fuji. Upon meeting, Fuji is smart, official and friendly, though she seems to have arrived at the police box under dubious circumstances. On patrol, Kawai is amazed at how sharp Fuji can be, even bringing in a burglary suspect by simply looking at his shoes! Fuji is a constant thorn in the Main Department’s side when she constantly usurps their cases before them, a point that drives chief Hojo (Yusuke Hirayama) crazy!
He is constantly on his subordinates Minamoto (Shohei Miura) and Yamada (Yuki Yamada) to solve the cases before Fuji, but it is a tall order indeed! And in the meantime, detective Miwa Makitaka (Nanase Nishino), who is Fuji’s replacement inthe department, is having to deal with being the only female in a decidedly “guys club”of a workplace!
Kawai is keen to turn in her resignation and restart her life, especially when she sees how her best friend Mei (Karen Otomo) is living life stress-free and has even bagged a new boyfriend!But the steely Fuji isn’t the ace for nothing, and between unofficial “Girls’ Nights” at the apartment between her, Kawai and Makitaka (where they let down their hair and talk out problems)……or firsthand experience when tracking, chasing and ultimately “taking down” a criminal, he hopes to show Kawai that this job of theirs can be valuable and worthwhile!So far, seems like a quirky little show which i enjoyed immensely, and if that wasn’t enough, we got a TON of “J-Drama Deja-Vu” Easter eggs, with Fuji and Kawaii visiting “That Urban Apartment” which I mentioned so many times…When the girls have to investigate a suicide claim, the apartment that they have to go to......is the same one Kotaro and gang lived in in Kotaro Wo Hitorigurashi!
And in a callback to one of Mei Nagano’s older dramas (where she and Muro Tsuyoshi played Father and Daughter), the spiral walkway at the Metropolitan Police Center where they grudgingly have their drills: Is the same walkway used for the ending credits to her excellent show “Oyabaka Seishun Hakusho”!! These and many more reasons to check this fun drama out!
EDIT:
Noooooo, it's just been confirmed that Mei Nagano has been diagnosed with the COVID19 virus and has been ordered some time off! From Tokyohive:
Hope those minor ailments are all she has to deal with! Wonder how this will affect the rest of Hakozume's filming schedule....
Be well, Nagano-san!!!
