Season 2 of Gokenin Zankuro starts with one of the best additions to a series ever! Abe Hiroshi joins the series as Otokichi, the head of the seven young men brigade of firefighters or jyoubikeshi as they were called in the Edo period.
This series has two of the greatest jdorama actors ever in Watanabe Ken and Abe Hiroshi with the delightful Wakamura Mayumi as Tsutakichi in the middle! Do you need any more reasons to watch Gokenin Zankuro?
True to all triangle relationships, Otokichi has long been in love with Tsutakichi who is oblivious to it while Tsutakichi likes Zankuro who is similarly oblivious but he knows about Otokichi's feelings for Tstakichi. On a side note, I really love the above shot with the slight red shading. Classic samurai scene with two people on a bridge with falling snow. They don't need to show Watanabe Ken's face because the focus is on Wakamura Mayumi.
Episode 1 is about someone starting fires all over Edo and Tsutakichi's adopted father being killed. I liked how the story payed off Zankuro's mom incessant drumming from season 1 to help solve the case. Abe Hiroshi makes a great foil for Watanabe Ken. Tsutakichi also gets to do a lot more fighting in episodes 1 compared to season 1 and some of the scenery shots are just beautiful.
Looking forward to the rest of the series and big thanks to Avallac'h for transcribing and retiming. Very watchable.
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