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They will absolutely switch the main actress. The premise of the drama (switching bodies) was known from episode 1. It will still be fine.

I mean, it seems pretty obvious to me from the premise of the drama that she'll be forced out of her comfort zone and will have to adapt to harsh circumstances under which her housewife training will be useless and she'll have to take charge of her own life.

So not sure this will be the trad wife drama you've been waiting for.

Yes, they end up together.

The actress playing Yamano-san in ep. 1 is really pretty!

Also what are the odds the guy with the sprained leg has a connection to Ryota? Also is his father really dead?

Thanks a bunch to Windflows for subbing this drama!

So you think they're dead? The final scene seemed to leave the door open for a fakeout.

Neechan no Koibito, Nagareboshi & Long Vacation are all good slice-of-life romances about real people struggling through life.

Soratobu Kouhoushitsu and Good Luck!! too, and they both have disability themes (though not to the same extent as Silent—they're both primarily about aviation, which is another popular theme in jdramas).

Try Love That Makes You Cry as well.

There are a lot of great jdramas in other genres, but I don't know what you would like.

Haemi and Sejoon are cast in stereotypically antagonistic roles (the ML's clingy would-be fiancée with a vulgar social climber for a mother and the ML's ambitious half-brother whose scheming mother hates the ML and wants to oust him from the company), but they don't seem like evil people so far. Sejoon in particular seems nice. I admit Haemi is annoying as of now.

I hope they'll start their own romance soon and won't try to sabotage the main leads.

Youngyi's in-laws are absolutely hateful except for the grandma and the sister-in-law, who seems immature but generally well-meaning. The brother-in-law is a total waste of space and keeps causing bigger and bigger financial disasters, but I can tell the drama is setting him up with Youngyi's best friend, who seems smart and capable. She's way too good for him at the moment, so I hope to see some character development from him.

(If I have to guess, I'll say they'll have a drunken one-night stand down the road, the friend will get pregnant & Dosik will suddenly develop a sense of responsibility and become a different person while his mother has a breakdown over Youngyi's friend ruining her precious son's future.)

The mother-in-law is obviously worse than Hitler and I hope Youngyi cuts her off forever at some point, but we all know that's not how daily dramas work.

Reading back my comment, I'm struck by the sheer number of awful mothers in this drama, which has to be some sort of record even for a makjang. I wish for once kdramas would make the father the irrational, selfish & malicious parent; I'm starting to get offended by all these characters as a woman.

Okay, I like the main couple and I’m rooting for them, but Prince Ning is a great villain and the actor who plays him is doing a great job making him seem human and even sympathetic.

Yeah, he's lowkey weaselly. He encouraged Tsumugi to contact Sou, he gave Sou her contact details instead of pretending he didn't know them (after all, Sou doesn't know they're dating at this point, so Minato could have lied), he asked Sou why he left Tsumugi after Sou disappeared from their lives, he gave Tsumugi the sign language course flyer... sure. All these things make him seem like he's secure in his relationship with Tsumugi and a good friend to Sou... but I just can't see him in that light.

The way he showed up at Sou's place and manipulated Sou's sister into giving him information, the way he didn't say anything when his friend was like ~don't worry, Tsumugi wouldn't pick a disabled guy over you~, the way he was desperately looking up Sou but didn't tell Tsumugi, the condescending "I didn't tell you about Sou's disability because I thought it would make you emotionally unstable"... Yikes, man.

Yeah, I think as Tsumugi and Sou get closer Minato will gradually become bitterer and more unpleasant about Sou's disability.

I think the friend said what he did mostly because he wanted to reassure Minato, but yeah, it was an awful thing to say AND Minato didn't check him at all. This may foreshadow his behaviour for the bulk of the drama; he'll appear compassionate, accepting and chill on the surface, but he'll rely on ableism and his status as a more desirable prospect in society's eyes to pressure Tsumugi to choose him without appearing like the bad guy. I'm guessing Tsumugi's family will also want her to be with him for the same reason.

Hmm, nowhere did I say he's the devil incarnate, and also yes, the romance is absolutely the main point of the drama. Check the poster, summary, genres & cast billing order if you don't believe me.

I had some sympathy for Minato in ep. 1, but he's really getting on my nerves with his stupid mind games in ep. 2.

