Majo Saiban

interesting storyline..in the real world, it takes alot of courages and honesty to perform what the hero trying to do..besides, nowadays money rule the world..so, basically, this drama may awaken hungry, sacred and sincere heart that full with hopes and bravery to upright justice..in conclusion, go go go majo saiban!!!!obedeto gozaimasu

Majo Saiban is for me one of the biggest disappointments on suspense dramas.

This story is about a murder trial, and how strange things begin to happen to the lay judges just to make force their vote. That's pretty much the highlight of the story.

The story goes like this after being chosen as lay judges for the Witch Trial the six judges start being threatened to vote for not guilty. That's when we found out that the one moving the strings is the witch. The Witch Trial is about a hostess that married a rich old man and then was accused of killing him in order to receive his inheritance. At first almost all the judges but 2 ( Izumi, who will be an ally to Tooru, and a Law student) are convinced that the Witch is guilty, because of her background. But after, one bye one start changing to not guilty, Tooru (Toma) notices that it must be because they are being threatened just as he is. So he decides that no matter what he is not going to be controlled and continues to chose guilty, but just when he is about to give up the judges change their votes once again to guilty. This surprises Tooru who now founds out that the organization that was making the threats betrayed the Witch and is now trying to make her guilty. This (I don't know why) makes Toma think the witch may be innocent. And so the story continues with ZERO suspense for me (the only thing that surprised me was the fact that Kurokawa was Izumi's husband) all the "twists" were pretty predictable for me and the end was horrible.
One more thing that was unnecessary for me was Tooru's girlfriend that was pretty much out of her mind during all the drama suspects him of having a romance with Izumi and almost kills him because of that.

To sum up this story pretty much fails on every aspect and I don't understand why after having such great suspense drama they make THIS!!!
The two things that were excellent: the song by Fukuyama Masaharu "Senshin", and the villain Kurokawa (love him!!!)
Anyway there are plenty of good suspense dramas to watch so just forget about this one and move on.

this review is about majo saiban which is about a guy named Toru he become juror in the trial of a woman labeled as a "witch", charged with a murder over an enormous inheritance. First He wansnt really interested to be juror because he became juror for money but he starts to understand about it and he realises how emoportant his job is and with 1 vote he could change someones whole life with just only 1 vote later he gets in to it and fights for truth with other 5 juror but there was some one who was working against them and them to vote guilty, he uses they weakness and make them his 1 by 1, the witch makes toru to help the witch to appear that she is not guilty by making him believe by using his girlfriend who is a newspaper reporter