TOKYO TARAREBA MUSUME

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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.