Keishicho Ikimono Gakari (2017)

Suspend your disbelief and enjoy!

Hashimoto Kanna (Kaguya-sama) plays an impossibly young Policewoman/Vet/Animal & Plant Expert (Hey, Japan right? Age is no barrier to an acting role. If obviously 35 year old men can play High School students, an 18 year old can play a fully qualified Vet/Animal Expert/Policewoman.) The series addresses the incongruity with a running joke about everyone she meets thinking she is cosplaying.

As seems usual in her roles, the height difference between Kanna and the rest of the cast is over-emphasised, although not for comedy effect like in Tokumei!, I suppose the cosplay thing was enough for this series.

Watabe Atsuro plays a good part as usual, even if the slapstick does go a bit over the top sometimes!
The rest of the cast play comedic caricatures- 25 year old receptionist desperate to find a man, retired detective who hangs around offering advice- "when I was a detective I......", mother figure who continually makes tea, jealous & incompetent new boss obsessed with Utski, lap-dog ex partner, punch-bag junior detective, Policeman who worships Sudou.

Basically suspend your disbelief (Just who looks after that menagerie? it would be a full time job, never mind all the house visits.) and enjoy a somewhat light-hearted (Even though there is a brutal murder every episode, and a child abuse features in one episode too) show about animals and crime solving.

There is even a dance routine at the end of each episode!


I loved seeing the chemistry between the cast, they all seemed to be having a great time, and the animals were great too, I'd really like a second series even now, at least Kanna would look old enough to do her job!

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