#tachibana wato

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-Tina Tran, Even If We Did Things Differently, I Still Would Have Chosen You

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@bestnoncannonship and I are continuing our Sherlock Holmes obsession..and we just finished the most underrated Sherlock adaptation, Miss Sherlock. It's a Japanese production set in modern day Tokyo with Sherlock, Watson and Moriarty all played by women. Yuko Takeuchi has fast become one of my favorite Sherlocks, next to the incredible Jeremy Brett. And one of my favorite things about her is she always seems to be eating something that looks delicious. There's seriously so much food in this show, it makes you hungry.

So we celebrated finishing the show by taking a late night trip to H Mart and making a Miss Sherlock inspired Japanese dinner. We had a very Sherlock Futaba approved chocolate roll cake for dessert but we made way too much food and were stuffed, so guess we'll have to eat it tonight! Anyway, if you haven't seen this show get on it! This fandom needs a revival and more love.

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[shinehalley]

I like to make connections between the universes that are on my radar at the moment and evaluate how similar or different certain characters are within their own contexts. It helps me not to focus on just one thing for too long and I like to see how much I can understand a character using other templates for comparison.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the narrative comparison between Wato and Wakamiya regarding the loss of their respective Sherlocks, especially considering that Wato would be the Watson whose Holmes never came back and how that affects her character as a whole.

Or how I can draw a comparison of melancholy between Wato and Mishima with both sharing the loss of someone loved through their own fault, but on opposite poles. Wato was used and manipulated to carry out the actions that caused her to lose Sherlock while Mishima used and manipulated others in furtherance of the actions that caused him to lose Ryuzaki. How can two people with such similar pains, but with such different developments relate? And considering that neither Sherlock nor Ryuzaki will return in the end, is the development prior to tragedy really worth anything other than haunting them? Would the dichotomy be even worse if Sherlock and Ryuzaki somehow ended up getting back from death?

Or how Joowon didn't technically lose anyone, Dongsik is alive and well as is possible for people who have gone through the trials they've faced, but somehow he still feels like he's lost the man. As if a Dongsik well would be the same as a dead Dongsik to him, because outside of the chaos of their partnership, Joowon feels that there is no room for him in Dongsik's life. That he shouldn't claim that space. Very close to how I imagine Mishima would feel if Ryuzaki ultimately survived. Or Wato, depending on how Sherlock managed to elude death. Or Wakamiya, stuck with the idea that he is replaceable for Shishio and unable to forgive him for being left behind again, for allowing himself to hope only to mean nothing.

I can also draw parallels to how no matter what happens, affection drives both Dongsik and Ryuzaki to find a way to make their respective partners understand that they don't have to claim anything, that whatever they want is theirs without the need for a request. That both Ryuzaki and Sherlock would be able to die as many times as necessary to save the ones they love. How Sherlock and Shishio share that basic feature of the Holmes-Watson relationship of always doing everything possible to keep their Watson safe, even if sometimes things don't go as well as planned.

I can stay here forever and add more relationships if you let me.

[lesbiansforlucio]

The Lesbian Johnlock show was actually way better than I thought it was gonna be cheers to these two

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some favorite watsons :*

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Miss Sherlock and Wato Tachibana by Maotorata-Hann

Artist: https://www.deviantart.com/maotorata-hann

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Some WLW (?) Jdrama & Kdrama recommendations!

Jdramas and Kdramas have a (not-entirely-unearned) reputation for being very straight, but here are a few which are either canonically F/F or which prominently feature a female-female pair-- please enjoy! For those who enjoy following series in real time, Chaser Game W and She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat S2 are both airing this January 2024 :)

As with my post on anime with yuri subtext, since subtext is so subjective, this list only includes series which I’ve actually watched, and so is by no means intended to be comprehensive. Also, it doesn't include any webseries, since those probably deserve a post of their own.

At-a-glance list:

Miss Sherlock (8 episodes, 2018) (subtext)

Night Light (20 episodes, 2016) (subtext)

Tokusatsu Gagaga (7 episodes, 2019) (subtext)

Painter of the Wind (20 episodes, 2008) (canon?)

She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat (10 15-minute episodes and counting, 2022~) (canon)

Sono Toki, Heart wa Nusumareta (5 episodes, 1992) (canon)

Chaser Game W (10? 30-minute episodes, 2024) (canon)

Doctor X (7 seasons and counting, 2012~) (subtext)

Bonus: SKY Castle (20 episodes, 2018) (subtext)

Summaries under the cut!

1. Miss Sherlock / ミス・シャーロック (8 episodes, 2018) (subtext) – MyDramaList | AsianWiki

The elevator pitch for this show is simple: it’s Sherlock Holmes, but where Holmes and Watson – here named “Sherlock” and Tachibana Wato, and played by Takeuchi Yuko and Kanjiya Shihori, respectively – are both female, and the cases are all set in modern Tokyo. As with other adaptations, mystery-solving and the budding relationship between the two leads takes centre stage, but Miss Sherlock manages to carve out an identity all its own.

There’s a calm beauty to its visuals, which favour sunlight and urban greenery, and the show’s focus on former doctor Wato as she tries out new jobs and goes to therapy means that there’s a surprisingly high number of slice-of-life scenes. It’s also subtly more female-focused than the source material; Sherlock’s gossipy but good-natured landlady Ms. Hatano (Ito Ran) is as much a member of the household as Sherlock and Wato, and the cases often revolve around female characters. But more than anything, it’s just really fun to watch Sherlock and Wato’s relationship bloom as they snip and snipe and are utterly unable to stay out of each other’s space (literally – the body language and blocking is *chef’s kiss*). Their relationship is the heart of the show – watch this one until the end, you won’t regret it!

(CW: psychological abuse, manipulation, and genre-typical murder, violence, and gore)

2. Night Light / 불야성 (20 episodes, 2016) (subtext) - MyDramaList | AsianWiki

(Note: spoilers for the mid-season twist, but it’s impossible to allude to a good portion of the F/F subtext without doing so, and I think knowing the twist ahead of time doesn’t make it any less enjoyable.)

Night Light is a rather odd show. It’s simple enough on the face of it, a story about  successful but ruthless CEO Seo Yi-kyung (an icy Lee Yo-won) who tries to mold the younger Lee Se-jin (a puppy-eyed Uee) in her own ambitious image, only for her protege to develop the conscience she never had and move to stop her dastardly plans… but upon watching it’s a totally different creature,  thanks to the alchemic reactions of some delightfully contradictory acting choices (Uee’s performance convinces viewers less of Se-jin’s supposed latent desire for power and money, and more of a deep love and devotion for the CEO) and the unintentionally (?) inneundo-laden script (“If I like something once, I never forget it– whether it’s a dress… or a person,” declares the CEO less than ten minutes into the first episode while gazing intently at Se-jin).

Honestly, it’s a wonder this series ever got made, but you certainly won’t see me complaining! The first part is full of boss/subordinate goodness; Se-jin is unable to resist the CEO’s magnetic pull despite her hot-and-cold behaviour, while the CEO cannot bring herself to push Se-jin away completely. And then, when Se-jin makes her mind up to stop the CEO, it morphs into a corporate take on a (subtextual) lovers-on-opposite-sides situation, where it is precisely Se-jin’s feelings for the CEO that motivate her to stop her. In short, it’s a workplace GL fan’s dream.

Note: If you do watch it, skip the corporate politicking cutscenes with the old men, you’ll thank me later. Also, there’s a prominent male character who is the CEO’s ex and who works closely with Se-jin in the second half, but don’t worry, all the M/F romance is in the past (and doesn’t get much screentime)– he and Se-jin aren’t interested in each other at all.

3. Tokusatsu Gagaga / トクサツガガガ (7 episodes, 2019) (subtext) - MyDramaList | AsianWiki

Nakamura Kano (Koshiba Fuka) lives and breathes tokusatsu shows (think Power Rangers, if you’re not familiar), but keeps it a secret from her work colleagues to avoid being shunned or laughed at. And yet she yearns for connection, so when she sees a woman on the subway bearing a keychain from her favourite show (Yoshida Hisami, played by Kurashina Kana), she is determined to find her again.

Although ostensibly about being a tokusatsu fan as an adult, this show is rife with queer subtext, and not in the usual way. It deals with the difficulties of staying in the closet (regarding being an adult tokusatsu fan), the desire to connect with other queer people adult tokusatsu fans and how one might do so through hints and signals, parental disapproval arising from gendered and social expectations (that tokusatsu shows are for boys, and magical girl shows for girls), intersectionality and finding comradeship with other minorities people who are excluded due to their interests, and even generational gaps wherein younger queers fans may underestimate the obstacles that still exist. Although all that might sound a bit stressful, it isn’t actually! Difficult incidents are handled with sympathy and a dash of wry humour, and the show never loses sight of the fact that it – above all else – is a story about finding queer community in the face of a heteronormative hostile world, told with warmth and the nuance of lived experience.

4. Painter of the Wind / 바람의 화원 (20 episodes, 2008) (canon?) - MyDramaList | AsianWiki

Adapting the novel of the same name by Lee Jung-myung, Painter of the Wind takes as its protagonist a gender-bent version of real-life Joseon-era painter Shin Yun-bok (Moon Geun-young), whose paintings are used to weave a tale of artistry, political intrigue, and romance, and more than anything else to offer modern-day viewers a glimpse of everyday life in 18th-century Korea.

While it may sound like Dickinson’s boring cousin, apart from having a common preoccupation with reframing historical works, another similarity the two shows share is that Painter of the Wind is also very gay. Starting from the first episode, Yun-bok meets and becomes fascinated by the courtesan Jung-hyang (Moon Chae-won), who despite her initial aloofness is drawn to Yun-bok’s intellect and sensitive demeanour. It’s a real meeting of the minds, their witty repartee in early episodes reminiscent of Twelfth Night’s Viola and Olivia, and their relationship isn’t siloed off from the main plot either: Yun-bok’s infatuation quickly starts causing issues with her academic career, and the two eventually have to contend with Jung-hyang’s precarious position as a courtesan as well.

Unfortunately, all this is undermined in the back half of the show, which tries to gaslight viewers into thinking that Yun-bok’s feelings for Jung-hyang were purely platonic all along and that she totally has romantic feelings for her much older male mentor— but hey, at least it’s an open ending. Despite everything, though, I can’t think of another serious historical TV show which features such a prominent F/F narrative for its main character, even nearly two decades later. (Let me know if you have any others! And no, Gentleman Jack doesn’t count, it’s not exactly traditional in style!)

(CW: period-typical sexism)

5. She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat / 作りたい女と食べたい女 (10 15-minute episodes and counting, 2022~) (canon) - MyDramaList

Based on Yuzaki Sakaomi’s manga of the same name, this simple but sweet show follows home-cooking extraordinaire Nomoto Yuki (Higa Manami), who yearns to cook large-scale dishes but doesn’t eat enough to justify making them. Luckily for her, her neighbour Kasuga Totoko (Nishino Emi) has a massive appetite!

It’s always lovely to see more grounded stories about working women, especially when they’re as cute as this one. Though it touches upon some slightly more serious issues, such as with regard to gendered expectations surrounding food and cooking, it’s primarily a feel-good slice-of-life show about two women getting to know each other by cooking and eating delicious food together.

Side note: if you’ve started it and think the show doesn’t look cosy enough, stick it out for a few more episodes, the production values improve after the first part! Also, the series was renewed for a second season with double the episode count (for a total of 20 episodes) which will start airing on January 29th this year, so this is the perfect time to jump in!

6. Sono Toki, Heart wa Nusumareta / その時、ハートは盗まれた (5 episodes, 1992) (canon) - MyDramaList

Sono Heart, as it’s nicknamed, starts off as a typical heteronormative high school romance: bumbling protagonist Shiina Hiroko (Isshiki Sae) is desperate to get closer to her crush Katase Masato (Kimura Takuya), star of the school basketball team and all-round nice dude. However, a spanner in the works comes slouching along in the form of female classmate Aso Saki (Uchida Yuki, in her debut role), a mischievous, short-haired personification of trouble who Katase turns out to have feelings for. One day, Hiroko gets into a fight with Saki, and they end up having to stay together after school as punishment. But that afternoon gives them the opportunity to bond over a heart-to-heart conversation, and things seem to improve… until, just before leaving, Saki kisses Hiroko. And then everything changes.

Or rather, everything changes eventually. What’s great about this show is that it doesn’t take shortcuts: Hiroko doesn’t instantly fall in love with Saki. Instead, what you get is a surprisingly layered portrait of a high school girl whose coming to terms with queerness is merely a natural extension of reckoning with her burgeoning sexuality. And, because Saki is self-destructive in her depression and makes a game of belittling, worrying, and infuriating anyone who cares about her, it’s really a story about what it means to love another person rather than a romantic ideal. A word of warning, though: Katase is actually quite a large character, as he and Hiroko end up becoming friends. Also, the ending is very abrupt and inconclusive, though rest assured that it doesn’t try to roll back Hiroko’s feelings, or pair either girl off with a guy.

