Kanojotachi no Hanzai Episodes 1~5

I have no understood how Maeda Atsuko aka Acchan was at the top of AKB48 during their heyday, how she kept getting acting roles and here we are many years later with another Acchan dorama Kanojotachi no Hanzai. I don't hate her, I am just indifferent because after so many years I have never been impressed with any of her acting.

Kanojotachi no Hanzai as the name implies is about 3 women who get together to commit a crime: doing a false suicide. We have Acchan as an emotionless housewife stuck in a loveless marriage and of course mother in law from hell, Fukugawa Mai does PR for a clothing company and Ishii Ana is a police detective.

We already know the crime from the first episode and the first five episodes is setting up how our three women are connected and what their impetus was for committing the crime. The concept is interesting with these three seemingly unconnected women but the execution is sort of meh, especially the acting.

I was excited to see Asakura Aki but unfortunately she is only there to play a minor supporting role. They should have replaced Acchan with her and I think the show would be better for it. End of the day, it is also about how many eyeballs you can draw to a show. Asakura Aki is one of those forever stuck in supporting role actors who never get their chance which is why I super enjoyed Cold Game when Hada Michiko was given the chance to play the main character.

After episode 5 is where the show should get interesting since we reach the beginning of the story and now anything can happen. I am hoping that the novel that it is based on is good enough to cover the lack of acting.

Ultimately the concept of Kanojotachi no Hanzai is interesting enough to make the story slightly watchable as long as you are not watching for the acting The first 5 episodes have been hardsubbed by luwang so you can download from the discord. Give it a try if a mystery dorama about 3 women faking a suicide sounds interesting.