TimiZero

Skipped this drama before, thinking it was going to follow the "H" route considering its "love hotel" theme....lol Turned out this was SFW after all.

The drama was fun. Highly recommended to those who are looking for something light to watch. The love lessons were interesting and made sense too.

Quite an interesting drama although it seems like "financial butler" is the more appropriate name for the job....lol

The premise is simple, but I like that they tried to give a bit of financial education on every episode. Although the info felt overloaded at times as it usually relayed through fast explanation. Well everything in the series felt like a shinkansen ride. It was fast, you can't even blink eyes without missing a thing or two.

The comedy wasn't my cup of tea but I got used to it as the series progressed. The Netflix sub lost the Anno's joke, but it still hard to digest even with literal translation.

It's a good watch if you like investigation series. Nothing extraordinary but the location (Mizune, Okutama, Tokyo) is beautiful. It gives you the "local community vibe" kind of dramas like, Dr Koto, Shima no Sensei, Ruri no Shima, etc.

LoL I think Yamamoto Koji is good enough for the replacement haha

Started off with a BANG, but lost the momentum in the middle with ambiguous side plots that felt like fillers before the main mystery was revealed. The strong element of the drama is its production value with strong cast line-up and orchestrated BGM. For that I gave this drama a rating of 8/10.

The mystery part was okay-ish, at least it kept you until the end. However the main premise to change the education system is nothing but a clickbait. Maybe if you know the present Japanese education system, you can see the impact or you will relate more. Otherwise nothing extraordinary done by Mikami except to carry out the mystery narrative.

The long line of dialogues with complicated sentence, at times made me lost in translation. Still a good watch though and maybe better than average over-hyped drama from neighboring countries.

If you're wondering about the title, it is actually a parody of "Darwin ga Kita" an NHK animal documentary broadcasted every Sunday before Taiga Drama, which is also known as "Darwin's Animal" as its English Title.

Most probably a lie cause ain't no way DMM will promote Netflix.

Yeah, this is a highly entertaining binge-watch material! Non just being Non but that was perfect for her role. It's black comedy mixed with cutesy, parodying "real life" with subliminally deep message in some part of the writing. Not sure how close is this with the manga though.

Basically a good drama with strong writing on some areas of the whole series. However they also tried to include as much social commentaries as possible, which felt episodic and preachy at times. Felt a bit sad that Nakayama Miho was not able to complete her role, at least until Ep5. The kids were doing great in this drama.

No. I just wish he was there, but he wasn't.

As a person who liked Brush Up so much, I totally agree with you! Too many familiarity while watching makes it less impactful to me. Loved the cast though it felt like a reunion than a new drama...lol

Basically a reunion of Shinnyushatachi and Brush Up Life. Wish Yoshida Yo, Usuda Asami, Mizukawa Azami and Sometani Shota made a cameo too.

The drama is a bit slow to pick up but gets better episode by episode. If you haven't watched Brush Up Life yet, watch HotSpot first for maximum impact.

Oh that's great to hear. I guess I need to rewatch the whole thing again. The last scene in the movie was a bit confusing to me. Rewatching can also re-affirm the SP situation.

It's a good human drama, but I wish it was shorter instead of dedicating 2 or 3 episodes for side characters that in the end did not give much to the main plot. The pace is slow though (typical WOWOW drama pacing), so it might not everyone cup of tea.

look at the comment by @chillingindoors down there

I guess the most important part of the SP is the incident happened to Aya's mother, as it will carried over to the following season. If you have watched until that point, consider yourself have completed the SP.

BTW, have you watched S2 and movie?

If you go to the 2nd SP page above (the autumn one), there's user share the DDL link

Late bloomer drama. Thanks to the anime this drama got attention it deserved! I came back here after watching Gold Sunset and can't believe the same girl has grown up now. Time flies!

It could be the 2 parts of each special have been combined into 1. So the total still be 4 parts which equivalent to MDL and Trakt info.

Furthermore, the synopsis on Trakt, is simply copy pasted from MDL. You can clearly see the "mother has collapsed" is shown as synopsis of Special 2 on Trakt but it was the synopsis for January SP on MDL.

Which makes the Trakt info is unreliable after all. Why? Because the thumbnail of SP4 on Trakt is actually the image of the collapsed mother in hospital.

That's why I think it's actually 2 SPs with 2 parts each but for some reason the 2 parts were combined so in the end we have "2 videos" only.

Ah it's interesting that the person you mention has blocked me so I don't know what you're talking about at first. Stupid her I can see her comment without login and she just shared the version subbed by SARS, which exactly the version everyone watched many many years ago.

I remember back then the SP never labeled as autumn or winter, so now I can confirm both SP should be referring to the same thing. They were 2 episodes released by SARS which I assume for winter and autumn each.

EDIT: Ahh I wasn't blocked. Stupid me! When I clicked the notification, some comments were missing. That's how it is on MDL. I should have known that. LOL