One Potato Two

I'm watching a Japanese drama series called "Kurosagi."

It is based on a manga from Shogakukan's Young Sunday.



It is about a con artist who cons other artists.
Con artists who trick people for money are called shiro (white) sagi.
Con artists who trick people of the opposite sex and play with their feelings are called aka (red) sagi.
And con artists who feed on shiro sagi and aka sagi are the ultimate con artists known as kuro (black) sagi.

Sagi is a word for "con" or "fraud," but in another kanji complex it is a word for a heron.
So the opening scene in the drama shows a white heron, a red heron, and a black heron.

I've never read the manga, but it looks interesting.
Maybe I'll read it in a manga cafe when I go to Japan.

The drama features the same two actors in "Nobuta wo Produce," Maki Horikita and Tomohisa Yamashita.

So it's a little weird.
Especially because Tomohisa Yamashita sometimes acts like "Akira" in Nobuta.

See, this didn't happen when I saw "Unfair" and "Anego."
Both dramas have Ryoko Shinohara and she plays completely different characters, but I didn't get the uncanny feeling like I'm doing now.
She's a really good actress.


About work.

Today I worked on a bunch of documents from Company JRI, and on the yaoi manga from Company T.