The Black Swindler

This is the first Tomohisa Yashima series I watched. I'm glad I did. He is good in this series. Impressive for someone as young as he is. I liked how he keep changing his looks and how he changed his talking. He can be a geek and one time, an officer at another and a normal teenager with nothing-to-worry-about later..

The series' plot is good. Made me wonder what Kurozaki will do next. How he avoid the cop. How can he twist the plan of the other saigashi. His plan not always perfect, which made the story more real. Although I did not search for reality, since this is TV but I like what I watched.

The soundtrack is also nice..

I was wondering if there is going to be Kurosagi part 2, because the ending is a bit hanging...

When I first heard about this series, I was a bit worried about watching it -- because I thought that my view of it might be coloured by the fact that I loved Nobuta wo Produce, the series that YamaP and Horikita Maki were in previously. I realised very quickly in the first episode that these two actors were so talented that there was no way I could mistake them for the same characters that they played before. They've made their characters sympathetic and intriguing where another actor might have made the same characters clichéd and boring. The secondary characters are just as interesting -- Yukari is one of those characters that you love to hate...and Katsuragi is a constantly manipulative old coot with a million tricks up his sleeve -- it's because of characters like these, as well as a rich and varied storyline that I can't help but insist that everyone go out and watch this show!! They don't make doramas like this every day!