(CW: self-harm, attempted suicide, bullying, homophobia, underage drinking)

7. Chaser Game W: Power Harassment Boss Is My Ex-Girlfriend / チェイサーゲームW: パワハラ上司は私の元カノ (10? 30-minute episodes, 2024) (canon) - MyDramaList | AsianWiki

Probably jumping the gun here as only two episodes have aired as of writing, but I feel honour-bound to recommend this as it’d probably appeal to a lot of people, if only they knew about it! Chaser Game W is a standalone spin-off of Chaser Game, itself an adaptation of a manga of the same name by Matsuyama Hiroshi and Matsushima Yukitarou, but you don’t need to know anything going in.

Protagonist Harumoto Itsuki (former Keyakizaka46 captain Sugai Yuuka) has been assigned a new job: her company has been asked by a Chinese conglomerate to develop a game adaptation of a GL manhua, and she’s been tapped as the project leader. However, what appears to be an exciting prospect soon becomes a terrifying one, as the person sent by the client to supervise turns out to be her ex-girlfriend from university (Lin Dongyu, played by Japanese actress Nakamura Yurika), who is now married to a Chinese man (played by a Japanese actor) and has a child, but remains hell-bent on exacting revenge on Itsuki for their bad breakup. This is a romantic (melo)drama rather than a psychological thriller, though, so you won’t be watching Itsuki getting terrorised the entire time. While she is understandably upset by her ex’s current behaviour, Itsuki can’t forget about their happy days together, and Dongyu herself veers between being a sneering bully and craving Itsuki’s affection.

Do note that the show isn’t without its flaws: it’s very Japanese about the Chinese thing, which is to say it’s filled with comments which range from somewhat offensive to borderline racist, and the script will probably give you a headache if you know even the slightest thing about game development. Your mileage might vary on the ex too, as she can be really quite nasty to Itsuki and her teammates. But if you can overlook those issues, this is a rare prize indeed: a TV drama focusing on a canonical F/F pair, who are specifically exes, and in a workplace setting.

(CW: bullying)

8. Doctor X / ドクターX (7 seasons and counting, 2012~) (subtext) - MyDramaList | AsianWiki

To be very honest, I was in two minds about including Doctor X on this list. It is, with a few notable exceptions, misogynistic and reductive in its depictions of women (especially in the first two seasons), gives too much screentime to objectively awful and subjectively annoying men, doesn’t respect the work done by medical personnel apart from surgeons, and on the technical front is formulaic, repetitive, and often lazy in its writing and presentation. Unfortunately, the dynamic between the genius surgeon protagonist Daimon Michiko (Yonekura Ryoko) and her anaesthesiologist wife partner friend Jounouchi Hiromi (Uchida Yuki) is almost unparalleled in its excellence.

The premise of the series is basic indeed: Daimon Michiko is a freelance surgeon with a healthy disrespect of rules and authority and, unluckily for her detractors, a cast-iron guarantee that she will succeed in any surgery, no matter how difficult. She’s initially portrayed as a lone wolf who’s dismissive of the entire hospital system and anyone who’s part of it— but her interest is piqued by the anaesthesiologist Jounouchi, who is skilled beyond her peers and chafes against the idiocy of her colleagues. For all its flaws, the first season – which is more serious and edgy in tone compared to the others, and isn’t an ensemble cast like the post-S3 seasons – is a fantastic depiction of two people being perfectly matched in skill, intellect, and outlook, and how they come together despite one being standoffish (Jounouchi) and the other not being used to reaching out to or even respecting other people (Daimon).

The seasons after that sadly ditch the emphasis on Jounouchi being Daimon’s professional equal, but in exchange offer up another rare and unexpected gift: two women in their late thirties / early forties who are partners both at work and in private. Jounouchi is Daimon’s designated anaesthesiologist, assisting with nearly every surgery, and she spends so much time at Daimon’s agency-office-slash-house you’d think she’d moved in. Also, after a point they just start being wonderfully dorky and comfortable with each other, while still being consummate professionals in the operating theatre. Although the show is very much focused on Daimon Michiko as its sole protagonist, Jounouchi is undoubtedly the character most significant to her – even more than Daimon’s father figure, the head of the freelance agency – and this is highlighted in the story from time to time. They are very, very good. I just wish the series was better.

