Voice
ヴォイス
Episode One
First Aired: Winter 2009
Carlie’s Rating:
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In this episode a man collapses in the street with his grocery shopping. He has somehow been electrocuted. His wife worries that he died hating her. Meanwhile, our gang seems to be into food and cooking and their antics revolve around getting Kanako to cook something.

I feel sorry for Kanako. She is the most dedicated and serious one of the group. However, people tell her she’ll end up an old maid and seem to put her down. Well, one would rather be single than date someone who is like that!

My gripe with this show is that the characters and their past are interesting, but the “discover what really happened” angle is not. It is too sentimental, there doesn’t feel like there is any tension. I like some “investigation/medical” sort of shows that the US brings out that has a mix of great characters yet engaging story line, but this… As I said, it is really twee.

That being said, next episode seems to be more about Kanako’s past so I’m excited by it. It looks like there will be a case that is similar to her mother’s death. So, I am looking forward to the next episode!

I do like the characters.

Don’t like the whole point of the show though! eep.

So, I’m giving it

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Where did I first see him?
I first saw him in Hana Yori Dango 2, where he played Junpei (I think that was his character’s name!) in the first episode. Everyone was so excited he was in it, I remember that, but I didn’t know who he was… Fast track a season or so later, and he was Nakatsu in Hana Kimi. I wasn’t so excited about Hana Kimi at first, until I fell in love with Nakatsu the character, and then Toma. We’ve been dating ever since.

My Opinion
I really like Ikuta Toma a lot. In variety shows he seems to be a bit shy, not a complete show off, but has a good sense of humour. As an actor he seems pretty versatile… but who am I kidding? I just like to watch

TV Shows:
Voice (2009)
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e SP (2008)
Maou (2008)
Hachimitsu to Clover (2008)
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (2007)
Hana Yori Dango 2 (2007)
Akihabara@Deep (2006)

Voice
ヴォイス
Episode One
First Aired: January 2009
Carlie’s Rating:
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A group of five medical students take on the task of conveying the “voices of the dead.” Eita plays Daiki, who fails to get into a popular heart surgery seminar but is somehow accepted into a seminar on forensic pathology. When he approaches the professor Sagawa (Saburo Tokito) and asks him why he ended up in the seminar, Sagawa challenges him by asking why he wants to study heart surgery. Daiki replies that medicine is meaningless after the heart stops, but Sagawa counters that medicine also applies to the dead. Along with fellow students Ryosuke (Toma Ikuta) and Kanako (Satomi Ishihara), Daiki begins to explore the mysteries of death.

from TokyoGraph

Let me start by saying Colonel Sanders haunts me. I must want chicken. As far as I can tell, it’s a different man than the Colonel Sanders linked above, but still, I’m making connections… I think my subconsciousness is trying to tell me something.


I am not really a fan of medical shows unless they are a comedy like Scrubs, but since I Eita and Toma, this show is a must!!

Still, my unlove (but not hate) of medicals means that this show will probably never make it on to my “Most Awesomest Dramas Ever!” list, but may be one that I just enjoy.

This episode revolves around a man who died from something heavy falling onto him from a construction site, but there is no sign of the object that hit him. It is an over all introduction to the characters and the show. I think some scenes felt really cheesy, but over all I did like it. It was sweet.

I do like the overall chemistry of the characters. There is one guy who is a bit too silly – however, the other guy who is “tough”, even though he was over the top I didn’t mind it. Over all, I think what will make this drama a pleasure to watch isn’t the story line but the characters themselves.

I hope that it doesn’t just have the same pattern week after week. I get the feeling it will. That may be tedious.

The Leading Men!!!

Not really a fan of medical dramas.

It was good but it wasn’t great, so I’m giving this one

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Where did I first see him?
The first time I saw him was in Kimi wa Petto, but I admit I didn’t really take notice until Nodame Cantabile.

My Opinion:
I really like him as an actor. He some how seems to play the same character in a lot of what he does, I wonder if he has just been typecast of if that’s a bit of himself coming through. I like his wild hair that always seems to be different, and I don’t think I’ve been disappointed in anything I’ve seen of him.

TV Shows:
Voice (2009)
Last Friends (2008)
Tokyo Daikushu (2008)
Loss Time Life (2008)
Nodame Cantabile (2006)
Tokyo Friends (2005)
Orange Days (2004)
Water Boys (2003)
Kimi wa Petto (2003)
Lunch no Joou (2004)

Movies:
Dororo (2007)
Su-ki-da (2005)
Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)

Links:
Official Website
Japanese Wikipedia
Drama Addicts Wiki