"Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store" drama: Episode two recap

 Air Dates: January 21st to March 23, 2016 on YTV, Thursdays at 1:29 pm

 Each episode is about 23 minutes in length

Main Cast: Name of the convenience store is the Three Seven Temple Street Store.

Shotaro Mamiya as Tomoharu Nii.... new worker at the store who works overnight and by day is studying Buddhism, is a very stoic twenty something man

Kenji Urai as Matsukoma..... after being out of work for two years found a job at the store six months prior, works with Nii on the overnight shift

Rena Matsui as Kaede Shioyama.... is a nurse whose shift gets done after midnight so stops by the store every night, fell in love with Nii at first sight and grew up with Matsukoma

Jiro as Watari.... oldest clerk at the store and has the nickname of 'Lottery Senpai' as he often plays lottery games to get rich quick which has never panned out

Jiro Sato as Manager.... only goes by Manager and is quite the goofball

Rio Uchida as Moe Tatsuzaki.... clerk at the store

Ryo Matsuda as Takeshi Shibata..... clerk at the store

 Four years ago began viewing this funny and quite quirky drama. Watched the first three shows and posted mini recaps of them but mainly focusing on Rena who was such a massive fave of mine back then. But think the subbing team stopped after those three shows which is why I never finished, it eventually was completely subbed. So now am back to viewing it and it's a ten episode series, hope to recap the entire drama. Each show is a stand alone one as there's really no main storyline to the show save for Kaede's crush on Nii plus the odd events that happen overnight at the store. The recaps shouldn't be too long but will have plenty of screenshots, let's get on with the post.

 Did briefly say in the previous recap that this is such a visual show as there's often stretches with little or no dialogue. However interesting this series is doesn't translate over as well to writing about it and really needs to be seen to understand all of the small details which happen. It's actually not too wacky of a series, many off the wall moments and the Manager is definitely a bit loony but it's not too overly crazy.
 At the top is Nii who is explaining to his co-worker Matsukoma what he would do if there was a robbery at the convenience store. Nii is training to be a Buddhist monk but he would show a criminal no mercy as Nii would inflict such brutal damage on a potential robber. That shocked Matsukoma who is so timid and would probably help a robber out any way he could. Sales at the store have been slipping lately according to the Manager, if that's the case why does he have three clerks work the overnight shift?
 His proposal is to introduce a new product that would draw the customers in. Manager's idea was to have Strawberry Daifuku milk as their potential hot seller which made the clerks roll their eyes. Manager bought a thousand of the bottles but no one knows how it tastes as the daifuku clogs up the top of the bottle and you can't insert a straw! That's okay according to Manager as what a unique product they could have, an undrinkable drink! After that spiel from Manager Matsukoma and Nii were witnessing the older clerk Watari go through the register looking at the coins, was he possibly taking them for himself?

 Watari is nicknamed 'Lottery Senpai' as he'll do anything to realize his dream of becoming filthy rich. He usually plays the lottery with no success but in this show had another scheme. That was to look for old and unique ten yen coins that were only produced from 1951 to 1958. They're called 'Milled Tens' and are rare in present times, if he could collect enough of them he'd be rich! Probably not as it would take thousands of them but that won't stop Watari and to his amazement Nii had three of those coins in his wallet, he still has a long, long way to go before rolling in dough.
 Kaede's appearance in this episode wasn't as long plus she was sleeping for most of it. Sleeping because after her shift as a nurse Kaede went to a pub and downed quite a few drinks, she needed the courage to face the love of her life Nii. But Kaede had too much to imbibe and passed out when she entered the store, Nii carried her to the break room and if Kaede had been awake while that was happening she may have had a heart attack.
 To end the show off three days later at 4:07 am a little girl entered the store, she was alone because her parents were sleeping and she wanted something at the store but what she wasn't sure of. Little kids really bother Nii who asked the girl Sae to stop helping him out loading lunches on a shelf. Something clicked though and before long they were working as a pair, Nii said in the future Sae may come in handy(?). She grew tired of the work so left for home, it had been pouring outside but Nii gave her an umbrella to use which brings us to the conclusion of this recap.

 I alsovisit sites to read drama recaps and to me prefer shorter ones like these for the series. So many of my Korean drama posts are three times as long, have found out it's a talent then to keep them short without leaving out any major details. For a Korean series it's almost impossible but not for a show like this one and when I visit a site enjoy reading these shorter recaps versus ones that are 10,000+ words long. Plenty of screenshots I always take though so you can see most of what took place, two more posts to go in this mini marathon.