NazoDi, Kaseifu, HUNTER #6

Ratings (Kanto) :
FTV Tues 9pm || NazoDi #6 [14.9%]
NTV Wed 10pm || Kaseifu #6 [23.4%]
FTV Tues 10pm || HUNTER #6 [10.2%]

My Ratings : NazoDi 4/5 || Kaseifu 4/5 || Hunter 3/5

A Jun-centric episode for Hunter... Not a fan of the character or the actress (-_-")... decent episode, I guess. Am I the only person who's a bit annoyed by the way Yonekura-san got wide-eyed erm.. at some scenes? Does she do this for her other characters? It's becoming like a generic expression of hers (in this dorama) when she's angry, annoyed or surprised... or combination of any of these three... it looks unnatural sometimes...

Next episode seems to revolve around my favourite pair... <3

And Kaseifu~ Grgghhh.. Yui was so, so, so annoying in the first half of the episode! I thought: "WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH HER???" Just like previous episodes, since this character have a bit of temporarily(?) personality change, the actress' acting style seem to change a bit... (or maybe it's only me nit-picking on things :D) .. maybe she couldn't bring herself to like the changes her character (therefore can't understand her character well?) went through which made her act not so natural.. It was restrained at times, like she's trying too hard... And GAH. *goes back to the character* Yui tried to kill herself (& then she chickened out after she ordered Mita to kill her (-_-"))! I got mad at this point, thinking that she's taking her family problems too far.. like a first-world problem kind of thing? What the heck? Fortunately, Mita made her realised this... like having a home and family that loves her.. Seeing the ending scene about bedsheets made me think, maybe... maybe the character change was becauseYui blamed herself for not appreciating the things her mother do for her... especially when she somewhat could have prevented her death if only she listened more to her mother's worries...

Yui finally wants to forgive her father... as long as father shows that they are important to him. A chance! A chance to return to his children and live as a family again. BUT.. that scene in the end could ruin this chance... ex-girlfriend called father again. She seems to be at the top of a building... maybe she already knew that her new boyfriend was only toying with her..thus wants to kill herself??? EHHH?

Another decent episode for NazoDi... though I'm loving every Kazamatsuri moments in this episode :D Episode 4 indeed has improved a bit of my impression of him... & I saw cats! Black and white cats! Kageyama dotting on a cat! lol... OH! and Kazamatsuri getting stomachache because he ate cat's food :P... The murder case was pretty worthless.. I mean.. the murderer was stupid to think the victim is a threat to his family (he really thought highly of himself, huh)... actually the victim wasn't even thinking about him anymore...

Oh yeah... it seems the director for this episode is more to the comedy side?? :P



p/s: Aragaki Yui is the heroine of Ohno's New Year Dorama SP!!!!! I'm happy not because I like seeing her act, but because finally, Ohno has someone famous playing as the female lead in his dorama (though it's only tanpatsu)... Wasn't she the VIP guest on Himitsu who liked Ohno's  pretty venous arms (*edit* not muscular... I remembered wrongly, that was Kanjiya Shihori.. I think~) ??? lol lucky her! she gets to stare at them again/more during filming~ :P
Got a better gist of the story... I'm hopeful (for what, I don't know :P)~ Somewhat I think Aragaki will learn much from seeing Ohno's acting.. *biased fan here XD*

p/s2: Garo : Makai Senki 最高！Kouga x Kaoru 最高！:D So obviously I've already re-watched and watched anything new before the new series... lol.. I love how the world in Garo is being expanded to include new characters like Makai Priests and other kinds of Makai Knights... & also new kinds of Horrors..  Hmmm... I'm kind of suspicious of Leo-kun who works with Kouga...

NazoDi, Kaseifu, HUNTER #5

Ratings (Kanto) :
FTV Tues 9pm || NazoDi #5 [15.9%]
NTV Wed 10pm || Kaseifu #5 [22.5%]
FTV Tues 10pm || HUNTER #5 [12.4%]

My Ratings : NazoDi 3.8/5 || Kaseifu 4/5 || Hunter 3.8/5

Kaseifu got me a bit teary again in the end :)

It's Kakeru's episode this time! I like him the most from the beginning actually... but I don't like seeing him went through all that in this episode.. Sigh. I guess having father leave home triggered this "rebellious" phase in him. I kept going "No, no! You don't start going after/doing bad things like this! It won't go away!" ...& my idealistic (or positive?) side even said "You just hang in there! It's going to be okay!" lol Oh well.. Mita erm... saved the day again. Don't know why I feel like she had became more human in this episode... I cried at the part where Mita finished spraying annoying neighbour's wall. Oh, Kakeru... <3 

Another thing I realised from this episode... forgiving or begging for forgiveness can be hard, but it is always a good option :) Father finally realised the extra-marital relationship he had meant nothing. Was it love? Maybe he really felt it was love on his side... But can't say the same for the girl. After seeing the reality himself, maybe he was thinking something like "to leave your family for something as shallow as this was really stupid" when he saw the girl's new boyfriend. 

& Yui... *shakes head/disapproving look* She IS NOT mature enough to take care of her family. Being too consumed by anger of what her father did made her blind to her siblings longing for their father. She was acting irresponsibly... (though actually we can see this from the beginning when she doesn't really care what food to serve them :P).. which makes her unfit to take on the role of a parent. Yes, the father didn't act so much like a father should be but he's still an adult. We can expect him to at least fulfill his duty as a guardian to his children.

I really want the family to get back together again...with father finally knowing how to be a good father to them. I think the kneeling scene was a good start for father.. I don't think it's a coincidence that Kakeru ended up kneeling to his basketball team members in the end asking for forgiveness :P. All thanks to Mita~ If not for Mita, father wouldn't have had rushed home to handle the neighbour's complaint and kneel down to apologize for his son's misbehaviour... & they wouldn't have that ramen family moment...

Nosy neighbour is annoying... Somehow I suspect that she'll go (or is currently going) through a divorce which is why she acted so bitchy like that. But maybe... it's really her nature XD

Back to Yui.. I'm getting irritated by her character... and while I type out this Kaseifu review, I suddenly had thoughts that she might be pregnant in future episodes... *just a random thought really*.. and senior doesn't seem like someone who will take responsibilty.. (going to be like father and mother's story??? hmmm)

Mita has/had a son!

HUNTER's 5th episode was okay, I guess... I thought it was quite impossible for them to crack a 20 years old that even the police couldn't solve... but just by asking someone that police didn't believe long time ago, they were able to find the real culprit... Cases like these always have random(?) people you didn't expect to be the culprit... (I'm thinking of "Ryuusei no Kizuna" & "Triangle"// Random fact: Both Emoto Akira & Omi Toshinari were in "Ryuusei")... Kiritani (Jun-chan) was acting all cutesy again in this episode *slightly annoyed* --- I'm glad she wasn't the lead character. Once again, I felt Toda Keiko looked so different here... maybe it's the hair.
I like the chemisty between Rei and Gondo, they look like a good pair (it's because of their heights I think).. wonder if they have ever been paired in a dorama/movie before...

Pretty decent episode for NazoDi... Dunno why I'm getting some Trick vibe in the beginning lol... Speaking of Trick... maybe, just maybe, NazoDi could have a better watching experience if they involve Director Tsutumi Yukihiko in the team.. oh well.

Oh. The comic strip style is back. I'm guessing that it's a director-dependent thing & when I checked the wiki, I was kind of right. This episode was directed by the same person who did the first two episodes. Anyway.. it seems I've changed my impression on Kazamatsuri since previous episode haha.. I was surprised that he's doing his work properly in this episode (kind of) but maybe it's because the case involved the author of a popular manga he reads(?)... I love to see the manga-loving side of Kageyama hehe.. Was a bit annoyed by Kitagawa acting all cute lol.. it seems that I couldn't tolerate any cutesy acting this week (Kiritani in HUNTER included).. :D

Meikyuu guitar version BG music in the end... <333

I saw Bananaman's Himura in the preview for next episode..not sure if it's him (not fond of his acting in "My Girl").. but I look forward to next episode because it's directed by a different director..


p/s: I didn't know Garo has a new series!! lol And Takenaka Naoto was in the 1st episode as a Horror! Garo was something I randomly picked to watch on TV few years ago (same as Nodame Cantabile)... it was dark and unlike other heroes kind of TV shows (tokusatsu shows) I've seen on TV so I got sucked in watching pretty fast :P  *plans to re-watch everything from the beginning*