I better write this post now, before I forget everything about what I've watched. Once again, I was most surprised by things I didn't expect anything from!
Kahogo no Kahoko
I have one word: adorable.
Who writes the plots need to be fired, because I was expecting something totally different: an episodical drama about an overprotected but kind girl who solved random people's problems (something like Bartender). Lucky me, it wasn't like that.
Yeah, Kahoko is overprotected and her family (especially her mother) is quite toxic, she doesn't know how to live but she's oh so kind and full of love. We can say she's almost stupid. But it's that kind of character that I am unable to hate. She reminds me a little of the main character from Fruits Basket, Toru, so nice that she can be considered dumb, but that you can't help but love. Kahoko, for me, is like that. She's adorable and super fun. Aaand after meeting Hajime she somehow helps her family to solve its problems (they are many).
I read that a lot of people skipped this drama because they're sick of girls that find their own purpose only when they meet a guy, and that are useless without him. But Kahoko isn't like that??? The only thing Hajime does is helping her opening her eyes, and understand that she is actually able to think with her own head and not be totally dependent from her mother.
They were an adorable couple and I love them.
The family member were all full of issues and I hardly suffered them. From her mother's family the onlydecent person was the grandmother, the others were all awful. The father's side wasn't normal either, but in the end I liked them more. Kahoko's mother was so full of problems, despotic and just toxic.
Despite the family, I loved Kahoko (and Hajime) so much that I liked this drama a lot!
Akira to Akira
I watched it for the eye-candy (sometimes I forget how beautiful Mukai Osamu is) but I actually liked it.
It's like Hanzawa Naoki, since they talk a loooot about banks, shares, companies etc, but this one also focuses on the personal lives of the two main characters, so it's not only "business" related.
If you liked Hanzawa Naoki or you found it sometimes too boring or hard to understand, definitely watch this! Also, it's only 9 episodes long ;)
Gomen, Aishiteru
Since it's a remake of a korean melodrama, I wasn't expecting to fall in love with it, but man if it was boring.
Most of the episodes were 1 hour long, the story was slow (I can't imagine how boring was the koran one then, with 10 episodes more), the characters were all tedious, there was no plot twist because we know from the start the guy is going to die... boring.
The only upside was Nagase's beautiful face.
Uchi no Otto wa Shigoto ga Dekinai (dropped)
Only the first 5 episodes have been subbed, but it's not a problem because, when the subber stopped, I took the chance and dropped the drama. In 5 episodes nothing happened, the message seems to be "it doesn't matter if you suck at your job and cause actual problems to your company, you are very nice so they're stupid to not understand you", which is bullshit. The characters are all unsufferable, the wife of the main characters is so stupid it hurts, and the main character is quite stupid too. I just don't care about this drama at all.
Kahogo no Kahoko
I have one word: adorable.
Who writes the plots need to be fired, because I was expecting something totally different: an episodical drama about an overprotected but kind girl who solved random people's problems (something like Bartender). Lucky me, it wasn't like that.
Yeah, Kahoko is overprotected and her family (especially her mother) is quite toxic, she doesn't know how to live but she's oh so kind and full of love. We can say she's almost stupid. But it's that kind of character that I am unable to hate. She reminds me a little of the main character from Fruits Basket, Toru, so nice that she can be considered dumb, but that you can't help but love. Kahoko, for me, is like that. She's adorable and super fun. Aaand after meeting Hajime she somehow helps her family to solve its problems (they are many).
I read that a lot of people skipped this drama because they're sick of girls that find their own purpose only when they meet a guy, and that are useless without him. But Kahoko isn't like that??? The only thing Hajime does is helping her opening her eyes, and understand that she is actually able to think with her own head and not be totally dependent from her mother.
They were an adorable couple and I love them.
The family member were all full of issues and I hardly suffered them. From her mother's family the onlydecent person was the grandmother, the others were all awful. The father's side wasn't normal either, but in the end I liked them more. Kahoko's mother was so full of problems, despotic and just toxic.
Despite the family, I loved Kahoko (and Hajime) so much that I liked this drama a lot!
Akira to Akira
I watched it for the eye-candy (sometimes I forget how beautiful Mukai Osamu is) but I actually liked it.
It's like Hanzawa Naoki, since they talk a loooot about banks, shares, companies etc, but this one also focuses on the personal lives of the two main characters, so it's not only "business" related.
If you liked Hanzawa Naoki or you found it sometimes too boring or hard to understand, definitely watch this! Also, it's only 9 episodes long ;)
Gomen, Aishiteru
Since it's a remake of a korean melodrama, I wasn't expecting to fall in love with it, but man if it was boring.
Most of the episodes were 1 hour long, the story was slow (I can't imagine how boring was the koran one then, with 10 episodes more), the characters were all tedious, there was no plot twist because we know from the start the guy is going to die... boring.
The only upside was Nagase's beautiful face.
Uchi no Otto wa Shigoto ga Dekinai (dropped)
Only the first 5 episodes have been subbed, but it's not a problem because, when the subber stopped, I took the chance and dropped the drama. In 5 episodes nothing happened, the message seems to be "it doesn't matter if you suck at your job and cause actual problems to your company, you are very nice so they're stupid to not understand you", which is bullshit. The characters are all unsufferable, the wife of the main characters is so stupid it hurts, and the main character is quite stupid too. I just don't care about this drama at all.