Housekishou Richard-shi no Nazo Kantei
Oh, this is BL isn’t it. You know, the only BL romance I’ve ever liked was Touya and Yukito.
Wait, he’s blushing at a girl. Potential false alarm?
Smeagol has her precious! Precious... precious... precious!
Seigi is somewhat a hero of justice. In a chance encounter he meets the appraiser Richard, whom he asks to look at a ring. When Richard reports the ring may be stolen, Seigi tells him the full story. His grandmother stole the ring when she was desperate, and got caught by the police before she could return it after hearing the owner tried to commit suicide.
It so happens that Richard knows the owner of the ring, and so Seigi is able to learn that the ring was an unpleasant symbol of an arranged engagement, which was also the cause of the suicide attempt, and Seigi’s grandmother did no harm to her.
Impressed by Seigi’s honesty, Richard offers him a job working with him to appraise gems.
Mixed bag of good and bad.
To start with the good, telling these kind of episodic, personal stories with gem appraisal is a fresh, interesting idea. The story of the gem and Seigi’s grandmother is a good one, mostly. And if this does end up being a romance, the relationship might actually have something to it.
There were actually some moments in the show that I wrote off as bad writing at first, but after thinking about it I realized they aren’t. Richard knowing the gem’s owner isn’t a plot contrivance, since it’s at least implied that Richard would have found the owner anyway. Knowing the owner himself only serves to give him a closer sense of connection to Seigi. Seigi doesn’t tell Richard the ring is stolen right away because he doesn’t want to risk the appraiser failing to find the owner and instead hanging on to the ring, or turning it over to the police who might not do anything other than sit on it.
Unfortunately, it does have some actual bad writing. There are some pretentious or otherwise nonsense lines of dialogue. And the meeting with the gem’s owner reminded me of when a villain starts spouting their backstory before a battle. The grandmother’s days of theft are written off as “necessary” and “harmless”, of which they were decidedly neither.
It has some good ideas that are held back a bit by the execution. Overall, I’d say it was more of the good than the bad.
I consider Seigi to be good person rather than a hero of justice. As Sasane Ukawa says, “When one is hit, a good person turns the other cheek and a champion of justice hits back.”
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Sagrada Reset – 18
Now that Kei knows that Urachi Masamune is trying to eliminate abilities from Sakurada, he tries to determine what Urachi’s next move will be…and that inevitably leads to Ukawa Sasane, quietly the most powerful—and thus most potentially dangerous—of all the town’s ability users.
Urachi indeed pursues Ukawa, but not directly. He sends Tsushima, a non-user, to convince her to join the cause, siting the potential danger of ability users unconsciously and spontaneously activating their powers.
As Kei enlists the help of Murase and Nonoo to locate Ukawa, Haruki, whom he doesn’t enlist, just happens to visit the cat shrine, just for the heck of it.
Haruki expresses how she feels and how she’s worried her recent increased “selfishness” will annoy Kei. Nonoo doesn’t think it will, nor does she subscribe to Haruki’s notions of “being good enough.”
Haruki already has become more than Kei could ever have hoped for. The emotions she now feels are still new, but fiercely felt; a warm fire now burns within her cool, calm exterior. If she were to kiss Kei now, as opposed to the first time, I don’t doubt she’d actually feel something…feel quite a bit, for that matter.
As for Kei’s attempt to get to Ukawa before the Bureau, it fails. Ukawa unleashes her ability, and the rainy clouds part. Kei’s entreaties to Tsushima, about why abilities are the one problem out of all of the problems in the world, that must be dealt with, are largely brushed aside.
Tsushima urges Kei to embrace becoming a normal high school student, which also means being a normal boyfriend, and eventually a normal salaryman and husband and father. And as I’ve mentioned in earlier reviews…would that really be the worst thing? Kei and Haruki are, as their advisor says, burdened with too many unnecessary things.
Those things are very much putting a lot of strain on someone, trying to be a hero, but sacrificing his own life and happiness in the process. Tsushima thinks that’s wrong, and it’s why he convinced Ukawa to use her ability, thus compelling the Bureau to eliminate abilities.
