Week 3 continues on where the second week left off, Fumie is still living at home and by now really running the shop and household but to the disamy off her paretns is still single at the age of 28, the year is now 1960. None of the omiais (arranged marriage) seem close to working out until one day a friend of the family suggests someone, a bit of an older man living in Tokyo, he's 38 and looking at his picture and hearing a bit about his life Fumie becomes quite interested and agrees to another omiai. The man is Shigeru Murai (
Osamu Mukai), a rental manga artist who everyine thinks is doing well but we come to see the opposite is true though he never gives up his passion for becoming a successful manga artist. The big drawback for him, least to others it seems, is that he lost his left arm in the war, doesn't seem to affect him too much, is still able to draw and has adapted quite well to living with only one arm. Fumie doesn't seem to mind that about him and the omiai is set up with them and their parents meeting. It goes off well enough, some minor glitches but the two agree to be married.
The problem is that the marraige has to be done quickly, within 5 days as Shigeru needs to head back to Tokyo to meet a deadline for his next book, everyone on both sides get into a bit of a panic about it and work feverishly to somehow get the pair married in this short time span. It's now right around Christmas time 1960 and the wedding is all set, no problems except you'll have to wait for the next recap on the drama as week 3 comes to a close to keep the suspense built up.... and my usual ending to these mini reviews are many shots of
Nao as Fumie for this week's episodes and as noted before, her deceased grandmother does the narration for the show, those are her comments you see often doing the voiceovers.
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