Maou
Gosh, I just finished watching this amazing drama. My eyes are all red an puffy from crying so much.
It's not a new drama...I think it's from 2009? It's been on my to-watch-list for a while but my prejudice regarding talents from Johnny's Entertainment has prevented it.
"Maou" is about a lawyer, Naruse Ryo, that has been described as "an angelic lawyer who protects the weak", and the hot-headed detective Serizawa Naoto with a dark past. He caused the death of a classmate in middle school, that classmate was Manaka Hideo, a young boy who was standing up for a friend that Naoto and his friends were bullying.
Naoto got away with it and was deemed innocent by a court of law since it was proved that Naoto had acted in self-defense. Eleven years later Naoto is reminded of his past when a mysterious letter arrives, containing a tarot card, "Judgement". The time had come to atone for his sins.
While watching the first episode I was rolling my eyes at some of the content, like some manga/anime-like takes and cliché dialogue, but there was one scene that completely caught my interest and had me eating my prejudice from then on. Naruse had decided to defend the man that had killed the Serizawa family's lawyer and he walks into the room where the police was going to let the man reenact the crime. Naoto is struggling with the sign of "victim" that he has to wear for the camera and Naruse walks in and sees it, and he looks subtly amused at the irony - and I don't know. It was something about that scene that captivated me.
The actors can cry as well. I usually dread Japanese dramas when I know that there'll be a crying-scene. The first drama that I saw that had convincing crying-scenes was Tumbling. And I was surprised. This surprised me even more.
This drama might be the best I've seen, ever. It didn't try hard to be good, it didn't oversell itself like "Orthros no Inu" - that one seemed to have a promising plot but it just went overboard with everything, it tried too hard to make the audience get emotionally invested.
Now I have to strengthen myself. Mom wants to see it as well so I'm going to watch it for a second and a half time (I got to episode 7 when I convinced my brother to see it and then I watched it from the beginning with him and finished it today.)
I'll need tissues.
It's not a new drama...I think it's from 2009? It's been on my to-watch-list for a while but my prejudice regarding talents from Johnny's Entertainment has prevented it.
"Maou" is about a lawyer, Naruse Ryo, that has been described as "an angelic lawyer who protects the weak", and the hot-headed detective Serizawa Naoto with a dark past. He caused the death of a classmate in middle school, that classmate was Manaka Hideo, a young boy who was standing up for a friend that Naoto and his friends were bullying.
Naoto got away with it and was deemed innocent by a court of law since it was proved that Naoto had acted in self-defense. Eleven years later Naoto is reminded of his past when a mysterious letter arrives, containing a tarot card, "Judgement". The time had come to atone for his sins.
While watching the first episode I was rolling my eyes at some of the content, like some manga/anime-like takes and cliché dialogue, but there was one scene that completely caught my interest and had me eating my prejudice from then on. Naruse had decided to defend the man that had killed the Serizawa family's lawyer and he walks into the room where the police was going to let the man reenact the crime. Naoto is struggling with the sign of "victim" that he has to wear for the camera and Naruse walks in and sees it, and he looks subtly amused at the irony - and I don't know. It was something about that scene that captivated me.
The actors can cry as well. I usually dread Japanese dramas when I know that there'll be a crying-scene. The first drama that I saw that had convincing crying-scenes was Tumbling. And I was surprised. This surprised me even more.
This drama might be the best I've seen, ever. It didn't try hard to be good, it didn't oversell itself like "Orthros no Inu" - that one seemed to have a promising plot but it just went overboard with everything, it tried too hard to make the audience get emotionally invested.
Now I have to strengthen myself. Mom wants to see it as well so I'm going to watch it for a second and a half time (I got to episode 7 when I convinced my brother to see it and then I watched it from the beginning with him and finished it today.)
I'll need tissues.