AKA: Massage Detective Joe
Genre: Suspense, Comedy
Episodes: 12
Broadcast
period: 2017-Apr to
2017-Jul
Theme song: Otsukare Sankusu by Nakamaru Yuichi
Cast: Nakamaru
Yuichi, Koshiba Fuka, Baisho Mitsuko, Wada Masato and Ozawa Yukiyoshi.
“Until now, there have been countless kinds of
detective. A primary school detective with the brain of an adult, a high school
detective with a famous grandfather, a really interesting scientist, furthermore,
housemaids, antiquarians, people with memory loss or music mania, a lawyer who
uses even a 0.1% chance. No good concept for a detective has been left out. But,
against all common sense, now a new type of detective was born.” (Intro of
episodes)
Yabukihara Joe (Nakamaru Yuichi) is shy and has a
fear of human eye-contact, but he is an amazing masseur. He works in a small
clinic, with three other masseurs and their boss. After being pulled in to a
case, while doing a massage, he starts helping the police solve crimes, by
massage the suspects. Due to his talent, he is able to notice small movements
in muscles - whether they are tense or not - but also hurts, pain and even
heartbeats. As he helps solve cases, there is a sudden interest in him, by
unknown people - and they seem to have to do something with his fathers disappearance
as well…
Considering the fact that I stumbled upon this drama,
and that I had no idea this was out there, I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
This drama is another typical half comedy half serious Japanese drama, which I had
no problem finishing - actually did it in one evening! Though I gotta
emphasize, it isn’t a serious drama. It has moments, but the idea of the drama
is to make you laugh, and entertain, which it does.
Nakamaru is fun and I love seeing him act, also the
rest of the cast made it very interesting. The overall interaction and screenplay
was very decent, even though the massaging sounds were a bit too much…
Okay! All in all, a nice drama that entertained me,
and was not a waste of time at all!
☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars
♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts
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