Holy smokes, I bawled at the end. I bawled so hard. This drama hit so many right spots for me. The whole found family thing with the hotel staff was the best, the way they overcame so many difficulties, the way the learned to stick together and trust each other... and in the middle of it all, Iwata Takanori's Ukai, their quirky good fairy, so to speak.

I think that one of my favorite moments happened in ep 9, when the news crew visited the hotel and started spreading rumors about Ukai and so he decided to tell them the truth about what happened to him in the previous hotel where he had worked, how he was sabotaged there - and then they all closed their ranks around him, they were all there for him the way he had been there for them before. And it was simply wonderful.

And then the ending. Like I said, it made me bawl, because it was so good but also so very bittersweet that my heart ached. Because Ukai came to love them all so much... but! He was someone who couldn't live without a dream and since they all helped him fulfill his, he felt... empty all of a sudden. So he asked the general manager and then all of them to, please, let him go so that he could find a new dream... Gosh, that hurt. But it was also so touching and wonderful because, yeah, they would all miss him terribly but most of all, they wanted him to be happy, even if it meant he would leave. And I think that's the definition of a true affection.