Thursday, March 11, 2021

Tenshi Ni Request Wo

Shugo Shimada (Yosuke Eguchi) is a down-and-out ex-policeman running a detective agency with his assistant Akari Kojima (Moka Kamishiraishi). Haunted by demons of his past, Shugo isn’t motivated and the bills are piling up, so when a mysterious benefactor named Kazuko Sato (Mitsuko Baisho) shows up and offers to sponsor them if they will use their skills to grant an ailing friend’s last wish, they cautiously accept.
With a brand new traveling van gifted to them by the generous Sato as well as an on-site nurse Haruki Teramoto (Jun Shison), they set out with the patient to try and fulfil her dying wishes.
And while they use their detective skills and moxie to get to the bottom of their clients’ requests, they find strength in themselves and Shugo even finds it in himself to heal the old wounds plaguing him.
At a mere 5 episodes, Tenshi ni Request Wo was a fine way to spend an afternoon!
PS: Call me crazy, I didn’t realize that Moka and Mone Kamishiraishi were two different actresses until i watched this. As I’m also watching Mone’s drama “Oh My Boss”, it struck me taht the girl in Tenshi Request didn’t really look like Mone. Checking credits, I found that this was Moka, Mone’s sister, whom I’d already seem in dramas like Gibo to Musume No Blues!