[Dorama Review] Itsuka Kono Koi wo Omoidashite Kitto Naite Shimau / Love That Makes You Cry / いつかこの恋を思い出してきっと泣いてしまう

Several years ago, a friend suggested me a dorama "Itsuka Kono Koi wo Omoidashite Kitto Naite Shimau", saying that people around him said it's a good dorama. I tried downloading it, but only finished watching it just recently. 

 

The story is about a Kansai young woman who was adopted by a Hokkaido family since a kid because her mom had passed away. Her name is Sugihara Oto / Hayashida Oto (played by Arimura Kasumi)

 Not being treated well in the family, like being forced to marry an old-rich-man, Oto escaped from home and meet Soda Ren (played by Kora Kengo), who came to Hokkaido to return Oto's bag which was stolen by his friend, Nakajo Haruta (played by Sakaguchi Kentaro)

Soda Ren explaining "I'm not a theft. I'm a mover"

 

Haruta, the culprit behind the loss of Oto's bag

 

Oto rode Ren's truck to Tokyo. Ren himself was from Aizu and he moved to Tokyo due to get some money to buy a land in his hometown. But as soon as they arrived at Tokyo, they were separated, because Ren met his friend from the same hometown, Ichihara Konatsu (played by Morikawa Aoi).

Konatsu, who came to Tokyo, aiming to be a designer. 

 

Later, we know that Konatsu actually loves Ren. Wait, but Ren should be with Oto?! Well, no no, not both of them. Ren has a girlfriend already. Her name is Hinata Kihoko (played by Takahata Mitsuki)

Kiho-chan, met Ren when she was lonely and ended up being a couple.

 

What a complicated love story! Konatsu and Oto love Ren, but Ren is in a relationship with Kiho out of loneliness, when Haruta loves Konatsu and Ibuki loves Oto. Wait, who is Ibuki? Well Ibuki Asahi is the son of the chairman's mistress in the company where Konatsu works.

Ibuki Asahi, always being unfavorable due to being the son of the chairman's mistress

As the love story goes on, there are many conflicts happened which makes the dorama more dramatic but interesting...

Actually, romantic dorama is not really my thing. I usually prefer mystery, crime, or detective dorama, because even though I know it's a fiction, it's thrilling and interesting. Sometimes I thought that romantic dorama only teaches us about fake romantic love which is not going to happen in our real life anyway, but well, no, you can always get some moral lessons indeed, especially from Japanese dorama. 

This dorama becomes really interesting to me, because I can super relate to them, going to the capital city to earn some money, betting on life, and being lonely. That was exactly what I did and felt several years ago when I moved to the capital city to work. The loneliness was super real, and you ended up finding the same person/friend who is lonely as well to accompany you. Maybe that's what happened to Ren and Kihoko as well, so that they end up being in a relationship even though their heart were on someone else... Loneliness is a big problem indeed...

It's quite annoying sometimes seeing the characters in this dorama which are so passive in striving their love.. Too passive... But I also can relate to them... Something like unconditional love... You can love people, but you can't force people to love you back. That's why every time I love someone, I don't expect them to love me back...

This story is a little bit sad, but their choice on the sound track make it even more sad. Even the theme song was sung well by Teshima Aoi "Ashita e no Tegami". Absolutely become one of those J-pop song which I will listen to. 

Overall, I must admit that this dorama is quite good. The story doesn't make you curious but doesn't make you bored either...

I gave this dorama 7.5 points out of 10 point.

[Dorama Review] Miss Sherlock / ミス・シャーロック

The dorama I want to review now is a dorama recommended by one of my friends. It was aired in HBO Asia on 2018.

Let's get started!

As always I will start from making a short synopsis about the dorama.
A woman called Sherlock (played by Takeuchi Yuko) is a detective who works for the police department. She is a genius and very smart, but somehow she has a weird attitude and a straight-forward, impolite character. She said "I can't think when my aesthetic sense is disturbed" when she saw someone who has an old sense of fashion lol.

Well, that's what she said to Tachibana Wato (played by Kanjiya Shihori), a doctor who just came back from Syria, and accidentally met Sherlock due to a case happened to her. Later, she would stay with Sherlock, and is the only friend Sherlock has, even though Sherlock didn't want to admit it.

Reimon Gentaro (played by Takito Kenichi) is a police who always asks for Sherlock's help. He believed in Sherlock's ability. He has a sub-ordinate named Shibata Tatsuya (played by Nakamura Tomoya).

