Last Friends

Hello, everyone~!

I'm now waiting for a TV show to air very soon. It's the Japanese drama called "Last Friends." (The link will bring you to the official website, which is created in Japanese.) I haven't been into dramas for years because I felt that stories of the Japanese dramas really got boring. Instead, I've been watching the dramas such as "24" and "Prison Break", which are the American dramas.

But I happened to watch "Last Friends" because one of my favorite artists, Utada Hikaru, sings the theme song for it. (It's "Prisoner of Love", which I've introduced to you on the previous post.)


I hope the trailer helps you imagine what it's like.

Basically, it's about young people who live in a house together(which they call "share house"), who are going through the problems that each of them has. Though they seemingly happy, the problems they have are overwhelming and it's not hard to imagine how difficult it would be to come out.

The main characters on the show are...

*Michiru Aida (by Masami Nagasawa): She works as an assistant of a beauty specialist as a beauty salon. She is always smiling, but a bit indecisive. Since she grew up in a single-mother household, she's dreamed of creating a happy family. She has a boyfriend and now lives together. It sounds really happy, but in fact she's a victim of domestic violence. She is battered by her boyfriend, Sosuke.

*Ruka Kishimoto (by Juri Ueno): She tends to pretend to be strong, but she is actually vulnerble. She is practicing to be a professional motocross rider. It looks like she is an ordinary woman, but she has a secret that she can't tell to anyone. She has difficulty in accepting the fact that she has been regarded as female.

*Takeru Mizushima (by Eita): He is working hard to be a hair and make up artist. He doesn't look like a man very much because he has an androgynous look. But because of his experience in his childhood, he's afraid to have sex.

*Sousuke Oikawa (by Ryo Nishikido): He is Michiru's boyfriend, and the one who becomes violent when things don't go the way he wants them to be. It seems that he likes her so much that he loses his mind when he becomes violent. But in public, he is really kind to others and he works for the city government. Obviously, there's some contradiction here.

*Eri Takigawa (by Asami Mizukawa): She works as a flight attendant, and as you might easily imagine, she is kind to everyone even though what she says is too honest sometimes. And she gets along with almost everyone. But inside her mind, she feels lonely and she can't be No.1 for anyone. Though she feels alone, it's really hard to tell someone because almost automatically she pretends to be happy.

At first, the story began when Ruka came across Michiru. And when Michiru found out that her boyfriend, Sousuke, got violent and hurt her for the first time, Michiru escaped from Sousuke's house to where Ruka lives(share house). At the time, it seems that they're living happily together. But things got really complicated when each of their problems that they kept away have been discovered. After it happened, almost everything each of them did out of goodwill turned out to be the trigger to get things even worse...

But more and more people watch this because what it deals with is really thought-provoking and it even makes you think about how I would do if I were one of the characters in the drama. Many of my friends, including Yuiko and Eriko, are also into this drama and we often talk about the episodes.

Actually, the last episode will be aired next week!
I just can't wait!!!

Alright, that's all for today!
See you soon. ^^