ラッキーセブン Lucky Seven

Title: ラッキーセブンスペシャル Rakkī Sebun Supesharu (Lucky Seven Special)
English Title: Lucky Seven
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Year: 2013
Episode: 01
Cast:

• 松本潤 Matsumoto Jun
• 瑛太 Eita
• 松嶋菜々子 Matsushima Nanako
• 仲里依紗 Naka Rīsa
• 大泉洋 Oizumi Yo
• 角野卓造 Kadono Takuzo
• 谷原章介Tanihara Shosuke
• 金田明夫 Kaneda Akio
• 石原さとみ Ishihara Satomi
• 及川光博 Oikawa Mitsuhiro
• 平田満 Hirata Mitsuru
• 中丸雄一 Nakamaru Yuichi
• 吹石一恵 Fukīshi Kazue
• 小山慶一郎 Koyama Keīchiro

SYNOPSIS

嵐 Arashi - Wild At Heart

The Lucky Detective Agency is owned and managed by Fujisaki Tōko. The agency employs a business and accounting manager, four detectives, and an office worker.

Nitta Teru is a well-composed detective who is logical and rational. He has good fighting skills, which sometimes comes in handy in his line of work.

Tokita Shuntaro is an inexperienced detective at the agency. He is naturally gifted with sleuthing skills but his lack of training and complacent attitude always gets him in trouble.

The Lucky Detective Agency is hired by a young man who hires their services to find his estranged father. His father left him a message on his cellular phone that he is planning to kill someone and then kill himself.

REVIEW
I like how Lucky Seven made me question about what it means to do your work properly. In the drama, the lead characters are working in a detective agency so the question is quite specific for their profession but it can also apply to any kind of work or career.

Anyway, I really like the characters so I'm glad that they are back, even if it's just for a drama special. I think it's interesting that the people in the Lucky Seven Agency are so different from each other, with different priorities and interests, but they manage to work well together just the same.

I particularly like Nitta Toru and Tokita Shuntaro. They are always fighting with each other but I like that they have each other's backs when it counts. I wish they were actually good friends rather than reluctant colleagues though.

I don't think the case tackled in this drama special is complicated enough. I mean, the case this time around seems lackluster compared to some cases tackled in the previous Lucky Seven drama.

I really like how the drama relays the importance of always doing the right thing. When we sometimes encounter people who cheat or do bad things, we sometimes think it's okay for these people to be treated the same way they treat others but actually, it is not.

Fujisaki Tōko: Just because that person is a swindler doesn't make it right for us to commit fraud (against him).

Related:
ラッキーセブン Lucky Seven (2012)


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ラッキーセブン Lucky Seven

ラッキーセブン Lucky Seven

Title: ラッキーセブン Rakkī Sebun (Lucky Seven)
English Title: Lucky Seven
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Year: 2012
Episode: 10
Cast:

• 松本潤 Matsumoto Jun
• 瑛太 Eita
• 松嶋菜々子 Matsushima Nanako
• 仲里依紗 Naka Rīsa
• 大泉洋 Oizumi Yo
• 角野卓造 Kadono Takuzo
• 谷原章介Tanihara Shosuke
• 金田明夫 Kaneda Akio
• 吹石一恵 Fukīshi Kazue
• 小山慶一郎 Koyama Keīchiro

SYNOPSIS

嵐 Arashi - Wild At Heart

The Lucky Detective Agency is owned and managed by Fujisaki Tōko. The agency employs a business and accounting manager, four detectives, and an office worker.

Nitta Teru is a well-composed detective who is logical and rational. He has good fighting skills, which sometimes comes in handy in his line of work.

Tokita Shuntaro is a newly hired detective at the agency. He is naturally gifted with sleuthing skills but his lack of training and complacent attitude always gets him in trouble.

REVIEW
I like how Lucky Seven made me question about what it means to do your work properly. In the drama, the lead characters are working in a detective agency so the question is quite specific for their profession but it can also apply to any kind of work or career.

I think it's interesting how Fujisaki Tōko, the owner and manager of the Lucky Seven Agency, considered Tokita Shuntaro's potential as a detective. I think she was impressed that Shuntaro managed to follow Nitta Teru, one of her best detectives, back to their office. But more than that, she liked how Shuntaro thinks based on their initial conversation.

Tokita Shuntaro: I know it if I look at a woman once...
Fujisaki Tōko: What will you know?
Tokita Shuntaro: Whether they will fall for me or not.
Fujisaki Tōko: Then, what about me? Will I? Or will I not?
Tokita Shuntaro: That kind of question is kind of tricky. 
Fujisaki Tōko: Why?
Tokita Shuntaro: If I say now that you will fall for me, then you will never fall for me. But you will not be interested in a man who say that you won't fall for him in the first place, right? No matter what answer I give, I won't be able to satisfy you.

The detective agencies are hired by their clients to find information and to gather evidence of said information. Considering the description of their tasks and responsibilities, the detectives at Lucky Detective Agency are actually quite good at their job.

Oizumi Yo: Our work goes as far as investigation and reporting...
Mizuno Asuka: If you feel regret towards each and every client, then you won't be able to do this.

When new employee Tokita Shuntaro started working, he was surprised and disappointed to find out that actual detectives  are nowhere near the legendary detectives on television shows. You know, the remarkable detectives who help the needy, protect the people, and catch criminals to enforce justice.

Related:
ラッキーセブン Lucky Seven (2013)


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ラッキーセブン Lucky Seven