In short, Sherlock solved so many cases, requested from Inspector Reimon, and with the help of Wato too.

I don't know much, but I can say it's like a parody of Sherlock Holmes. A woman Sherlock which accompanied by a doctor, Wato, a parody of Watson. You can see the similarity of the characters and the big story plot between the real Sherlock Holmes and this Miss Sherlock. However, I think the cases are different. It's wrapped in Japanese style, where you can always learn some good moral and find some comedy inside of the dorama.

I personally love it when Sherlock plays the cello. Prelude. Such a good song to always start the dorama.

Even though overall, it's a super good dorama, again it's one of those dorama which the ending is a little bit unexpected. I'm quite disappointed with the ending of this dorama. I wonder if there will be the next season? Well, let's just wait.

Anyway I will give this dorama 8 out of 10 points. It's so good that no wonder the HBO is the TV Station to broadcast this dorama. I recommend it so much!

[Anime Movie Review] Kiki's Delivery Service / Majo no Takkyuubin 魔女の宅急便

Another review on Studio Ghibli's movie, Kiki's Delivery Service. It was released on 1989.

Kiki is a daughter from a witch family. In the witch's tradition, when children turned into 13 years old, they must leave the house for a year for training. Kiki has turned into 13 years old, so it's her turn to do the training. She left the house with her black cat, named Jiji.

Kiki decided to find a city near the sea because she liked the sea. She found one which was quite a big city and Kiki was flustered at first.

When Kiki tried to find a place to stay, she met a woman who had a bakery. One of her customer forgot something on her store, and Kiki helped her to bring the item to the customer. Later, Kiki was allowed to stay in her place.

Kiki decided to work because she needed money to live alone. Realizing that her only talent was to fly with a broomstick, she opened a delivery service, while trying to get along with the people in the town.

To sum up, it's really a simple story but super entertaining. It's easy to understand, really compatible for both children and adults. You don't need to think hard, it's simply entertaining, easy to watch (easier than any other Studio Ghibli's movie I've watched so far). I think it's really one of the best movie produced by Studio Ghibli. I like this movie a lot!

I can give this movie 8 out of 10 points.

[Dorama SP Review] Bokura no Yuuki: Miman Toushi / Miman City 2017

Well, I did make a review of this dorama before because even though it's old, the story is nice and unique, making it one of my favorite dorama. I'm quite surprised and excited when I know that they are making the SP edition of this dorama.

If you haven't watch the dorama series or you want me to remind the dorama, please refer to my review here:
Bokura no Yuuki: Miman Toushi dorama review

Back to the SP series, the story starts at 20 years after the Makuhara City incident. Yamato (played by Domoto Koichi of KinKi Kids) is now a junior high school teacher and Takeru (played by Domoto Tsuyoshi of KinKi Kids) is now a lawyer. 20 years ago, they promised to be a nice and good adults, and they promised to meet again in 20 years in the same place where the satellite fell down to see what kind of adult they will be.

As promised, they met at the same place again after 20 years. The place where the satellite fell down was being reconstructed into a library. Akira (played by Masaki Aiba) was the architect for the library. However, there is a news that quite some people died during the construction.

It is later known that the T-Makuhara virus from 20 years ago remained somewhere under the ground zero of the building. Yet, the government didn't stop the construction.

With some story, at last the best friends from 20 years ago gathered again to make the government stop the construction of the library. Kiichi (played by Kohara Yuuki; which is not an actor anymore but acted just for this dorama), who is a bus driver, and Mori (played by Matsumoto Jun) is also joining the forces.

Yamato's problematic student and friends are also unexpectedly helping them in taking the underground water which is contaminated by the virus.

Sometimes, the expectation is just so different from the reality. I expected this to be an amazing dorama SP, but it's just so disappointing to me. Rather than the continuation of the dorama, I could just say it's simply a way of KinKi Kids to celebrate its 20 years debut anniversary wrapped in a 1,5 hour movie.


I get the idea of the story, but the length of the movie might be the producer team's problem to make it interesting. Rather than a touching and interesting dorama SP, it became so cheesy and absurd. I guess it could be a better continuation dorama if they make it a little bit longer and detailed story.

The reunion of the actor and actress are somehow surprising. I know it's not easy to gather the casts once again in a movie after 20 years, moreover, some of them are not in the entertainment biz any longer. I gave two thumbs up for this.