Note: If you’re curious, I would recommend watching the very first episode in full– by the end you should know if you’re invested enough to continue, otherwise drop it and live in the happy knowledge that you dodged a bullet. If you aren’t so lucky, I’d advise skipping the surgery segments when they start to bore, and in general to skip liberally. Also, season 4 is not worth watching as a whole, except for the last two episodes, which absolutely should not be missed. Sigh. I can’t speak to seasons 6 and 7, due to having paused mid-S6.

Side note: If you’ve watched Doctor X already and liked it (or at least like Daimon and Jounouchi), but haven’t tried Miss Sherlock yet, definitely give that a go because there seems to be a big overlap in the fandoms. Maybe it’s because they both feature a genius protagonist, have the two largest female characters being work partners, and domestic vibes…?

(CW: sexism, genre-typical gore)

Bonus: SKY Castle / SKY 캐슬 (20 episodes, 2018) (subtext) - MyDramaList | AsianWiki

(Note: slight spoilers for the early episodes, but it’s necessary in order to give a more accurate recommendation regarding the F/F subtext, especially as the show is not primarily focused on any one relationship.)

This one’s a bonus because unlike the others on this list, there’s no close relationship between two female characters which could be interpreted in a romantic light. That’s not too surprising as the show is all about the women of a several super-wealthy families trying to get their children into the top Korean universities (equivalent to the Ivy League) whilst supporting their husbands in the rat race: a decidedly heteronormative premise, albeit one that’s executed in an award-winning manner.

So why am I listing it? Well, it’s because somehow, in this series about heteronormative and highly gendered nuclear families, it features possibly the most erotically-charged dynamic I have seen, even taking season 1 of Killing Eve into account. (Though it takes some time to get there, so if you try it out, please watch at least the first four episodes before making a decision!)

That honour goes to the problematic gem that is the relationship between the main character Han Seo-jin (Yum Jung-ah), who is willing to do whatever it takes to get her daughter into Seoul’s top medical school, and star tutor Kim Joo-young (Kim Seo-hyung), who is known for her 100% success rate. It starts off with a mild push-and-pull, when Han Seo-jin wants Coach Kim to take on her daughter, but is wary of the shady rumours surrounding her; the tutor stands firm, and Han eventually has to swallow her pride and accept the risks. Where it really comes into its own, though, is when Coach Kim starts to pose a legitimate threat to everything Han cares for: her daughter, her marriage (or rather, what her husband can give her), her position in the world. It becomes increasingly clear that Han should just walk away, and indeed she tries to do so many a time, only to bend in the end because the coach is key to fulfilling her dearest wish– and so to Han, for all she rages and resents and fears, Coach Kim is nothing less than temptation itself. This is the beating core of the show, and even as the plotting disintegrates and falls into melodrama in the second half, their scenes together still crackle with delicious tension every time. Watch it.

(CW: suicide, psychological abuse, child abuse, bullying, murder)

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(OP of the Sherlock multiverse post) I believe you’re referring to Miss Sherlock, a Japanese language one season show following a woman Sherlock and her sidekick, Wato Tachibana (usually referred to as Wato-san)!

okay this looks like it WHIPS ASS

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遠く、近く (Far, Near) - A Tachibana Wato vid, made for the None English fest. Subtitles available in both English and Japanese. 

Fandom: Miss Sherlock Song: 「遠く、近く」("Far, Near") - by goji-sanpun [5:03]  Length: 2:51 Content Notes: Flashing red and blue lights (~0:39-0:54)

You can check out the full version of the song and the artist's original English translation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p2VIsREsE4.

On AO3

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miss sherlock having the character be named "wato tachibana" so she's called "wato-san" is honestly so iconic, the mind of it really

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Miss Sherlock Episode 1: The First case

"You smell like gunpowder, baby."

