Jun. 3rd, 2014 08:33 pm
Shinigami-kun Ep. 6: Drama Notes
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earth_colorsEpisode 6: "Great at deceiving?! ~A good woman financing a marriage swindler with 10 million yen"
Episode Synopsis:
Shinigami and his Monitoring Officer are trying to prevent an unscheduled death by stopping a woman from committing suicide. She is Takayama Rina (Ito Ayumi), an editor for a women's lifestyle magazine. When confronted, Rina denies she is trying to kill herself. Why should she? She's young, lovely and has a successful career. Nevertheless, as soon as the Soul Handlers turn their back, Rina takes a bottle of sleeping pills and...
Meanwhile, Shinigami goes to his next Assigned-To-Die case. He is Wada Akira (Suzuki Kosuke), a rather dubious widower who meets with various women. He seems to know his way around women, managing to persuade them into giving him money, to help finance what he says is his "business venture". He even brings and uses his young cute daughter, Miyu (Sato Mei) to these dates to help him charm these women. In one of these meetings, Shinigami shows up and informs Wada he has two days to live...
Drama Notes:
Episode Six Story. This episode is based on "Damasare Jozu no Maki" (Story 2, Vol. 10). Differences in the manga: The woman was a plain-looking OL. The marriage swindler had a son and not a daughter. He was not meant to die in the manga, so the story had a happier ending compared to the TV adaptation. :)
Manga Character Spotlight: Shinigami No. 404. I was hoping the drama would introduce No. 404 but since there's only few episodes to go, it seems unlikely. But here is his pic (above) just in case you're curious as to what he looks like. Basically, he has the same look as No. 413 but with dark rounder eyes. No. 413 would ask help from him sometimes, for example, when there were many souls to be fetched like in a battlefield (Story 4, Vol. 1). In this story, plenty of Shinigamis were dispatched to fetch the souls of dying soldiers during a certain battle.
Removing shoes before suicide. Shinigami pointed at Rina's shoes, indicating she was planning to commit suicide. There seems to be several reasons why Japanese remove shoes before taking one's life. According to JapanTimes, theories include: "So as not to carry dirt from this world into the next; to indicate that the death was a suicide; to increase the chances of the body being found..." For more on the article, read HERE.
Episode Filming Locations.
Studio 07, Kitamagome, Ota Ward, Tokyo. The studio where photo shoots were held and where Rina was being interviewed.
Ohisama Square, Suna-cho Water Reclamation Center, Shinsuna, Koto Ward. The park where Wada meets with a woman.
Kemigawa Beach, Seaside Park, Mihama-ku, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. The beach where they signed the marriage papers.
Saitama Prefectural Government Building 2, Takasago, Urawa-ku, Saitama City, Saitama Pref. Location of the long corridor scene where Rina and Monitoring Officer were walking and the location of the Ward office where Rina filed the marriage papers.
(info: location.la.coocan)
Episode Synopsis:
Shinigami and his Monitoring Officer are trying to prevent an unscheduled death by stopping a woman from committing suicide. She is Takayama Rina (Ito Ayumi), an editor for a women's lifestyle magazine. When confronted, Rina denies she is trying to kill herself. Why should she? She's young, lovely and has a successful career. Nevertheless, as soon as the Soul Handlers turn their back, Rina takes a bottle of sleeping pills and...
Meanwhile, Shinigami goes to his next Assigned-To-Die case. He is Wada Akira (Suzuki Kosuke), a rather dubious widower who meets with various women. He seems to know his way around women, managing to persuade them into giving him money, to help finance what he says is his "business venture". He even brings and uses his young cute daughter, Miyu (Sato Mei) to these dates to help him charm these women. In one of these meetings, Shinigami shows up and informs Wada he has two days to live...
Drama Notes:
Episode Six Story. This episode is based on "Damasare Jozu no Maki" (Story 2, Vol. 10). Differences in the manga: The woman was a plain-looking OL. The marriage swindler had a son and not a daughter. He was not meant to die in the manga, so the story had a happier ending compared to the TV adaptation. :)
Manga Character Spotlight: Shinigami No. 404. I was hoping the drama would introduce No. 404 but since there's only few episodes to go, it seems unlikely. But here is his pic (above) just in case you're curious as to what he looks like. Basically, he has the same look as No. 413 but with dark rounder eyes. No. 413 would ask help from him sometimes, for example, when there were many souls to be fetched like in a battlefield (Story 4, Vol. 1). In this story, plenty of Shinigamis were dispatched to fetch the souls of dying soldiers during a certain battle.
Removing shoes before suicide. Shinigami pointed at Rina's shoes, indicating she was planning to commit suicide. There seems to be several reasons why Japanese remove shoes before taking one's life. According to JapanTimes, theories include: "So as not to carry dirt from this world into the next; to indicate that the death was a suicide; to increase the chances of the body being found..." For more on the article, read HERE.
Episode Filming Locations.
Studio 07, Kitamagome, Ota Ward, Tokyo. The studio where photo shoots were held and where Rina was being interviewed.
Ohisama Square, Suna-cho Water Reclamation Center, Shinsuna, Koto Ward. The park where Wada meets with a woman.
Kemigawa Beach, Seaside Park, Mihama-ku, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. The beach where they signed the marriage papers.
Saitama Prefectural Government Building 2, Takasago, Urawa-ku, Saitama City, Saitama Pref. Location of the long corridor scene where Rina and Monitoring Officer were walking and the location of the Ward office where Rina filed the marriage papers.
(info: location.la.coocan)
