The Black Swindler

When I first heard about this series, I was a bit worried about watching it -- because I thought that my view of it might be coloured by the fact that I loved Nobuta wo Produce, the series that YamaP and Horikita Maki were in previously. I realised very quickly in the first episode that these two actors were so talented that there was no way I could mistake them for the same characters that they played before. They've made their characters sympathetic and intriguing where another actor might have made the same characters clichéd and boring. The secondary characters are just as interesting -- Yukari is one of those characters that you love to hate...and Katsuragi is a constantly manipulative old coot with a million tricks up his sleeve -- it's because of characters like these, as well as a rich and varied storyline that I can't help but insist that everyone go out and watch this show!! They don't make doramas like this every day!