I'm in total agreement with you. To me, the relationship is very creepy and exploitative. If the guy really wants a family, he must have find a mature woman ready to accept family responsibilities, not a teenager who even struggles at her normal student friendships. Like you, I think there is no real basis for the relationship but the drama uses all kinds of tricks and fun to distract its viewers from that. And it seems, its tricks work well! To me, Himitsu no Kankei - Sensei wa Doukyonin (2011) is a good example of healthy and meaningful student-teacher relationship.
The FL acts like a heroine of a tragic love (her tears, her voice, her expressions, ...) while the ML is more like a nice big brother who's worried about her little sister's exam.
I wish I could write a review on it, but the subs are machine-translations and in many places, unintelligible. I can just say that the movie made me curious, so if there are proper subs someday, I'll watch it again. I'd like to know its message. After all, these days, unlike this movie, most J-films avoid serious stuff, whatsoever.
You're prisoned in a room. This is not nice, but can be tolerable in some situations, but the real disaster is that the walls are coming toward you gradually, so your body is gonna crushed sooner or later. In other words, time is your main enemy. Then how can you enjoy this situation? How can you do anything meaningful? How can you care about others, especially those who are outside such room? Aya, her family and the Japanese culture tells you how!
HAHA your comment made me laugh.I'm almost finishing it and it is rather melodramatic, though the leads' interactions…
Haha, it was my comment from 4 years ago:) These days, I wouldn't write like this:) Fun fact: After watching this, I began to dislike Kusanagi Tsuyoshi but a I changed my mind totally a couple of days ago after watching this hidden gem: https://kisskh.at/4571-boku-to-kanojo-to-kanojo-no-ikiru-michi
Another drama of 2000s: Following your dreams, being honest to yourself, leaving your family and city, enjoying life to fullest, doing arts and so on and so forth. However I think the story telling is weak (no real character development, ...). It's difficult to like the girls, maybe except for Rei. At least, she sings well, I enjoyed it! Oh, when I checked the cast, I read about Kobayashi Mao or 'Maki'. It's so sad!
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Like you, I think there is no real basis for the relationship but the drama uses all kinds of tricks and fun to distract its viewers from that. And it seems, its tricks work well!
To me, Himitsu no Kankei - Sensei wa Doukyonin (2011) is a good example of healthy and meaningful student-teacher relationship.
I wish I could write a review on it, but the subs are machine-translations and in many places, unintelligible. I can just say that the movie made me curious, so if there are proper subs someday, I'll watch it again. I'd like to know its message. After all, these days, unlike this movie, most J-films avoid serious stuff, whatsoever.
Then how can you enjoy this situation? How can you do anything meaningful? How can you care about others, especially those who are outside such room? Aya, her family and the Japanese culture tells you how!
I'll watch another work of him, My Darling of the Mountains (2008) soon.
Fun fact: After watching this, I began to dislike Kusanagi Tsuyoshi but a I changed my mind totally a couple of days ago after watching this hidden gem:
https://kisskh.at/4571-boku-to-kanojo-to-kanojo-no-ikiru-michi
Oh, when I checked the cast, I read about Kobayashi Mao or 'Maki'. It's so sad!