Hotaru no Hikari: It's Only a Little Light in My Life

My take on the movie? Watch the dramas first and foremost. My complaint on the movie is that they spent too much time on Rio's story. This movie would have been perfect if they blended her story in with Seiichi and Hotaru traveling and seeing the sights with her doing stupid stuff. There were some moments when it really was funny; especially when they went Goro..goro..goro down the stairs (you have to see the dramas to understand). The acting of the leads was still great. I fell in love with Seeichi (Buchon/Boss) even more because he was truly willing to accept her as she was. Talk about oil and water, it is definitely these two but their love for each other is definitely true. Watch the movie only if you've seen the dramas and want to see more; however, be prepared to be a little disappointed. And the ending? C'mon, we deserve to see what happens next!!

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A litter bit disappointing, but the couple is still adorable

The only good thing I want to see is the interaction between Buchou and Hotaru as a lovey-dovey newly married couple, and I believe other viewers watch the movie because of that too.

However, the movie’s main focus is around some kind of a stranger woman that I don’t even bother to remember her name, and couldn’t care less about her story. She and also all other characters are annoying, and she is the worst, and the plot is weird and stupid. The movie is supposed to be their honeymoon trip, but then it’s ruined for someone not important and not relevant at all. It would be okay for me if they put the woman's story as a very side plot, not playin a big role in the plot like how it is. It just doesn't make sense.

I still give it 6 out of 10 just because of the moments between Hotaru and Buchou. They are still sweet, adorable and funny as before. It's finally a happy ending for their love story, although I expect to learn more after that. I want to see their baby!!

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Really Gone Downhill

Was this movie even necessary? This show is so obsessed with marriage and weddings and idolizes the whole ordeal and puts it up on a pedestal. And then going to get married or honeymoon (do the writers even know the difference?) in Rome? Ok but then there’s this weird side story about Bucho getting faux-kidnapped but he’s really doing dance sessions in secret while cross dressing with a guy? And Hotaru thinks he’s kidnapped and goes all over Rome trying to find the dude and then she finds him having a jolly old time at some wedding and doesn’t care that she’s risked her life for him to save him because she thinks he’s kidnapped. But he just gives her a hug.. why didn’t he tell her where he was going? This part was so weird. And then the side story of Rio, the fellow Japanese Himono Onna who has become a lying, manipulative mess of a woman because her husband and kid died in an accident, so basically she’s turned into a shell of a person, a zombie if you will. I’ve seen this theme in many of the lower tier J Dramas- the idea that if a woman loses her husband and kid, they just turn into a shell of a human being, and zombified (the other series that does this is I’m Mita, Your Housekeeper). It’s a pathetic message to send to women that without your husband and kid, you’re nothing. Anyway, then these two Hotaru and Bucho get married in a Catholic Church with a priest who they don’t understand nor does he understand them. Is the marriage even valid? And then they come back home and Hotaru seems to be pregnant. YAWN. Same tired old story trying to glorify marriage and breeding. What garbage. Not impressed.

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