Kurosagi – Jdrama. 9 episodes of continuously rehashed plot, plus 2 episodes of a variante of the rehashed plot + and open denoument.

Pros:
-Yamapi
-Koyama

Cons:
-What’s her face Tsurara. I hated her from head to toes. Horrid character. Stupid and stubborn. UGH.
-Yukari’s 180 personality shift, which was really sad since Yukari started really well. Then she was reduced to being a love rival. Sad, really.
- Detective Kashina’s creepy cackling laugh. Like, really creepy. *shudder*
-Terrible music timing
-Reuse of plotx1000
-Really bad TsuraraxKurosaki development
-Open denouement

Kurosagi: movie. Another rehashed plot, except wait! Add Shakespeare’ Julius Caesar,  more settings, more luxury and more gadgets and it turns into a totally original movie!

Pros:
-Yamapi
-Funnier
-Better settings/scenery
-Really cool shadow play
-Julius Caesar symbolism semi-interesting
-Barely any Tsurara! :D

Cons:
-Cackling laugh.
-Still bad music timing
-NOT a closure to the story
-Still no inclination towards Mikimoto
-Finishes off on a “I’LL KEEP SWINDLING FOREVER!!” note

All in all;
I quite disliked the jdrama, simply because there was to much focus on Tsurara and because 9 episodes of the same thing is way too much. Tsurara sucked. She was very idealistic, and never faced reality until she oh-so-magically **~falls in love~**. She’s also completely useless, and only causes trouble and inconveniences. She’s also incredibly slow. She doesn’t do ANYTHING in the series. I get the point of her character, its an important part of Kurosagi’s struggle, but Tsurara’s main focus isn’t even that important aspect of balancing out Kurosaki’s nihilism. She’s practically there just for the drama factor. And yes, too much of the same plot. It only changed at episode 10, and then again it changed soooo very little. Even when Kurosaki lost to Shisaishi, it was STILL the same routine, except they added a “HA NO YOU ACTUALLY LOST!” snippet at the end instead of the usual Tsurara confrontation about righteouness and her obsessive love over him.

The movie, on the other hand, was pleasant. This was how the jdrama should’ve been. It’s too bad it wasn’t. I’m mainly pissed at the movie simply because I was expecting some epic showdown between Mikimoto and Kurosaki… which totally didn’t happen, and instead we get ANOTHER random Shirosagi. Still good, because this time around the tricks were way cooler, but still. I wish they’d finish his story once and for all. It’s like they did it expecting the movie to be so popular they’d be able to make a sequel or something >.>

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