Since the actors mostly are from Johnny's Entertainment, this is absolutely a Johnny's Entertainment movie. Even the new casts are from Johnny's Jr. 

I also realized, KinKi Kids are absolutely aging so much compared to the first time I know them around 10 years ago. I mean, everyone is growing old, but they just cannot hide that their face looked so old in this movie, especially Tsuyoshi.

Well, if you watched this dorama series before, you can just watch this dorama SP, but just don't expect too much.
Even though I was a KinKi Kids fan (I even got their name "Domoto" in every of my ID =_=" ), it's quite disappointing, so I give this dorama 4 out of 10 points.

[Japanese Movie Review] Isn't Anyone Alive? / Ikiteiru Mono wa Inai no ka?

I'm going to write about a Japanese movie aired in 2012, "Ikiteiru mono wa inai no ka?" or in English "Isn't anyone alive?"

This movie is about random individuals located in a university and the university hospital beside it. There are some groups of people with their own activities which is somehow related to one another.

A group in a cafe, which was talking about marriage and affair.

A group in the park, talking about urban myths which might happening around them.

A group of people practicing dancing for the upcoming their friend's marriage.

Some doctors in the university hospital

A homosexual couple, I guess...

...and some other random people...

One by one died because of an unknown reason.

This movie is well taken, however the story is not interesting at all.
The beginning of the movie is quite interesting, given many groups with different plots. As the story goes on, it's more and more abstract. I personally thought the story is anti-climax from the beginning to the end. It's quite boring to watch the middle to the end of this movie and yet, I don't find anything in the end of this movie. I can summarize this movie as a random movie showing daily activities of some groups of people, where one by one died without a proper reason.
The only thing I get from this movie is some thoughts:
1. People will die and we don't know when. Be prepared for it.
2. It might be hurt more for those who is being left.
3. Will we know if we were about to die? How would it feels? Suffering??
4. Dying sounds scary but, the most scary is what happened after we die? Are we going to Heaven? Hell? Neither of them?
... maybe we'll find out by time...

Anyway, this is just a random movie and you might watch it but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. I don't really like the movie (or maybe because I don't understand art and abstract things?!)
I gave 3 (or maybe less) out of 10 for this movie.

*this review is a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, please feel free to make a correction*

[Japanese Movie Review] Okuribito / Departures

I know this movie from a friend. He asked me to find this movie for him since he was so interested in it after seeing the review.

This movie is originally called Okuribito (おくりびと). Okuribito literally means someone who sends off. The movie is also known as "Departures".

Kobayashi Daigo (played by Motoki Masahiro) is a cellist. He works in an orchestra, but because there's no audience for a long time, the owner decided to disband the orchestra. He lost his job.

Not knowing what to do, Kobayashi decided to go back to his hometown in Yamagata. He had a house there, inherited from his mother who died several years ago. His father left him and his mother for another woman when he was still a child.

In Yamagata, Kobayashi tried to find a job. Interested with the little working hours and high salary, he came to NT Agent without knowing what kind of job it is.

He met the boss, Sasaki (played by Yamazaki Tsutomu) and the secretary Kamimura Yuriko (played by Yo Kimiko).

Later he found out that his job is to be a Noukanshi. Noukanshi is someone who does a traditional Japanese ritual to cleanse and dress the dead body before it's put inside of the coffin.

He got so many troubles because of his job, people was not respecting him because of they though he had an embarrassing and disgusting job. At first he didn't want to do this job, but later he seemed to be loving his job. He started gaining trust and respect from people around him slowly.

The movie is closed by story of the death of his father. He never wanted to see his father, who has betrayed him, but eventually he got a news that his father died and came to see his father. It's quite sad.

Watching this movie reminds me of my grandma a lot, since my grandma was passed away last month. It was my first time to see a full death ceremony, from the closing of the coffin until the cremation. It was a sad memory, especially when seeing the red fire was burning the coffin. I know it so well.

I don't think jobs related to death are embarrassing. In contrary, I even think the job related to death is so respectable, as I'm a coward and I'm so afraid of the corpse, I respect their bravery.

This movie also reminds us that everyone of us will die. Sometimes it's even harder for the one who is left behind.

It was a short story but the movie explains quite a lot of things. It got so many awards too. You can give a little bit of your time to watch this movie. I gave this movie 7 out of 10 points.

