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amrita828

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amrita828

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Ohitorisama japanese drama review
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Ohitorisama
12 people found this review helpful
by amrita828
Apr 24, 2011
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 4.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 4.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 2.0
And here we go again. I'd go as far as to say that any young actor who was once a student of Yankumi (Gokusen 1, 2 and 78) will sooner or later be involved in a love story with a more mature woman. It must be a karma thing.
Nothing wrong with it, mind you. On the contrary, if a man is attracted to younger women, I don't see why it shouldn't be the same for a woman. And in many cases the formula works.

Not here, though, not to me at least. Koike Teppei is the perfect child: he's sweet, invariably clumsy, funny in a goofy way, but he's the most unbelievable lover ever. I can imagine he could have a teen-ager crush on a tall, statuesque, perfectionist of a collegue but why should she reciprocate? To fullfill her mother instinct?
This was the first time ever - and I hope the last - in which I laughed out loud during the first love declaration.

The plot is so inconsistent I forgot most of it after watching the end credits. The situations these 2 are thrown into, which in the drama world should help the 2 fall in love with each other, are little, daily, mostly boring ones. I had no particular wish to know the epilogue of this story, so by the end I simply watched it while I did a dozen other things. How did it end, by the way? I forgot.

I give the music a non-committal 5 because, truth be told, I don't remember how it was. Whatever the case, it certainly did not leave a great impression on me.

Overall, a boring, dejà-vù dorama with a very unfitting cast.
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