Nozomi Sasaki: Umi no Ue no Shinryoujo drama episode 8 recap

 Glad I've only watched half the episodes to date, this really isn't a good drama, it's bearable though but does have a good cast so it should have been better but with the plot for this series it never was going to be too good. One real big plus for this show is the guest stars they've had, Nozomi was in this episode as you can tell by the title, every episode has had a top notch actress which Dr. Kota sort of falls in love with. Actually this episode is a bit different as he doesn't fall for the young, attractive girl as the story this time revolves around his assistant perhaps being in love.

 Noburo is Dr. Kota's assistant and one of the remote islands they are visiting has a young woman who he once had a huge crush on, as a matter of fact he still does and before Kota meets her he talks him out of even attempting to go out with her. Noburo's friend's name is Aki and she also had the same feelings for him as he did for her. The reason they never got together as he was too shy to ever say anything and eventually they went their separate ways, him to be a doctor and her to stay and help her father out in his bookstore.
 For the past 3 years Aki has been going out with someone but told Noburo that the relationship had ended, he believes her but in reality they are still seeing each other. He's heavily in debt due to his business failing and Aki sort of cons Noburo into giving her as much money as she tells him it's to help her father who needs to go to the hospital. Well that was a lie as she was going to give the money to her boyfriend to get him out of debt, Noburo learned the truth from Aki's sister but didn't ask for the money back, deep down he just wanted her to be happy regardless of who she was with.
 In the ending Aki's boyfriend ends up fracturing his leg, Noburo sucks up his hidden jealous feelings and helps Kota in the surgery room. Aki ended up feeling so guilty over that and the way she conned the money out of Noburo that she ended up returning the money to him and though her boyfriend still had the debt she said that was their problem and would stick with him regardless of it. She and her boyfriend end up leaving the island, the sneak Noburo secretly gave her back all the money by stashing it into a book that he had borrowed from her, a happy and tearful ending.

 True I don't like writing long reviews, this drama makes that easy as it's one of the most simpler ones in the past few years, yes there's a semi-plot but not still not all that much happens. Actually if there were some better dramas for this season would have ended up watching one of them but it's a very weak Fall season except for perhaps 3 or 4 series. Will probably just end up watching the finale of this drama to see how it ends up so will be back in a few weeks with a recap of that show, hopefully there will be another really good guest star for the last episode. And speaking of guest stars have many screenshots of Nozomi in the next post.

Erika Toda: Umi no Ue no Shinryoujo drama episode 7 recap

 After two small cameo appearances Erika finally shows up in this drama for the whole episode, bit of a thin story but she looks more dazzling than ever, her character's name is Hikaru.
 Hikaru one day visits the clinic boat, no one knows who she is or why she's there but it eventually comes out that she was once engaged to Dr. Kato! Some years before he was working in a Tokyo hospital when he met Hikaru and in a whirlwind relationship they got engaged and were on their way to meet his mother. However on a layover on their trio to Hokkaido Hikaru drops a bombshell on Kato, she's actually a man!!!! Kato panics like most men would and runs away from her, he also had had their marriage certificate with him. For the next few years she keeps hunting him down no matter where he is but never gets a chance to talk with him, the reason she's after him is to get the marriage certificate back and he didn't realize it. Also about the sudden engagement, on the date where she agreed to getting married she was also a bit drunk for the first time in her life and that was the main reason she said yes to his proposal. But a sobered up Hikaru realized she had made a mistake which is where the lie about her being a man came from, when Kato heard she said she was a 'man' he beat a path back to Tokyo and hopefully out of her life.

 Eventually Hikaru did track Kato down and had him cornered on the clinic boat where he couldn't escape from her. He revealed to most of them when she wasn't around about her being a man, they quickly learned that it wasn't true but to the very end Kato never learned the truth. Hikaru explained to him the real reason she had chased him all around and that was to get back the marriage certificate, she didn't tell him that her being a man was a lie but told him that she was getting married. Well you know what went through Kato's mind when he heard that, still find it hard to fathom that he kept believing she was a man, didn't make sense why he thought that way. Hikaru's boyfriend had followed her to the boat, at one tome they were going to get married but she broke it off, she really had zero confidence in herself about anything, she was constantly apologizing for everything and if something bad happened she presumed it was her fault. Hikaru and her boyfriend left Kato to have it out between them selves, they picked the most rundown shack in the area, Kato followed them and tried to make peace between them. But as he was doing that Hikaru fell against a pillar and the shack being so rundown the ceiling collapsed upon the two men.

 Wrapping this up Hikuru was able to get in touch with Nurse Mako who came out and tried to save the men, Kato was actually alright but Hikaru's boyfriend was trapped under the ceiling and was badly hurt. Eventually the other doctors from the boat came out to the shack and everyone was saved, Hikaru's boyfriend was injured but nothing too serious. Episode comes to a conclusion with Hikaru finally accepting the proposal and is going to get married, naturally Kato was thinking "two men getting married"?
 For the most part that's about how the episode went, bit of a thin story, knew some of the shows would be like this which is why I've only been watching a few of the episodes, this was my 3rd one but will end up watching the next one too. This series reminds me a bit of the Unibore Deka drama, that too had a plot similar to this, that's another one I just watched half of.
 Erika was quite good in this but saying she did well is nothing new, she also looked fantastic in this episode. Guess that will be it for her in this series, she did make two other small cameos, was hoping she'd have a big part in a few more episodes but doesn't look like that will happen. Next post of course has a mega amount of screenshots of a dazzling you-know-who, enjoy them as they really look fabulous.

Erika Toda: Umi no Ue no Shinryoujo drama episode 7 screenshots

 The second new SPEC Close movie opens Friday, will be back hopefully tomorrow with some news and pics from the premiere, really a shame there will be no more SPEC. As far as Erika goes no news about any upcoming dramas or movies, there is one TV movie airing on WOWOW in December, filming on that that was done many months ago so sadly no clue what's next for her, the world is a much better place with an active Erika! Story here about Hikaru being a 'man' was a bit hard to swallow, Dr. Kato bought it but how can a female that stunning be anything but female!?

Miori Takimoto & Emi Takei: Umi no Ue no Shinryojo drama episode 4 screenshots

 Know that Miori's next drama that is starting up in January will be set in a hospital but she won't be playing a doctor in it. The drama is called DR.Amat and she'll be playing the sister of the main doctor in the show, guess her character is in a coma because of a mistake he made trying to save her after an accident, don't really know much more than that yet about the drama. Shame Miori won't be playing a doctor as she looks really terrific in these screenshots playing one, after her screenshots are ones of Emi playing Nurse Mako Togami, above post also has a short recap of this episode.