Panino Manino

NO, it is NOT!
What a bad joke was that?!
Seriously, what a huge disappointment.
Good idea, failed execution.

"I agree with her husbands point. It's also possible to become happy with just both of them"
The interesting in this story that we got is that she also understood this! She wanted children but had accepted that they could make one together. It was the pressure for others that made she that way. She is a very successful and realized woman, but because she isn't a mother she is a worthless failure? Nothing that she does and accomplishes matters?
For me this was her drama, and yes, they could add this point that just because you aren't the biological parent you aren't less of a parent, and being the biological parent don't make you a better parent.
But anyway, it's not a 10, it's a 20.

Hey?
Wants to know the one thing that is missing?

Besides Mizuho's trial, we have 4 couples.
3 of them have satisfactory endings, 1 of them not.
I'm talking about (Mutsumi) Haga. Her "problem" isn't discussed with her husband in the end, husband that was mostly missing from the story, and there's a clear "solution": adoption.
Going that way this story could also touch this huge problem. The United States/UNICEF is very critical of Japan, their laws punish the children. Very fast the children are put into institutions, preventing them from growing on normal homes. Even with abuse and without being able to get their child back the parents can deny that their child go to foster homes. There's a lot of abandoned and forgotten child locked inside institutions.

It's strange that her story didn't want this path and didn't even got a satisfactory ending. By her stance after at the end of the trial she can "do it" again.

Because there isn't "absolute truths", and even if they exist isn't relevant.
When even the person in the center of the matter have it's own interpretation AND opinion about what did/happened, who knows the truth? What's the point of the truth?
This was a relevant plot point, after all, we all make judgments, constantly.

Months ago, I watched "Marumaru Tsuma", also with Kou Shibasaki.
There she played the wife of a "newscaster".
It wasn't the only drama with that "problem", but it was exacerbated by this detail. The problem being "the difficulty that japanese scriptwriters have writing good monologues and speeches". It always feels like the character isn't saying enough, isn't saying what he should be saying, it's missing the point.
Well, my friendos, Shinozaki Eriko did it. She wrote a perfect speech/monologue here. Nothing is missing in it, it says everything that should be said by the character and context, and to move and conclude the story.
Perfect.

Also, this drama is 20 out of 10.
Superb and must watch for everyone.

There's so many things to talk about the forth episode, but I'm almost having an aneurysm here, I need rest.

There's a thing that I have to say... While I like Kou Shibasaki I really dislike the way she acts/talks that you can see in these two first episodes (the ones translated until now), with that meek way of talking.
I like her more when she is more "fiery".

At first you may think, "oh, just another crime drama", because with the judgment it's categorized as a "court drama" but when you sit and watch... it's like what is being judged is not just that case in the court and not that single mother, it's much more.

I watched the episode 2 and I say that it's not only about "mothers" and the women side. It shows how the japanese society today is skewed against having and raising children and prevents a healthy marriage.
The men/husbands side is being shown and is adding a lot.

Any idea where I can still find this?

Any idea where I can still find this?

I discovered by myself, the subs are on D-Addicts.

It's true!

This was really good, didn't expected that ending.

"I liked this. It's - as many people already said - similar to Chugakusei Nikki but also not. I think I actually prefer this version. CN is basically the vanilla version, what you'd expect from a Japanese TV drama. Highschool-vanilla-love, barely two kisses in the whole thing...but somehow true love that survives for years. Yeah sure, as if. "

Didn't finished Koi no Tsuki, still didn't watched Chugakusei (because I'm having difficulties getting the first episodes), didn't read your comment past the part quoted and I agree 100%!
I have the impression that I know what to expect from Chugakusei, but I surely didn't expected what I'm seeing here in Koi no Tsuki!
It's actually a very good story and drama, with real problems, real world problems. Sometimes I thought that I knew some cheap clichés that the script was telegraphing but I was actually wrong and was surprised. And they actually put effort on filming this, it's just beautiful!

Tokunaga Eri is just a very good actress or she also enjoyed very much this role (if you know what I mean)?

The original is a josei manga made by a woman, of course it's degenerate...
Talking serious now, don't judge too early and without even knowing how it actually is. It may be about much more than just an age gap romance, take After the Rain as example.

waitwaitwaitwait!
"subs out"?
What to you mean by this? There's subtitles for this? WHERE?!

Found the first episode, but just the first one.

Still no raws.