• Title: LADY～最後の犯罪プロファイル～
• Title (romaji): LADY~Saigo no Hanzai Profile~
• Title (English): LADY~The Last Criminal Profile~
• Tagline: あなた、まる見えよ。
• Tagline (romaji): Anata, marumie yo.
• Tagline (English): I can see right through you.
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Police, mystery, thriller
• Episodes: 10
• Viewership rating: 08.7 (Kanto)
• Broadcast network: TBS
• Broadcast period: 2011-Jan-07 to 2011-Mar-25
• Air time: Friday 22:00
• Theme song: Mukei Spirit by Shibasaki Kou

Plot
Rookie investigator Shoko Kazuki has just returned from the U.S. after being trained by the FBI in the art of criminal profiling. Recruited by a newly-formed Crime Profiling Support unit (CPS) within the Metropolitan Police Department, Shoko gets to work cracking the department’s most frustrating cases which offer only scanty clues and no apparent motives. Still, she must apply all the behavioral and analytical tools of her trade to painstakingly build the criminal profiles that will lead her and her team on the right trail. A realistic depiction of the profiling process and forensic analysis, LADY exposes the sinister underbelly of society and sheds light on the murky landscape of the criminal mind.



Cast/Characters

• Kitagawa Keiko as Kazuki Shoko
  • Aiba Karin (相葉香凜) as young Shoko
• Kimura Tae as Yuki Akira
• Hiraoka Yuta as Shinbori Keisuke
• Sudo Risa as Okui Marie
• Kaname Jun as Terada Takehiko

• Yusuke Santamaria as Tsuge Masaki
• Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Todo Soichiro
• Hosoda Yoshihiko as Ishiwata Junya
• Aoyagi Sho as Misawa Akiyoshi
• Sakamoto Atsuhiro (坂本充広) as Kawai Hideo
• Yoshiie Akihito (吉家章人) as Kubota Koichi
• Taguchi Kazumasa as Itakura

• Okamoto Anri as Kazuki Maiko
  • Aoyama Ai (青山愛依) as young Maiko
• Tsurumi Shingo as Kazuki Naoya
• Masuda Naohiro (升田尚宏) as opening narrator

( (( starring guests - in cut because I don't wanna spoil it for those that haven't seen it ~ the guy stars are ACE! )) )

Review

Another dorama that over a year later I finally got around to watching >< Now I have to admit, the reason I didn't want to watch this is because I'm not a big fan of Kitagawa Keiko >> yeah fans are gunna hate me but her acting doesn't excite me nor do her characters normally stand out. Yeah didn't like nor dislike her in Paradise Kiss (watched it for Yamamoto Yusuke, Kaku Kento and it was about fashion and the trailer made it look good), The Fast and Furious (I remember her in it though, which (tbh) can't remember her characters in anything else I've seen her in), Buzzer Beat (I remember her having nice hair in that dorama and that's it! I don't like her hair in Lady~ dorama), Tsuki no Koibito (didn't she play a stubborn girl in that? I don't remember her at all in Tsuki, all I remember is Chiling Ling and Kimura Takuya <3). So yeah, as you can tell. I'm not a lover of her, sorry to those that like her. But I have to say, she played a notable character this time around. It was nice seeing Kitagawa san be crazy and criminal like, but in the end, her character wasn't that great outside the 'pretending to be in the crminals shoes and what they did' moments. Moving on shall we? and back to the dorama itself. I like the CPS unit that was created, I enjoyed watching them uncover the crimes and why and how they happened ~ disliked that it was always Kitagawa san's characters that figured the criminal out fully.

Right from now on, let's agree I can no longer mention her in this review ne? Or else I can feel myself SERIOUSLY bashing her past what I've already done << is that even possible =S Again, sumimasen to those that do like her.


( (( long and kinda spoilery review in terms of I don't wanna ruin the guest stars for you )) )

So that's all done, now quick review:

Characters: 7/10 ~ Pretty much it was like 3 mains and all the guests that made this dorama good!
Story: 6/10 ~ Loved the idea of the CPS group, it's a crime thing so I like it, but why so much of... you know who I mean -__- why the lead, WHY?!
Music: 2/10 ~ Don't remember it =S
Overall: 5.5/10 ~ I don't think I've EVER voted a dorama this low before =S
Recommend? Erm... I guess to crime lovers and Kitagawa fans. I guess Kaname and Yuta fans will be happily pleased too =D
ReWatch? No. Not really.. unless I watch my own version which consisted of all Kaname, Yuto, Guest and Santamaria san parts xD

Screencaptures & (SPOILER) Comments

( (( captures )) )

What's next...Don Quixote, Fuyu no Sakura, Himitsu Chouhouin Erika, Nankyoku Tairiku?
Maybe it's time for me to download some more doramas ^_^ Damn you US for pulling MegaUpload -__-