I'm in love with a dorama again! Finally! Yay me!

Let me introduce you to: SP (which stand for Security Police)



It has ingredients that I love: action, great characters, great music, interesting plots, a couple of partners/heroes that are so cute together that I'd squee for the length of the episodes (more when they appear together on screen).

After the first episode the series was already in the top of my ranking of favorite series. I really hope that the rest of episodes are so good as the ones I've seen (1 and 2 subbed, the rest till 6 unsubbed because I couldn't wait ^_^')



I'm a bit weird when we talk about the doramas I like because my favorites favorites, those that I really like had until now a common element and that was Kimura Takuya as the main character. Among all his work I still consider Good Luck! and Long Vacations the best ones, although I have a soft spot for Pride because it was the first dorama I watched in my life and that is something to remember ;)

I've watched some Korean Dramas, I've tried some Chinese unsuccessfully, but the Japanese ones are my favorite. And I'm fine if they don't have a lot of romance, although I really like some that have.

I like SP because it has action. It's like one of those US series I like like Bones, Life, NCIS or Criminal Minds, etc... It has great main characters with fantastic chemistry between them and for now there is no romance anywhere (although if it decides to appear I wouldn't get mad or anything, but I doubt it will so far).

So far there have been three different cases (one of them remind me a little of Hard Boiled *grin*). There have been fights mainly Inoue against the bad guys, although in episode six there is a fight in an elevator, Inoue and Ogata with two terrorists that was fantastic, probably one of the best moment so far (with one of Ogata in the shooting range).

The story is around a team of the Metropolitan Police in charge of protecting VIPs of the likes of Governors, Prime Minister, people in risk to be killed by terrorists/assassins and that kind of stuff...

Captain Ogata (Tsutsumi Shinichi, who I love since Good Luck!) is the head of this unit of four where the most famous (because he's peculiar) is Inoue (Okada Junichi, know I love from now one too), chosen for the team for Ogata himself because he trusts his instincs.

Inoue's methods of securing the places and observing individuals is different to the ones usually accepted which earns him weird looks and sometimes some scolding from those who don't accept the changes that are needed to face terrorism nowadays while Ogata agress 100% with Inoue.

As I mention above the main reason I like the series is because the two main characters, Ogata and Inoue. Ogata has to deal with the bureaucrats who don't want to accept the fact that terrorism has changed and the units dedicated to the protection of VIPs should adapt themselves to the current situation. He himself renounced to take an exam that would make him go further in his career just to keep being a field agent.

Inoue agrees with him about their methods being old and uses all in this power to kepp with his task of stopping criminals. However it seems Inoue has a secret reason for choosing this job as he career. When he was a little boy his parents were killed in front of him by a terrorist in an attempt on the now former Prime Minister's life.

Spoilers...

Later on we learn that Ogata, a high school student when Inoue's parents were killed, was present at the scene of the killings and saw everything, which makes the link between Ogata and Inoue stronger (what I don't know if Inoue knows that Ogata was there or not, because I saw that in an unsubbed episode *sigh*)

The way Ogata looks at Inoue is that of admiration and trust and the same goes for Inoue toward Ogata. They have some kind of banters (one at the beginning of the first episode) that are so very cute!

Below a bit long pic spam of Ogata and Inoue moments. Don't they look great? They are like the best thing ever! Like, I don't know, Bodie and Doyle, Starsky and Hutch, Martin and Danny...





The last picture is from one of the moments where Inoue's senses focus in every little detail helping him to find the bad guys ;)

Notice the bad guys with Ogata and Inoue in the elevator. They disguised themselves as Korean and one of them look like Bae Yong Joon from Winter Sonata, I laughed so much when I saw him *grin*

More SPOILERS...
I really like those moments (although we discover that his ability is due to a excesive work of his brain cells which can cause him troubles in his line of work *pout*

Now I've at the edge of my seat because for what I got from the teaser for episode 7 Ogata may be in danger! Arggg!

I've read the series has been picked up for a second season. If that were true...

Btw, the music is great. The instrumental theme for the credits is quite catchy and reminds me of the Spooks theme. The end credits have a new V6 song titled 'Way of life' that is really beautiful!