Coffee & Vanilla

Storyline:
Risa is loved by every guy without reason. Start from beginning, every male character will suddenly fall in love with Risa without solid reason.

The story is too sweet but only sweet. Unlike manga, the story only sweet.

Acting:
The actors are pretty and handsome.
However, i cannot feel the chemistry between them . It just too robotic and forced . The only scene that i feel romantic is the scene Fukami speak to Yuki :" because you love me".

Risa character should be more complex. At manga, Risa love Fukami but also continue asking herself why Fukami love she. But i cannot feel the same for drama.

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Coffee and Vanilla is a very enjoyable series, it has a bit of 50 shades vibe but the sex scene are to dull (well i grew up on mexican series)... I don't think the love story was too Vanilla, i feel they just showed the male lead as matured enough not to create unnecessary misunderstandings, tho the female lead was way too clumsy that it got on my nerves sometimes. The romance was not fast in term of the male side (he explained when he met her before) but on the female side, well like i said it's a 50 shade vibe
It was just disappointing that Upon the female lead saying she will become mature and strong many times we never really saw her grow into been that
But overall it are really enjoying series, would definitely rewatch

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And this is why it's not worth watching a drama only because of the main lead

Watching Coffee and Vanilla has been... interesting, to say the least. The cast is hot and there's something compelling enough to keep watching, but that's where the pros end.

Risa wants to experience her novel/drama love story and what she gets seems more like a poorly written y/n fanfic lol. They meet and 5 seconds later they're dating and oh wait now they're engaged??? And in the following scene they start living together and it's like trope after trope but everything happens so fast I just can't process all this shit!!!! The chemistry between Risa and Hiroto is pretty much non-existent and it's so uncomfortable trying to watch the intimate moments... the guy really tries to make it seem sexy while this woman stands there with her eyes closed and being stiff like a plank. I refuse to believe these two fuck on a regular basis as they're trying to make us believe! Hiroto tells her to take his clothes off or kiss him or something and she looks at him as if they hadn't been having sex since they started dating. Anyways, I've seen Dori in a better role but I don't have any references with regards to Fukuhara Haruka so idk if Risa being that way is because of the character or bad acting.

Ok I know I've just ranted a lot, but despite all of these terrible things... I was hooked? I had to look away continuously because of the second hand embarrassment, but tbh I had a great time making fun of it and it was a short watch. Still, I don't really recommend it.

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Just another wattpad story

I'm gonna be honest-i didn't hate this show. It was sort of addicting, but for the wrong reasons. I only wanted to watch the next episode to see what other dumbshit idea the writer wrote next. This dollar store quality, cheesy, cheap whatnot plot is meant to be ridiculous and dramatic.Its just every cliche coming together and forming one big old clot of cliche. Your'e not supposed to expect a decent story with redeemable characters. The FL has zero personality, she's made out of foam and only breathes for the ML. The ML just tries to act tough and sexy when he's actually the opposite. He saw the FL for 1 sec and was like yeah i'm gonna marry that girl.

Anyways if u want to just watch something to fill that awaited guilty pleasure that we all crave once in a while, then yes go ahead. But don't bother trying to be logical :)

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Love at first sight heard many time but start a date or start a relationship after that not even give a chance to understand each other completely not heard. Then entry 2nd man I though there will be a love triangle but that man story didn't go much ,then again entry of a man with negative attitude I thought this character has something suspicious that this character now I give spark to the story but after two episode that spark blow off and last all the time I wait for a secret to disclose about male lead that he had seen doubtful with the starting of few episodes that may he had a past ,he had done bad in his past but whatever story come out it had no power or craze which I was expected ,As a whole the drama has no story which make sense but their love story balance the drama (the way he crazy about her ..) other than rest part of story was boring..

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Fast paced romance/ adapted from a manga

If you don't like a drama that is based off of a manga than this is not for you at all or fast paced romance than you are also out of luck.