Spoiler free summary: In "The First Case", doctor Wato Tachibana (Shihori Kanjiya) is coming back to Tokyo from Syria, where she served as a volunteer in a hospital. Immediately after the landing, she witnesses the gruesome death of her mentor, doctor Mizuno, and meets Inspector Reimon and Sergeant Shibata, the two cops who will investigate Mizuno's death. At the police station she will also meet an enigmatic and eccentric woman nicknamed "Sherlock" (Yuko Takeuchi), an independent consultant detective who helps the Tokyo Metropolitan Police in difficult cases like this. Even though the two can barely stand each other, they will investigate together what seems to be the beginning of a series of killings.

Now let's go to the juicy bits.

SPOILER

Triggers: su1c1d3, gor3, drugs

When doctor Wato Tachibana comes back after her volunteer period in Syria, her family is not there to greet her. In fact, only doctor Mizuno, who she worked with in a hospital in Tokyo, came to see her at the airport.

Even though he is not a relative, the man seems genuinely happy to see she's safe. And apparently the letters he wrote her during her stay in Syria had helped her a lot. But Wato's joy at seeing a familiar face doesn't last long, because... a flash, a bang, and Mizuno falls like a puppet whose strings have been cut. I'm sparing you the screencap, the only thing you have to know is that poor Wato tries desperately to save Mizuno, applying pressure on a wound that can't be closed through pressure.

A bit later Inspector Reimon and Sergeant Shibata are on the crime scene and while the Inspector tries to understand what happened (I seriously love this man, for his humor and his endless collection of fancy neckties),

Shibata is dismayed to learn he has to take pictures of the body and send them to a certain "weirdo".

Wato can't be of help because she's still in shock and anyway the victim's wife is already at the police station, so all the conversations will be held there.

At the police station Wato proceeds immediately to apologize to Akiko, Mizuno's wife. Wato, honey. Seriously, why are you apologizing? You did nothing, literally. The next step is confirming the victim's identity, but when they enter the room the body is kept in, they find a woman rummaging into the corpse because she couldn't allow "a rookie forensic doctor to ruin the autopsy":

Read the novelization if you can. In this scene Wato gay panics and literally describes her as perfection made woman. But let's go on. Even though Reimon reprimands her the woman, who he called Sherlock, keeps examining the wound until she finds...something. The probable cause of Mizuno's death. But the wife is there, so Sherlock should be a little more considerate. Completely ignoring Reimon's advice, Sherlock proceeds to show how smart she is immediately identifying without doubt who's the wife and who's the doctor who just came back from Syria after her volunteering period.

Also, it's interrogation time and that can't wait. Sherlock's investigation has been fruitful,

poor doctor Mizuno had a small bomb inside his stomach, full of a liquid explosive called "the devil's foot". Sherlock found some kind of chip that probably had been used to detonate it remotely. From there, Sherlock proceeds to ask Akiko a series of embarassing and very personal questions,

that make the woman have a panic attack. Oh, enjoy the screencap below of the face Sherlock makes when Akiko starts hyperventilating because it's just..."I have an investigation going on and she has the gall of interrupting it with a panic attack". This woman, I swear.

Seeing that Akiko is useless for the time being, Sherlock tries to leave the premises asking Reimon to call her when the victim's wife will be ready to answer her questions.

Wato isn't having anything of that and follows Sherlock to give her an earful about how you should behave with a person that just lost their spouse, especially when you are a cop. But, to Wato's surprise, Sherlock doesn't feel guilty or embarassed for what she said, and tells Wato she's not a cop, but a consultant, something that Reimon confirms right away. But Wato is upset because Sherlock was able to guess she's a doctor from Syria, how did she know?

An explanation follows, then Sherlock, not satisfied of giving such a mundane list of evidences (thread for suturing on her suitcase, her watch is six hours late, recently a hospital in Syria has been destroyed and the Japanese medical team came back today), shows her total disregard for personal space smelling Wato and whispering "I can smell gunpowder on you, a mix of RDX and aluminium".

Of course, Wato gay panics. Sherlock leaves and Reimon gives Wato his business card, telling her to call him if she remembers something. The next day, after a sleepless night caused by jet-lag and probably trauma too, Wato finds herself at Sherlock's door. She called Reimon to have Sherlock's address, she wants the truth about Mizuno's death and she will have it, even though she will have to collaborate with such a difficult woman. She learns it's not Sherlock's door, but Mrs Hatano's, who rents her an apartment.

And said apartment has, of course, a very familiar number...

