#tokai & saeki

[owarinaki]

Black Pean S1 EP10 END part 3

EP10 recap p1 // P2 // P3

GIFS P1 // P2 // P3 // P4 //P5 //P6 // P7 // P8

[katabay]

some black forceps/ブラックペアン fan art— just tokai & saeki for now :) (also sera on the couch)

[marblescourt]

Whats ur show aboutt (invitation to ramble if u Wish.............. )

ブラックペアン (black forceps, or black pean) is a medical jdrama based around a cardiovascular wing in a university hospital and is available on netflix. it's based on the book black pean 1988 and is one of my biggest spinterests. I feel like I sound like a Wikipedia lol, but I want to explain it without spoiling anything.

Tojo university (previously mentioned university hospital) has an extremely high success rate due to the head professor and heart surgeon, Segiō Saeki. The main character, Masashi Sera is an intern in the department training to be a surgeon. He ends up being an intern under a second character, Seishiro Tokai who is an extremely skilled surgeon with no rank due to not caring about moving up in power. He'll fix surgeons mistakes for a price, but never lets a paitent in his care die.

I'm really passionate about this show, and I adore all the depth and power dynamics in it. Tokai's character is very important to me and I'm extremely autistic about him 😋

[snowball-maltese]

Guys let me gush about Black Pean! It’s so good!

I started watching Black Pean, or Black Forceps the other day and binged until episode 7! It was so good!!! I can’t wait to finish it!

Also sorry for low quality screenshots!

Nino was so good as Tokai! I can’t say I’d want to be friends with him if he were a real person but he’s an amazing character lol! Usually I think of Nino as the cute little prankster so to see him play such an intimidating character was so interesting! He’s such an amazing actor 😭😭

Sena is really good too! I love how Tokai starts to trust him! He’s just a little guy and he’s learning! It’s so cute when Tokai trusts him to stitch up the patient in the ER even though he’s an intern. Takeuchi did an amazing job as Sena. :))

Saeki is such an ass like ughhhh he’s such an arrogant little shit and he knows it. I love his character though! Seiyo Uchino plays him so well! The man is so versatile! Like he’s such an arrogant ass in this show yet he was also in What Did You Eat Yesterday? as like the sweetest gay man in the world 😭 (He’s handsome too ngl)

And Takashina. Just Takashina. I know he might not be everyone’s favourite. But he is mine. He might just be the Snipe guy to a lot of viewers, sure he’s a bit misguided and kinda all over the place. He’s a mess, but he’s my mess. If Takashina has 100 fans I am one of those fans. If Takashina has only one fan, I am that fan. And if he has no fans. I am dead. I love this man so much I, no joke, had a dream about him the other night. Kotaro Koizumi, don’t ever change, you beautiful man. 💕💕

[japanesedoramaandanimelover91]

A new episode of the series "Black Pean-2" airs today at 21.00. p.m on japanese time and 14.00 p.m. on european time on "TBS". Don't miss it!

Amagi(Kazunari Ninomiya) suffers from a heart defect since childhood and eventually falls. Saeki(Masaki Uchino)is the chief surgeon, and together with Sera(Ryoma Takeuchi), he sets out to operate, but the only way to save his life is to perform a direct anastomosis and Saeki's method at the same time.

Just then, to their surprise, Amagi's twin brother Tokai (Kazunari Ninomiya, in two roles) appears in the operating theatre. When asked by Saeki if he can perform a direct anastomosis, he replies: ‘I won't do it. I'm not going to do it. It's like gambling,’ he says with a smile....

Will he be able to save Amagi's life?

The story also reveals the reason why Amagi does the shunt trial (choosing between two sides) during surgeries, how the direct anastomosis came about, and his sad past...!

So what does Black Pean's past hide?

[darkilk]

└ Tokai Seishiro: “It all ends today.”

Cr: Black Pean FINAL Episode 10

[osanajimi]

[On the topic of Tokai’s] relationship with Saeki-sensei → *consecutive censored sfx*

(Got it.)

Sorry Nino, but I choked on my spit reading this one.

[nodokasia]

Tokai: The opearation was 100% success.

Sera: Dr Saeki is dead!

Tokai: Yup, 100% success.

[lloftvlly]

‪what she says: i’m fine‬

‪what she means: why didn’t saeki tell tokai about the truth way before? it would have prevented tokai to waste all this time on seeking revenge just to learn he directed his anger towards the wrong person. he’s not the devil people make him out to be, he was pushed to anger for nothing & it’s unfair. and why are we ignoring tokai‘s pain until the end, are we supposed to just brush it off as ‘oh yea he was wrong and he has to deal with the consequences’ and continue? and where did tokai go? why is he the one who doesn’t get to have a happy end? he deserves redemption too after everything. and will anyone ever let me know about the story between neko and tokai and how come they make such a great team? and what happens to neko or sera when tokai is gone? where does tokai live if he leaves the naproom and where does all the rice go and who has to move it? if tbs doesn’t give us a second season how am i supposed to go on from there .. ?

