rosa_elefante | Drama Season - Fall 2011 (Reply)

There's A LOT of things I'm interested to. But few I can't wait to see.
Anyway, I won't be able to follow everything like this summer, because I have lessons and exams T_T

Nazotoki wa DINNER no Ato de

Date: From 9.00 p.m., Tuesdays, October 2011
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Sakurai Sho, Kitagawa Keiko, Shiina Kippei
Synopsis: Kageyama (Sakurai Sho) is the butler and chauffeur of Hosho Reiko (Kitagawa Keiko), the only daughter of the chairman of the famous Hosho Group. Hiding her true identity as a well-off girl, Reiko works as a rookie detective at a police precinct. Every time she faces a case that is difficult to crack, she would tell Kageyama the details of the case while sharing a lavish dinner at her mansion. Kageyama would typically cut into her wild deductions with caustic words just barely short of an insult like “Excuse me, my lady … … Are you blind?” He would easily solve the riddle over dinner, and quickly reach the truth of the case.
Reasons: I don't like Sho as an actor, but I like Keiko Kitagawa a lot (she's one of my favorite), and, most important, the story seems GOOD. And the trailer is awesome XD Can't wait to see this

Watashi ga KekkonDekinai Riyuu

Date: From 9.00 p.m., Mondays, October 2011
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Karina, Yoshitaka Yuriko, Oshima Yuko, Tanaka Kei, Kurashina Kana, Nakao Akiyoshi, Kagami Seira, Nakamura Ryu, Katsumura Masanobu, Hagiwara Masato, Inamori Izumi
Synopsis: Fujii Megumi (Karina) works in an events lighting company in an all-male environment. Comfortable with being treated like a guy, she does not have the slightest interest in fashion and tries to be brave in front of men. She wants to have a true love, but cannot forget Hasegawa Yu (Tanaka Kei), the “boyfriend” she had once dated for 3 days who is also her colleague at work. Megumi’s high school junior, Ogura Saki (Yoshitaka Yuriko), has failed in her job hunt and works part time at a cabaret club behind her parents back. The proud, strong-minded Saki is very popular with men and has no lack of boyfriends, but has never known true love. Then, one day, she has a casual encounter with Megumi’s company president, the married Shiraishi Takumi (Hagiwara Masato), and experiences her first love. Hanzawa Mako (Oshima Yuko), Megumi and Saki’s high school junior, is earnest and level-headed, but timid when it comes to love. Although she is always going around in circles, she has experienced true love unlike the other two. She now has a serious crush on Kizaki Toshiya (Nakamura Ryu), a senior at the company she works in. These women who cannot fall in love, start living together through a strange turn of events …
Reasons: I love this kind of things, these stories about women and their problems. Also, I like a loth both Karina and Yoshitaka Yuriko, they're always good. Don't know the other girl, though (I only know she's an AKB member XD)

Hunter ~ Sono Onnatachi, Shoukinkasegi

Date: From 10.00 p.m., Tuesdays, 11 October 2011
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Yonekura Ryoko, Kiritani Mirei, Horiuchi Keiko, Toda Keiko, Tanihara Shosuke, Koizumi Kotaro, Yamaguchi Sayaka, Kawashima Ririka, Hara Mikie, Saito Megumi, Saeki Daichi, Emoto Akira
Synopsis: On a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei (Yonekura Ryoko) arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s International Terminal, and receives a reward of 1 million yen. However, she is half-forced to resign from her job as a cabin attendant because of this roundup. Furthermore, her younger sister, Akane (Yamaguchi Sayaka), has made her a guarantor and disappeared, leaving her 10-year-old daughter, Haru (Kawashima Ririka) behind. Rei starts to live with a reluctant Haru at ‘Shunkato’, the small eating house that Akane has been running. There is a firsthand account of Akane meeting a ‘Shunkato’ customer on the day she went missing. Rei brings the photograph of the man whom Akane met to Tsukishima Police Precinct, and learns that there is a 1 million yen bounty because he is a wanted criminal. The lack of motivation of the attending detective, Gondo Takeshi (Tanihara Shosuke) of the precinct’s Community Safety Division, spurs her to decide that she has to arrest this criminal who has some sort of connection to her sister. And so, Rei becomes a bounty hunter together with the ladies who gather at ‘Shunkato’.
Reasons: I'm already in love with it XD The story seems interesting, and there's Mirei. So, it will be perfect XD

