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Protagonist Misaki is Highly Problematic
When I first came upon this version, season 2 (I haven’t watched season 1), I wondered if I should go ahead with my plan of watching it. After all, I wanted something a little more chill than the crazy revenge stories of the past. I’m not really one for high octane right now. But it turns out that the characters in the show are quite chill. The husband who is the bad guy supposedly is like the chillest bad guy I’ve ever seen. Is this what they mean by “Chillin like a villain?” He seems to be sleepwalking through the entire drama, which is kind of funny to me because I was looking for something quite chill like this. And as for the wife, she has lost her beloved little boy Yuto, so even the revenge she seems to be taking is not out of her own actions or will, but from a faceless mask dude giving her instructions. He seems to be far more motivated than any of the other characters. The series has quite a mysterious air to it and more classy than I expected from a revenge drama. It doesn’t demand or extract any big emotions from me at the moment, except for the odds smirk here and there. I will continue to chill as I watch this. But I have a problem with the protagonist Misaki- if she had a camera showing the footage of Yuto on his last day before he died, why didn’t Misaki see that footage? Why did it take the masked helper to point that out to her, burning it on a cd for her to see what happened, when her own camera footage at home should have been clearly accessible for her to see at any time? It is clear from the video that the mistress is there and her muffins caused Yuto’s death and the affair and everything was easily accessible from that one footage alone. Was Misaki too stupid to look up her own camera footage from that day or what? Then later she acts like a genius as if she came up with the revenge ideas when she did none of it by herself and was literally receiving instructions from her masked helpers.
Misaki’s mother in law is quite the character and a bad actress too (overacting from the first shot, fake expressions). She’s hell bent on hating Mizaki, acting like she owned Yuto when he was alive, and acting like his own mother doesn’t have the right to grieve or love him. It’s the typical mother in law from hell who overlooks her son’s own part in ending Yuto’s life and instead scapegoats and blames everything on Misaki instead because she’s an easy target. It’s also telling how callous the husband is about his son’s death- he really doesn’t give a care and is 100% selfish.
Then after Misaki goes through all the revenge and the masked people who helped her are revealed in episode 11, all she can do is insult them instead of thanking them for their help, calling the guy who was Yuto’s friend a loser- he was the only one on Misaki’s side and was one of the revenge helpers (saying she spied on his family when it was his “spying” that brought her husband and his mistress to justice). Then she calls the woman from season 1 who helped her as “full of herself.” But without them she wouldn’t have gotten a single clue or idea for revenge about this case or even known the truth. They’re the ones who even gave her the idea of revenge, but she disses them as if she thought of the entire plan herself. She literally spit on those who helped her as if she could have done any of it herself. On her own she was totally helpless. On her own she would just cut herself like she did in the earlier episodes. What an ungrateful woman! What on earth is wrong with her all of a sudden? She can’t do anything on her own and needs the help of these people to do anything but she just insulted them and walked off as if she has great plans of her own. Why would you diss the only people who have been on your side the whole time and helped you? I hoped she was kidding and had a really good reason why she would diss the good guys who helped her like that. Then she created a comic book based on her helpers’ ideas for revenge which she had followed and that comic won some manga award. What on earth? She literally stole those ideas of others and repackaged it as her own. How is she any better than her husband? This Misaki character is really irritating and stupid.
Then her husband comes along and she lets him in (why?) and she puts on a show to show how mad she is. What’s the point? If she was really genuine she wouldn’t let him in in the first place. What a stupid character.
And then she shamelessly goes on the red carpet accepts the manga reward for the revenge story she stole from her two helpers (and dissed) as if she was the genius who came up with those ideas herself. Funny enough during the awards ceremony, her husband is standing there all suited up - he hasn’t been erased from society, he’s right there at a prestigious manga award ceremony and yet she’s going on and on about how she succeeded in erasing him. This Misaki is seriously problematic. Well it’s the writers and director that screwed up her character towards the end. I was on her side until she dissed her masked helpers, made up the manga story as if it were her own revenge ideas, and took all the credit for herself. She has zero integrity. I was waiting to see if she would in anyway redeem herself in the end. But instead, she imagines Al the characters cheering for her and saying “Yay I did it!” You did what? Honestly Misaki is the worst. And honestly regarding Yuto’s death, her husband is mostly responsible, but so is she. She should have been with her child instead of frolicking wherever and leaving him to her husband who she knows is irresponsible. She is highly problematic as a character and as a mother.