[luna-rainbow]

black pean (rating 13.7%)

Medical dramas and crime solving dramas are the 2 genres that dominate Japanese TV. In the last few years, however, the medical dramas have been either ridiculously bordering on comically hyperbolic (Doctors and Doctor X), or feel-good reflective dramas like Ume-chan sensei and Kounodori. It may be that the audience's tastes are primed by the over-the-top smooth-sailing events in Doctor X or what they've come to expect from the team behind similarly "good always wins against evil" type stories of Riku Ou and Chiisana Kyoujin. This is probably reflected in the respectable but somewhat less than expected rating. What Black Pean gives in the first episode is a far less straightforward story, a complex power play where patient's lives and well-being are used as stakes, led by a main character that currently is neither clearly heroic nor villainous. In fact, most of the major players in this story remain unclear in their allegiances. There is clearly something going on between Tokai and Saeki in relation to Tokai's father (was he framed for an operation that went wrong? But why is Tokai helping Saeki out...and clearly not happy with it?) In a cast stuffed with characters with ulterior political or personal motives, Takeuchi Ryoma's character turns out to be a breath of fresh air. What would have been a boring trope in something like Code Blue, Sera's fresh-faced earnestness injects a much needed humanity and warmth into a story where the senior doctors treat patients like objects to be bartered. I know Takeuchi is the next big thing, but I'm honestly impressed with how he's done Sera's character - speaking from Code Blue 3, it's so easy to make naive helpless interns annoying (although the script for Code Blue 3 was mostly to blame than the actors), but Sera's helplessness combined with his compassion makes the audience sympathise with him and the patient. Moving onto Tokai - I feel like this will be one of the few interesting main characters to come out of Japanese medical dramas in recent years. The first episode paints him with ambivalence and promises a complex back story and motivation, which many recent medical dramas lack. I feel, in an odd way, that many actors could have done this role, but also that no one would be the same Tokai as Nino has brought out. It calls for a lot of dramatic close-ups and theatrical line deliveries, but Nino also adds his iconic relatability to it. It's an unusual role for him, but one I feel that's a long time coming. His small stature and boyish face has relegated him to a lot of tragic everyman roles, which he's obviously great at and won many accolades and awards, but as he proves here, he's more than capable of commanding the camera with an intensity that we more often associate with MatsuJun. Apparently that scene where he pats Sera on the shoulder with a bloody hand was adlibbed, and it's amazing how it adds to the tension in that scene and the frightfulness of Tokai's presence. Nino's line deliveries have always been something that marks him out over his peers and they're used to the full potential here - gliding from a bored monotone to a dangerous purr to a shout that cracks like a whip. The problem with Tokai is, when following up on the heels of the impishly likeable Miyama in 99.9 and the hot-blooded heroism in Riku Ou, it does beg the audience to be patient and persistent. He is not immediately likeable and in fact, Nino loyally sets out to be make him dislikeable. It may be that the ratings will flag because of this (Japanese audiences seem to have a thing these days for easy dramas where the heros win every game without any true obstacles), but I'm still optimistic it will have a character depth rarely seen in recent medical dramas. Besides, Nino's suturing speed is much more impressive than Daimon-Sensei's huge staring eyes when she operates.

[owarinaki]

Black Pean S1EP10 [GIFS] 5

EP10 recap p1 // P2 // P3

GIFS P1 // P2 // P3 // P4 //P5 //P6 // P7 // P8

[ohno-notsane]

I am so disappointed by Black Pean for now, the three first episodes are just so meeeeh.. The characters are walking stereotypes, with Sera and Takashina being two weak crybabies while Tokai is your typical genius who can do anything (he even has his own “the Savior has arrived” music theme) and Saeki is The Big Boss in the Dark. The story is cliché after cliché, nothing credible, and characters with whom it’s very hard to be sympathetic. 

I honestly hope it will get better because for now my emotional involvement is at zero. 

(But then, I don’t have much experience with Japanese medical dramas, so maybe it’s me who is expecting things that I shouldn’t.)

[thekoreanist]

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[cnlt]

Kupikir monyet-monyet Tokyo itu kehilangan kemampuan untuk membuat ku berfangirling setelah bertahun-tahun telah menjadi pengamat.

Ternyata!!

Dua tanda seru itu terlalu berapi-api ya..

Memang setelah menonton konser hal yang harus dilakukan adalah bertepuk tangan sambil berkata "Matsumoto". Tidak usah munafik, karena memang dia yang mengkonsepkan semua itu.

Konser kali ini diunduh dan ditonton dengan cukup sabar. Tidak gegabah. Mendapatkan size yang cukup oke, kemudian ditonton part 1, tidur, menjalankan hidup dengan normal kemudian dua hari berikutnya baru lanjut menonton.

Daripada menyebutnya malas, lebih enak disebut tidak gegabah kan.

Sudah tua, Arashi sudah tua. Sama seperti pengamatnya ini.

Tidak apa-apa, mari menua bersama ya..

Sudah, sampai jumpa lagi. Aku akan pergi membunuh Dr. Tokai dan Saeki kemudian membuang Sera ke teluk Tokyo

Adios~

[owarinaki]

Black Pean S1EP10 [GIFS] 8 END

EP10 recap p1 // P2 // P3

GIFS P1 // P2 // P3 // P4 //P5 //P6 // P7 // P8

[owarinaki]

Black Pean S1EP10 [GIFS] 7

EP10 recap p1 // P2 // P3

GIFS P1 // P2 // P3 // P4 //P5 //P6 // P7 // P8