Ren Ishikawa For The Foot Fetishists

 At the halfway point of the drama Wadake Otokotachi and I’m convinced that the SOLE reason for Ren Ishikawa's inclusion in it is to look SMOKING HOT in each episode!

Whether or not they have anything to do with the story, the Buzz Topi Online News team makes at least one appearance in each episode, and it sometimes seems to me that its only purpose is to showcase Ren and her stylish n sexy outfits!

People often cite director Quentin Tarantino as a foot fetishist with his obsessive attention to ladies’ feet, but he's got NOTHING on whoever directed episode 3 of Wadake which seemed CATERED to Foot Fetish fans, with Ren showing off her tender tootsies in not one but TWO scenes!

So far Wadake has been a fairly entertaining show (I had much reservation about it at first which you may recall) and Ren's appearances have been the carrot that has kept me invested throughout!

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Notes On Wadake no Otokotachi

Story following three generations of newsmakers,from the Grandfather Kan Wada (Danda Yasunori) who made his name working the old-time Newspapers...

son Shuhei Wada (Sasaki Kuranosuke) who is the director of a flashy Television news program, 

...and humble stepson Yuu Wada (Aiba Masaki) who has just started out writing slice-of-life pieces for a “buzzfeed” type online site.

Honestly, I thought it was going to be how each generation has their own way of presenting stories and we would see how each type of medium has its own pros and cons. But almost immediately, it becomes the dad using his son to expose corruption in the government, in this case Dad Shuhei using pics his son took to  accuse a politician of favoritism.

Political corruption!! WHY does it always come down to this? I’m so TIRED of these stories ALWAYS ending with corrupt politicians, MAN, Can’t I watch a show with just a regular straight-forward storyline any more??? I mean, I get it here since Kuranosuke's supposed to be a scandal journalist, but if every episode's going to build to a corruption, then, I dunno...
Furthermore, they mention in passing that Yuu’s mother Rie (Eiko Koike) died suddenly when he was young, you just KNOW that’s going to be some huge, dark revelation of who is guilty for that and WHY. I just want shows with regular cases without all this extra side stuff where everything has to be part of a bigger evil thing.

Too bad because I really enjoy the part where Yuu's at Buzz Topic News...Whenever he's there the show picks up and I find myself enjoying it and the colorful characters!

Yoshinori Masakado as Shosei Mitsumura

Ren Ishikawa as Satomi Shima

Ryusuke Komakine as Goro Inda

 They all seem so bright and carefree (I guess it’s supposed to juxtapose the father’s serious news program?) especially Ren Ishikawa as Satomi Shima who, even when covered up with a face mask, still looks drop dead gorgeous!

Guess I'll stick around and see where this show goes....

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Some Notes on Kizoku Tantei

Well, Kizoku Tantei is finally over…can’t say I was a really big fan of this drama... I didn’t like the set-up of the show where in every episode the Emi Takei character Takatoku Aika thinks she’s solved the case, only to be proved incorrect by the Noble Detective…It got to the point where I was like, gads, stop wasting time showing Aika working the case if you’re only going to humiliate her in the end!! Happily, there WERE a few things that made it worthwhile.

One thing I really liked about the show was the interaction between her and  (Namase Katsuhisa) as they cooperated with each other while investigating the crime scene. Their fun and teasing banter was what made me able to continue watching the show! In fact, I wish the show was ABOUT the two of them: the arrogant but clueless Detective Hana and the smart and efficient girl detective Aika showing him how it’s done…coulda been like a modern day Japanese Nancy Drew!

And Emi! How I love this girl, and though most of the time show was dressed in an unassuming style, every now and again there would be a reason (like her having to attend a high class dinner) for her to literally let her hair down and show how freaking pretty she was!

Speaking of pretty, it’s been awhile since I saw adorable Miki Honoka (whom you may recall I last gushed about in 2013 in Itazura No Kiss and back in 2011 for her cute turn as little sister Kanako in the drama Clone Baby),  and I’m happy to report that in her appearance  in Kizoku Tantei, Ms. Honoka is looking as precious as ever!

She still looks as wide-eyed and innocent as she once did, and she’s still showing off her trademark teacup ears! So delicate and feminine!!

Only confusing thing: She’s now going by the name of Honoka Yanagi?? Eh, when did this happen? Oh well, she’ll always be Miki Honoka to me. Hmmm, Been awhile since Itazura No Kiss…isn’t it time to see her in another starring vehicle?

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