Team Batista 2 Review

Title: Team Batista 2

AKA: The Triumphant return of General Rouge

Genre: Medical, Mystery

Episodes: 12 + SP

Broadcast period: 2010 Apr to 2010 Jun

Cast: Ito Atasushi, Nakamura Toru, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Kato Ai and Matsuaka Tori

Six months after the Batista incident, Taguchi Kohei (Ito Atasushi) is still working in the Special Complaint Department. When a former patient of his gets admitted to the Emergency Room he is called upon and meets the famous ‘General Rouge’ Hayami Koichi (Nishijima Hidetoshi) a man famous for accepting all patients and never letting anyone rest. At the same time he stumbles upon Shiratori Keisuke (Nakamura Toru) who is back to do a compulsory audit on the hospital, and becomes fairly interested in Hayami whom he seems to have a former relationship with. When some doubtful documents pop up, Shiratori makes Taguchi join the Emergency Room team as the ‘Mental Care’ doctor, meaning dealing with the mental states of the patients, but also helping them overcome their emotions. With Taguchi there it gives Shiratori the ability to check up on Hayami, and to find out what really is going on…

Again the great thing about dramas is that you can get to know the characters and their situations better than in a movie, and that is what I think makes the biggest difference between the movie and drama. Though the movie was great the drama sort of is much more detailed and much more heartfelt - kind of lets you like the characters more, even though they are not all that great. The duo has grown even more on me - like Sherlock and Watson - they have these comic moments and usually work extremely well together, yet they are complete opposites. And honestly I like season 2 a bit better than season 1 :)

But you can watch season 2 without having watched season 1, though season 1 is great watch too..

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts

Team Batista no Eiko Review

Title: Team Batista no Eiko

AKA: The Glorious Team Batista / The Glory of Team Batista

Genre: Medical, Mystery

Episodes: 11

Broadcast period: Oct-2008 to Dec-2008

Cast: Ito Atsushi, Nakamura Toru, Shirota Yuu and Tsuyoshi Ihara.

This drama is based on the movie with the same name, but the cast is completely changed and most of the story is altered.

“When a sudden streak of patient’s death has occurred with cause unknown, the question is: where they just unfortunate accidents? Or was it malpractice? Or was it a serial killing?” (Intro)

Taguchi Kohei (Ito Atsushi) is a doctor working in the “Special Complaints Outpatient Clinic” at Tokyo Hospital, where he basically listens to patients complains about their medical case or their treatment, but sometimes he gets serious cases where he works as a counselor. One day he is called up by the director who asks him to investigate the numerous deaths occur to the team Batista - a team the handle a special kind of heart surgery. The team is annoyed and mostly against Taguchi’s involvement, but they reluctantly agree.

At the same time a man is admitted to the hospital, Shiratori Keisuke (Nakamura Toru) who is acting a bit weird, and for some reason believes the death are murders and wants to help Taguchi solve it…

Okay, so I thought that the movie with the same name was the first stepping stone to this franchise, which I found out it was not! It basically is a drama based on the movie, with some few changes like the ‘killer’ and who he might be, which surprisingly I thought made more sense than the movie. Also it focused more on the real life situation compared to the movie with the entire board being involved and everything. But honestly the most surprising part was that Taguchi is a man! LOL… Or in the drama at least.

Anyways, if you haven’t watched the movie, you can still without any problem watch the drama!

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts