#bishoku tantei

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Series: Bishoku Tantei Akechi Gorou Artist: Higashimura Akiko Publication: Cocohana (01/2017) Details: Cocohana Calendar 2017 (November) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

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BISHOKU TANTEI AKECHI GORO 美食探偵 明智五郎 (2020) — dir. Sugawara Shintaro

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BISHOKU TANTEI AKECHI GORO 美食探偵 明智五郎 (2020) — dir. Sugawara Shintaro

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Koshiba Fuka being a riot disguising as a pretty boy. 😂

Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi (Ep 6)

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Bishoku Tantei Akechi Goro (美食探偵 明智五郎) Whump List

Synopsis: Goro Akechi is a private detective and his office is located near Omotesando in Tokyo. He is a big fan of gourmet food and he makes sure to eat delicious meals three times a day.

One day a housewife visits Akechi’s private detective office. She suspects that her husband is having an affair and asks for Akechi's help. The case seems straightforward at first, but, as it later turned out, it'll bring its fair share of trials and tribulations yet.

Genre: Cop/Crime, Food, Thriller, Mystery, Comedy

Whumpee: Akechi Goro played by Nakamura Tomoya

Note: Check out Nakamura Tomoya in Coffee Ikaga Deshou as well.

!!Spoilers Below!!

Warning!! TW for suicide in eps. 1, 4, 8 and 9, body dismemberment in ep. 4 (and it takes up a good portion of the episode too), stalking and bulimia in ep. 7

Ep. 01: manhandled (comical), drugged, fell, losing consciousness, found unconscious, helped to walk, fails to prevent someone from commiting suicide

Ep. 02: angry, teary-eyed

Ep. 03: picking through fragments of broken glass with bare hands, cuts on his hand

Ep. 04: his friend/assistant is kidnapped, fingers slammed by the door, handcuffed (just for show), hand bandaged by someone, feeling guilty, hallucinating(?)

Ep. 05: isolating himself and being depressed, at knifepoint, locked up in a room

Ep. 06: someone attempted to poison him, knocked out, kidnapped, hands tied behind a pole, someone starts fire while he's still tied up, concern for him, coughing from smoke, passed out(?), saved, helped to walk, passed out again

Ep. 07: none

Ep. 08: worried about someone, jumps after someone from a high place (doesn't actually die)

Ep. 09: at gunpoint briefly, worried about someone, believes his friend is dead, crying

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Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi Review

(SPOILER WARNING AHEAD)

First of all, easily one of the best Japanese detective dramas i've ever watched! The storyline was so well written and the development that all of the characters went through especially Goro & Ichigo. Which speaking of them they are so cute and I'm a bit gutted we didn't confirm if they did end up together by the end following Ichigo's confession and in the final episode it was very easy to tell that Goro cared way more about Ichigo then he did Maria.

Maria was such a well written villian too and I think following the ending it could have easily helped build up for a Season 2 where she didn't actually die. You end up feeling sorry for her 3 acomplices by the end of it also, as in my opinon they were very easily manipulated by Maria.

I would highly recomend taking the time to watch this, although I do wish there were a few things a bit more tied up at the end just to fully finish it all off. Many praise for all the actors too as their acting really helped convey the correct emotions that the characters were going through along the 9 episodes.

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Bishoku Tantei Akechi Goro Vol.10

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Bishoku Tantei Akechi Gorou[美食探偵 明智五郎]: "Gourmet Food Detective Akechi Gorou"

