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This series ~takes its time to build up tension. High drama doesn't kick in until the last 2 EPS!

It's based on a real life incident.

Going by filmarks, a 2-part special "Youth arc" was on TV first. Then 6-EPS in "Kyoto" was on U-Next.

Unlike Tiger and Dragon, this films extremely big, stagey acting with an amazingly fluid camera. Asakusa Kid shows the two distinct styles are better off meeting in the middle, or the discordant clash is like 2 ships passing in the night.

Her debut in Osaka Story was a big deal.

Can anyone beat his version of the Evangelion song?

Toto-chan used to be the icon for unconventional, out of the box thinking. Neurodivergence, as a catch-all term, has unfortunately been astroturfed in tandem with an outrageous injection schedule for K-12 since the 90s (US context.)

Tabloids are made up bs. To demand serious consequences for serious issues, we need serious investigative journalism full of verifiable details. Innuendos and speculations presented as facts are not enough. From following the works and available footage, the reality may be the opposite IMO. Oguri is career/business first, above all.

Go Ayano is apparently obsessed with this marathon. Surprised he didn't try to get a role.

Shocking end to that biography. Going her husband's dysautonomia, his nervous system was damaged by the spike protein in the C19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) whether by infection or injection.

If you betray your friend or romantic partner, do you now owe me (a stranger online and in the public) something? If you were famous, would the dynamic change? Physical and financial injuries have legal protection between you and a stranger in dispute. Hirosue's dispute is injuries to interpersonal relationships that don't involve us. If you must call it a moral injury, have you reached out to console her husband and children? If not, it's posturing online to feel a sense of moral superiority over her.

Her noodle arms choking him on the tatami like a wrestling match is funny though. Director Taguchi is a goof from some comedic relief he plays. The beatdown he got in the bathhouse is what he should've gotten in Saikou no Rikon, for that it's satisfying (other than the obvious for Mr Exhibitionist.)

This is an "yutori romance", much like Yutori Desu ga Nani ka (We're Millennials 2016.) The glaring difference is the gay stereotypes are very dated by 2026, while Yutori sticks to which parts of tradition still endured for the younger generation.

Kankuro Kudo completely cannibalized Higashino in his own style of "all the feels" dramedy. Unbelievable yet expected.

Yoshioka is probably the nation's favorite son (nephew) from the Torasan movie franchise. It's why he gets cast in "zeitgeist" roles that need some emotional weight of the subject.

The editing feels influenced by MTV, when they still had VJ talking back and forth with "on location" crews.

A grand masterpiece, right? It doesn't get better than this. Perfect fusion of tradition and contemporary. So good I wish the masters of Japanese comedy that have passed on could see it.

The France of Asia!

He grew up near Mt Fuji, no wonder nothing seems to faze him:D Very believable as a guy with 80s values in Extremely Inappropriate.

Nagase and Terajima gave birth to the 3 most photogenic kids ever, really? :DD