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Overall it's a nice found-family drama..
Something I appreciate about japanese dramas like this one, is the focus on found family or just family themes.
I binged this drama in one night. The music is good and is fitting. The cast is good. Risa's brother was sleezy and looked lifeless at times, it would've been nice to have seen more of Risa's backstory, to explain their sibling relationship more. Her brother will annoy you whenever he's on screen, but I was also thinking that no matter what he is still her brother, I guess maybe she pitied him in the end.
The main focus of this story was on Maria (Kengo's sister). I liked her bittersweet youthful romance with Ryota.
Now, this drama does say it's a romance, so does it live up to it?
The actors playing Kengo and Risa have a good chemistry. I only wish they had had more sweet scenes together. Like the scene where he teaches her to ride a bike. Just more scenes to make me really believe that they are meant for each other. The show ended up focusing more on building their emotional intimacy. The ending is happy. (Their romance felt more realistic and so did this drama in general)
This drama left more to be desired in the romance aspect, but I'm glad we got some scenes of them together.
The doctor character is played by the actor who plays sojiro in hana yori dango, so I just called him sojiro in this drama too haha.
I saw a comment on mydramalist asking if it really matters what her job was, or if it was just a plot device?
The ending was a bit rushed with the one year time skip and all.. jdramas typically are shorter than kdramas with 45 min episodes, for this drama I wouldn't have minded seeing 10 one hour episodes though.
Overall it was pretty good. I just watched it today so I'll let my feelings towards it marinate more.
I binged this drama in one night. The music is good and is fitting. The cast is good. Risa's brother was sleezy and looked lifeless at times, it would've been nice to have seen more of Risa's backstory, to explain their sibling relationship more. Her brother will annoy you whenever he's on screen, but I was also thinking that no matter what he is still her brother, I guess maybe she pitied him in the end.
The main focus of this story was on Maria (Kengo's sister). I liked her bittersweet youthful romance with Ryota.
Now, this drama does say it's a romance, so does it live up to it?
The actors playing Kengo and Risa have a good chemistry. I only wish they had had more sweet scenes together. Like the scene where he teaches her to ride a bike. Just more scenes to make me really believe that they are meant for each other. The show ended up focusing more on building their emotional intimacy. The ending is happy. (Their romance felt more realistic and so did this drama in general)
This drama left more to be desired in the romance aspect, but I'm glad we got some scenes of them together.
The doctor character is played by the actor who plays sojiro in hana yori dango, so I just called him sojiro in this drama too haha.
I saw a comment on mydramalist asking if it really matters what her job was, or if it was just a plot device?
The ending was a bit rushed with the one year time skip and all.. jdramas typically are shorter than kdramas with 45 min episodes, for this drama I wouldn't have minded seeing 10 one hour episodes though.
Overall it was pretty good. I just watched it today so I'll let my feelings towards it marinate more.
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