Start Date: October 10, 2015 Director: Toya Sato Rating: 7.5%
Main Cast:
Yui Aragaki as Kyoko Okitegami
Masaki Okada as Yakusuke Kakushidate
Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Horo Kizunai
Arioka Daiki as Nuru Narikawa
Rio Uchida as Makuru Makuma
Had originally planned on reviewing episode four of "Siren" tonight, subs though for the 5th episode just came out so will put those two together. This drama started out fine but think "Siren" has passed it easily, this series has dropped a bit as far as quality goes. Viewers may be agreeing with me as the ratings for the show have come tumbling down.
No episode, including this one, has been bad but a few of them have turned out to be uninteresting watches, not enough mystery in the stories. Like I just said no episode has been bad but this latest one was the worst to date, kind of boring and lacked any real suspense.
Yakusuke may have had the biggest part in this episode, the character is okay but when he gets the most screen time that means Kyoko doesn't get as much so that could be a big reason why some of these shows aren't as good. This time around Yakusuke has left a job at a bookstore to work as a handyman at a girls school, more on the bookstore later. One day while cleaning up a trail of water in a hallway he notices a strange odor coming from a utility room. Investigating he finds a student passed out on the floor of the room, the result of some gas coming out of a few canisters.
After the door closed the room was sealed, whoever had done this set it up so no one could escape. Yakusuke tried every way he could think of to get the door or a window open but it was to no avail. The gas coming out of the canisters was CO2, any minute now he too would pass out and possibly die. However he was able to set a fire detector off saving his life and that of the girl whose name was Masaka.
Yakusuke wasn't hurt too bad, he was discharged from the hospital quite quickly but Masaka remained there still passed out. Most everyone.... the students, staff and police.... thought that it was a suicide attempt, there was even a letter found at the scene written by Masaka. When Yakusuke presented the case to Kyoko she was unsure about it being a possible suicide, murder came to her mind.
Doing some investigating at the school Kyoko found out that Masaka was quite a loner. Not a loner because she was bullied or disliked, just because she thought she was different and preferred books to anything else. For the most part Kyoko dismissed the murder theory as it appears no other student disliked Masaka enough to do any harm to her. So this led back to the original thought which was that she tried to commit suicide, now Kyoko tries to find out why.
Kyoko eventually found out the reasons in a far fetched solution and one that really was so uninteresting, yawn. Prior to working at the school Yakusuke had a job at a small bookstore, one which Masaka visited often. One day he was checking her books out at the register and from that Masaka seemed to think that Yakusuke remembered who she was. Her tastes in books was quite wide and sometimes a bit strange, thinking that he might tell someone at school what she read led Masaka to the brink of despair.
It was a suicide attempt at the school but she had also planned to murder Yakusuke at the same time! She knew he would follow the trail of water into the room which was sealed, she had it set up for the CO2 to kill both of them. That plan would have worked if it wasn't for the fast thinking of Yakusuke, unfortunately it was such a huge mistake on Masaka's part as Yakusuke had no recollection of her from the bookstore. Both the attempted suicide and murder should have never happened, if not for Kyoko no one would have known the true details of what happened. Actually it may only be Yakusuke who knows the truth as it doesn't appear as though Kyoko will be telling the school or police what really happened.
That really sums up what took place in this episode, more than anything it was a bit boring which to me is the worst kind of view. The previous cases Kyoko had to solve were always at least bit interesting but not this time around, still enough time for this series to get back on track but they had better start with the next episode.
The 7th show aired tonight and will be back within the week with a recap for that episode, let's keep our fingers crossed that it'll be a better watch but don't think that'll be hard to do. As usual took too many screenshots which you can check out in the next post plus a few other Gakky thoughts.
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