"Last Friends" finished finally...!

Hello, everyone~!

My favorite drama in this spring-summer season, "Last Friends", finally finished today. Though an additional episode will be aired next week thanks to the increase of viewers, it now officially finished... I've missed the day I couldn't wait for every Thursday to come since the moment when the very last episode finished.

As much as I'm feeling sad that the drama finished, I was actually happy to see the story move forward. (You know what I mean if you had favorite shows now or before.) If you recorded the last episode and you haven't seen it, please just skip what's written below.

In the last episode, Sousuke, the one who becomes violent when things don't go the way he wants them to, committed suicide because he finally figured out that Michiru (his girlfriend) could never smile if he was with her and realized that she no longer belonged to the place in their heart where Sousuke and Michiru once were together happily.

After Michiru figured out that he committed suicide and found the letter written by Sousuke, she went to where she was born. And she began working at the Japanese style hotel. But suddenly, she felt sick and she happened to know that she was pregnant. Before Sousuke passed away, Michiru was actually sexually abused by him. The fact that she was pregnant literally broke her heart, but she decided to bring up her child by herself even though her mother said that it would be tough.

In the meantime, Ruka and Takeru, who still live in their share house, found out that Sousuke committed suicide when Michiru's mother made a call to know where Michiru would be. They decided to look for Michiru by going to the places where they thought Michiru would be. And they finally could meet Michiru!

Lastly, Michiru, Takeru, and Ruka decided to bring the child together happily.

As the story went on more and more, I just couldn't foresee what would happen. So, I even thought that the ending would be really sad such as someone killed someone. At least, that case didn't happen. But I got confused that Sousuke ended up committing suicide. I can understand he had complicated background and it can't be said that it was all his fault, but violence would never be justified. Right?

So, if I were to watch it whole new episodes, I would want it to change. Because it seems to me that the drama says the problem about Sousuke's violence can't be helped. If there's a solution, Michiru might not have lost him and the consequence would be different. But in the drama, Sousuke just escaped from the reality by killing himself. Maybe, that's how the director of the drama want to provoke our discussions or that's the true perception of domestic violence? I don't know....

But anyway, "Last Friends" is one of the interesting, thought-provoking, and moving dramas I've ever seen. So, if you have a chance to see it, why don't you give it a try?

After Watching "Last Friends"...

Hello, everyone~!

On Thursday, as I've said previously, I enjoyed watching the drama "Last Friends." As the story has gotten deeper, it seems it's out of control. No matter how things will go, the time everyone in the drama is happy would never come. Usually, relationships in fictional dramas focus on bright sides of them, and it ends up being together happily.

But "Last Friends" does the opposite. I even think that it's too much! In this week's episode, after hurting Michiru again and again and many lies being told, Sousuke committed suicide at the end of the episode. I somehow imagined that it would happen at some point in the drama, and I felt it coming. But watching as it happened overwhelmed me, and I've been wondering how Michiru would respond to it in the next week's episode. Though he has battered her, she once thought surely that he was definitely the one and loved each other. It's a contradictory feeling, and it fits in with the drama's key words "The more you try to separate, the closer and stronger a relationship becomes."(ほどこうとする度に、離れられなくなっていく)

Hmmmm..... things become so complicated that I just can't predict what will happen! And I can't wait to see it! But at the same time, I'm a bit sad to accept the fact that the drama will end very soon.

Airight, that's all for today!

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. ^^

Hana Yori Dango

Hello, everyone~!

Since the vacation began, I've been obsessed about a TV drama called "Hana Yori Dango"! The drama actually ended on January, and I've started watching it now as the episodes have been aired again as a rerun. I happened to watch it as I was being lazy in front of TV in the morning, but I found myself getting drawn into it! I'm really pleased with the fact that it's a rerun. ^^ Thanks to that, I've been able to watch it everyday! It's a sequel actually, but it doesn't keep me away from watching it at all because I've already read the original.

Yes, It's originally come from the Japanese comic and it now becomes the best-selling girls comic in Japan. With the popularity, it's been exported to the Asian region. As you can see by the picture on the left side, it's been translated into English as well. I clearly remember being addicted to them when I was a high school student! (In fact, I even enjoyed reading them at my high school. Oops! Was there the moment when you want to act a lit badly through high school days, wasn't it? Hehehe...)

It's a high school drama that could be categorized as "romantic comedy", "friendship". What's interesting to see is the relationship between Domyouji Tsukasa, who comes from a rich family, and Tsukushi Makino, who is a working-class girl. As you can guess, so many things which they can't take control get in the way. In addition to that, the moments they just can't understand each other make them upset emotionally.

One of the things I like about this drama is that even though love triangles appear sometimes, each of the episodes is always peaceful. So you can watch it without being worried about how many people will be dead in one episode.(Like the one I'd been addicted to until recently, "24"!) I've seen the short footage of the Japanese dramas that had been aired recently on TV, any of which didn't make me feel like watching. So, I haven't seen a Japanese drama for a while because I thought that the attractiveness of Japanese dramas has been disappeared. But now, It turned out to be sooo wrong!(at least about this drama. ^^)

Hana Yori Dango 2 Returns 03 Part 2/3
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For those who are interested in the drama, I put the video that I found on Dailymotion. It's the episode 3, so I don't know if you'll figure out what the story is like. But at least I hope it'll help you get some ideas of "Hana Yori Dango"! ^^ (I've already seen this episode, but it still makes me cry at the last half of the video!)

Alright, that's all for today!
See you soon~♪