The one thing I don't want that I'm scared may happen is the drama waiting for 10 episodes until Minato gets over his issues and officially allows Tsumugi to be with Sou in the last 20 minutes of the finale. Jdramas loooooove to resolve love triangles by having the third-wheel SML cling on and on, guilt-trip the FL into, like, getting engaged and then finally realise at the last possible moment that he's not going to be happy with her because she doesn't love him and tell her to go be with the ML.

I want Tsumugi to go after what she wants and fight for her love instead of staying in a lifeless relationship with Minato out of obligation until he dumps her (and is treated like a noble hero for it).

Also Tsumugi's brother needs to mind his own business. If I had a little brother who kept telling me my BF was too good for me and tried to tell me who to be in a relationship with, he'd be catching these hands. Go do your homework!

I don't think saying someone doesn't have the right body type to be convincing in a particular role is bodyshaming.

(I also don't agree with the OP because I'm sure there are some skinny first responders out there; it's a wide world! But their point is not a criticism of the actor.)

I don't think saying someone doesn't have the right body type to be convincing in a particular role is bodyshaming.

More like unserious.

She also said not to bother her because she's doing this for fun in her free time. Pestering her is unlikely to make the experience of subbing more fun for her, so I suggest people chill out.

Fansubs come out when they come out.

I'm 8 episodes in and while I was very impressed by the realistic and nuanced characterisation in this drama when I started it, it's getting harder and harder to keep going. I don't like that the drama follows Yukichi's journey instead of Takuro's when Yukichi is far less interesting and sympathetic to me. He's an emotionally repressed boomer who was a terrible father to his son for 20 years and a not-great husband, and now he feels bad that he's estranged from his only living family but isn't doing anything about it? I'm sorry, I don't care! All of his problems are of his own making, he's hurt Takuro immeasurably and he has a thousand cowardly rationalisations for not apologising and not doing the work to repair their relationship, so he deserves to suffer. While I want them to make up for Takuro's sake, since he clearly loves and misses his father, Yukichi is, again, not doing anything about it, so... why does the drama spend 80% of its time on his fruitless brooding sessions in his stupid café? His angst doesn't touch me.

Azu is a nuanced character and a pretty realistic and sympathetic portrayal of a troubled young woman that avoids falling into lazy clichés, gender stereotypes and moralising, but at the same time... she's not particularly likeable.

Basically, Takuro is the only main character I like and he gets the least amount of screen time. Also absolutely nothing happens! When a drama is 100% character development, 0% plot, the characters need to be engaging, but again, Yukichi's self-pity only makes me angry because he sits around all day diagnosing his own flaws only to decide he's being too harsh on himself (when he's not being harsh enough given all the shit he put Takuro and Megumi through!) and that there’s nothing he can do to change, and Azu's big baby emotions and self-absorption make me roll my eyes.

BTW, can I just say how stupid the whole ‘Takuro killed his mother’ thing becomes once you actually watch the flashback scene and realise she was shaking and pulling his arm and shouting in his face while he was driving? The accident was entirely her fault? Why does no one acknowledge this?

Uh, no, the genre is romantic melodrama, that's the whole purpose of the drama lol. The main characters used to be in love with each other and clearly still carry a lot of unresolved feelings (as evidenced by the fact they both cried when they saw each other!) and the fact they want to be able to communicate is not random.

Learning new methods of communication that can include more people in social life is clearly a good thing no matter who you are, but Tsumugi spent years wanting to talk to Sou (and to hear his voice again) and now that she's met him again and he's tried to rebuff her because he feels bad that they can no longer communicate the way they did before, instead of accepting that he wants nothing to do with her, she's going to hunt him down and initiate a conversation on his terms, and learn how to sign just so she can convince him to talk to her?

Those are some pretty deep emotions to be feeling toward your ex, I'll just say that lol. Most people don't want to talk to their exes enough to wait for them at a metro station multiple times after glimpsing them once from afar, let alone enough to enrol in language classes just to have another conversation after getting shut down once.

Uh, there will definitely be emotional infidelity (like, she's going to start learning sign language for her ex-boyfriend IN EPISODE TWO) and a messy breakup at a minimum.

I doubt there will be 'cheating' in the sense of scenes of physical intimacy pursued behind the FL's boyfriend's back, but clearly the main leads will have a deep emotional connection while she is still in a relationship.

Episode 1 was so good! I get the sense there will be a lot of pain in this drama, though... which is fine with me as long as we get a happy ending!