Xianming Lin is a crossdressing hitman working to pay off a large debt while Zenji Banba is a private detective with a secret identity. Two men who should be on opposite sides, instead through a twist of fate end up working together alongside a number of other colorful characters from Hakata‘s criminal underworld.
A mixed-genre series with a large amount of comic relief, some action and drama, and a re-occurring baseball subtheme.
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I dislike when people nitpick shows, and am about to do just that. At around 16:25 in episode 2, it’s nighttime, the room lights are on, the blinds are up, and crossdressing, “experienced” professional hitman, Lin Xianming, is sitting calmly, eating, with his back to the plate glass window. . . . So it looks like they might be shooting for, “so bad it’s good”, in the context of human trafficking. It would be great if they could pull this off, but they’re setting the bar pretty high. . . . And the good news is, I think they’re gonna… Read more »
Episode 9 is cooking with gas!
Whenever I accidentally glimpse Nancy Pelosi or Orca Winfrey in a video, I silently ask them, “In a lifeboat situation, how long before you blind your neighbor and turn cannibal?”.
“Civilization” is an easily struck set.
Wow. That hit the spot!
Despite never quite warming to Banba’s middle-aged-woman talk-show-audience sweater or his hairstyle, and seriously considering dropping the series at one point, Banba’s character design stopped mattering.
This series is full-on entertaining, and I’m definitely gonna rewatch it sooner rather than later.
On minimal reflection, make that never. How I feel right after having finished watching a series indicates how much I enjoyed it. However, what matters to me is NOT enjoyment, but whether or not the series presented a novel idea or a new way of perceiving existence. It’s possible that some series may have presented ideas which were so far above my head that I failed to notice them, but that’s unlikely here. This series is like Indian and Chinese craftsmanship (certain nephrite carvings excepted): geared to instant entertainment and not, like traditional Japanese craftsmanship, to rewarding prolonged, even eternal… Read more »