I'm glad I didn't drop this just yet.

As I had already said on the comments section, this drama was feeling very tepid for me. The first 3 episodes weren't very exciting, but episode 4 definitely made a change.

During this episode the tone became less bland; they dropped the cheesy factor a little and focused more on developing our heroine, giving her a bit more depth. Haru losing her confidence and the way they dealt with it throughout the episode was done very solidly. I'll take this episode as a grain of salt, but I hope the much anticipated America story-arc is as exciting as this episode.