Love Shuffle [discussion]

Count me in!

I love all the characters. They are sometimes silly, yet adult, which makes me love this drama all the more. If that makes sense...lol

Last night, i decided to rewatch it too, lol. I just love the concept behind the storyline and the way it was executed. The cast is amazing. It's really the only drama I rewatch, hehe.

New enthusiast here! I feel like I'm just going to be quoting my review with no original thoughts...I'll try not to do that completely. There are things about Love Shuffle which stand out for me enough to put it into a permanant little pocket in my mind labeled special. They might be common reasons for others or even silly but I don't care. First and foremost the theme song; which brings back childhood memories like you wouldn't believe! I love Earth Wind & Fire. When I heard this song start to play I smiled and thought..."Oh, this is cool!" The feel of this show, the fantasy and idea of a partner 'love shuffle' kind of matches the song. I love that whoever created this show was musically savvy enough to pull a song this..."off the beaten path"..from their bag of tricks. Unlike the Bangles song, which was just 'okay' I never got sick of this one.


I also liked the whole premise of the show because if there is another like it out there, I have yet to come across it in Kdramaland or Americaland for that matter. I enjoyed all the different relationship dynamics as the couples switched. I loved Ojiro and spoiler --> how he fell for that strange girl so hard in spite of himself.<-- I even got on board the creepy train after a while because when I first saw it coming I was like...wow this show is going in a weird direction. I took a mental pause and then went...okay, cool! I don't know what it is about this little show. I just liked all of the show's crazy/cool elements.

With one exception: Mei's wishy washy flippy flopping drove me a little nuts...but she redeamed herself for me in the end. All in all...What a fun show! Off to watch Don Quixote now. I'm a new fan of Matsuda Shota!

Oh, Jeanie, you will love Don Quixote too, I'm sure! You'll see another side to Shota-kun and fall for him a little more, like all of us here, lol.
I very much agree with your review and the spoiler comment.

I too was a Ojiro-Kairi shipper all the way through, but I must say Usa (Hiroshi Tamaki) was the real glue of the show. And his obsession with the older woman's breasts cracked me up! Hahahaha: he's so obvious. I guess this is part of that silly yet adult aspect Lis mentioned.
What attracted me the most from the very beginning are the premises of their game: chemistry over love. How many times I've asked myself the same thing: why does love have an expiry date? (most of the times, at least). The drama answer seems to be: because we often confuse the heart and the brain (or the left emisphere with the right, but that's semantic), and end up with people who are not meant for us but for some reason we haven't got the courage to admit it even to ourselves.
Of course the chances to find the other half od the apple is slim among 8 people, but I love it that in the end all the puzzle pieces find their right place.

Yay Panda! A Love Shuffle thread! It always surprises me when I see this under romance/comedy because this is no ordinary rom-com. I was categorizing some of the shows I've seen lately and I put this into the list of shows that are hard to categorize but is freaking brilliant! lol... This show's got it all, romance, comedy, mystery, suspense, psychology. That's what I love about it. It kept me glued to the screen the two days that I marathonned it.

I also love this drama, I started to watch because being a Nodame fanatic I looked up everything Tamaki Hiroshi was in, I love how silly and different he is in this. But the cast was overall great, the story something new and refreshing, outcome not so obvious as usual, it's a really great drama. Yay Pan-da! (loved that, and of course ' no pants'-da was great one too :D )