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jdrama 2020 spring

For those who haven't been paying much attention to what's happening for Japanese TV, and more as a record for my future self who may want to look at the disaster that was 2020, the spring season had meant to be the pre-Olympic season. Given that the Olympics would attract the attention of most Japanese audiences, the TV channels had invested most of their hopes (and budget) in this season. Much awaited sequels for Hanzawa Naoki, Haken no Hinkaku, the Japanese remake of Suits, and BG were to lead the season, while star-studded casts filled out the rest with Ryuu no Michi, Unsung Cinderella, MIU404 and Miman Keisatsu. Almost every A-lister was on the roll. But, like many things in the last 3 months, that was not to be, even as Japan admirably took reins of its earlier explosion and kept the local outbreak under control. None of the above listed shows except Suits managed to screen, while smaller scaled shows managed to scrape past the quarantine and make their way to the networks. Bishoku Tantei ~ Akechi Goro | Official site Stars: Nakamura Tomoya, Koike Eiko The premise of this is one of those silly things that can only arise from a manga. A private detective goes around solving cases that are related to food, and in the first case he accidentally creates his arch nemesis, a beautiful woman who connects with her psychopathic inner self and finds a second career as an assassin for hire. She enjoys killing people, so why not, she reasons, do it while helping others who want to kill people but don't know how to go about it. I only recently watched Legal High, and it was only then I realised that not so many years ago, Koike Eiko went by sexiness rather than good acting. It's remarkable how much she's come from that, especially if you watch her act in Toma's recent Watashi no hanashi ga nagai. This series brings her back to the femme fatale or murderous vixen trope, which she clearly enjoys. Unfortunately, there's not much else to enjoy about the series. Nakamura is far less interesting here than he was in Nagi no Oitoma. What might have worked as a manga with its dramatic grandstands and aggressive flirtations come across as awkward and difficult to believe when transplanted to real life. There is also not much "life" in this series...the story exists in its own bubble of reality, and the world around it seems empty and soulless - again a set up that works with manga but feels poorly fleshed out in live action. Silent Voice 2 | Official site Stars: Kuriyama Chiaki I have a fond spot for Kuriyama, who has always been one of the more versatile actresses of her age. The first season was enjoyable - Tateoka Ema might come across at first glance to be a wallpaper, but she has a special skill of extracting information from suspects by their subconscious reactions and gestures. It's as if the American Lie to Me was crossed with Amami Yuki's KinTori, Kuriyama manages to dominate the camera by the way she controls the flow of the investigation or reacts to the information presented. Almost all of the scenes take place inside the interrogation room (one reason why this season managed to screen without glitch), but still remain gripping for 40 minutes each time. Tateoka's side kick has changed from Shirasu Jin to Baba Toru, as the former has joined a cooking show set in a fictional town of European characters played by Japanese actors...so, let's not start. Byouin wo Naoshikata | Official site Stars: Koizumi Kotaro, Takashima Masanobu I had no idea what to expect when I went in, and I was pleasantly surprised. Apparently based on some true events, the story is about the revival of a small district hospital by a brave hospital director who brings in a number of radical reforms. It sounded mind-numbingly boring, but turned out to be a remarkably pleasant watch. It's nice to see Koizumi go back to playing his type (instead of his recent roles as the mastermind villain) as a smiling, unflappable, optimistic yet realistic and big-hearted gentleman. In fact, Arihara is so perfect it's hard to believe someone like him exists in real life, yet it is also very hard to dislike him. One amazing scene was when he, as the new vice director, gets confronted by the entire frontline staff over his decision to pare down and standardise medical supplies, and one of the senior nurses challenge him with, "What if we make a mistake because we're not used to the equipment?" He smiles graciously and says without a hint of irony, "Let's avoid that from happening; after all, we're all professionals." In the hands of anyone else, it's hard to avoid making that line sound patronising or passive aggressive, but there's something about Koizumi's manner that makes you believe it's heartfelt. I'm not sure how the Japanese health system works, and it seems quite different to what we're used to. The impression I get (and feel free to correct me if you're familiar with the system) is that there are numerous small privately owned hospitals, which has the right to refuse to accept or refuse to treat certain emergency patients. As one recent newspaper article alluded to, during the height of the Covid outbreak, one ambulance circled the streets of Tokyo for hours before finally a hospital agreed to accept the patient. Beyond that though, I'm getting to the stage of life (or career?) where management is interesting, if only on a theoretical level. Good doctors do not often make good medical administrators, and doctors also classically respond poorly to being managed, but whatever health system you work in, hospitals are a money-draining exercise, and sometimes these result from considerable wastage and inefficiency. It doesn't quite have the drama or stakes of Ikeido Jun's underdog series, and that's to its benefit. It's smaller scale and as a result much more intimate and relatable, as though this story might take place on your neighbourhood.

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Koike Eiko as Mary Magdalene in Bishoku Tantei Akechi Goro (Gourmet Detective Akechi Goro)

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BISHOKU TANTEI AKECHI GORO 美食探偵 明智五郎 (2020) — dir. Sugawara Shintaro

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Koike Eiko as Maria Magdalena / Mary BISHOKU TANTEI AKECHI GORO 美食探偵 明智五郎 (2020) — dir. Sugawara Shintaro

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Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi Drama (2020) & Manga (2015)

A gourmet food connoisseur and private detective whose life change for better or worse after meeting two women, a chef running her own food business and a housewife with a dark secret.

Koshiba Fuka stars in another amazing manga adaptation, a year after her previous one in Tokusatsu Gagaga (2019). This time with the cool headed Tomoya Nakamura and the mysterious Koike Eiko.

Like Tokusatsu Gagaga (2019), this too deserves a second season!

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Coffee Ikaga Deshou (珈琲いかがでしょう) Whump List

Synopsis: Hajime Aoyama runs a mobile coffee shop Tako Coffee. Riding in his coffee truck, he goes from street to street. Along the way, he comforts those with wounded hearts and minds. Hajime Aoyama appears carefree, but he has a secret.

Genre: Life, Drama

Whumpee: Aoyama Hajime played by Nakamura Tomoya

Note: You think this is going to be just a relaxing series about making some coffee and helping people? Wrong! This show is such a wild ride for sure, and you have no idea where it's gonna take you...

Check out Nakamura Tomoya in Bishoku Tantei Akechi Goro as well.

!!Spoilers Below!!

Warning!! Attempted rape of a minor in ep. 2 (but nobody got hurt thank god)

Ep. 01: none

Ep. 02: startled, saving someone, grabbed by the front of the shirt

Ep. 03: hiding scared when he sees his stalker, fell asleep after having a drink(potentially a lie, but I'm gonna count it anyway), (flashback: in a fight, saving someone)

Ep. 04: hiding scared, (flashback: bloody, kneeling, slapped, kicked, punched repeatedly(not shown), barely conscious), found by his stalker

Ep. 05: his past is talked about, (flashback: beating someone repeatedly in a trance-like state), grabbed by the tie, hair grabbed, knife at his throat, forced to injure someone,

Ep. 06: (flashback: beating someone repeatedly), (flashback: punched, hair grabbed, unconscious), (flashback: headache, teary-eyed)

Ep. 07: (overall lots of creepy possessive touching across the entire episode), hands tied behind back, kidnapped, grabbed by the tie, blindfolded, (flashback: saving someone, punched), coffee beans forcefully poured down his throat, punched, spitting blood, (flashback: cut off his own fingers(off-screen) and sent them to someone), his friends are threatened and used as a way to torture him psychologically, drink thrown in his face

Ep. 08: (flashback: in pain, teary-eyed), teary-eyed

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Bishoku Tantei Akechi Goro Vol.9