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+====== Legal High ======
+**リーガル・ハイ**(Legal High) is a Japanese comedy TV show about a young lawyer working with an experienced Lawyer.
+{{tag>shows}}
+===== Review =====
+I'll just do a basic ‘in general’ review until I think of what to say more specifically.
+What makes the show interesting is that it follows a ‘corrupt’ lawyer: Komikado. He doesn't care about pleasantries like ‘the truth’, ‘ethics’ or anything like that...he only cares about three things: //money//, //winning cases// and //women//. (In that order.)\\
+However, this makes him kinda admirable in a way. He doesn't care about who's right or wrong in a situation, he believes that his duty as a lawyer is to do //anything// to help his client win his case.\\
+What aids this is the fact each case has some hidden context which is exposed as the episode goes on...which tends to shift the conversation from black/white to an ambiguous gray. And, sometimes, the end of the episode throws a twist which just makes the audience question everything more.
+To give an example: in the first season, there's a case where a company is building an apartment in a neighborhood. Instantly, the neighborhood bands together to sue the company on the grounds of “right to sunshine”.((:fn:>Which I guess is a thing?)) However, it becomes clear to everyone involved that what's actually happening is extortion: most people in the neighborhood have banded together just to get money out of the company. There is only //one// person who actually cares about their right to sunshine.
+A later example of the “twist at the end” is from the first special. In it, Komikado is dealing with a bullying case: a kid jumped off the roof of a building and his mom decided to sue the school for negligence (basically). The episode suggests that bullying was occurring and the school was aware, but did nothing about it. The case hinged on the fact that the kid who jumped was coerced/forced to jump by the bullies. The episode then ends with the kid admitting to Komikado that he thinks he might have not been coerced at all: he actually wanted to know what it was like to fly.((:fn:>That said, I actually //do// think that bullying occurred in the school because otherwise the rest of the episode doesn't make much sense. The bullies //did// admit to bullying him, after all. And it didn't seem to me that the bullies were lying for the sake of appearances or anything like that.))
+The second season is probably better than the first season just down to the fact it integrates the theme a little better. Also, the antagonist's plan is pure insanity.\\
+My favorite episode has to be the one where the eternally positive lawyer establishes a gestapo in an isolated village that captures people who eat hamburgers.
+===== Trivilinks =====
+  * [[tmdbtv>46234|TMDB]]