Freaks and “Geeks”

 Also caught the first episode of the new murder mystery drama Geeks~Keisatsusho no Henjintachi starring Mayu Matsuoka, Minami Tanaka and Karen Takizawa as three self-professed "geeks" working in various departments of the Police Precinct. Though strict about never going overtime and expending energy outside of their duties, their natural curiosity and skills cause them to get involved in the various murder cases the detectives are working on whether they plan to or not!

Mayu as Yui Saizo

Minami as Masumi Kira

Karen as Iori Motoyama

In their regular capacity, Saizo is the resident forensics expert...

Kira,  department physician

and Motoyama a street traffic cop!

Along with them the Police department has a whole gaggle of others, including head detective Naoki Serizawa (Aoi Nakamura)

super go-getter Sho Sugita (Yuki Izumisawa)

...and the intense Ririka (Ano)!!!

Yui even finds time to develop a relationship of sorts with Adachi (Jin Shirasu), her unassuming next door neighbor!

Saizo and the gals getting down to brass tacks with the investigative team!

Interviewing this week's guest clients, Ryosuke Mikata and Ren Ishikawa. 

Seems someone orchestrated a murder during their wedding ceremony and the detectives need to find out who it is! 

Not to worry, those seemingly bored girls kicking back at the desks behind them got the skills and know-how to kick this crime in the butt! 

It's all in a day's work (more or less!) with THESE three gals, and it looks like no matter their apathy towards the job, they always get it done!!

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Notes on "Destiny"

Story of a girl named Kanade Nishimura whose Father suddenly and mysteriously committed suicide when she was in middle school. Because of this, she grew up as a shy and introverted person who shunned friendship, til she meets a group of friendly students who take her under their wing and accept her as one of their group!

Starring Satomi Ishihara in the lead role as Kanade, this is another cast of starts, with Kazuya Kamenashi as Masaki Nogi, Emma Miyazawa as Tomomi Mori, Minami Tanaka as Kaori Oikawa, and Yuma Yamato as Yuko Umeda....

This group will eventually bring Kanade out of her shell, and for the first time, will experience comradeship and bonding with others. "Let's be friends forever" one says, and they all agree!

Sadly, this will not last, and the partnership shatters when one of the group is killed in an accident. Moreover, one of them, Nogi, who was present at the scene of the accident, disappears after the funeral, seemingly never to be seen again....

Fast forward to the present day as Kanade is working as a lawyer for the Prosecuting Office. She seems content with the life and even has a romantic partner Takashi Okuda (Masanobu Ando).

But when she crosses paths with that same man who had disappeared from their lives after the time of the accident. And as she tries to discover where he has been and what he has done, the truth about not only the death of her college friend but of her own father’s suicide will come to light…

Only seen the first episode which mostly set-up the story without revealing much, but I dunno, this one doesn’t grab me at all. May be the slow pace and meandering style, but I found myself trailing off a few times during the show! Will watch a few more to see where this goes, but I’m already getting 100 Man Kai Ieba Yokatta vibes from this,  and THAT one was a dreary and dragged out murder mystery which I really had to slog through.  Nonetheless, it seems this one's already a HUGE hit, so MY lukewarm response is DEFINITELY in the minority... will love to be proved wrong in my initial analysis!

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Haha, Hey, I Know Who They're Talking About!

 Sakura Oba (Minami Tanaka) convincing Mai (Meru Tashima) that she has the potential of a particular “idol-turned-actress”in the latest episode of “Kichijoji Losers”…

As soon as I heard that, I was like, “Hey, I know who they’re talking about!” LOL!

(PS: Of course, there's the added joke that HKT48's Meru Tashima is herself an idol turned actress!)