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| New JDramas This Season |
| Written by Mei | |||
| Sat, Feb 21 2009, 08:32PM | |||
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Well, even though it is already pretty much half way into the drama season, I do not believe it is too late yet to talk about the few JDramas I've been following. I am going to start with the one I like the most: Kiina - Impossible Crime Investigator (キイナ - 不可能犯罪捜査官)  I forgot to save screenshots, so I'll add some when the next ep is aired =D But basically, it's, as the title/tagline suggests, a crime investigation drama. Kiina, the name of the drama is also the name of the main character. She basically has photographic memory and because of her strangeness, she herself belongs to a separated "unit" in her police department. The drama kicked off when a rookie joined and was forced into her "special unit" to deal with strange cases when all he wanted to do was be in the regular unit out catching baddies. It is sorta like...Female Galileo minus the physics stuff plus photographic memory. It is quite entertaining. Not exactly the best detective story but it's good nonetheless. Next up.... Kami no Shizuku (神の雫)   Let's just say, I was not the only one who started watching this drama because of Kame; and with the viewership of the lastest ep being 4.9 (Kiina had 14.2) which was over 50% drop from the first ep, I was not the only one who didn't like it.The story goes that, Kame plays Shizuku - the son of the legendary wine critic, who died and left 2 billion yen worth of wine collection, who never drank wine because of his father's betrayal. Yet, his dead father decided for Shizuku to compete for the inheritance with his adopted son, who was also a wine critic. The rules were that, the dead dude wrote down hints to 7 wines and whoever guesses it right the most number of times gets the treasure.
Doesn't that sound so...boring already? I gave it the benefit of a doubt, and started watching it, aside from all the weird wine names the show keeps throwing at us, the half craze some of the characters go into over wine made me go "..." (I would show you a screenshot of what I mean but...I forgot to take one ^^; )  Now, I'm not even watching it for the plot anymore, I just....want to know the ending because when I start a show it would bug me to no end until I've seen the ending =P Lastly, Q.E.D. 証明終了 
Basically, 2 high school kids, the girl: energetic blah blah. the boy: a genius kid who graduated from MIT at age 15, blah blah who decided to come and attend a regular high school in Japan, blah blah. I know, so realistic. Mhm.  For a "detective" drama, it really is not much of one. But....at least it is relatively entertaining. At least it didn't make me go "..." the way Kami no Shizuku did =P Not to mention, I found the story from ep 6 to be cute =P However, I can't exactly say the acting is the best I've seem. The acting of both main characters leaves some to be desired.
Ah, one other complaint I had was that....I wish they found someone with better english to play the role of the MIT graduate boy....>.>; Ok, that is all for my brief ranting of what new JDrama I've come across this season. I have been following 2 TW Drama as well so I'll try to squeeze in a note or two about those 2 later on. |
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