Storyline/Plot: There wasn't much or any of a storyline to begin with, I had watched it on Viki and the synopsis was very accurate to what I had watched. I didn't mind the lack of storyline which is why I gave it 5.0 since it wasn't misleading. One thing I didn't like was the constant guys liking Risa (FL), even though she was dating Hiroto (ML). Also, it was disgusting how her friend didn't have any morals (I don't believe in girl code), since she found it okay to date her friend's boyfriend.

Acting/Cast: I liked the cast especially since the main leads are from Good Morning Call which was also another good drama. It was a bit cheesy at times with the acting but it was good for how each character was supposed to be portrayed.

In conclusion, it was a good drama for what it was. I didn't really take this all to serious since it wasn't suppose to be serious, it was suppose to be watched for the romance and skinship. So, I wasn't to serious with this review and critizing it. I would definitely re-watch it for something short but entertaining.

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this is kind of a rant. i hope no one feels hurt by it:')

This drama has no storyline. I have no problem with fast-paced romance, (even though I prefer the slow-burn one because you can feel connected with the characters as indivuals and feel the sexual tension, intensity slowly) but it has to be well executed for me, as a viewer to feel it. I watched this drama to the end to find a storyline which was non-existent in Coffee and Vanilla.

The characters had nothing special about them that would make me feel something about them, except that they are supposed to be attractive. A character having a pretty face doesn't mean anything if they are not well-written. The female lead always have the same "surprised pikachu face" expression throughout if not all, then most of the drama.

However I was worried about the female lead as I thought that this drama had a thriller or psychology trope. But when I was surprised to know that it wasn't, I thought that this was a healing romance because I had a strong feeling that the male lead was abused by his mother which he was, but it was kind of normalised(?).

Nevertheless, in the start, I sincerely believed that the male lead had something wrong with him like there was something off with him. (Well, there was. He was a manipulating, possesive jerk who is a big red flag) but I thought it was something related to the non-existence plot of Coffee and Vanilla. But there wasn't. They treated his character as if he is the perfect guy or something.

Coffee and Vanilla's characters had zero personality, zero chemistry and zero development. And their reactions to a very extreme situation or to an awful incident like sexual assualt was too light that I wasn't able to feel the connection with the characters and their feelings felt like nothing to me as they were too unrealistic to a point where I couldn't empathasize with them.

The supporting characters had no life apart from harming the fl and ml's already harmed relationship, praising the fl or the ml and falling in love with the fl or the ml only to fall out of love in like less than one week.

Won't be talking about the love triangle. It's pretty much only there to make the ml jealous or something and to give the ml and fl a reason to make out:')

A lot of reviewers here are either praising the so-called intimate moments or calling those moments robotic and not intense at all. Honestly, I never noticed their expressions when they were making-out. Maybe, I was used to the male lead's "i am so hot, so lemme give y'all an eye-smile" expression and the fl's "lemme pretend i am a surprised pikachu" expression that I could never notice it:')
However, when the 2nd ml and the 2nd fl made out, i was like, "what the hell, gal?" Why would someone make out with their longtime best friend's sexual assaulter knowing that they sexually assualted their friend?

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LITERALLY SAID SPEED

Ok. This is my first Japanese Drama so I don't know if they are supposed to act like this but I am just going, to be honest. If you guys know plz reply.

First I am going to talk about the good things before the bad. The actors are good looking and the main characters are so sweet. That's it.

Now the bad parts:
- THIS DRAMA IS FASTER THAN EMINEM RAPPING. Like, when I watched the first episode, I just sat there and was like: What in mother's good earth was that. HELLO PEOPLE!!! THEY DID THE YOU-KNOW-WHAT IN THE FIRST EPISODE AND THEY DATED JUST LIKE THAT!

- Some of the things just genuinely didn't make sense. First, the ML is a CEO. Cool right? Then, out of nowhere, he goes on a date with the FL BFF. Later, two love triangles happen and finished within 2 seconds. Boom! Now he's a host and his mom pretends to be sick. WTH?

- Lastly, the drama said that the ML had a dark past. But what was it? I don't see a dark past. Did I just get catfished?

Overall, I cringed, complained and had butterflies. I would recommend this drama who just wants something direct, basic and fast. Sometimes, we just need those types of dramas.

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