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Kekkon Surutte, Hontou Desu ka? japanese drama review
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Kekkon Surutte, Hontou Desu ka?
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by pash
Dec 5, 2022
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 2.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Alas, a missed opportunity

This "Kekkon Surutte, Hontou Desu ka?" had all the ingredients it needed to be a very good - if not outright a great - dorama...but failed miserably due to the main characters being written as a pair of robots. It's even more infuriating, considering that the leads, Aoi Wakana and Sato Kanta, can both act very well but weren't allowed to show their potential, compelled as they were to portray those two expressionless characters (such a waste of talent!). And adding insult to injury, it's not like the writers can't write either, as they also showed their potential here and there, when the situation allowed - alas, too briefly. The rest of the cast, the "packaging" and the music were all pretty good, so with differently written main characters this would've really been interesting!

The way *I* would have written it (very "90s style", LOL - roles that could've been written for the 90s' Sorimachi and Takeuchi, if you know what I'm sayin'): I would have had the ML as a male chauvinist philanderer, and the FL as a staunch, borderline man-hating feminist. And then I would have had them change and grow bit by bit, due to many (often outrageous and funny) happenings, until their final realization that they both would be way better, stronger and happier together, in mutual love and respect.
Cheesy and unoriginal? Yep, you bet. But a gazillion times more entertaining and fun to watch than this yawnfest! ^___-
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