Neko-chan

I've only watched Kingdom and I liked it a lot. The others didn't catch my attention.

I liked it. Tsubaki is kinda the serious adult who's moved by Shun's sweetness. The plot itself is a bit meh, but I liked how the romance blossomed and developed. But the best for me was Elizabeth and the rubber chicken. LOL

I haven't read the manga to compare the movie adaptation to it, but I liked it. It's kinda cliché, but it's cute as well. It surely portraits well the difficulties a couple may face when they've got such different personalities and different ways of dealing with situations.

With only 3 episodes, I was able to figure that out as well. And the ending scenes make too obvious whom Jiang Sheng will end up with. I'd rather it wasn't him, though. I liked the other one better. XD

I didn't like the movie much, but I also like second chances. Sometimes people deserve it. Sometimes they don't but they get them anyway. Oh well, that's somehow the beauty of life. XD

I found it an 'ok' movie. To me there's nth 'special' about it. It pictures relatioships and how some people may deal with their emotions. It's realistic, there's nth like a 'poor girl meeting her charming prince' or a bad guy becoming 'good' because he fell in love with someone. No 'fantasy'. It was played nicely, it portrays common people who live a common life. I found it a bit odd and slow-paced. Don't completely disliked watching it, but it didn't move me a bit. And I wish it wasn't 2 hours long.

Indeed. I thought it was going to be just a silly romcom, but it does conveys more that that. I really liked it.

I think the problem may be because he was always friendly towards her. He never made a straight move, like Yamashita did, for fear of being rejected. So he ended up being friendzoned. Once you get there, you hardly ever step out from it. lol
I liked Yamashita the best, but it was interesting how Junko's behaviour towards him made him realise how he was towards his wife and why their marriage was always going forth and back. In the end, he realised he still loved Yuka. =/

Me too! Although I felt sad for the ones she didn't end up with, if you put yourself in her shoes, you can understand the 'reasons' for her decisions.

He was my favourite too, but, tbh, I'd have liked if there were 3 different endings, because there's no way to not like those guys. They're all cute! <3

That's a matter of taste. Gladly, nobody has to share the same preferences in how to get dressed nor anything else. Plus, considering that Junko is someone who's always walked on the line and followed whatever her mother said, it wouldn't match the character's personality if she dressed differently.

I was already aware of how different the oriental culture is from the ocidental one, but reading how famous people's life is affected by things like affairs makes me even more surprised. If such a thing happens here in Brazil, the actors get even more famous, becoming 'hot news'. Their careers wouldn't suffer a bit and everything would be 'normal' back again very fast. Not saying this because I think one or the other deals with it in a better way; but I find interesting how different cultures can be and just wanted to express my thoughts about it.
As for this event, I don't really care much about celebrities' life, but I guess it must be quite hard to see your beloved one acting in a 'romantic' way with someone else. If talking, alone, can already 'make way' for people to fall in love (or just become attracted to each other), even more kissing and hugging, mostly when that's what you do for a living. There must be a lot of both loyalty and trust for a relationship like that to work out just fine. And there are many examples out there of celebrities who finished and started a relationship for shooting a drama/movie with someone else, like Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, for example.
I just hope they both manage to deal with the situation in the best way possible and that their children don't suffer with the outcome of it. =/

I also found Mizuki more good-looking than Furukawa, but the latter still has some cuteness I didn't see in the former. ^^

I agree with you. It was quite predictable and cliché. It was cute, I liked how the FL role was developed, but tbh, not sure if I'd have chosen that ending, although I didn't dislike it. I just found it 'too perfect'. I'd rather both Akari and Ikumi overcame their past, looked at it with tenderness, but moved on and grew up. I'd rather she chosen Yuri, fell in love with him (since she was able to know the real him) and left Japan with him, when she would be inspired by different people, landscapes and cultures to draw her mangas. But oh well, that would be just some sort of spin-off. XD

I google it and found out that its writer is Mayaka Nakano, the first volume (out of seven) was released in 2018 and the work is still ongoing. Perhaps the manga is only available on bookstores in Japan for now. I wanted to read it so much. :(

I completed it, but didn't find it a big deal.

I see Saku as someone who starts to get in conflict with his emotions (bc he starts to have some mixed feelings), so he wouldn't know how he should behave himself. You know, just like when you're dumped, then you go after your beloved one then you regret having done so. Not the same situation, but just to depict when we're not always sure how to behave. And yeah, that may be frustrating. =/

Idk... I've got mixed feelings about it. It was nice how things ended up and it was totally comprehensible Saku's behaviour towards both his writing and relationships, psychologically speaking. It's very common for people to associate events to something else, so those events become somehow memorable. But I found Tsukihiro's behaviour a bit difficult to 'accept' since I couldn't either understand or empathize with it. Sometimes her behaviour made sense to me due to her life experience, but sometimes it felt... weird?
It was a plot that didn't 'move' me. I was like 'ah, I get it now why is this/why is that', but it didn't bring me out any emotion. (Could it be a hormonal thing? LOL)
Perhaps I'll have a different perspective when I read the manga, I hope.
Anyways, I enjoyed watching it, found it 'okay', but wouldn't rewatch it. Plus, very predictable.

So my pov about the plot: we've got a very introvert girl who doesn't even know what self-esteem is. She's got no dreams, she hasn't got her own will, she's almost like a machine, obeying to what she's told to do.
She's presented with different kinds of love: the fraternal one from a mature guy (although Shinogu is aware he loves her in a different way, he gives her the love he 'is allowed' to give. And I say he's mature not bc he's an adult, but bc he could have taken the chance when he could, but he'd rather have her when she really wanted him bc she liked him as a man and not when she was confused - he knows he wouldn't get what he really wanted from her), the innocent one from a 'twisted' guy (Azusa should use part of his money to see a therapist, my lord! I'd say he's someone in constant conflict with himself, bc he does love Hatsumi, but he feels betrayed and used by everybody since his mother left him and his father, and being part of the fashion industry just made it worse, so he's emotionally unstable. Not good for a girl's first relationship, definitely), and the totally inexperient one from a 'genius' guy (I find it funny how Ryoki doesn't know how to convey his feelings to Hatsumi, so he behaves like a child, mistreating the one he actually likes. He's the opposite of Hatsumi: straightforward and strong-willed. He also hasn't got any experience in love, but he shows himself being someone whom Hatsumi can count on - which is not mutual due to her still being emotionally weak. It's bc of him that she starts to understand some things about herself and it's the problems she faces that make her grow up little by little. After all, nobody was born knowing everything, right).
In the end, she made her choice. She was aware she didn't like her 'brother' as a man. She was 'disappointed' with her first love after all he made her go through. She understood she had Ryoki's back and that he really liked her. She understood they both have a lot to learn and that they can do it together.
I found it cute how the first relationship of an innocent teen girl being built was portrayed. I guess most of us have been there once. :)

So! It's been years since I read the manga and I remember I liked it (and that was the reason I wanted to watch the movie). Some scenes in the movie made me recall it was just like that in the manga, so I can say it was at least a kinda good adaptation. As for the main idea of the story (like shown in the end and about Hatsumi's feelings), I can't remember if it was just like that in the manga, but even if it was, it didn't leave me the same impression about the plot like the movie version did. And, still, it's very likely for people to have a different interpretation about the same story when reading/watching/listening to it more than once, mostly if it's done in different times in their life. I really liked it and in case you're wondering whether to watch it or not I'd say for you to keep in mind we've got an introvert learning about herself. If you don't like such naïve characters, I don't recommend you to watch this movie.