But this episode presents a new and potentially terrifying prospect: Asai Kei can’t ever be normal. Urachi and the Bureau will eliminate abilities by eliminating memories of them in every man, woman, and child in Sakurada. But Kei’s memories won’t be affected.
Kei alone will remember the forty years of time Sakurada was a town of ability users. He is a loose end, and the way he sees it, killing him is the only way to eliminate his memories. Will Urachi stoop that low? Can he really call the town he’s trying to bring about “sacred” after that?
I’m gonna say no. I’m also gonna say…Poor Kei and Haruki! These kids can’t catch a damn break.
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Sagrada Reset Parte 2 (Sakurada Risetto Kouhen) (JM, 2017) (Sub. Esp.)
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Título: Sakurada Reset Parte 2
Título original: Sakurada Risetto Kouhen
País: Japón
Género: Adolescente, sobrenatural, fantasía
Duración: 125 min.
Fecha de estreno: 13 de mayo, 2017
Dirección: Fukagawa Yoshihiro
Guion: Kono Yutaka (escritor), Shiina You (ilustrador), Fukagawa Yoshihiro
Producción: Haruna Kei, Niki Daisuke, Aoki Yuko
SINOPSIS
En la ciudad de Sakurada, donde la mitad de los residentes tienen habilidades especiales, Asai Kei es un alumno de instituto y es capaz de recordarlo todo. Haruki Misora también es alumna de instituto y tiene el poder de restaurar (reset) el mundo hasta 3 días atrás. Si ambos usan juntos sus poderes, pueden volver atrás en el tiempo hasta 3 días y mantener sus recuerdos. Están vigilados por el departamento administrativo.
CAST
Nomura Shuhei como Asai Kei
Kuroshima Yuina como Haruki Misora
Taira Yuna como Soma Sumire
Kentaro como Nakano Tomoki
Tamashiro Tina como Murase Yoka
Tsunematsu Yuri como Oka Eri
Oishi Goro como Sasano Hiroyuki
Kaga Mariko como La Bruja
Okunaka Makoto como La Bruja (de joven)
Yano Yuka como Minami Mirai
Iwai Kenshiro como Sakagami Yosuke
Okamoto Rei como Ukawa Sasane
Yoshizawa Hisashi como Tsushima Shintaro
Nakajima Arisa como Sakuin
Murayama Tomomi como Kagaya
TRÁILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpKGEHI0Wuw
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Segundo vídeo promocional para las películas live-action de Sakurada Reset.
La primera película se estrenará el 25 de marzo, y la segunda el 13 de mayo del 2017.
La web oficial de las próximas dos películas live-action adaptación de la serie de novela ligeras de Sakurada Reset por Shiina You y Kouno Yutaka, comenzó la transmisión de su segundo tráiler el jueves. La primera película del proyecto se estrenará el 25 de marzo del 2017, y la segunda película se estrenará el 13 de mayo del 2017 en cines de Japón.
La banda Flumpool pondrá el tema de ending de la segunda película titulado "Namida Reset". La banda también pondrá la canción de ending de la primera película titulada "Last Call”.
Reparto secundario
Mariko Kaga como una bruja que conoce el futuro.
Mitsuhiro Oikawa como Masamune Urachi
Rei Okamoto como Sasane Ukawa
Kenshirou Iwai como Yousuke Sakagami
Yuka Yano como Mirai Minami
Makoto Okunaka como la misma bruja en sus días jóvenes
Hisashi Yoshizawa como Shintarou Tsushima
Tomomi Maruyama como Kagaya
Arisa Nakajima como Sakuin
Gorou Ooishi as Hiroyuki Sasano
Akiko Yagi como Youko Asai, la madre de Kei (solo en la segunda película)
Reparto principal
Yuina Kuroshima como Misora Haruki
Shuuhei Nomura como Kei Asai
Yuuna Taira como Sumire Souma
Kentarou como Tomoki Nakano
Tina Tamashiro como Youka Murase
Yuri Tsunematsu como Eri Oka
STAFF
El director Yoshihiro Fukugawa (Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora, In His Chart) comenzó la filmación de la película el pasado 17 de septiembre. Kei Haruna (live-action de Boku dake ga Inai Machi, Aozora Yell) esta produciendo el proyecto, y el equipo de producción tiene el objetivo de proyectar la película en más de 200 cines Japoneses.
