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This is brilliant. I love that they're going all in with the surrealist bits. It's so nice to see Koshiba Fuku playing a different kind of character again!

I'm not really someone who cares about business, but this is more a humanist drama than anything so I got into it. It was enjoyable and had a great cast, especially Ryusei Ryo is charismatic and feels larger than life which made him perfect for our lead.

I like when Haru plays awkward but strong characters like this and Mahiro, as always, is likeable enough to pull off the exaggerated parts. I look forward to seeing how things develop.

Eh, my interest kinda plateaued in the second half. It's still a lot better than I initially thought from previews but also became what I feared: a slodge of tropes that I couldn't engage with.

Bakarhythm pulled the rug out from under us midway through the series but in the best way possible. I couldn't have asked for a better finale! Appropriately sentimental but still bitingly hilarious. It felt so rewarding.

As someone who's into food, history, and domesticity, this show is made for me.

Yeah, I honestly didn't een think they were new versions until I saw on the website that they released a drama version of the OST. I wish they had included a (Drama ver.) label on the tracks.

This went from series I wasn't really interested in to one of the ones I look forward to every week. It's much more of an ensemble drama than I was anticipating and I like slowly getting to know each character.

The versions of the songs used in the drama (as opposed to the anime) are available to stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/4obwwGDBCgQt9pxStQ8YCy

You can also buy the CD, there's a listing on CDJapan: https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/PCCG-2203

She reminds me a bit of a young Tsuchimura Kaho. Very promising actress!

The way Bakarhythm writes dialogue is always something else. Feels like I'm listening in on a private conversation. There's no concessions made with the audience. I find it almost hypnotic lol.

It's a real testament to the cast that you could put them in a single room just throwing puns at each other and it still manages to be some of my favourite TV. I just adore all the characters and their quirks, and the silly references that flew over my head but I could immediately recognize were references for their nod-and-wink delivery alone.

It's a companion to the main drama SP showing additional stories from the perspective of the two male leads.

Starts off cynical but becomes very sincere as it goes along. A little too much, maybe, but that switch is necessary.

This was what I wanted to. When Hasegawa and Mitsuki jumped with her the second time, I thought the story was going to pull a twist and reveal that she never jumped into an alternate world and really did just travel back in time, so just like she kept her memories, they would be able to keep theirs. Then we would circle back to where we started, but this time with everyone having grown from the experience, ready to move on with no regrets of the past... but instead we got a flat ending lol.

The con with adapting a long-running serial is that there's this world of characters with rich stories to tell that we only ever get to gloss the surface of. Every time we got introduced to a new element that hid more layers I so badly wanted them to peel away and reveal more, like Tomoko and Ryohei's complicated upbringings or the rest of Sato's story, but I think the rough basics of the leads' relationship and especially Tomoko's arc really made this such a loveable watch anyway.

Such a warm drama that was perfect for the winter. Nomoto and Kasuga's relationship is everything—love that's selfless and built on making each other happy in their own ways >>>

Someone has started subbing this: https://subscene.com/subtitles/5-bun-nochi-ni-igaina-ketsumatsu-surprise-ending-after-5-minutes

Edit: I've checked and these have been machine translated with DeepL with some QC work done so, uh, watch at your own risk. Additionally, all 4 episodes will be airing on GEM TV Asia over December 22-23 if you want official subtitles.

Definitely frustrating at times but never overwhelmingly so, Nao's lead performance anchors everything and stops this ship from capsizing. She makes sure Nodoka is someone to root for even when it seems like the whole world is against her. There's an old school charm for longtime JDrama lovers.

Oh yeah, totally! Humans are multifaceted beings and sometimes it's hard for others, even our own selves, to grasp with that complexity. For however we put on that "performance" (so to speak) we're always going to draw from who we really are.