Taishi Miwa

She is the definition of late bloomer.

the reason of Sawada's absence is because he had a bad breakup with Yankumi's actress near the end of the first series. This also ruin the initial roadmap of faithfully adapting the manga, into making a remake.

Also it's a shame that Rina's arc with the Yakuza just ended like that, Kotetsu being the mole and just killed like that is kinda meh.

Mainly due to his actor is 66 y.o ,when he is around 53-54 in the cannon. That's 13 years difference with Izumi's actress and around 20+ years difference in cannon. His look is too old to be on his early-mid 50s by Japanese standard lol.

There is a running joke among viewers that all of the child actors/actress are A-lister consciously living their second life. All of them act like they have 10+ years on their resume, casting director did a really good job.

Teppei and Reo is canonically not *that* similar LMAO.

It would be a shocking twist if they changed Teppei into someone different in that footage (Matsuzaka Tori , Bando Ryota, or anyone from lion no kakurega/mikami sensei/neighboring set for example).

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Update:
Just rewatch it after someone spotted that Teppei in that footage is not Kamiki lol. But i think it would be better if the real teppei is someone who drastically different. Welp my bad.

Ever since writing Kamen Rider Build (a banger btw), Muto Shogo seems struggling to write a decent script for the normal 10 episode format.

more/less 1.5 hours after commercial, but still it's basically worth 2 episode.

Jeez we didn't get the 8.5 episode 😭

Obviously they set up the sequel, hopefully they went full SPEC when that happen (also my man Koby needs more screen time).

The KR version is finally in works, the popular beleive is that one specific MF ruin the whole roadmap.

Just discovered that the drama is a financial failure (or at least break even) despite having a really successful run in this TVer/OTT era. That's why the rumor shifted into 2/3 part movie.

Nogi-sensei is definitely trolling us with Sawada lol.

If the Makoto theory is true, he is way too old for a 53 y.o.

Damn, next week is last episode...

Watching it without subs.

I watch it without sub.

The final 3 episodes is really "fun bad" but please do not let Muto Shogo write Detective drama ever again.

The hallucination scene there is no effect whatsoever, but probably director-san thinks that it is more realistic.

There is a slim chance that Shin will survive, it's already 1965 and we don't see Shin in the very first scene of the drama (only Rina and Makoto).

Hopefully we got the 8.5 episode where Makino wears that stupid suit lol.

Episode 8 is my favorite so far! the choir scene legit makes me cry. Ema-chan's acting is really good in that episode.