Chase 2017

Chase is an investigative jdorama made by Amazone Prime starring Honda Tsubasa as a rookie assistant director for a broadcast satelite (BS) station and Otani Ryohei as the freelance journalist who she teams with to investigate the unsolve murders 27 years ago.

First off, I never knew that BS stations were looked down by others in media because they did mostly shopping programs. Sometimes I find BS jdoramas more enjoyable than the mainstream ones.

Second is that everyone in the BS station was demoted there for various reasons so there is the underdog element because they are the station that no one gives a crap about and they are going against the police and courts.

I really enjoyed this show because it does something we see very often in jdoramas; the unsolved case from XX number of years but its done without all the overacting and doesn't repeat the phrase 'unsolved incident from XX year ago' one hundred times. (I am looking at you Triangle)

Honda and Otani have decent chemistry as the young AD out of her depth trying to be acknowledged as a reporter by the grizzled veteran. The 30 minute runtime is breezy and every episode ends in a cliffhanger so I went through the whole 7 episodes very quickly.

Chase doesn't do anything extremely well but it does everything much better than your average jdorama. Very watchable and its been a while since I've since a good underdog investigative reporting jdorama. Its just so well paced that I've got no complaints.

Big thanks to rjgman56 for subbing and I got the raws and retimed subs from avista but they are also available at nyaa. Can't wait to get started on season 2 which I don't think has been subbed.