Housekeeper Mitazono
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Housekeeper Mitazono (家政夫のミタゾノ Kaseifu no Mitazono) is a Japanese TV drama series that has been broadcast on TV Asahi since 2016. Starring Masahiro Matsuoka[1].
Since the beginning of broadcasting, the series has been structured as a one-episode series.
Until the 5th series, it was broadcast in the "Friday night drama" slot, but the 6th series was broadcast in the "Tuesday 9 o'clock drama series"[2]. Additionally, the 6th series will be the first in the series to be broadcast in the golden band[3].
It will be staged in November 2022[4].
Plot
"Musubi Housekeeper Agency" dispatches housekeepers at relatively affordable rates. Kaoru Mitazono, who works at the agency, is not actually a "housekeeper" but a "housekeeper", a man who dresses as a woman. Mitazono is quiet and elusive, and it's creepy that you can't tell what he's thinking, but he has professional-level skills in all kinds of household chores such as cooking, laundry, cleaning, and babysitting, and while doing his work at the place he's been dispatched to, he spreads the word behind the scenes of the home. It uncovers "deep-seated dirt," destroys families, and guides them to rebirth. It is a one-episode story, and the basic development is the same each time.
The new housekeeper who becomes Mitazono's partner changes with each series, and each learns housekeeping techniques while being at the mercy of Mitazono's actions, and watches the fate of the place where they are sent from the same perspective as the viewer.
Bad Qualities
- The acting is amateurish, oblivious and bland.
- Plenty of unlikeable and uninteresting characters:
- Hikaru Murata is an immature and childish apprentice housekeeper.
- Yoriko Musubi is an uninteresting director with a little screentime.
- New female housekeepers/partners are so boring:
- Makoto Gomi is a greedy spoiled-brat.
- Moe Onda is a self-centered trial observer maniac.
- Mai Kirishima is a one-dimensional punk.
- Motoko Motokariya is an ignoramus hitman.
- Miyu Yaguchi is naive simp.
- Plots can be somehow predictable and cliched.
- Waste of talent from the guest, like Mari Natsuki, Jesse, Takeshi Masu, Hayashiya siblings, the late Ryuhei Ueshima and Shigeru Izumiya.
- The spin-off, Housekeeper Hikaru wasn't that good either.
Good Qualities
- Masahiro Matsuoka did a decent job as Mitazono.
- Mitazono's 4th wall breaking is interesting.
- Mitazono's tips are really interesting (Such as wet the toast in order to make it more delicious; to erase the red wine's stain on the cloth, put the white wine and make it dry, etc...).
- Emiri Hanada had harsh past as her abusive parents scolded and disowned her for canceling her retirement as a housekeeper.
- Good soundtracks, especially the main theme.
- Good references on other TV Asahi shows ("I never fail." (Doctor X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon), "Be sure to raise the star!" (Metropolitan Police Department, First Investigation Division Chief))
Reception
TBA
Trivia
- Mitazono's catchphrase, 痛み入ります (Itami irimasu) means "Thank you very much", a grateful quote.
- In February 2017, Fumika Shimizu (Emiri Hanada, rookie housekeeper in season 1) announced her temporary retirement from the entertainment industry to join the controversial Happy Science religion,[5] declaring she had been a member of the group since childhood under the influence of her parents, both of whom have been devout believers in Happy Science for a long time.[6] Through Happy Science, she announced a return to acting under her new name Yoshiko Sengen (千眼 美子, Sengen Yoshiko) with Happy Science's ARI Production company.[7] On the same month, Kana-Boon's Yuma Meshida apologized for being in an adulterous relationship with her[8].
Comments
- ↑ https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2077319/full/
- ↑ https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2279352/full/
- ↑ https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2279352/full/
- ↑ https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2236479/full/
- ↑ https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2085849/full/
- ↑ https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-02-13/fumika-shimizu-retires-from-acting-to-join-happy-science-religious-organization/.112162
- ↑ https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2091177/full/
- ↑ https://www.tokyohive.com/article/2017/02/kana-boons-meshida-yuma-apologizes-for-being-in-an-adulterous-relationship-with-shimizu-fumika