Everyone's personal stories were so genuine and full of honest, relatable, real humanity, respect, and unique stories I've never seen on screen(s) or read about before. I laughed or cried of worried or got angry with each character of each episode. This show is full of chaos and calm, love and heartbreak, happiness and depression, anger and kindness, respect and fear, understanding and knowledge, but most of all this show has so much honest to goodness love, kindness, respect, light, and relatable humanity! If you have the time to watch this series from beginning to end, I sincerely suggest and hope that you do!!
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This drama is like Nichijou (an anime), where the show focuses more on characterization rather than plot. The issues the character have is realistic and almost always makes me sympathize with them as a character. I loved the Master's character as this calm and sympathetic person.
This drama is like an unscripted variety show, where you truly feel like you're one of the bar patrons listening to others' frustrations and gossiping with them as well. The actors did an excellent job of preserving that vibe throughout the whole season.
The characters also have natural looks, meaning not everyone is eye candy like what kdramas usually cast. The fact that the characters look average makes this drama even more real to me.
If you haven't watched this drama, please watch it! This is truly an underrated gem that deserves more international attention.
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Return to form, better stories with higher stakes.
In Midnight Diner Tokyo stories, we continue to watch Master and how he interacts with the patrons of his diner while serving them delicious food, as they go through their lives. This season is better than Season 3 of Midnight Diner, as they seem to have ramped up the plot and stakes, storytelling wise.We get to take a look at possible adultery, adult films (with fan favorite Mr. "Erect" Oki!!), government redevelopment for the Olympics, cross country romance, career slumps and how 2 characters deal with them differently and hope with sweaters. Even with the feel good fantastically tasty looking food factor to comfort us, some of these were hard on the heart.
Not going to lie, the sweater episode destroyed me a little inside, because there ARE people who will pour their hearts into crafts that are then given away to others who don't appreciate the craft (or the person). It kills a piece of you when that happens. I'm glad this was explored in the episode, and this episode alone justifies the 8.5 rating. It's not perfect, but it's a series worth watching.
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