Tsubasa Honda: "Koinaka" drama episode 2 recap and screenshots

 Start Date: Monday, July 20th on Fuji-TV at 9:00 pm

Main Cast:

Tsubasa Honda as Akari Serizawa

Sota Fukushi as Aoi Miura

Shuhei Nomura as Aoi Shota

Taiga as Kouhei Kanazawa

Sakurako Ohara as Nanami Miura

Mizuki Yamamoto as Mirei Tominaga

 Karen Otomo as Kokone Yamasiro
Yui Ichikawa as Ruiko Saeki

 Wow, two days in a row with a drama review and if you're (un)lucky then tomorrow may be looking at episode four of "Bemars". Mentioned yesterday that I'd like to start going back to reviewing more shows, one reason for the slowdown, besides my laziness, has been a lack of good shows lately. There's still quite a few dramas that air but just not as many so may be looking at a few older ones. Actually besides the two I'm currently reviewing am about to start watching the "Puzzle" drama from 2008, can't believe I've never watched it but am about to start it and that's one you'll hopefully be reading about soon.
 Enough blabbering as I tend to do that too often but am looking forward to the "Puzzle" series, now on to what I hope will be a much shorter review than the one from yesterday. Then again reviews for first episodes tend to be longer as you need to introduce the main characters and their backgrounds, if you're confused about anything in today's then perhaps of episode one's review will help you.

 First episode mainly took place back in 2008 when Akari, Miura and Shota were high school seniors in Toyama. Before graduation though Akari and her father suddenly disappeared as his company went under as he was unable to pay his bills, seemingly no one had heard from her since then.
 Now it's 2015 and one person had heard from Akari and that was Shota, as a matter of fact it appears as though they've been dating for a few years now. This was a surprise to Miura who had no clue what happened to Akari and for that matter to Shota, while the trio was close in school he hadn't seen either one of them for seven years, Miura's dream was to be an architect, he did get a degree in that field but even though he was working as one it was for a small company where he was just delegated to doing menial tasks.
 Meanwhile Shota had quite a bright future as he's been studying to be a doctor, he's almost finished with his internship at this time. Akari had been down for a while after she and her father had fled Toyama but things were looking better these days for her as she was working part time, unsure where though, plus she was studying online to be a teacher and it appears she doesn't have much longer to go until she can take the exams to become a teacher.

 The main focus of this episode was showing the old high school trio back together again though with problems, as Miura said during the show they're now all older and much different people. Miura doesn't say it to anyone but he is very jealous of the fact that Shota is going out with Akari. Then again Shota also is now a bit worried as he's wondering if he made a mistake of letting them meet after that seven year gap, really don't know what made him to that.
 Akari, Miura and another old school chum were supposed to spend the day going to a film as Shota had to work that day, at the last minute that chum backed out and the old pair went on a 'date' together. Things weren't the same for the two as they had many, many ups and downs during their time together but eventually it seems their older feelings were coming out. Instead of the date ending after the movie the pair stayed together talking about many issues in their life and other things, almost looks Akari is once again a better fit for Miura than she is for Shota.
 At the conclusion of the episode Shota meets up with them and now it's he who is jealous as he notices things are going back to the way they once were with them. Shota kind of gets back at Miura in the last minute as he says to Akari that he needs to work early tomorrow and can he stay at her apartment again, she naturally agrees to that bringing us to the conclusion for this episode.

 Much shorter recap but for the most part explained almost everything that happened, then again don't like giving away too much in case you're planning on watching it. Through two episodes it's been an okay watch, these kinds of dramas aren't my faves but for me any show that has Tsubasa in it is worth a viewing.
 Unsure of how it's going to happen but you do have an inkling of who Akari is going to end up with, that's okay as long the story stays interesting. Wouldn't call it overly interesting but then again the episodes haven't dragged at all and seem to fly by, have to say so far it's been enjoyable, hope it stays that way for the remaining eight episodes. Few more screenshots here but of course after this one are plenty more of Tsubasa, with the way she looks in this show why are only two men after her, you'd think the whole world would be!