Boss
Boss is a Japanese live-action series. Osawa Eriko returns home after having worked in America for several years. Back in Japan she becomes the boss of a division that is filled with misfit detectives. This series ran in 2009 and consists of eleven episodes. The second season was released two years later.
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If you were looking for the video game concept, try [[Boss Battl] instead. If you were looking for a singer called "The Boss", see [[Gene Ammon], [[Diana Ros], [[Rick Ros], or [[Bruce Springstee].
Tropes used in Boss include:
- [[Abusive Parent]: There are quite a number of them.
- A God Am I: The villain in episode 2 refers to himself as 'God'.
- [[Alone with the Psych]: Osawa ends up in this kind of situation a couple of times.
- [[Asshole Victi]: Quite plenty.
- [[Badass Grandp]: {{spoiler|The killer in Season 2's episode 4, who's also a [[Handicapped Badas].}}
- [[Big Brother Instinc]: Masaki Shougo towards Manami-chan.
- [[Brilliant but Laz]: Kimoto Mami. Will take a taxi instead of walk for ten seconds.
- [[Casanova Wannab]: Iwai Zenji is one of the rarer gay examples.
- [[Catch Phras]: "We have a case". So much that it is noted when she doesn't say it.
- [[Chekhov's Gu]: Yamamura's lame-looking "bulletproof" helmet actually works!
- Hanagata's iron plate in Season 2's Episode 2, used by Iwai two episodes later to protect himself from a stab.
- [[Chekhov's Gunma]: The villain of Season 1's Episode 1, whom Osawa seeks advice from regarding a complex bomb in that season's last episode.
- [[The Chessmaste]: Osawa has quite a few tricks up her sleeve.
- [[Cool Old Gu]: Oyama Genzo, who keeps his calm all the time. Even though he was targeted with an explosion and then kidnapped.
- Cop Show
- [[Date Peeper]: In Season 2, Episode 8.
- [[Doesn't Like Gun]: Katagiri Takuma, who has good reasons for this. He finally gets over it in Season 1's episode 8.
- [[Drowning Pi]
- [[Embarrassing Old Phot]: Osawa playing a thief named "Heisuke-san".
- [[Everybody Is Singl]: Except for the boss. Though that relationship has its own issues. They finally break up at the end of Season 1.
- Katagiri manages to find a girlfriend in Season 2. He has to break up with her too.
- [[Evil Counterpar]: Kogure (in Season 2's Episode 7) to Hanagata, Numata to Osawa.
- Faking the Dead: Nodate in the last episode.
- Five-Man Band: Osawa's subordinates:
- [[The Her]: Katagiri Takuma
- [[The Lance]: Yamamura Keisuke
- [[The Big Gu]: Iwai Zenji
- [[The Smart Gu]: Kimoto Mami/Tadokoro Sachiko
- The Chick: Hanagata Ippei
- [[Sixth Range]: Kurohara Rika
- [[Gold Digge]: Yamamura Keisuke is so gullible that he falls victim to this as well as other types of money scams many times.
- Handsome Lech: Nodate Shinjiro
- [[Hates Everyone Equall]: Kimoto claims to be this.
- Henpecked Husband: Chief Tanba is hinted to be one.
- I Love the Dead: The second Angel Killer.
- [[Kee]: Hanagata Ippei.
- [[Knife Nu]: Some of the villains, like the one in Season 1's episode 2.
- [[Magical Databas]
- [[Morality Pe]: Manami-chan to the killer of Season 2's Episode 9.
- [[The Man Behind the Ma]: Takakura, the Big Bad of Season 1, is actually manipulated by a secret organization ran by Morioka, Osawa and Nodate's old friend. Then it turns out that even Morioka is manipulated as well, by Rika's old man.
- [[Misfit Mobilization Momen]
- [[The Mol]: Nodate pretends to be this. It turns out to be another cop.
- {{spoiler|Tadokoro in Season 2, then she undergoes a [[Heel Face Tur].}}
- [[Only Sane Ma]: Osawa seems to be this, but only because all the others are so weird.
- [[Pet the Do]: {{spoiler|The villain of Season 2's Episode 9 is probably the most prominent example so far, as he takes care of a little girl whose [[Abusive Parent] are among the ones he killed.}}
- Psychopathic Manchild: Numata Yoshimi.
- [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfit]
- [[Roaring Rampage of Reveng]: Some of the villains.
- [[Shooting Galler]: The body parts that the different detectives aim at tells you a lot about their personal issues.
- [[Star-Crossed Lover]: Katagiri has no choice but to break up with his girlfriend as he is a detective, and her father is found out to be a murderer's accomplice.
- Title Drop: The detectives call Osawa "Boss".
- [[Trickster Mento]: Nodate.
- [[Well-Intentioned Extremis]: Morioka and Rika's father, who believe they are doing what's best for their country.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: {{spoiler|Masaki Shougo. While he has no qualms killing Manami's mother, who had nothing to do with his tragic past, he has a sort-of brotherly love for the little girl, who reminds him of his [[Dead Little Siste].}}
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