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I went through this one because I found out that Yamamura Ryuta is the lead actor. I mean, Yamamura Ryuta! He is like, my biggest Japanese celebrity crush!! I love his voice, and his look, and I look for him in every man I met. So I tried to watch him in that drama but sad to say, he was terrible. He really should just stick with singing his heart out with flumpool. He was not the only one though, the entire casts were BAD. The main 3 actors were like, dead eyes. This is the perfect shoujo-type dorama, and I had always loved this kind of dorama, but this one was so blehhh, I basically had to force myself to watch it. Not too much though, cause I barely watched till the 4th episode and fast forwarded through the rest. It was that bad. I could not help but wander what would it be if the actors were different. Such a waste of fine theme.

Then to make matter worse, I googled up Ryuta and turned out he got married last year. To his high school sweetheart of 14 years. I was, yeah. DEVASTATED. Not that it matter of course. But still, it was like hearing Tablo married Kang Hye Jung. I adored Tablo. Anyway, what surprised me the most was the fact that I wasn't aware of this. It was announced on June 2016. Or maybe I was aware of it at that time, surprised, and soon forget about it, till the point where I felt like I heard it for the first time tonight. It was Ryuta-rashi, to be loyal and steadfast to one woman. I want that kind of love.

Depressed sleep.

Watched this out of whim. I need distractions from waiting for BTS/new clips/next Wednesday (Suspicious Partner has officially ruined my normal drama life). I wanted something short and concise (therefore, japanese doramas instead of korean one), and I wanted romance, the more, the cheesier, the better. And I need eye candy! Searched through tumblr and then I stumbled upon this one. Tokyo Tarareba Musume, translated as Tokyo's 'what if' Daughters. Fairly recent airing, earlier this year, with top notch casts (those 3 actress are A-class, I tell you), and oh my freaking god, Sakaguchi Kentarou!! It was based on a manga series of the same title. The writer has strings of dramas under her name, but the only one that I'd watch was the Gokusen series, and lord know how much I adored that series. Gokusen practically defined my early Japanese doramas-watching life.

On forward with the series, it was a good one! And hit close to heart. Too close, in fact. Tell a story of 3 best friends, who always have each other in times of need, and always cheer each other up whenever somebody is heartbroken. They are all in early thirties and have the same problems of marriage woes. The main heroine Rinko san, is a writer and has 3 circles of courtship within the same drama. Haha. She embodies what my mind thinks the most, I think. Eikura Nana is Kaori, a woman who settles with being the second girlfriend of her ex, before calling it quits (and later, getting back together). And Oshima Yuko is Koyuki, a woman who ends up having a fling with a married man and thank god, comes to her conscience and ends it too. And Sakaguchi Kentarou as Kinpatsu Otoko as they call him (blond guy), a new up and coming actor, with a deep and wounded heart. He is their voice of reason.

I liked this drama a lot, and as I said, it reflected my own life, the struggle of being lonely and marriage hunting is real. Only I don't have a Kinpatsu Otoko next to me, or even a Hayasaka-san who is such a good husband material. Rinko ends up with Kinpatsu in the end (of course, duh). I did not fall asleep watching this whole series so that says a lot. I loved the logic behind every of the girls night out, I felt for them, I wished I had them in my life, I loved all Rinko's monologue, her wisdom of the day, and also, I cannot stop staring at Kinpatsu face. Such a perfectly sculpted, fair skin, with moles, and those doe eyes. Ah, I am so in love. I cannot remember the last time I fell in love with somebody's face. Imagine that face staring at you in the morning. Ah, shiawase da ne.

Will end this post with the last wisdom of the dramas.

Women, after they get past 25 years old, "I want to be happy! I want to be happy!", they repeat that like a tag line.
We used to say that, "let's get a woman's happiness" or " I want somebody to make me happy". But that was wrong.
What happiness is, the answer is different for every person. There are as many answers as people.
Happiness is something that you decide yourself.
We don't know what the future holds.
I'm sure that from now on, we will worry about a lot of things, and we will struggle with life.
But that's okay.
Because, the heroine of this long, long, story called life, is yourself.

read that in Japanese and it's a wonderful phrase.
Nagai, nagai, no jinsei.

*dusting the dust off this account*
Truth to be told, I kinda forgot that I had a dreamwidth account, and still do most of my stalking on LJ. I will counter post those that I wrote on my blogspot here. Those japanese dramas review that I'd watched.

I kinda liked this one. It was nowhere as good as Nobuta wo Produce though, but still..seeing Yamapi and Kame together is a blessing. I liked the story line, despite it being quite outrageous. A story of a 'God', played by Yamapi who came to earth to help Makoto (Kamenashi) get together with his destined significant other (Haruko). I had never really watch the heroine in anything before but she's kawaii. And perfect for the role.
The late revealation that the 'God' was actually Makoto's son was mehh to me, but whatever. God was the funny bone in this dorama and his antics were hilarious. Yamapi and Kame are both excellent actors. I like how destiny was the strongest and the most integral part of this dorama.

Makoto : On the worst day of my life, Haruko just happened to call out to me.
Haruko : On the worst day of my life, Makoto just happened to call out to me.
Makoto : In the beginning, I thought that destiny was of no use at all.
Haruko : In the beginning, I thought destiny was nothing but creepy.
Makoto : But I thought I'd believe in it, just a little.
Haruko : But I was afraid to believe in it.
Makoto : But believing in it, and running with it, mysterious things occurred one after the other.
Haruko : Little by little, they melted my heart.
Makoto : Surely destiny is, a reward that's given to those who continue to believe and don't give up.
Haruko : Surely destiny is, like a jewel, amongst all the things discarded as a mere coincidence. I thought there was no such thing as destiny.

Obviously the reason we all LJ-users are switching to DW is because all the awesome and actively subbing communities are moving here. I was attached to LJ, mostly because they gave me my daily Arashi fix. I had been a fan for close to 6 years. Everything started when I was a 3rd year medical student. Arashi gave me the laughter and motivation to pour through all those endless medical notes. And after the grueling 5 years, I finally graduated.

Suffered through internship for 2 years and during this period, the amount of Arashi videos left un-watched amounted closed to 1tera bytes. How can I spend time to enjoy my laughter fix when all I did on my off days were sleeping and resting the tired and soul-less body. And after those 2 years of what I called 'hell on earth', I am now a medical officer at a health clinic, who worked 8-5, and has weekend off, entitled to public holidays and only did passive calls at night. Heck yeah!

Now that I finally have the time of the world, I am sorting through my Arashi variety shows collection and trying to collect all of them, subbed or raw. I've given up on VS Arashi and only downloading subbed version but Shiagare is too precious. Trying to collect all as of now and still missing a lot, especially those aired on 2013-2015 (those wretched internship period).

In the end of 2015, finally able to put my feet on Japan ground and I swear it was the best moment of my life. All those shows I watched, and the Japanese language that I picked up came in handy. Even managed to go to Arashi Popcorn Tour Tokyo Dome site. Didn't buy the ticket but being on the holy ground of Tokyo Dome itself was among the most doki-doki moment of my life. It was absolutely amazing. I took pictures of every ads that featured the members and was just happy being able to finally be in Japan.

If you read through this, thank you! It's just another life story of an Arashi fan. The world around me changes and revolves, but Arashi remains a fixture that I always come home to, a comfort zone, healing time.
Yoroshiku onegaishimasuuu~

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