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Sunday, January 19, 2020

Yuki Kashiwagi: "Tagarin" drama, episode's four to six recap


 Air Dates: April 13 to June 22, 2013 on Fuji-TV, eleven episodes that only ran for a total of 56 minutes. Link to the Rakuten site which has them on video though not subbed:

 Main Cast:

Yuki Kashiwagi as Ejima Chihiro.... new traffic cop at the North Kaizuka police department and has been assigned to investigate cases the chief doesn't want to make public

Yu Sawabe as Minoru Otagawa.... Detective and Ejima's bumbling immediate superior who works on the case with her. Keya fans should know him from co-hosting the 'Keyakitte' show

Kinako Kobayashi as Maki Kadomatsu... traffic cop who is Ejima's Senpai

Ikkei Watanabe as Hiromi Kuribayashi.... inept assistant professor

 Few others in the cast but very difficult to find out info as there's no Wiki page plus the Fuji site has been taken down.






 I tend to be a bit lazy in writing recaps up even though I do like doing them. Should have written up all four in a row which would have taken two hours tops but instead wrote up one a day, better late than never. As mentioned in the first post these shows are only 4 1/2 minutes long so these recaps are so much shorter than regular ones but least it was an enjoyable show and much did happen as there was no time for filler.

 That first recap ended off with Ejima(Yuki) watching the 'cursed video' to help her solve the death of the 17 year old student Mai Nakanishi. To Ejima's dismay her immediate supervisor Otagawa didn't view it though he said he did, was he perhaps a bit too frightened? That was never answered but to me it'd be a definite yes. Though nothing life threatening Ejima has been encountering many odd happenings that is leading her to believe the curse is there but not 'fully activated' yet. The hot water didn't work in her shower and when it did it ended up scalding her. Plus she had an incident where her high heel snapped off causing her to crash into a bookcase, from the top of it came tumbling down a glass canister which barely missed Ejima.
 The small team led by Otagawa has learned there was one other student who watched the 'cursed video' but it can't be too cursed as she's still alive. That girl was another student at the Kaiei girls high school and had the name of Risa. She had found the DVD in a desk at school, watching it has left the girl in shambles as she doesn't want to leave her room. Ejima and her team couldn't watch the video as Risa had snapped it in two so they didn't know if both DVD's were the same.
 But it's time for this investigation to begin moving forward and according to the rookie Ejima the best way is to interview any person at the school who may have known Mai. They talked to her closest friends but got nowhere but that's mainly because of Otagawa. There was a girl named Ami who kept trying to contact him with some vital info but things kept preventing him from seeing her. However Ejima was able to track down two of Mai's teachers, Okada and Mochizuki, but they had alibis for each other as at the time of Mai's 10:10 pm death both were around the local station.





 The pair are in the top screenshot and to the surprise of the police they announced they were engaged, of course they would vouch for each other but for now aren't suspects. No real spoiler but the pair will make a return to the show near the end and play a key part in how Mai died. One other vital part of information was learned from interviewing the staff is that there was a meeting of all the students less than an hour before Mai's death. The principal had found a few empty cans of beer in the kitchen and had the girls been the ones who consumed it?
 The answer was no but Ejima began wondering if it was just a trick to get Mai and the other students out of their dormitory so the criminal could set up certain things. Things that may have led to Mai's death, Ejima didn't know what the person may have done but she's on the right track. But the curse is still all she thinks about and it's getting close to seven days since she viewed the video, is her time on Earth about to end? To find out if there are such things as curses Ejima and her two mates visited a local college to ask an expert on the matter.
 That professor wasn't there but his mentor was who went by the name of Kuribayashi and that's him right above. This guy is anything but a genius and the girls are wondering if they made a mistake in asking for his help. Of course they did but before they could talk to him further these three episodes of 13 1/2 minutes hit it's conclusion. Not much to add in for now but following this post are the last two recaps for this very mini series.


























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