Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato De

The after Dinner Mysteries

Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de, is one of the Dramas I was peer-pressured to watch. EVERY single person I met they said I should watch it, not to mention the nice high watching rate it received in Japan because, ehm, well obviously it has an Arashi member acting in it! It was a fun watch, but unfortunately I was bummed with the ending...

The head of detectives

This Narcissistic detective thinks he is the best mystery-solver in Japan, while in fact he is not the smartest person and comes up with the silliest reasoning of the crime's evidences & witnesses. Sigh. I Think he was in this drama just to add that spice of foolishness. He has a female colleague who ends up doing most of his work, then our Stud-detective comes at the end and says he already knew who was the criminal!

Reiko as Ojou-Sama & Detective Ojou

I was happy to know that one of my favorite female actresses as the main role. My very 1st time to see Kitagawa Keiko was in 2 movies, Hana no Ato (After the flowers) and in Paradise Kiss. In Nazotoki, Keiko is the female detective named Reiko Hosho, who is also the daughter of a well-known family. I think it is a little funny that her real name "Keiko" rhymes with character's name "Reiko".

Reiko has this funny moments when she is split between being a normal working woman, and the daughter of a well-known family. Due to her affluent background, she tend to not notice the simplest details of being a middle-class person. I think of Reiko as a detective by luck, although she works hard in collective evidences, but she is not smart enough to finish solving the whole mystery. So, who does all the work?!

Sakurai Sho, Our detective Conan!

Meet Kageyama! he is Reiko's personal butler and the one solving all the mysteries behind the scenes. From his first appearance I hoped for this smarty-pants butler to have a suspesious side to him, and the drama succeeded in presenting him in a couple of suspicious moments where I went "YES! Finally a twist in the story" but soon, everything falls back to normal. *sigh*

Not-so-Lovey-Dovey

The moments between Reiko and her Butler are undeniably funny! and they were my best moments of the whole show. You might sense a bit of Lovey-Doviness, but it was a very childish one.
It seems that I am bashing the whole Drama, well, that is because I had very high expectations and ended up all bummed with it's annoyingly Straigh-lined Story, where the female dectivtive is stuck solving some mystery and her Butler offers his help after his Ojou-sama declares her defeat and beg him for the solutions.
I really wanted Kageyama to be a criminal in one of the episodes....

One good thing about this Drama is the amazingly-looking dinners cooked by Kageyama, which made me wish for having a Butler *o*

The Goodness~