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Unfortunately lost potential. : (

Themes of love, camaraderie, partnership & family.

While initially starting out strong as a rom-com w/ some dark humor the show eventually drops the ball & just spirals into a redundant mess.

First of all the positives:
- Yoshikawa Ai heavily carried this drama & if it wasn’t for her character & the show being short I would’ve dropped it. And her character Izzy is such a fun fish out of water character.
- The main antagonist Tenkai was also a good nemesis for Izzy too. Which made for a fun dynamic.
- The action scenes were actually good & although you could tell when there was a stunt double Ai comes off believable as a fighter.
- The show is quite funny a lot of the times & the actors all have pretty good timing.
- Music is just okay as I mainly remembered the dub-step & nothing else.
- Camera work is also pretty good w/ some fun techniques every once in a while.

Now for the negatives:
- Sano does a pretty good job for the character, Hachi he’s given, but he was clearly directed to overreact & worst of all his character was heavily mis-written. The major problem w/ his character is he never truly understood Izzy & her situation, bcuz he was rarely in danger unlike her. The writers never challenge Hachi’s suggestion of pacifism before violence. Instead they just decided to keep him ignorant of the Antagonists & their evil nature. Resulting in him not allying w/Izzy for the last half of the show.
- The side characters are frankly boring & forgettable w/ a few exceptions. 1 of them being Sorimichi’s Detective Dad as he plays a father who isn’t close w/ his son well. But he’s wasted. Then there’s the friends & associates of Tadashi who were either annoying or contributed little this creating no real attachment between everyone. So when they started getting so much screen time it was just wasting this already short show.
- Speaking of which, the show is 8 ep & they utterly wasted their time w/ creating a fun & loving couple. Instead so much time is give to the supporting cast who also weren’t allies of Izzy.
- Which leads to the story & that is it’s confused as to what it should do. Instead of creating a story about 2 loners/losers who eventually find that they aren’t so alone, they completely ostracize the FL. The theme is love, camaraderie & partnership, but the only one who showed that was Izzy. So the writer’s intention, whatever it was, is completely lost as I didn’t feel any of that.

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Chinese Pride & Prejudice with possibly weird production.

Themes of family, love, marriage & growth.
This drama had potential as an interesting family drama about marriage, but it just sort of exists w/ no real focus. At a certain point I knew this drama wouldn’t have a main character & it would focus on all 5 daughters + 1, but what I didn’t expect is how often certain characters would be gone so long only to reappear again.

So I had an epiphany/theory whoever made this show made it based on the actor/ actress availability & that’s why some characters have so little screen time & some so much. How I see it, the 3rd couple were the most famous so they filmed their scenes first. As soon as their story was done it was the 1st couple, then the 2nd. Finally, the 4th & 5th couple had actors & actresses who didn’t have many dramas lined up for them so they were the most available & thus took up the later parts of the story. That’s the only way I can rationalize as to why the other older sisters barely did anything later on.

Anyways, with that out of the way I usually do a pros & con, but I won’t. A simple summary will suffice. The show lacks in 1 major area: a lack of focus. It doesn’t really have an idea as to what the story is about so certain things happen randomly quite often & other times the characters just do things that don’t make much sense. The one major positive about this show is that it dives into all the sister’s stories so you can pick & choose a favorite couple. But in the end it’s just serviceable & not all too memorable.

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