I blame the screenwriters and director for messing up Misaki’s character towards the end. She could have thanked her masked helpers and then credited them in her manga but no, they ruined her character in the last two episodes. In a revenge drama, the protagonist has to be airtight, otherwise the rating is going to be rock bottom from me. For that alone, all the flaws in Misaki, I’m dropping my rating because these were unforgivable errors in the screenplay.
Misaki’s mother in law is quite the character and a bad actress too (overacting from the first shot, fake expressions). She’s hell bent on hating Mizaki, acting like she owned Yuto when he was alive, and acting like his own mother doesn’t have the right to grieve or love him. It’s the typical mother in law from hell who overlooks her son’s own part in ending Yuto’s life and instead scapegoats and blames everything on Misaki instead because she’s an easy target. It’s also telling how callous the husband is about his son’s death- he really doesn’t give a care and is 100% selfish.
Then after Misaki goes through all the revenge and the masked people who helped her are revealed in episode 11, all she can do is insult them instead of thanking them for their help, calling the guy who was Yuto’s friend a loser- he was the only one on Misaki’s side and was one of the revenge helpers (saying she spied on his family when it was his “spying” that brought her husband and his mistress to justice). Then she calls the woman from season 1 who helped her as “full of herself.” But without them she wouldn’t have gotten a single clue or idea for revenge about this case or even known the truth. They’re the ones who even gave her the idea of revenge, but she disses them as if she thought of the entire plan herself. She literally spit on those who helped her as if she could have done any of it herself. On her own she was totally helpless. On her own she would just cut herself like she did in the earlier episodes. What an ungrateful woman! What on earth is wrong with her all of a sudden? She can’t do anything on her own and needs the help of these people to do anything but she just insulted them and walked off as if she has great plans of her own. Why would you diss the only people who have been on your side the whole time and helped you? I hoped she was kidding and had a really good reason why she would diss the good guys who helped her like that. Then she created a comic book based on her helpers’ ideas for revenge which she had followed and that comic won some manga award. What on earth? She literally stole those ideas of others and repackaged it as her own. How is she any better than her husband? This Misaki character is really irritating and stupid.
Then her husband comes along and she lets him in (why?) and she puts on a show to show how mad she is. What’s the point? If she was really genuine she wouldn’t let him in in the first place. What a stupid character.
And then she shamelessly goes on the red carpet accepts the manga reward for the revenge story she stole from her two helpers (and dissed) as if she was the genius who came up with those ideas herself. Funny enough during the awards ceremony, her husband is standing there all suited up - he hasn’t been erased from society, he’s right there at a prestigious manga award ceremony and yet she’s going on and on about how she succeeded in erasing him. This Misaki is seriously problematic. Well it’s the writers and director that screwed up her character towards the end. I was on her side until she dissed her masked helpers, made up the manga story as if it were her own revenge ideas, and took all the credit for herself. She has zero integrity. I was waiting to see if she would in anyway redeem herself in the end. But instead, she imagines Al the characters cheering for her and saying “Yay I did it!” You did what? Honestly Misaki is the worst. And honestly regarding Yuto’s death, her husband is mostly responsible, but so is she. She should have been with her child instead of frolicking wherever and leaving him to her husband who she knows is irresponsible. She is highly problematic as a character and as a mother.
I blame the screenwriters and director for messing up Misaki’s character towards the end. She could have thanked her masked helpers and then credited them in her manga but no, they ruined her character in the last two episodes. In a revenge drama, the protagonist has to be airtight, otherwise the rating is going to be rock bottom from me. For that alone, all the flaws in Misaki, I’m dropping my rating because these were unforgivable errors in the screenplay.
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