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Tasnima_329

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Itazura na Kiss: Love in Tokyo japanese drama review
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Itazura na Kiss: Love in Tokyo
2 people found this review helpful
by Tasnima_329
Mar 30, 2021
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 3.5
Story 3.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 3.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Is this meant to be love?

I really did not like this drama, entirely because of the FL. I don't even blame the ML for not liking the FL for the majority of this drama or even admitting to the FL that he likes her after he realises his feelings for her. I genuinely can't hate the ML for his treatment towards the FL.

The drama starts off 2 years into the FL's crush on the ML, on the day she confesses to him. Now, the fact that she had a crush on a guy she has never even been in the presence off, and only developed this crush after watching a speech he made at school in itself is ridiculous. The fact that she had a crush on him in the first episode wasn't what annoyed me. It was the fact that she still "loved" him even after he rejected her upfront, ridiculed her and was never once nice to her. The FL was also very persistent with her persuel of the ML despite knowing that he hated her.

I NEVER once understood why the FL liked the ML. I also couldn't understand why so many people had a crush on the ML. I would understand it if he was even a little nice to her, but he wasn't. Even the times he helped her out, it was for his own gain because she either blackmailed him or he needed an excuse to not do something else. Throughout the entirety of this drama, I can't point out anything that would give a reason for the FL to like the ML as much as she did.

The FL's feelings for him weren't even love, as she consistently says it is. It's obsession. At no point in this drama can I say any sort of love developed. I think the ML only reciprocated an obsession towards the FL, not love. There wasn't enough sweet scenes between the leads to suggest otherwise. There were a few, but even then it just didn't equate to the intensity of the feeling the FL insists she has for the ML.

The FL is also really, really stupid. I hated that she didn't have any feelings for the SML who was so sweet to her throughout this drama. I hated how she used him knowing that he had feelings for her. I would say that I wanted them to end up together, if I didn't hate the FL as much as I did for not being able to develop any romantic feelings for the guy that has been in love with her since high school. Her ONLY flaw was her crush on the ML.

If the plot wasn't so revolved around the FL's obsession with the ML, this could have been a good drama. I felt like one of the reasons the ML didn't like the FL was because she was so obsessed with him. She made her entire life revolve around him.

I really liked the family of both leads, especially the ML's mother. She was by far the best character. What I can't understand is how the ML and even his younger brother were such cold and mean people despite being raised by such lovely parents. The younger brother does grow on me though, and I also never once disliked him. The ML's mother was the biggest shipper of the main leads, which is another reason the ML hated the FL. I felt like this was understandable considering the fact that he felt suffocated by the FL and her obsession with him, the fact that she also brought it into his family must have gotten on his last nerve.

I'm also not saying that I liked the ML. I didn't particularly like the relationship of the main leads, but in general, personality wise, the FL is better than the ML (when it comes to anything but the ML). My favourite relationships were the relationship between the FL and her friends, the relationship between the FL and her dad, and the best relationship was definitely the relationship between the FL and the ML's mother. I loved the ML's mother, she was the best part of this drama.
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