Queen originally was broadcasted on Thursdays in Japan and was written by Yasuko Kuramitsu while being directed by three different directors, all of whom directed one or two dramas before this one. The cast is made up of actors and actresses that have become pretty well know over the years in Japan such as Yuko Takeuchi(Innocent Days, Strawberry Night), Asami Mizukama, Yuki Saito, and Taishi Nakagawa. Queen aired for ten episodes with a viewership rating of over six percent.
A group of lawyers work at a firm that deals with legal action against scandals involving their clients. This group of lawyers are no ordinary bunch as they use scandalous tricks of their own to bring the truth to light. There's never a boring outcome to a case when these lawyers are involved.
The actually cases in each episode of Queen are not too interesting to say the least. I found maybe two of three cases that caught my interests but most of the time these cases are just an excuse to watch the main characters flip out into moods of wackiness before getting the job done. Don't miss understand, the cases are were well written out enough to have a strong force to push the plot along, just not always in an attention grabbing way. You see the usual problems that occur in entertainment a lot needing a solution. What's fun about Queen is the method the lawyers use to solve the problems in the cases. Most of the time the solutions the lawyers or lead lawyer comes up with are so unorthodox you can only sit and watch the cray cray unfold. Sometimes you don't even know what the strategy is until the end of the episode where all is revealed. I wouldn't have continued watching Queen had it not been for the strange yet funny acting characters and the illegal acts that would shock any real lawyer into reporting the hell out of every single lawyer in that firm. Queen's soundtrack gets a ten out of ten in my book too. The opening theme song is sung by newcomer female vocalist Milet. Then veteran singer YUKI sings the ending theme just as she has done for so many anime series and dramas in the past. Both tracks fit Queen's theme perfectly. You'll be sing along to both songs by the time you finish up the drama.
The characters have a good rhythm with each other. I could watch a sitcom starring the cast of Queen because of how fun they are together. It's hard not to get invested in the character's off the wall antics . Each person acts so far outside of the normal social rules of Japan that I had to take everything they did in. Their acting carried the drama since everyone had such a good chemistry that you care more about the character's relationship than you do about the cases. Taishi proved that he was cast for far more than just eye candy as the youngest lawyer. His character tried so hard to prove his worth but became the punching bag for the female group of lawyers most of the time. He's got jokes/clap backs/shade on top of his pure disposition. Yuko shined bright as the queen of scandals. She lives up to the title while being such an interesting character that fuels most of the drama, no matter if it's good or bad.. Asami's character was second in command meaning that she was always a step behind Yuko's character no matter where she went without being in her shadow. Yuiki Saito's performance added more comedic layers on to the office conversation they would have before being interrupted by work. I would die laughing whenever the lawyers would state that the office was closed so they didn't have to take on any hard cases. Never enough vacation time, right?
Queen's geared more toward mature J-drama viewers. I don't mean a sexual kind of mature either. Instead, viewers that can appreciate a drama that talks about social issues that don't deal with unrealistic love between a good looking guy and a normal girl all the time.
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