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For a while now I've been meaning to post about Spec 2, which is a ten-episode Japanese cops-investigate-supernatural-conspiracy show. (There is also a Spec 1, but it's only tangentially related? Or maybe Spec 2 is a remake? I'm not actually sure but it's not necessary to see it beforehand, anyway. At least, I hope it wasn't necessary, because I didn't.)

Anyway there is one overpowering reason that everyone should watch Spec 2 and that is TOMA AND HER FACE.

In the depressingly small fictional repertoire of female weirdo genius asshole detectives, Toma is the greatest I have yet encountered BY FAR.

Toma loves making people uncomfortable. BECAUSE SHE'S A JERK. *___*

TOMA WILL NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT SYRINGES AND POTASSIUM.

This is a beautiful set of images I like to call 'Toma trolls murderers for the lulz.'

CREEPILY SNIFFING A SUSPECT, BECAUSE SHE CAN:

Only one thing makes Toma happier than being an asshole to murderers, and that is encountering the supernatural. Toma, faced with potentially demonic possession:

Toma of course has a partner and straight man, a cop named Sebumi who has a giant stick up his ass about being demoted down to her weirdo unit.

Except Sebumi is actually secretly a HUGE DRAMA KING who likes climbing onto whatever's tallest and making speeches from on high, so.

Also, why is he always carrying around this brown paper bag? NO ONE KNOWS.

A CLASSY AND DIGNIFIED GENTLEMAN.

(He's .... trying to open a door. Guess who gets it open?)

SEBUMI HATES HER SO MUCH. (Well, okay, he loves her. A little. Eventually.)

Toma has a nemesis named Ninomae.

Except he's, like, fourteen, which makes him kind of like the murderous Greg Pikitis to her Leslie Knope.

Toma also has a loser ex-boyfriend who won't leave her alone. He steals her dumplings, so obviously he's terrible.

"I'll call you!"
"DON'T."

Sebumi and Toma's boss, who is mostly useless:

Mirei, the other main female character, whose brother got shot in Sebumi's tragic backstory incident. I love her because she spends the entire show giving everybody death glares.

That's the main cast, but every episode introduces at least one extremely bizarre new character. Some of my favorites include: Reisen, a psychic who sees the future by biting lemons and reciting magical girl chants!

Poor Reisen eventually ends up kidnapped by Special Forces and forced to play Nintendo all day.

The extremely helpful backup cops!

Satori, a really genki evil telepath!

A priest who's famous on Twitter!

THE FIVE MEMBERS OF JAPANESE BOYBAND EXILE WHO EXERCISE THEIR SUPERNATURAL POWERS VIA SYNCHRONIZED DANCE MOVIES

Sorry, Sebumi. THAT'S JUST THE SHOW YOU'RE IN.

...uh, though for all of Spec's amazing bizarreness and frequent hilarity, I feel I also need to warn for graphic violence, suicide, stalking, a super creepy arc involving brainwashing via mind powers, and the fact that the actual plot makes INCREASINGLY LESS SENSE as it goes along.

And also for the fact that at one point in the first episode Toma spits out a line about only using ten percent of your brain and tries to make it central to the mytharc. WHY, TOMA. DID YOU HAVE TO. ;___;

Oh, well, Toma's face is worth it. SO WORTH IT.