Mutsu: Mieru Me (2015)

The show is still airing but at 7 episodes Mutsu keeps you entertained The premise is rather a well known one, a person with a special talent of sorts helps out the police. However despite the rather dull summary this drama delivers so much more. There are no funny/flat side characters here to keep you entertained, everyone is an actual person with their own feelings and motives. It is not episodic nor does the story start to drag after 7 episodes. The mystery slowly unfolds and each ep we are given new clues and new insights. Overall it feels very real and human, a far cry from what Japan can sometimes produce in their medical or detective dramas. Don't get me wrong, I can easily love those but this one delivers something completely different. It is not a medical drama in the sense that it shows you operations and follows patients like in Iryu or Jin, nor is it a complete detective drama where there's a constant focus on only one case. It somehow manages to blend the best of both of these genres and produce a very engaging and human drama with enough suspense to keep you watching.

Recommended for those who love: an overarching plotline, slow mystery, subtle humor, 'human' dramas
Not recommended: if you're looking for something episodic, something light, focus on medical drama or procedural police drama

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This show is so much more intense and thrilling than any review, synopsis, or comment that I have read. I wanted to watch because of Hidetoshi Nishijima and a few others in the cast, but I also wanted to see why people continued to say it wasn't such a good show... To be honest, from my point of view, I think they're wrong. Though they are entitled to their own opinions and I hope I don't offend or make anyone mad!

This show is completely something else! I've never seen or read anything like it. The story is very unique and honestly open to the reality of the dark world of medicine, "mad scientists", and is full of the reality of heartbreak and mental issues. I've never seen any show, from Japan or elsewhere, so open and genuinely real with mental illness of any kind. That is without it being full of drugs, sex, explosions, and whatnot... I know I'm repeating myself but this show is one of the most real, genuine, and honest shows that deal with the reality of medicine and mental illnesses.

I really hope that more people give this show a chance! It is a hidden gem that is so fantastic to watch with the hopes of understanding mental and physical illnesses and the world of hidden medicines. I did not expect the ending at all!!

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