honestly the concept is cute, a teacher giving advice to a love-obsessed student. but the main actress is really doing TOO MUCH. i haven't been so annoyed by a character purely based of acting. and the sad part is that she's totally capable of doing serious and fun scenes, the director just chose to have her overact and add all these unnecessary comical elements to the story. the personality of the character is good enough on its own, but the overacting is just too much and cringy.

there's plenty of good romantic dramas out there that are funny and a little absurd, see "My Sassy Girl" where the main girl is pretty weird and crazy and gets into strange situations, but it is still realistic and entertaining to watch. her male friend is a good level of natural acting, although I have no idea why he's dressed differently (no school uniform) and has dyed hair, it's reminiscent of how animes or mangas have characters with unique hair colors to distinguish them from the rest, but it doesn't work well in real life dramas. the female friend is a good character but also way too over acted, she's quirky on her own but the acting is unnecessary.

overall, i thought this drama could have been fun, because there's so many female-oriented dramas that have the heroine be really conservative and unaware of any romantic advances, borderline socially-inept. but the main character in this movie is very love-sick, a realistic trait for a high schooler and a unique look at high school relationships. her visuals is great but the way she distorts her face while acting just makes no sense and doesn't reflect the tone of the drama. i would recommend this drama only if you just want to see ryoma takeuchi and even then, you really have to stick it out through the main female's acting. ryoma does a good job though, and his character is very normal/ordinary, a strange contrast to the heroine's overacting.

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