*this movie review is just my personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, feel free to make a correction*

[Dorama Review] Akutou ~Juuhanzai Sousahan~

Another favourite dorama from me, it's Akutou ~Juuhanzai Sousahan~. It was broadcasted on 2011 and it's a mystery / detective genre dorama with a little bit action in it.

Akutou ~Juuhanzai Sousahan~ story starts with the rumour of 4 detectives from Fourth Section of Minato-cho Police Criminal Affairs Division who often break the rules when working as a detective, even doing illegal activities. The 4 of them are Togashi Masayoshi (played by Takahashi Katsunori), Iinuma Reiko (played by Uchiyama Rina), Shibata Yasuharu (played by Suzuki Kosuke), and Yamashita Manabu (played by Hirayama Hiroyuki). Tokunaga Yasushi, the Fourth Section's chief was investigating the fact and found dead because of an accident when pursuing a criminal. Most of the police doubted that Tokunaga dead because an accident...

Maejima Ryuzo (played by Murakami Hiroaki), the head of police administration, sent Satonaka Keiichiro (played by Koizumi Kotaro) to the Fourth Section as the new chief to replace Tokunaga.

Satonaka is very cautious because of the rumour, but he found that the 4 detectives are excellent. However, they don't obey the chief's order and working on Togashi's command. As time goes by, Satonaka found out that the rumour of the 4 detectives are true... What's the reason behind that?

Akutou ~Juuhanzai Sousahan~ is a very well made dorama. The story of the detectives are great and it's supported with great actors and actresses too, with a little bit action in it which won't make you bored. Takahashi Katsunori, no doubt, he's good at this kind of acting as he acted in this genre of dorama a lot. I don't have much comment on this aspect. 

What I can comment from this dorama is, the 4 detectives seems not satisfied with the rules applied in the country. Sometimes it happens to us too, doesn't it? We heard a news of someone tortured and killed brutally because of a stupid reason, yet the murderer is not punished enough with the reason of human rights, etc. Sometimes me too, would think something like "Why would think the human rights of a murderer who doesn't think other's human rights? It would be good if they're just being killed in the way they killed others". It might raise some pros and contras, but I just have the same opinion as Togashi and the other 3 detectives in this dorama, or rather, the same opinion with the script writer of the dorama.

I personally think that this dorama wants to quip the government and its politics which concern themselves more than to raise the justice.

Well, just watch this dorama, Akutou ~Juuhanzai Sousahan~, if you one of mystery / detective genre film / movie / dorama lover. I gave this dorama 8.5 out of 10 points.

*this review is just a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, feel free to make a correction*

[Dorama Review] Remote

Remote is a dorama about detective which broadcasted on 2002. I decided to write a review about this old dorama because this is one of my favourite dorama.

Kozaburo Himuro (played by Domoto Koichi) is a genius detective, but never step out of his home. He use Kurumi Ayaki (played by Fukada Kyoko), who is actually a traffic cop, to do errands from him. Shortly, Kurumi can be said as Himuro's eyes and ears. So many cases happened, and Kurumi with Himuro's guide try to solve every case happened...

As you should already know from my previous post, I really love to watch detective/mystery genre of dorama. This is also one of my favourite detective dorama. The cases are so thrilling, so interesting. The idea of the story is cool. Besides the quality of the dorama, everything is just so interesting. The quality of how the dorama's taken is not that good since it's an old dorama.

I recommend this dorama for those who like detective/mystery/thriller genre movie. I gave 8 out of 10 points for this dorama.

*this review is just a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there are any mistakes, feel free to make a correction*

[SP Dorama Review] Tensai Tantei Mitarai ~Nankai Jiken File~ Kasa wo Oru Onna

This time I'm gonna write a review of a detective special dorama which was broadcasted on March, 2015:Tensai Tantei Mitarai ~Nankai Jiken File~ Kasa wo Oru Onna.

Mitarai Kiyoshi (played by Tamaki Hiroshi) is a brain scientist and a very genius man. He has a bestfriend named Ishioka Kazuki (played by Domoto Koichi), who is a novelist. Together, they live in the same house and often talk about mysteries. One day, Ishioka told a story about a mystery he heard from a radio. It's about a woman in a white dress who is walking in the midst of the rain, holding a plastic bag. Strangely, she closed her umbrella and threw the umbrella into the road until it's broken; crashed by a car. With just the description, Mitarai took a conclusion that she is involved in a murder case which is likely that she is a murderer. The day after, it's true that there is a murder case in the area; a woman dead, along with the woman in the white dress. So depressed because his assumption was wrong, Mitarai tried to find the truth with the help of Ishioka.

