Guilty has an impressive premise – gentle-faced but cold-hearted Kanno Miho (aka Nogami Meiko) takes her revenge on men, who put her in jail 15 years ago on the charge of poisoning her brother-in-law and nephew. There’s no need to explain any further that this incident ruined the lives of her and her family – her sister took her life away and put her mother on the verge of sanity. In each episode she deals with yet another hideous persona leading a perfectly safe and successful life and she deals with them in such a refined way disguised in a perfectly understandable suicide that the viewer is left amazed and in awe.
Then suddenly a douche-faced but gentle detective Mashima (Tamaki Hiroshi) turns up in a rather unconventional way (he saves a dog she was taking care of from an inevitable death by drowning). He is intrigued by Meiko both professionally (he notices she is somehow connected to the series of recent puzzling suicides) and privately. When the story evolves from Meiko getting rid of the underlings to the episodes when Mashima and Meiko are getting close to the mastermind the quality plummets reaching its climax in ridiculously weak final episode.
Usually a faulty script is a KO mistake for a drama for me. It’s unfortunate because Guilty has some good points as well. As I mentioned in first paragraph it starts strong with gloomy atmosphere, enhanced by dimmed lights and dark colours (so very WOWOW-y rather the FujiTV). It's both exciting and intriguing to see how a pet salon worker Meiko puts on her cruel face and cleverly deals with the bad guys. It's enjoying to see Karasawa Toshiaki as the eccentric reporter, who devotes himself completely to pursuing the truth behind Meiko's case, living as a homeless and appearing from time to time with greasy hair and retro camera. Kichise Michiko as detective Mashima's sidekick and ex-girlfriend is also convincing and a wholesome character.
My point for this show
The soundtrack is the a I probably enjoyed even more than I expected. Orginal score was written by Sumitomo Norihito and features some really memorable pieces. The title song "Guilty" with english rapping by The New Classics that opens the whole series made me sway to the beat during each episode. Give it a listen here.
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