Miura Haruma、 Toda Erika and Takei Emi excel in good serious roles 〜this is a heavy drama but with wonderful gleams of brightness to light the way and stay with you〜 it may be hard for some to follow and some may find it sentimental rather than uplifting but it is worth sticking to it。
I think the English word is smutty but it is fun and very brave to include the gay theme in 2008 when even then I think Japan was more backward in accepting gay relationships.
on this I revise my view：do not look for real sci-fi ーany sci-fi element here disappears pretty quickly (except at the end) and it is really a slow but fun and homely drama with nice characters that also touches on some serious life issues as it goes on。 if you do not mind slow kind of youth drama and Japanese quirky provincial humor it is worth sticking with 9/10
the remote format is interesting but if you watch you will know they could not stick completely to this to explain the story 〜did not really work for me trying to follow talk between six people on screen although it became quite scary in second half but the ending was as I suspected but ？ what happened to Toru〜I go with average score on this 7/10
the first 「Hana Yori Dango」 I did not like〜as for this after some episodes looking beyond the nasty peasant hunting theme and developing more sympathy for the characters I like it much better
seriously weird show and becomes more so as it goes on but it did fasinate me〜first half seems serious rational mystery thriller but second half is completely weird ’supernatural’ with twists and turns and endings I am not sure if intended to be serious and chilling supernatural or comical 〜really becoming comical for me！it did keep me waiting to see what happens next almost hypnotically 〜good if you like this sort of drama and can tolerate the strange mix I would not completely dismiss it as ridiculous though it verges on it
just finishedー it was a long and winding road but very worth following〜 classic FANTASTIC MELODRAMA： the ending made me cry tears of happiness 〜‧⁺◟( ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ ·̫ ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀ )
no the opposite. It says " who loses her father" so the profiler is the woman and the criminal is hae jin
thanks for explanation so murderer = criminal psychologist = male [X] and criminal profiler = female [Y] meets X in prison ? and X and Y just happened to be lovers before and both happen to study criminal psychology [because to me criminal profiler and criminal psychologist are similar if not identical] and they happen to meet in prison because of another case happening in the prison really this story stretches belief
this was an unexpected sci-fi fantasy follow up to Discipline but I liked the colorful 〜in more senses than one〜 characters and it felt good to be with them in imagination. on the downside the plot was unoriginal、 production values cheap and the ending was weakーdifficult to grade but for me 10/10 for characters, otherwise 7/10〜
this is a lovely thoughtful film yes fantasy and typical episodes in Japanese school life but not in my opinion slow and drawn out but thoughtful and sensitively done [what others see as slow no doubt] and Nakagawa well suits the central role〜 so if you like this kind of film ignore the grumps here and you may find something to enjoy
so murderer = criminal psychologist = male [X] and criminal profiler = female [Y] meets X in prison ?
and X and Y just happened to be lovers before and both happen to study criminal psychology [because to me criminal profiler and criminal psychologist are similar if not identical]
and they happen to meet in prison because of another case happening in the prison
really this story stretches belief