Air Dates: March 29 to July 19, 2013.... Fridays at midnight on Fuji TV TWO
Main Cast:
Miki Honoka as Kotoko Aihara
Yuki Furukawa as Naoki Irie
Yuki Yamada as Kinnosuke Ikezawa
Nanami Fujimoto as Jinko Komori
Kasumi Yamaya as Satomi Ishikawa
Yoji Tanaka as Shigeki Aihara
Tomomi Nishimura as Noriko Irie
Kakaricho Imoaraizaka as Shigeo Irie
Yuga Aizawa as Yuki Irie
Satoshi Tanaka as Odawara
Remember last year when this drama came, thought it looked interesting and was going to give it a try but never did though and forgot all about this show. On September 12th season two of this drama started and thought I'd go back and give the first one a try. Been taking a mini vacation from drama reviews recently as I got a bit burned out from watching and reviewing so many, this looked like a good one to come back with. Hopefully I'll be able to keep the recaps shorter than the usual ones, noticed there's quite a few other reviews out there for this series so I won't make these too long and just try to cover the basics, then again I've said that often about these recaps and they never do end up being short. There's also going to be plenty of screenshots, don't know why but been taking many more of them for this show compared to other dramas so if I do leave any details out they'll probably be in the mega amount of screenshots that I'll be posting. Also will be doing two episodes at a time so episode two will be right after the next post which has so many screenshots from this episode.
Said I was going to keep this brief, the above paragraph didn't start out that way. Quite a few characters in this drama but the main two which I mainly be talking about are Kotoko and Naoki, they're a pair of seniors in the same high school. Kotoko though she seems bright is in Class F which is where the bottom of the barrel students reside. They're not troublemakers but they are certainly not close to being the brightest but most of the characters we meet in the class do end up going to college. Kotoko is quite a popular girl though she's sort of inept at most things, she's not an athlete and even though her father owns a restaurant she is a terrible cook, the main reason she gets bad grades is that she doesn't at all.
On the other hand Naoki is the complete opposite, he's a handsome young man from a very rich family. He's the best tennis player in the region and to top it off he's in Class A in the high school, he's the smartest student in the school and one of the brightest in the country, there's not one girl at the school who wouldn't to anything to me his girlfriend.
And that includes Kotoko who has a secret crush on him for two years, ever since he gave the freshman introduction speech. I took her two years but Kotoko finally got up the courage and wrote a love letter to Naoki and one day on the school grounds handed it to him. Naoki had no idea who she was and wanted nothing to do with her and just walked away refusing her letter. Kotoko was naturally crushed but not to the point of tears, what was worse for her was that the rejection happened in front of so many students, before you knew it what happneded had spread like wildfire through the school.
That was their first introduction but before their second something drastic happened in Kotoko's life. Her family was just her father and herself as her mother had passed away many years before, her father owned his own restaurant which must have been somewhat successful as he's finally saved enough money to buy his first house. Sadly he didn't own it for too long as tragedy struck on the day him and Kotoko were moving in. Supposedly the odds were a million to one to this happening but to this family bad luck often happened and what happened a small meteorite fell from the sky and went through their roof, the whole house collapsed right after that. Luckily everyone was still outside the house so no one was injured but the house was destroyed but it may have actually been a lucky break as the meteorite was only 3 cm in width and the main cause of the house collapsing was the shoddy work done on it so it could have fallen down at any time and they could have been in it.
But now what's going to happen to Kotoko and her father, they have no savings left as it all went towards the house and the insurance wouldn't cover the damages. Out of nowhere though an old school chum of his named Irie saw what happened to his old friend on the news and offered to let him and Kotoko live in his house. Irie was a very successful businessman who owned his own company and lived in quite a large house so there was plenty of room for two more people.
So now Kotoko end up moving in the with Irie's, she never put 2 and 2 together and didn't realize it was Naoki's family she was moving in with until the first day. To say she was surprised and embarrassed would be an understatement, he wasn't happy about her living with his family nor was his younger brother, who was also a genius, as he had to give up his room to Kotoko. And with that surprising event the the first episode concludes.
Think that was a short enough recap yet still had just every major detail that happened in this episode, as I mentioned above there seems to be a lot of reviews or things like that out there for this drama so because of that I'm going to try to keep these shorter than usual. There's a total of 16 episodes in this series and the shows are 50 minutes long, been a while since I've seen one this long, even though there are a lot of other reviews out there doubt if any have recaps like this for all the episodes. Just hope that amount of episodes isn't too many, seems like quite a few for a drama like this is but it's started out well so keeping my fingers crossed it doesn't drag too much in the middle episodes. Right below this post is a mega amount of screenshots from this episode, and beloew that one is a recap of the second show.
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