Wato's meeting with Sherlock doesn't go well. First Sherlock mocks Wato's clothes, then she throws her a Hermès coat to wear because she can't think if her aesthetic sense is disturbed (I feel you, Sherlock). Pity that said coat had been used in an...unorthodox way.

But Sherlock should forget about the clothes, because Wato wants to know who killed Mizuno. He had written her 19 letters during her stay in Syria, those letters helped when she was living in an unfamiliar place, why did he die like that, and... Sherlock is not even listening, dammit!

In fact Sherlock isn't listening to Wato's tirade because she had already figured out the mechanics of the homicide. Apparently Poldhu, a medical startup, made a pill with a microchip that could monitor health sending data to cellphones. It's very likely that the killer tampered with one of those pills to make it into a bomb. But Sherlock hasn't time to explain, because they found another body, and that makes her insanely happy...

Apparently the unfortunate victim died like poor doctor Mizuno. Hearing that, Wato insists to follow Sherlock, that decides that Wato can go with her if she's willing to put her medical experience at her service.

So off they go, and Mrs Hatano is super happy to see Sherlock go out with somebody, she already ships them. The victim is Ryuichi Kurimoto who, say a few witnesses, died blabbering something about a devil. Sherlock asks Wato to examine his corpse and it's clear that nobody forced the victims to swallow the bombs, all of them did it willingly, maybe believing they were medicines...or something else.

Sherlock gives spectacle of herself making her own examination, that includes smelling the body and deducing that the last place where the dead man spent his time was a club, deduction confirmed by the re-entry stamp on the back of his hand.

He had also a keychain with the kind of tags rehab facilities give you for every month of sobriety. Is it possible he was involved in drug trafficking? The only thing to do is to check the club he visited the last night, The Criterion.

Cranky and overstimulated, Sherlock wants answers and she wants them now. The owner, who is clearly a criminal, tries to deflect telling her it's the first time she brings a friend with her.

She answers saying 友達 じゃない (tomodachi janai), "(this person is) not my friend". Remember this line because you will hear it in every. Single. Episode. Bonus for Wato's scared face because she understood in what kind of place Sherlock brought her. Shihori Kanjiya is an endless source of funny faces, especially when Sherlock does something weird or inappropriate. The owner of the Criterion club vaguely threatens her about the danger of sticking her nose in other people's business, so she effectively threatens him about the illegal business that go on in his estabilishment.

One of the employees of the club confirms that Kurimoto was an addict, and he was friends with the club's DJ, Kuuya. The latter one sold him drugs, and had a circle of rich doctors who bought this kind of substances from him. Wato's hackles are immediately raised when Sherlock insinuates that maybe doctor Mizuno was an addict.

The next day Wato visits Akiko, and this allows us to learn something about Wato: after she completed her medical training she wanted to work in her father's hospital in Sapporo, but then the 2011 earthquake happened (remember the series takes place in 2018) and she went to Syria instead. In an enviroment of constant emergency she learned that she would never be a real doctor, because she panicked and froze when it came to act quicky (I don't understand why, she reacted very quickly when she tried to help Mizuno)...

So she doesn't want to be a doctor anymore. Since her family didn't want her to volunteer they shunned her, and now she can't go home. She and Akiko go to a walk, where Wato sees her mentor's wife quickly fixing a little girl's hair, acting like she did it a lot of times. But Mizuno and Akiko haven't children, because Akiko didn't want to... Wato hasn't time to wonder about this because Sherlock sends her a message: she waits for her at Poldhu heaquarters, and she's not alone.

The man with her is her brother, Kento Futaba, who works for the Intelligence Service and of course an electronic pill that can be made into a bomb falls into his professional interest. I'll say that I like this incarnation of Mycroft a lot. He and Sherlock seem to genuinely like eachother, they often engage in friendly banter. They also try to take care of eachother, and Kento especially is very protective of Sherlock.

The three are greeted by the Poldhu management and Sherlock, ignoring Kento's recommendations, decides to conduct the interrogation herself, forcing them to relinquish the list of the contributors who financed their electronic pill. One of the contributors is Kuuya, who received four samples of the pill. That means that he is the killer and there could be other two victims. Inspector Reimon calls, alerting Sherlock that a young woman called the police saying her boyfriend, Kuuya, had a nervous breakdown and ran away screaming something about a devil.