En la historia original casi la mitad de la población de Sakurada, una pequeña ciudad cerca del Océano Pacífico, tiene algún tipo de poder único. Estos poderes van desde ser capaz de entrar en la mente de un gato, hasta restablecer el mundo de vuelta a un cierto punto en el tiempo pasado. Hay un grupo conocido como el "Kanrikyoku" que controla y supervisa el uso de estos poderes. Asai Kei y Haruki Misora trabajan para el club de su escuela llamado "Houshi", que ejecuta cualquiera de las misiones recibidas por el Kanrikyoku. Misora tiene la capacidad de restablecer el mundo 3 días. Esto significa que, nunca ocurrieron todos los eventos de ese lapso de tiempo y cualquier memoria de los últimos 3 días "podría haber" sucedido. Kei tiene la capacidad de "recordar" el pasado. Incluso después de que Misora utiliza sus poderes para restablecer el mundo de vuelta 3 días, Kei conservará esos 3 días en su memoria. Combinando sus poderes, ellos dos resuelven las misiones emitidas por el Kanrikyoku.
La serie de novelas ligeras original fue lanzada en junio del 2009 y finalizada en abril del 2012. Las novelas ligeras también inspiraron una adaptación a Manga con arte de Yoshihara Masahiko e historia de Kouno publicada en diciembre del 2010 en la revista Monthly Shounen Ace de Kadokawa y finalizada en septiembre del 2011.
Las novelas también están inspirando una adaptación a Anime para televisión que se estrenará en abril del 2017.
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Sagrada Reset – 09
Sakurada Reset pulled off quite a lot last week, and got particularly exciting when things started coming together, but there’s still something unsatisfying about following it up with another flashback. Momentum had been built up, but this episode killed it, by valuing context-through-lengthy explanation over progress.
Mind you, I’m not mad about learning more about what happened just after Souma Sumire died—the two-year jump was pretty dang abrupt! It’s more a matter of timing, and the fact that I’d grown accustomed to being in the “present” of two years later.
With that said, this is an opportunity to see Kei and Haruki before they figured out how to be a well-oiled reset/recall machine. After Souma dies, both of them suspect the reset ability: Haruki, the ability itself, and Kei, the fact he used it so “thoughtlessly”—and in doing so sealing Souma’s fate.
While Haruki tries in vain over and over to reset on her own, Kei visits the spot where Souma fell, and meets a young Kit-Kat-loving woman named Ukawa Sasane (Koshimizu Ami) who thinks he’s Souma’s boyfriend thinking of offing himself.
She’s wrong about him being a boyfriend, or being suicidal, but Ukawa’s assumption is couched in her desire to save others from dangerous places like the bridge, be it with a Kit-Kat (an invitation to “take a break” and chill out) or with her “fence-making” ability.
A call to the Bureau for answers (and a request to save Souma) goes nowhere, and Kei eventually decides his choice to reset wasn’t what killed Souma, while Haruki realizes she can’t reset on her own because a part of her is scared of being hated by Kei.
Ultimately, the two come together and agree that the people they can help with their combined abilities outweighs the possible suffering resetting might cause. Kei tells Haruki to reset, it works, and they complete their actual first job in the Service Club.
Kei, however, isn’t done trying to find a way to bring Souma back. Her death and his inability to prevent it clearly still haunt him, and he believes if there’s a place where someone can be brought back from the dead, it’s Sakurada.
It would seem that he’ll eventually be proven right, since two years later the “Witch” considers Souma to be her successor. One can’t succeed anyone unless they’re alive, after all.
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