Genre: Detective, Comedy
Episodes: 11
Broadcast period: 2012-Apr to 2012-Jun
Theme song: Your Eyes by Arashi
Cast: Aiba Masaki, Fujiki Naohito, Okura
Tadayoshi, Oomasa Aya and Matsuko Deluxe.
Katayama Yoshitaro (Aiba Masaki) is a
detective really unsuitable for the job: he is afraid of heights, blood and
women. He loves doing housework, is incredibly naïve, believing everyone, and
is very gentle and too nice. Being forced to be a detective by his older
brother Katayama Hiroshi (Fujiki Naohito) and younger sister Katayama Harumi
(Oomasa Aya), due to the family’s percept “One family, one detective” meaning
that there is every generation has to be one detective. Hiroshi dreams and
strives to become a novelist, and Harumi is working part-time jobs dreaming of
becoming an actress. The two basically don’t let Yoshitaro quit his job so the
two can do whatever they want, even when Yoshitaro takes a resignation letter
to his boss, the siblings make sure to go to his workplace and take back the
letter.
After his 4th failed
resignation, he and his fellow co-worker detective Ishizu (Okura Tadayoshi) are
assigned to go to a girl’s school, where Yoshitaro sees a cat. He is warned
about the cat having a reputation of scratching and biting people so no one
wants it, but when he approaches the cat, nothing happens. The cat is
introduced as Holmes, and when he takes it home he is surprised to see the cat
transform into a human form (Matsuko Deluxe), but only in front of him/in his
eyes. When a murder happens in the same school Holmes helps Yoshitaro, and
slowly Yoshitaro becomes better and better at his job.
This is a very family oriented drama,
which focuses on making the audience guess who the killer is. Presenting the
evidence do that everyone understands, and having a family discuss the issues
makes the audience get involved and helping them guess the methods and reasons.
The cats as ‘Holmes’ gives it a humorous side to it, and having the lead actor
not being interested in being a detective makes it funnier than usual police
dramas. This drama suits Aiba the most, and fits his personality almost
perfectly.
I did enjoy this mainly because it’s not
as annoying as the typical dramas, and it’s very light, meaning a great break
from all other dramas. A good Japanese drama.
☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5
stars
♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts
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