Sengyoshufu Tantei ~ Watashi wa Shadow

Date: From 10.00 p.m., Fridays, 21 October 2011
Station: TBS
Cast: Fukada Kyoko, Fujiki Naohito, Kiritani Kenta, Furuta Arata, Ashina Sei, Endo Kenichi, Ishida Yuriko, Kohinata Fumiyo
Synopsis: Asagi Serina (Fukada Kyoko) is a housewife who loves her husband, Takefumi (Fujiki Naohito), to the extent that she would not mind being his shadow. However, his response to her excessive devotion is to attempt to avoid her “burdensome”, “gross” expression of love. Because Takefumi’s heart is not with her, every day is a day from hell … … With a wife’s naivety, she refuses to suspect her husband of infidelity, and initially gets frustrated. One day, with the help of her good friend, Motoko (Ashina Sei), Serina goes out for a meal with the men at the publishing company where Motoko works. The moment a man in the group makes a move on her, it is captured on film by the sleuth, Jinnai Haruki (Kiritani Kenta). Not wanting her husband to see the photograph, Serina starts working at Jinnai’s detective agency as an assistant. This ordinary, bumbling housewife grows stronger and improves her self-confidence through the skills she hones. Serina wants to support and help her husband instead of flaunting her new self to him because he is having a hard time. Aware of the problem that happened to her husband because of her over positivity, she sets about trying to solve it.
Reasons: I have to admit that I haven't watched many detective dramas, though I like the genre O_O Anyway, the synopsis seems quite interesting (and good cast too)

Nankyoku Tairiku ~ Kami no Ryouiki ni Idonda Otoko to Inu no Monogatari

Date: From 9.00 p.m., Sundays, 16 October 2011
Station: TBS
Cast: Kimura Takuya, Sakai Masato, Yamamoto Yusuke, Yoshizawa Hisashi, Okada Yoshinori, Shiga Kotaro, Kawamura Yosuke, Dronz Ishimoto, Terajima Susumu, Ogata Naoto, Shibata Kyohei, Kagawa Teruyuki, Ayase Haruka, Nakama Yukie, Ashida Mana, Watase Tsunehiko, Kimura Tae, Sato Ryuta
Synopsis: In a national project to rebuild the country’s self-confidence, Japan’s first Antarctic winter party set off from Japan on an antacrtic exploration aboard the observation ship ‘Soya’ in 1956. Kuramochi Takeshi (Kimura Takuya), an assistant professor of geophysics at Tokyo University, was the second in command in the party and in charge of geological observation and the dog sled of 19 Sakhalin Huskies. Shouldering the dreams of their fellow countrymen, the party and their dogs braved temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celcius and blizzards with speeds of 100 metres per second in the place they were told to be inaccessible, and built the Showa base. While this took a toll on the dogs, they made it through the winter. However, the party was forced to leave 15 of the Sakhalin Huskies behind in Antarctica. A year later, Kuramochi returned to the South Pole and was reunited with the dog siblings ‘Taro’ and ‘Jiro’ that had miraculously survived the harsh climate …
Reasons: this drama is based on a well known story, right? It's not my genre, but I'll try it because it has caught my attention XD Also, the cast is very very good. Lot of good actors and actresses. Plus, it would be my first drama with the National Idol, Kimura Takuya: I'm pretty curious XD

Youkai Ningen Bemu

Date: From 9.00 p.m., Saturdays, 22 October 2011
Station: NTV
Cast: Kamenashi Kazuya, Anne, Suzuki Fuku, Kitamura Kazuki
Synopsis: Bem (Kamenashi Kazuya), Bella (Anne) and Bello (Suzuki Fuku) are ugly monsters that are neither human nor animals, but they are peace-loving, righteous heroes who feel compelled to help humans in trouble. Because they are monsters, they are feared and detested by humans, and on top of that, pursued by the police. However, a friendship develops between them and a detective (Kitamura Kazuki) by mere accident. Through their contact with humans, Bem, Bella and Bello’s earnest wish to become human grow increasingly stronger. They battle evil for the sake of mankind, in the belief that they will be able to become humans one day …
Reasons: since I liked Kaibutsu-kun... I decided to try this one too, hoping that it will be as good as the other one XD Though I really don't know what I should expect from it, haha O_o