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Monday, October 3, 2016

Suki Na Hito Ga Iru Koto [ To Have A Person That You Love ] (Japanese Drama)

English Name: A Girl And Three Sweethearts
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Episodes: 10

Main Cast: 
Yamazaki Kento as Shibasaki Kanata
Kiritani Mirei as Sakurai Misaki
Miura Shohei as Shibasaki Chiaki
Nomura Shuhei as Shibasaki Touma

Synopsis:

Sakurai Misaki has not dated in a long time. She has focused on her work as a pâtissier to eventually run her own business. One day, she gets fired from work. She then meets her first love from high school Shibasaki Chiaki. Misaki works part-time at Chiaki's restaurant and also stays there. While she lives with Chiaki at his restaurant, she realizes that Chiaki's two younger brothers Touma and Kanata also live there.

My Thoughts:

I will start by saying I really like this drama a lot. There is an abundance of charm to the story and its characters in more ways than one. Again, I started this drama reading the comments beforehand and some were complaining about the slow development of the story and another was defending it. For reasons unknown, I find this drama promising because of that. I began a mindset of a child filled with wonder and then find myself not needing such mindset and that I just need to be myself watching this because it was indeed promising and excel. Read whatever comments you can whether bad or good about this drama, I am gonna defend this drama to the end. No matter if you came in expecting lots or less, I will stick to saying you will be surprised either way. 

To me, this drama is perfect for me right now. I find myself searching for a kinda slow-paced story and something that can attract my attention and seriously, this story got me digging deeper. I thought it was something pointless at first and I will get bored soon and finally say, at least I tried. But, as always, I hit the jackpot, this story not only keeps me entertained, it got me wondering the whole time because I can never guess perfectly what happens next because this drama is super unpredictable. All I could do was guess on small hints. It got me stuck thinking what's gonna happen next. It breaks away from all the cliche that I know. 

Enough blabbing for now, on to the story itself, I like how the writer moves along with the story. The writer slowly brings each and every single character to life even if they appear for a short while. Like that random best friend who always seem to be having parties or those couples who are always having fun with each other. They may seem pointless characters but they do help to develop the story and not serve as filler. The main leads of course always have troubles of themselves, one particularly highlighted in this drama is inferiority complex, you see that a lot and how different characters respond to their troubles is to me, one of the charms of this drama. 

The most obvious charm is the characters themselves. Seriously, I'm falling for the characters so much. So well set-up in their personality,i just love their interactions with each other. There is not a single character that to me have done a stupid decision in their life choices. They did the right thing always, yes they may act silly and irrational but I realize later on, they did so out of pure logical reasons. Some decisions they did were unknowingly for others. I find myself grinning all the time seeing each character because I can't help by their cuteness, boy and girl alike. 

It was a short drama and I didn't want it to end but I was glad to end it because as I quote from W: 'I am one of those people who wants a happy ending' and believe I enjoyed this story  One thing, I know it's cliche for hate to be love but this writer did it with perfect transitions; bad first impressions, misunderstandings, clears up misunderstanding, starts trying to understand, starts caring, falls in love, begins to be super considerate and so on and so forth. This was a well-written drama and one sure to be missed and watched again someday. Took a day to hold on watching the last episode but did not regret watching this drama till the end at all.

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