Puzzle

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Broadcast Date in Japan:18th April 2008

Synopsis
Actress Satomi Ishihara stars in her first mystery drama with "Puzzle." She takes on the role of Misako Ayukawa, an unqualified English teacher who happens to have a brilliant mind for solving puzzles. Along with 3 of her students (played by Yusuke Yamamoto, Ryo Kimura, and Kento Nagayama), she tackles various cases occurring around her school.

Cast
Ishihara Satomi as Ayukawa Misako
Yusuke Yamamoto
Ryo Kimura
Kento Nagayama
Sansei Shiomi
Sayuri Iwata
Aki Asakura
Chiaki Sato



Source and More details
http://www.tokyograph.com/articles/Spring_2008_Drama_Preview
http://jdorama.com/drama.1278.htm

Official Site: http://puzzle.asahi.co.jp/

My Review
Personal Opinion of this interesting high-school-related-detective drama is that at the end of drama, there is only 2 person I could remember: One is Satomi Ishihara, the main female lead and Iwata Sayuri, the girl who always flirt with the 3 students and acted smart but always ended up with nothing. (Actually I missed her in Jigoku Shojo although there were mixed comments from other viewers)

The drama started with a sense of humor and it did went well throughout the drama. However, I felt that the teacher's bond with the 3 students can be strengthened. Every time we saw her sabotaging them and they are (quite) disgusted with her fakey-double character. But yet they seems to be comfortable with her tagging along their dates which always leads to mystery solving situation. I was quite looking forward for them to show a display of a stronger bond (I mean, come on, what they have been through? It should have meant something) but nope, even at the end, the teacher care much for her own life then the 3 of them.

Anyway, I felt that this is an entertainment for mystery solving drama lovers who doesn't like too heavy suspense-filled drama. Enjoy~

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