Gourmet Detective Akechi Goro Special Edition will be broadcast on next May 24th

Next week, we will deliver "Gourmet Detective Akechi Goro Special Edition" including the original story that has not been broadcast on the ground wave with Mr. Akechi's navigation! ️May 24th Sunday at 10:30.

Buildings and towers as a symbol of Tokyo

In recent years, manga artist Akiko Higashimura's works have been made into TV dramas one after another.

It is said that the number of manga originals has increased in recent years in TV dramas and live-action movies, and there seems to be a concern that the original works may not be able to be used in interesting scripts.

However, the author (Toshiyuki Masuchibuchi, professor at Hosei University Graduate School) interprets that there is an increasing number of manga works that one wants to visualize.

As of May 2020, the drama "Gourmet Detective Akechi Goro", which is being broadcast on Nippon TV from 22:30 on Sunday evening, is also based on Akiko Higashimura. This work was published in the comic magazine "Coco Hana" (Shueisha) in 2015, and then serialized. The gourmet + detective thing is fresh, and six volumes have already been published.

The main character's detective, Akechi Goro, runs the “Edogawa detective office” in Omotesando, Tokyo, and also presides over the “Tokyo gourmet club”.

In other words, he is a detective as well as a gourmet. The guidelines for gastronomy are "not bad" and "let's make it a candidate for the last supper".

My partner is Ichigo Kobayashi, who runs a wagon lunch shop “Strawberry Deli” across from the detective office in Akechi. Akechi appreciates her bento, and she has a habit of just buying it with a barbecue, and she is annoying. However, Akechi calls her "Kobayashi No. 1" and sometimes also assists in the investigation.

This setting follows that of Kogoro Akechi from Ranpo Edogawa. As with "Detective Conan", Ranpo Edogawa is terrifying. You can understand that Rampo still has a great influence even today. After all, it has become a classic of detective things in Japan.

By the way, the TV drama is played by Tomoya Nakamura in Akechi and Fuka Koshiba in strawberries.

The location of the TV drama is Tokyo and its surroundings, but the detective agency in Akechi is in Ebisu unlike the original. There is also a scene with Tokyo Tower at night as a background, and it can be said that "Gourmet Detective Akechi Goro" is a work depicting Tokyo in both the original and the TV drama.

For example, “Tokyo Tara Leva Musume,” starring Yuriko Yoshitaka in 2017 and made into a drama on Nippon Television, remains in my memory.

This work is based on the manga of the same name that was serialized in "Kiss" (Kodansha) from 2014 to 2017. Nine volumes of books and books were published, and the manga was a hit.

It was a story about the struggle of single women, Alassa and Alafor, who did not want to see the Olympics alone when the Tokyo Olympics were held in 2020. After that, "Tokyo Tara Leva Musume Season 2" is being serialized in "Kiss" (Kodansha).

The manga “Tokyo Tara Leva Musume” uses Tokyo Tower (Shiba Park, Minato-ku) as an icon of Tokyo. Tokyo Tower is drawn on most of the cover of the book, and the design of the letters "East" of "Tokyo" in the title logo is also reminiscent of Tokyo Tower.

This logo is also used in program titles in TV dramas. This logo truly symbolizes the presence of the iconic Tokyo icon, Tokyo Tower.

Also, Kyo plays the main role in the “camouflaged affair” that was made into a TV drama in 2019. The original was serialized in the manga app "XOY" in 2017, moved to "LINE manga" on the way, and ended in 2019.

Comment from Prof. Akiko Higashimura:

When I was a kid, I loved Ranpo Edogawa's novel in the library, detective movies on TV, and suspense drama. All the characters are scary, but the characters are all fascinating, retro and fashionable, fascinated by the horrifyingly beautiful evil.

This work expresses such a view of the world in the form of a manga in my own way, but when I heard that it will be made into a drama this time, life looped and Akechi and Maria were seen in the cathode ray tube I saw as a child. I was struck by the strange feeling of being reflected in. Tomoya Nakamura, who plays Akechi, is handsome, clever, and a little mysterious. I'm looking forward to it!

Gourmet Detective Episodes

The drama "Gourmet Detective Akechi Goro" starring Tomoya Nakamura (NTV-based Sunday, from 10:30) will be postponed from the 6th episode on the 17th to the 7th onwards. It has been decided that the special episode will be broadcast for 3 weeks starting from the 24th (Sun).

There are a lot of interesting scenes in Episode 6 which is the last time before postponement.

First, the only scene in episode 6 that was not recorded when the shooting was interrupted. Originally, it was an important scene where strawberries (Fuka Koshiba) hit Akechi (Tomoya Nakamura) on the courtyard terrace in front of the detective agency.

The producer of the program said, "I might be surprised because it suddenly changes into an abstract world of black background ...", but Nakamura and Koshiba show "actual performance that does not matter with background or distance". It is said that The producer first consulted with Nakamura about making a play. However, Nakamura made a hot suggestion that "I'm an actor, so if I'm not willing to read it, I'd rather play it ...". There is a desire to "keep the viewers' emotions as continuous as possible". First of all, pay attention to the scene where such thoughts gathered.

And the word "I will protect you" of Akechi who had the heart of the viewer in the last episode of the fifth episode. These words sparked the love of strawberries. In the sixth episode, Ichigo was even more often swayed by Akechi, dressed as a man, or even showed off a voice percussion. Strawberries that make you feel a distance from Akechi and show a sad expression. I would like to pay attention to what kind of expression you have when your love starts.

In the fourth episode, such a strawberry was told by Maria (Eiko Koike), "Someday I will kill you in front of Akechi Goro. If you don't like it, disappear from him and me." I haven't talked to Akechi. The scene where the murderer Maria and strawberry confront each other for the first time is amazing.

Gourmet Detective Episode 6

The stage of Episode 6 is a restaurant at the meeting venue in Akechi. Akechi (Tomoya Nakamura) decides to make an arrangement with his younger brother after a forcible setup of his mother, Jousei Sakae (Naomi Zaizen), who is thinking about the future of his parents' department store. Department store officer Date (Otaichi Ryotaro) has chosen a matchmaking partner, president's daughter Saei (Kitahara Rie), to choose one of the eccentric brother, Akechi's sloppy brother, Rokuro (Takuya Kusagawa). Especially.

Strawberries (Koshiba Fuka), who could not stop their love for Akechi, learned that Momoko (Nobuo Tomita) was worried that she would be in a dangerous situation when she was involved with Akechi. As soon as Akechi accepts the matchmaking, he has a complicated feeling.

At that time, Maria (Eiko Koike) was planning a murder plan for Akechi's matchmaking ...

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Then, on the day of the matchmaking, the strawberry dressed up as a man in the hurry of pretending to be Rokuro, instead of not appearing, is pretending to be Rokuro. While the feeling of excitement was increasing, Ito (Shinji Takeda) dressed as a chef and Maria, Akane (Miki Shida) who had become a middle-aged man infiltrated the ryotei, serving food to Akechi ...

Meanwhile, Rokuro himself appeared late. In addition, Akechi fans detective Takahashi (Kanta Sato) and police inspector Ueno Tono (Yukiya Kitamura) broke into a big panic! However, immediately after that, Saei suddenly died in front of Akechi and suddenly died ...! Akechi is convinced that Maria is involved in a murder case that looks like a blowfish poison accident. However, beyond that, the unexpected confusion behind the incident and the great flame of Maria's distorted love awaited!