Trick - 1,2,3

Just completed the whole 3 seasons of japanese series called Trick plus 2 movies of the said show. It's a very funny series full of magical tricks and mysteries You can also learn some of the common magic tricks used by magician to impress your friends :P. It's really a recommended show. Here's the extract of the show's story at the back of the cover of season 1:

"Although 23-year-old Naoko Yamada (Yukie Namaka) considers herself a beautiful and talented magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late.

One day as she is searching though the newspaper for the new job, she comes across an ad os a physics professor, Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real.

Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda. Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists the reluctant Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Soon, they are debunking spiritualists. Eventually Ueda develops a reputation for solving supernatural cases, but his secret weapon is Yamada, who hates the work but needs the money."

Yukie Namada's acting was abit stiff during the first few episodes for first season, and was improving as the shows move on. It is always funny where all the characters throughout the whole 3 series always giving her character a nickname "flat-chest". In fact, she also got the same nickname for her character that she acted in another Japanese series called Gokusen. But let's save Gokusen for another time...