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Awesome, lighthearted, comedic drama with great acting!
Watched on Irozuku Subs website, Hakozume is one of my favourite jdramas of all time.I've probably rewatched this 3 times even though it was released in 2021. Yes, that’s how awesome the acting, dialogue and lighthearted it is for a quick rewatch!
Featuring Toda Erika and Mei Nagano, the story is told through the voice of Mei, as she illustrates her life of a newbie police officer in her letters to her dad. Here, we see her struggles with handling the tasks as an officer in a police box.
Overarching the entire plot, is the premise to finding the "Devil Angel', a culprit in one of Erika's past cases. Along the way, we see Mei's speciality in drawing police sketches, and this becomes an important part to finding the final culprit too.
The drama has hilarious dialogue, slice of life lines from Mei, great chemistry between the 5 main cast, and my favourite episode has to be ep 7, it was just too funny and amazing!
10/10 for Cast
9/10 for Plot
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Thrilling psychological drama, with awesome acting!
A drama with really good acting by Issey Takahashi and Haruka Ayase, to the point where I started reading their Asian Wiki profiles to find more of their dramas!
Loved the music, great acting and plot!
While the plot features the switching of souls between a police detective and suspect, a troupe used before, it is the good acting of both leads, which brings out the intensities of their emotions, subtilties of expressions. The viewer goes on a ride with both leads, experiencing Haruka's frustration to catch the suspect while facing suspicions (she's now in Issey's body) and Issey's desperation and desire to thwart the police efforts
The overarching mystery itself however, was not much to shout about (I remember feeling disappointed at the eventual conclusion, as it felt heavily rushed and a damper to the end of the drama).... but the psychological play and tension held between both leads was fantastic
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Japanese dramas enjoy linking matters of the heart/relationships to the moon and red thread, and the use of the Moon as symbolic story point is awesome here. How it was used was unconventional, and it was nice it took the leads a while to find out how it affected their soul exchange!
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Life and Lies, a light hearted drama with some intriguing cases!
Chanced upon this drama recently on Irozuku Subs and decided to watch it. It has an interesting premise on having a FL who can hear lies, assisting a detective. Its lighthearted, quirky with good dialogue, and encourages the viewer to reflect upon themselves as well ! :")If you're into hardcore mystery with difficult to solve tricks or twists, this drama is not for you. Rather, the drama showcases the human and life aspects, told through FL, Kanoko, and her struggles to navigate between the types of lies told by people. Like other japanese dramas, some dialogue makes you ponder about life, on the "whys" and what ifs" and the importance of seemingly small things in life. If you like this, you'll be sure to enjoy the drama like I did
Kanoko journeys along with Souma, and together, solve mysteries. They learn how to handle human relations, understand the complexities behind the telling of a lie, and balance whether it is truly good or bad to tell a lie.
Set in the Showa Era, the drama set is big budget, and certainly displays the allure of the architecture then.
I especially loved episodes 4 and 5, the dollhouse case was both intriguing, devastating and gave the creeps. Overall, the show features great acting, sentimental dialogue of their struggles and has a good OST which helps viewers to ping out when Kanoko hears a lie
Watch if you'll enjoy a different sort of light hearted, slice of life mystery drama!
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Great drama, with cases solved by science
Was introduced to this drama by a friend, who suggested it to me when I said "any good mystery jdramas?"I've rewatched this drama twice. The first time I watched it, I remember the cases giving me the creeps, and finding it mind-blowing with how its solved through physics/science. Love the moments when Detective Galileo does his signature hand move and writes out the equations frantically too haha. The moment of epiphany, and how the drama builds to show the various hints, amazing OST used. What draws it apart from other japanese mystery dramas, is how it is solved through science!
The drama has probably high production costs, since the experiments were supervised by experts, with the 1st case's revealation the largest scale of all. Definitely a must watch, if you enjoy mystery x science x good acting!
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