I watched this dorama at first because I'm one of Domoto Koichi's fan.

I like the story that Mitarai was so genius to guess what happened to the whole story only with a short description (even though it was a little bit wrong, or not complete I guess, hehe). However, I don't know why but just the quite talkative novelist doesn't suit for Domoto Koichi's role. Koichi is more suitable for a cold role like Mitarai, and vice versa for Tamaki Hiroshi. In conclusion, I love the dorama, but the actors just not suitable with the roles, and it makes things quite awkward, in my opinion.

I gave this dorama 7 points out of 10 points.

*this review is a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, please feel free to make a correction*

[Dorama Review] Team Medical Dragon ~ Iryu Season 2

Reviewed the first season, now I’m going to review Team Medical Dragon ~Iryu~ dorama season 2 which was aired on 2007.

For those who doesn't read my review yet about Iryu 1 before, you can find it here:

Team Medical Dragon - Iryu 1

Doesn’t like the reputation of Asada Ryutaro (played by Sakaguchi Kenji) as a genius-troublemaker surgeon, Noguchi Keno (played by Kishibe Ittoku) moved Asada and Ijyuuin Noboru (played by Koike Teppei) to a small hospital along with the other troublemakers, thinking that even a surgeon who is as genius as Asada couldn’t do anything without a help of the team. However, it turns out that the troublemakers are actually genius surgeons who had bad incidents and changed into a ‘trash’. Being with Asada, one by one started to do their best once again of being a surgeon.

It’s been a long time since I read the manga so I don’t fully remember, but as I recall, the season 2’s story is not in the manga and it started to deviate from the manga (correct me if I’m wrong). As I’ve said in the season 1’s review, the actors are great, the setting is so real that you can’t differ the difference between fake heart and real heart. It’s still applied for the season 2; however, the story of the season 1 is more interesting than this season 2. I personally love the 1^st season more. The thing I hate most in this season 2 is the disappearance of Katou Akira. Katou Akira is one of the main characters in Team Medical Dragon, she shouldn’t have disappeared no matter what the reason is. “If anyone leaves we can continue running, that’s a real team”, this famous word from Asada is the best for describing this season 2.

I give 7 out of 10 points for this dorama.

*this review is a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, please feel free to make a correction*

[Dorama Review] Nobuta wo Produce

This time I’m gonna write a review about a school genre dorama, Nobuta wo Produce. It was also a popular dorama back then, in 2005 when it was aired.

Well, the cast itself is already very interesting, as the male main casts are Yamashita Tomohisa (also known as Yamapi) and Kamenashi Kazuya, two of the famous idols from Johnny’s Entertainment. For the female cast, there are Horikita Maki and Toda Erika who is not less famous.

The story starts from Kiritani Suji (played by Kamenashi Kazuya), a very popular guy who gets along well with everyone. He has a classmate whose name is Kusano Akira (played by Yamashita Tomohisa) who is a little bit strange, likes to laugh and act funny. One day, a new transferred girl came, she is Kotani Nobuko (played by Horikita Maki). Kotani Nobuko is a shy girl which is often bullied at school. After a long story, Shuji and Akira decided to make Nobuta (Nobuko’s nickname) a famous girl in the school.

Usually in a school genre dorama, there will be a problem and the teacher will help to solve that problem. In this dorama, the unique thing is that the popular classmate and the strange classmate are the one who help the bullied one. Other than that, I found this dorama is just another ordinary dorama which using the casts as the main attraction. Well, as Johnny’s Entertainment is very famous, two male casts from the entertainment is enough to make this dorama well known. I can say this dorama is just ordinary but it’s also entertaining. The message I got from this dorama is also just an ordinary message, no bullying at school!

The soundtrack of the dorama is also good, Seishun Amigo which is sang by Shuji and Akira (Yamashita Tomohisa and Kamenashi Kazuya), as expected from the Johnny’s.

For those who is a Johnny’s Entertainment lover, of course this dorama is a must-watch-dorama. If you don’t have any other things to watch, this dorama also can be quite entertaining. I gave 7 out of 10 points for this dorama.

