Main Cast:
Satomi Ishihara as Saeko Takahashi
Jun Matsumoto as Sota Koyurugi
Asami Mizukawa as Kaoruko Inoue
Junpei Mizobata as Treluyer Olivier
Kasumi Arimura as Matsuri Koyurugi
Naoto Takenaka as Makoto Koyurugi
Ryuta Sato as Seinosuke Rokudo
Kiko Mizuhara as Erena Kato
Getting to be somewhat of a boring drama, figured it would end up being like this as most of these lighthearted romance series are. There's still 5 episodes to go so there's still time for this drama to redeem itself, sure anyone watching this drama knows how it's going to end up just hope they do it in an interesting way. As usual will keep this recap a bit short, dramas that are only so-so try not to make too long but also in the next two posts there are screenshots for Satomi and Kasumi and there's some of what happened with those 2 in their posts.
Sota is claiming he's just about over his feelings with Saeko and he says at the end of episode 6 he's finally going to tell her that it's finished between the two of them. There's really nothing that should be 'finished' though as it's been a one sided love by him through the years but he claims he's going to get rid of those feelings and move, that won't happen but it should. It should as Sota does have a good thing going with Erena, the two of them just hit it off immediately, he just seems as such a better person around her. He's let her know that once he's gotten rid of his feelings for Saeko for good that she'll be his woman and she's quite pleased with that, shame it'll never happen. Actually for the last 2+ episodes those two being together as dominated the screen time, think too much though as it's slowed the pace down a bit too much.
Just a matter of time until Saeko and her newish husband separate, they just are not compatible. He acts like a fairly decent guy away from home but when he's alone with Saeko seems as though he doesn't want to be with her, she can't do anything to please him plus he's never at home and always at work, any episode now we'll be seeing those two part. Matsuri has broken up with her best friends boyfriend and now after saying no for almost 2 episodes looks like she's about to start going out with Olivier, they haven't started dating yet but by the end of episode 6 looks like that will be happening very, very soon.
Too many of these storylines of relationships, everyone is falling in and out of love, need a scorecard to keep track. Also Kaoruko has some deep feelings for Sota, she's done everything except hit him over the head trying to tell him this but just can't can't get it, she's totally smitten by him and they're together 8 hours a day but he doesn't have a clue how much she's fallen for him.
That's about it for the 'review', through 6 episodes hardly anything has changed, people constantly falling in and out of love and yet everyone is still single and heartbroken. To me storylines like that drag after a while and that's what's happening with this drama, sure it'll pick up a bit in the upcoming episodes but these last two kept wondering when the show was going to end. Don't get me wrong, it hasn't been a bad watch but a bit boring and the last two episodes have been a bit too slow but it's certainly watchable, can see it improving starting with the next episode. Will be back in 2 weeks looking at episodes 7 & 8 and hopefully the review will be a bit longer and more positive, here's a bunch of screenshots from these two episodes, next 2 posts have even more with Satomi and Kasumi.
