Yuki Kashiwagi: "Tagarin" drama, episode's ten and eleven 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:

https://tv.rakuten.co.jp/content/28065/

 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.

 The first ten episodes were all 4 1/2 minutes in length, this final show was close to thirteen which shouldn't make for a longer recap. At the conclusion of the previous show it finally appears Ejima and her team have cracked the case of Mai Nakanishi's death who was a 17 year old student at an elite high school. In the first episode she threw herself off her school's roof but the lingering question was why, had she been driven to suicide by watching the 'cursed video'?
 Ejima thought so as she also watched the DVD, odd things have been happening to her since that viewing but nothing serious has happened. To start these two shows off she forced her two teammates to watch the video with her for clues which they were unable to find or at least one that was obvious at first. At the conclusion of the previous episode Ejima's supervisor Otagawa had discovered on a phone a picture Mai lying in bed with her teacher Okada. Mai had sent that pic to her best friend Ami who had also thrown herself off the school roof but survived.
 In that above bottom screenshot we see the teacher Okada who had arrived at a meeting with the police, also on hand was his finacee Mochizuki. She had given the police an alibi for Okada as she said the pair were at the train station at the time of Mai's death. That was a total lie as no cameras had shown he was at the station but on the other hand no person had seen Okada push Mai off the roof.

 Okada was the murderer of Mai according to Ejima but he didn't do the act physically. Due to some odd investigating she eventually found out there was a strange sound on the 'cursed video', the entire crowd at the lab listened to it but only a few could hear it. That's because it was a very low level noise less than 17 kHz and it was something I had never heard of. Ejima stated that the sound could only be heard by people younger than 25 and it was such a horrific sound it drove the listener to do anything to get it out of their head. Just prior to Mai's death she had watched the DVD, the low level sound was too much for her to take which is why she threw herself off the roof. That's the same thing that happened to her friend Mai and the key was both were obviously less than 25 in age.
 But that wasn't so with detective Otagawa as he was 28 but had an odd condition which made him hear it, from that Ejima got the main clue to accuse Okada. The teacher was finally trapped into a corner and he admitted that yes, he did insert the low level sound onto the DVD. He tried using the excuse that Mai was going to expose their affair which would ruin him but that's still no reason for murder. That low level sound phenomena is an actual scientific term called Mosquitone and you learn something new every day. That brought us to the end off this very short series but as the show was concluding Ejima had received a call to work on another under the radar case but that was never another series.

 All in all did like this show which moved along quickly though the method of killing made you slightly scratch your head. Do prefer shorter dramas though wish the episodes were a tad longer, say ten minutes or so. But do enjoy Yuki dramas as I've watched her in four of them where she's had the lead but has only appeared in one the last five years, this aired in 2013. Up next for recaps will be the 2019 drama "Janus no Kagami" and am working on keeping those recaps brief too. May have left a few minor details out but these screenshots should help you follow the story better.