"Janus no Kagami" drama: Episode five recap

 Air Dates: This series aired twice, first on the FOD network Fridays at midnight from August 16th until October 4th, then Mondays at 12:55 am on Fuji-TV from October 21st until December 9th.

Eight episodes with a running time a little over twenty minutes, subs by aoinousagi

Above is the PV for the theme tune that's sung by Hinako, didn't know she could sing

Main Cast:

Hinako Sakurai as Hiromo Ozawa.... meek 17 year old student who lives with her grandmother....

and also as Yumi who is her split personality and the complete opposite of Hiromi

Jin Shirasu as Kenichi Shindo.... president of the high school student council

Akihisa Shiono as Tatsuya Tsutsumi.... mysterious young man who befriends Yumi

Sayuri Kokusho as Takako Ozawa.... Hiromi's very strict and violent grandmother

Maria Mori as Jun Abe.... Hiromi's best friend at school

Sawa Nimura as Ryouko Azuma.... leader of a gang who all despise Yumi

Masato Hagiwara as Kazunari Koumoto... owner of a jewelry store and Hiromi's father?

 At one time think there may have been ten or so blogs which reviewed Japanese dramas but seems these days the number has dwindled to two others besides myself. Korean dramas have definitely become more popular, I prefer most of them too but do get tired of watching such long series. However brought that up for I noticed the other two places and some that recap Korean shows can do them with very brief recaps where not every bit of info or happening needs to be explained. So going to try doing that for the remaining four recaps and the goal is to have no more than four paragraphs though many screenshots. One way to make a recap briefer is not explaining as much of what has happened. Will continue that but here's where we quickly are:

 Towards the end of the fourth episode Hiromi may have learned that her father is still alive but wasn't sure if the man Koumoto is actually her father. However her alter ego Yumi knows it is and has been searching for the man since episode two to find out if he drove her mother Yukiko to kill herself. While Hiromi is quite timid Yumi isn't and has set up a plan to rob the jewelry store Koumoto owns. She's enlisted the help of a gang of girls her age who despise Yumi but once they learn about how much money they may make off the robbery they agree to help her. But Yumi had a plan up her sleeve as she wants the girls out of her way as they may disrupt her plans to take revenge on her father, what those plans are weren't revealed until this episode and that's where we currently stand.

 That'll be it for what's happened and the plan that Yumi had set up, which was a bit obvious, was to have the gang of girls get nabbed for the robbery. With the help of her ally Tatsuya Yumi had obtained the key to the store along with the code to disable the security system. That seemed to put the girls at ease, Yumi opened the store for them with no problem but told them she would enter via the back entrance. That was such a lie and a good one too as after a few minutes the police raided the jewelry shop and caught the girls red handed, of course Yumi wasn't among the group.
 That wasn't the whole group as Yumi had ordered the other half to stay on the roof to watch out for anything suspicious but the police had been in the building the entire time. Those girls were arrested too as the police had been tipped off, of course it was Yumi who had set up the girls to take the fall and their leader Ryouko was absolutely furious but powerless to do anything. Now with the gang out of the way it's time for Yumi to continue in her dealings with her father Koumoto but what did she have planned? Before I forget will add in that Hiromi had her best friend Jun spend the night at her house, it was set up by Yumi and it gave her an alibi if anything should go wrong.

 We won't learn of what Yumi has planned for her father until the next episode, remember these shows are only a little over twenty minutes in length. Yumi is such a devious girl as it was a wise idea to have her friend Jun spend the night as the following morning the police arrived to question Hiromi. She only knew about the attempted robbery by what she saw on the news and did have her friend as an alibi that she was home all night. Hiromi's grandmother was becoming quite suspicious of Hiromi's activities and especially so when she learned the owner of the store was Koumoto. The grandmother Takako has never forgiven the man for what he did to his daughter and you got the feeling she wouldn't mind him being killed.
 For now though the grandmother doesn't know about Hiromi transforming into Yumi but knows something is going on with her granddaughter from reading her diary but it's been Yumi making the entries. Haven't mentioned Hiromi's classmate Shindo this recap but he's still investigating on whether Hiromi and Yumi are the same person. He's fairly sure they are and has told that to Yumi's one friend Tatsuya who feels Shindo is full of it. As this episode came to it's close Hiromi entered the jewelry shop to get her repaired watch back, there she met her father Koumoto and the question as the show ends is it Hiromi or Yumi meeting the father?