Ashita no Kita Yoshio: When you're strange, faces come out of the rain...
Ashita no Kita Yoshio
He's a pitiful debt-laden divorcee who plans to commit suicide in eleven days. He's also a crazed maniac with a gleeful violent streak and no real mental stability. Depends which personality you ask.
One of the most underrated drama of last year, Ashita no Kita Yoshio is quiet, slow paced, and full of CRAZYASS SHIT -- multiple personalities, suspicious murder, dubious psychology, insurance fraud, shady debts, people hiring hits on their unsuspecting friends. No one is what they seem and everyone has an ulterior motive.
It's one of those stories where everyone is connected and each relationship is more twisted than the last, and you have absolutely no idea where it's going.
I ate it up like candy.
Kita Yoshio is your typical middle-aged man, except for the doppelganger that appears when he's depressed and laughs in his face and says no one likes him and urges him to kill himself.
I think of it as a gay Gollum.
Once upon a time he was happily married, but eleven years later he's all alone and his ex-wife is still in therapy.
Their mutual PTSD is the first hint that something is wrong. I mean, they were joined in holy matrimony once, and now he's a depressed schizo and she needs a therapist.
Eventually you come to the conclusion that they're both just fucking nuts. "LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" "I'M GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE!!!" "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LET ME DIE??"
She's more collected at work, where Kaname Jun is god's gift to the male form her personal assistant.
No reason for this cap.
Mmmmmmmmmm. No reason.
Speaking of hot men, this is Heita.
Recognize him? He's only Matsuda Shota's older brother. I know! He probably shaved his head because he knew he couldn't compare to his little brother's luscious rippling locks.
Kita and Heita embark on a sad, hilarious kind of bromance where Heita tries to keep Kita from killing himself... because Heita wants his insurance money. Yeah.
This complicates Heita's relationship with his crazy girlfriend, who has no bones about death threats and fraud. It's fitting because I only knew Kuriyama Chiaki from Battle Royale, where she was also fond of sharp objects and no witnesses. Good to see an actress sticking with her niche.
This is Shinobu, a beautiful golddigger who worms herself in Kita's life at the scent of money...
...except she actually kinda falls for him.
For the squicked, don't worry, it doesn't actually go there. But I thought it was shame because they really could've worked! It certainly would've been the least shocking development. Compared to other stuff, their age gap was downright normal.
The face of an emotionally stable man.
Of course, you'd be fucked up too, if your friends followed you like this...
The big questions: Who's trying to kill who? Why is everyone getting ripped off by the insurance company? Who can you trust? What actually happened eleven years ago? Will Kita-san really commit suicide? Is it masturbation or narcissism if his split personality keeps suggestively touching his face?
And how did Kaname Jun get so goddamn pretty?
He's a pitiful debt-laden divorcee who plans to commit suicide in eleven days. He's also a crazed maniac with a gleeful violent streak and no real mental stability. Depends which personality you ask.
One of the most underrated drama of last year, Ashita no Kita Yoshio is quiet, slow paced, and full of CRAZYASS SHIT -- multiple personalities, suspicious murder, dubious psychology, insurance fraud, shady debts, people hiring hits on their unsuspecting friends. No one is what they seem and everyone has an ulterior motive.
It's one of those stories where everyone is connected and each relationship is more twisted than the last, and you have absolutely no idea where it's going.
I ate it up like candy.
Kita Yoshio is your typical middle-aged man, except for the doppelganger that appears when he's depressed and laughs in his face and says no one likes him and urges him to kill himself.
I think of it as a gay Gollum.
Once upon a time he was happily married, but eleven years later he's all alone and his ex-wife is still in therapy.
Their mutual PTSD is the first hint that something is wrong. I mean, they were joined in holy matrimony once, and now he's a depressed schizo and she needs a therapist.
Eventually you come to the conclusion that they're both just fucking nuts. "LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" "I'M GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE!!!" "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LET ME DIE??"
She's more collected at work, where Kaname Jun is god's gift to the male form her personal assistant.
No reason for this cap.
Mmmmmmmmmm. No reason.
Speaking of hot men, this is Heita.
Recognize him? He's only Matsuda Shota's older brother. I know! He probably shaved his head because he knew he couldn't compare to his little brother's luscious rippling locks.
Kita and Heita embark on a sad, hilarious kind of bromance where Heita tries to keep Kita from killing himself... because Heita wants his insurance money. Yeah.
This complicates Heita's relationship with his crazy girlfriend, who has no bones about death threats and fraud. It's fitting because I only knew Kuriyama Chiaki from Battle Royale, where she was also fond of sharp objects and no witnesses. Good to see an actress sticking with her niche.
This is Shinobu, a beautiful golddigger who worms herself in Kita's life at the scent of money...
...except she actually kinda falls for him.
For the squicked, don't worry, it doesn't actually go there. But I thought it was shame because they really could've worked! It certainly would've been the least shocking development. Compared to other stuff, their age gap was downright normal.
The face of an emotionally stable man.
Of course, you'd be fucked up too, if your friends followed you like this...
The big questions: Who's trying to kill who? Why is everyone getting ripped off by the insurance company? Who can you trust? What actually happened eleven years ago? Will Kita-san really commit suicide? Is it masturbation or narcissism if his split personality keeps suggestively touching his face?
And how did Kaname Jun get so goddamn pretty?