While Sherlock and co. search Kuuya's apartment, learning that he was in Kurimoto's same rehab clinic, Kuuya goes to the rehab facility to kill Yohei Makishima, a drug addict that keeps entering and exiting rehab. Scared out of his mind, Kuuya is obeying the orders of a mysterious person who will kill him if he doesn't terminate Makishima.

Sherlock, Wato, Reimon and other cops arrive on time and stop him. Apparently Makishima is not just a drug addict, but also a murderer, ten years ago he killed a child, and somebody used Kuuya to try to make him pay for what he did. Sherlock and Wato talk to the director of the clinic and learn that he received a threatening letter a few months earlier.

Looking at the letter Sherlock understands something and asks Reimon to find the parents of the child Makishima killed. That evening, Akiko receives a visit that brings her upsetting news:

Akiko is the killer...what happened? Well, Akiko was a single mother whose daughter, Airi, had been killed by Makishima. She tried to move on and married Mizuno, but when she learned that her daughter's murderer was out of prison, she decided to kill him using one of his addict friends. She made a donation to Poldhu in Kuuya's name in order to receive the pills that she made into bombs. Being a pharmacist, she had the equipment she needed.

But Mizuno discovered the flow of money, so she killed him. Then she proceeded to deliver the pills to Kuuya who in turn gave one to Kurimoto. Kurimoto refused to collaborate so she killed him. Then she revealed to Kuuya the true nature of the pill he had just taken in order to force him to kill Makishima.

The evidence? Well, the police found the money she gave to Poldhu. And there's the stamps.

Those special stamps formed an image. Mizuno used 19 of them to send his letters to Wato, and Akiko used one for the threatening letter she sent to the rehab clinic. Akiko confesses, but decides that all this pain stops here. She takes her cellphone and a detonation can be heard. Sherlock tries to stop her but sadly Akiko dies like every other victim of this episode, the last pill was for her. But there's more:

Sherlock is somewhat convinced that the woman couldn't hatch that kind of plan all alone, so she tries to make her talk. Too late, Akiko is already dead.

Reimon is satisfied of the outcome of Sherlock's investigation, but Sherlock insists that somebody helped Akiko. Even though she was a pharmacist, it's impossible she had the knowledge to make those bombs all by herself.

Meanwhile Kento is arrived on the crime scene and the first thing he does is worrying for Wato (let's all Stan Kento because he's one of the good ones): he apologizes because she was involved in the case, moreover she hasn't a home or a job, what will she do now? She answers that she doesn't know, that she will think about it when she'll go back to her hotel.

Wato is understandbly sad and exhausted, she saw too many deaths in the few days after she came back, and two of them were people she cared about. Of course she has a lot of feelings to process, but before leaving she has just one last question: why Sherlock is called Sherlock? She wants to know. Sherlock's only answer is this enigmatic stare that can only mean a Tragic Backstory (TM).

Seeing the two interacting (and seeing that Wato is probably the only person that from what he knows genuinely showed interest in Sherlock) Kento has an idea: she should go live with Sherlock!

Sherlock is outraged, she doesn't need a babysitter! But Kento would feel better if he knew she lives with a friend. And, of course:

But fate lends a hand: Shibata arrives to alert Inspector Reimon that the have to go to Hotel New Kamata, the building is burning, it's a disaster. Conveniently, it's the hotel Wato is currently staying in. So Kento takes to most logical (and reassuring for him) decision:

Sherlock acquiesces, but she isn't happy.

Well, that was ominous. The next time we'll see slice-of-life antics happening at 221b, a mystery about a pair of mustaches, Sherlock revealing her addiction, Wato going to therapy and the nth confirmation that Wato and Sherlock aren't friends. Nope. Not even a bit.

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[Vid] 遠く、近く　(Far, Near) by marah_sarie

「英語なし」のために作った橘和都についてのFMV。A Tachibana Wato-centric vid, made for the "None English" fest. 英語・日本語字幕付き。English and Japanese subtitles available.

歌 / Song：「遠く、近く」("Far, Near") アーティスト / Artist：goji-sanpun [5:03]

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Episode 2 Miss Sherlock

“I didn’t expect you to be so cute”

Tachibana Wato-San, not sulking in the other room “her personality sucks”

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It's been a long time since I last drew Watolock, just don't think it will be in this situation....

Miss Sherlock is the first and the only Sherlock series that I watched

guess i dont need to wait for season 2 anymore

Rest in Peace, Takeuchi Yuko