*this review is a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, please feel free to make a correction*

[Dorama Review] Tokumei Kakarichou Tadano Hitoshi Season 1

I was just finished watching dorama Tokumei Kakarichou Tadano Hitoshi season 1 which was aired on 2003.

Tokumei Kakarichou Tadano Hitoshi is another dorama which is adapted from a manga, written by Kimio Yanagisawa.

Tadano Hitoshi (played by Takahashi Katsunori) is the CEO’s right hand to solve so many problems happened in the Denoudo company while disguising as a stupid-looking incapable assistant manager who is often being mocked by other employees. We can say Tadano is a detective and works with a help from an assistant named Muriwaki Koichi (played by Nagai Masaru) who is also working for the company. Tadano also often got information from a news broadcaster named Shinmizu Mayuko (played by Miura Rieko).

I only watch the dorama and I don’t read the manga, so I can’t compare the dorama with the manga, but I read somewhere that they said, at first, in the manga, Tadano Hitoshi doesn’t have any assistant where in the movie Tadano Hitoshi worked with an assistant. After the dorama was aired, the assistant, Muriwaki Koichi was written into the manga.

Like I said on my previous post, I personally like Takahashi Katsunori as his acting skill is so amazing. The one which makes me amazed most is in episode 10 where he needs to act as a transgender, and it’s just too similar!

The story itself is not too extraordinary, but I like the way this dorama was taken. This dorama is wrapped with comedy, romance, mystery which makes you wonder who is the culprit, and also it has a lot of nudity scene inside the dorama. I haven’t watched the rest of the seasons yet, so with only the season 1, I can say I’m quite satisfied with this dorama.

As there is a lot of nudity on this dorama, Tokumei Kakarichou Tadano Hitoshi is only recommended for those who is 18+. I give 8.5 out of 10 points for this dorama.

*this review is a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, please feel free to make a correction*

[Dorama Review] Team Medical Dragon ~ Iryu Season 1

So today I'm going to review Iryu ~Team Medical Dragon~ season 1 which is aired on 2006.

This dorama is made based on a famous anime/manga written by Akira Nagai, illustrated by Taro Nogizaka.

Iryu is a story about a genius surgeon, Asada Ryutaro (played by Sakaguchi Kenji) which is expelled from Higashi Nihon University Hospital because being framed for a misdiagnosis. An assistant professor from Meishin Hospital University Cardiac Department, Katou Akira (played by Inamori Izumi), once saw Asada's skill at MSAP, a non-governmental organization in medical field in a war torn countries, and wants Asada to be a part of her team to complete her thesis to be a professor, Batista Procedure. Asada agreed to help Akira and starts to find his own team to complete Batista surgery.

I personally love this dorama very much. I think this is one of the best dorama I've ever watched. The setting of the dorama is so real that makes you really get into the dorama! You really can't tell that it's a fake heart (even though I never saw a real one actually, hehe), and the actors and actresses are so great that you would think they are real surgeons!

Because I read and watch both the manga and the dorama, there are several differences between the two of them.
- Asada's character in the dorama is quite different from the one in the manga I think. Asada's character in the dorama is more serious where Asada's character is more cheerful and not so serious, even though both character are still troubling and annoying for Akira.
- In the manga, Miki, a great surgical nurse who followed Asada, is Asada's lover. In the dorama, Miki (played by Mizukawa Asami) is still following Asada, but it's hardly to be seen that they are actually a lover, nor there is a love story between both of them.
- Fujiyoshi Keisuke's image between the dorama and the manga is very different. In the manga, Fujiyoshi Keisuke is portrayed to be big and tall where in the dorama, Fujiyoshi Keisuke is played by Sasaki Kuranosuke who is quite thin and small. I mean, you can't match a real person exactly with a person in manga, but just I think the difference is too big.

Well, in summary, the difference between the dorama and manga is not a big problem. You can't expect all those story in the manga to be portrayed in a 11-episode-dorama anyway. Other than the difference I realize above, I'm also quite amazed with the so-similar-characteristic I found in Ijyuuin Noboru (played by Koike Teppei), Arase Monji (played by Abe Sadao), Noguchi Keno (played by Kishibe Ittoku), and Kihara Takehiko (played by Ikeda Tetsuhiro).

The dorama is very recommended and I give 10 out of 10 points for this dorama! ^^


*this review is a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, please feel free to make a correction*

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