Kurosagi (the series)

I’ve watched the jdrama “Kurosagi” recently. It’s based on a manga written by Natsuhara Takeshi, and is basically about a man called Kurosaki who is taking his vengeance on swindlers (since his father ended up murdering the rest of his family and then suiciding due to a swindle) by swindling them in turn. This concept is very awesome. Of course, no jdrama is complete without a wee bit of romance mixed in, so in the first episode we are also introduced to Yoshikawa Tsurara, a poor university student aiming to be a prosecutor in the future. Her uncle gets swindled and Kurosaki offers to swindle his money back. She later ends up moving into an apartment complex which is run by Kurosaki, and, ehh, I guess stuff happens. She doesn’t really accept Kurosakis line of work at all, seeing as she wants to be a prosecutor and all.

According to what is explained at the beginning of every episode, there are three kinds of swindlers; Shirosagi (white swindlers) who swindle for money, Akasagi (red swindlers) who swindle with emotions, and Kurosagi (black swindlers) that prey on the other swindlers. This series kurosagi, Kurosaki, is far from altruistic, of course. He’s emotionally distant and has a dark past and all that, thus not being very interested in romance with a poor university student such as Tsurara, nor anyone else, for that matter. Later on we get an awesome love triangle.

Kurosaki gets most of his jobs from an old master swindler who sells him information while sort of running a classy restaurant and being in generally crappy health. That guy also happens to be the mastermind behind the swindle that got Kurosakis family killed.

I liked the series. It definitely has moments of awesome, especially when Kurosaki carries through his heists. In many ways it also reminded me of another jdrama called “Liar Game”, which I might talk about more later. The show is about as long as what is normal for jdramas, eleven episodes. There’s also a movie that I have yet to watch, but I assume there’ll be more of a conclusion to it all in the movie, as the series did kind of end in the “reset ending” style, which imo is total bullshit every time I see it. It is not a bad idea to have definite endings, people! Or at least, make sure something gets accomplished… Anyway, for what it’s worth, it’s a good watch.

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