YMMV / Inspector Zenigata

• Complete Monster ("Chase the Mysterious Skull Crime Gang!"): Akai Toshiki is the leader of "Docro Magnons 5", a gang of sadistic miscreants who kidnap innocent people to torture and beat them for their own merriment. Toshiki makes a sadistic game of hunting his victims through an abandoned warehouse, pounding them with chains and iron bars until they finally give out and Toshiki tosses them on the brink of death out onto the streets. Toshiki even ends up killing one of his victims during the chase, and while the rest of his gang is horrified, Toshiki is smugly apathetic.
• Ho Yay: Zenigata's relationship with Kurashina is filled with an incredible amount of romantic overtones, especially the final scene where Zenigata envisions Kurashina giving him a nod of approval before disappearing. It doesn't help that they both have stronger chemistry with each other than they did with their female Love Interests (though in Kurashina's case, that may have been intentional).
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • "Pilot": Ozu Yuichi is a businessman determined to help solve world hunger no matter the cost. When his former business went bankrupt, Ozu began a short-selling scheme to get the company back, forming an alliance with Toshisaburo Fuchigami for this goal. Taking on the identity of Mr. Question, Ozu plants bombs in buildings owned by a rival company, knowing that when they inevitably explode, the business will tank and he can profit from the stocks. Leading the police on a wild goose chase around the city to disarm them and using trickery to ensure that all of them go off, Ozu betrays and kills his partner to cover his tracks, talking his way out of the police confrontation when they find him as well. Although Zenigata tracks him down with evidence of his wrongdoing, Ozu analyzes his opponents and successfully takes them all down, maintaining to the very end that he was only interested in helping humanity.
  • "Sleep Peacefully, My Friend": Park Yun Jin is a former Korean spy who went MIA on a mission, turning up in Japan after allying with Seto Kazuma. In order to obtain the xenon hydrate they're looking for, she takes up the identity of Omori Miki and forces a Meet Cute with both Kurashina and Takasugi, playing the two of them against each other in order to present Takasugi as a Stalker with a Crush. After helping Seto lure Kurashina to his death and then framing Takasugi for his murder, Omori lures Takasugi to her and then kills him while making it look like an accident, having already set up his apartment as a shrine to her so as to further implicate him. Immediately intending to flee the country once her role in the plan is done, Omori only stays to confront Zenigata about the password to the data, keeping up with him in a fight until Seto backstabs her.
• Narm Charm: Seeing so many of Inspector Zenigata's unusual mannerisms replicated so perfectly in live action is such an odd experience, but it captures the character so perfectly and Ryôhei Suzuki is so committed that it just becomes endearing instead.
• Tear Jerker: Zenigata lamenting that he'll never get to see Kurashina again, including hearing his laugh or seeing his smile. Seeing a grown man break down with such a simple description of death should be cheesy, but Ryôhei Suzuki sells every second of the scene and it becomes ridiculously heartbreaking instead.

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