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Tokyo Tarareba Musume japanese drama review
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Tokyo Tarareba Musume
3 people found this review helpful
by sealand
Feb 14, 2018
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 4.0
Story 2.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
The drama is watchable. The acting is decent and the setting is pretty good. Basically, good production quality. Despite this, all 3 main girl characters are very stupid. They keep doing stupid things, even if they know it is stupid. For instance, Kaori leaving the matchmaking event after a text from Ryo was really infuriating. Even at the end, their mindsets are still the same, which is that they "want to find happiness" by getting married. They never think of changing themselves, by and from themselves. The 3 girls rely on other people's actions too much, kind of like going with the flow and being passive. Even though Rinko made the big step of confessing to Hayasaka, it was only a one time thing that she did after KEY criticized her for being passive. Honestly, I keep thinking that it is no wonder that these girls cannot get married. More about Rinko, the personal dialogs with the Tara and Reba were actually pretty good, it is just she doesn't do them (or like I said before, apply it once and then forget about it for the rest of the series).

The characters of the drama suck because the writing sucks.  One thing that everyone can agree with is that the girls, especially Rinko, meets KEY "coincidentally" too often. This coincidental meetings are basically the plot turning point of the drama. A rule with any kind of writing is that if you want your main character to encounter a coincidence, it must be an unfortunate coincidence (ex. an unexpected rival, something does not go as planned) and not a fortunate coincidence (ex. accidentally meeting someone who helps you solve your problems without charge or anything).  Rinko's short term boyfriend was also too coincidental and from the start it was obvious that he was just a subplot thing.

One thing I liked about this drama is Rinko realizing and saying to KEY that the girl nights are great and that she enjoys them, when KEY criticized them having girl nights too often. Girl nights do not prevent them from getting married or being happy, it is the character's personality themselves. That point in episode 3 or 4 was when I thought that Rinko would start to change, but unfortunately, she remained stupid. I still think that they drink beer too much despite Rinko being almost broke. To conclude, this drama is very watchable. You may even enjoy it. For me, I enjoyed it but was pissed of at the end. The aftertaste of this drama was not that good as well. Why is it watchable is basically because the production quality is good, and it has all the makings of a successful drama. Too bad the writing sucks.
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