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Rediscovering your relationship as you move from friends to lovers.
Well this was wholesome and adorable. Just the right amount of sweet pinning, unsure feelings and hesitation to build the tension.
You know what’s the best part of both enemies to lovers and friends to lovers? The pinning era. The time when they are both unsure how the other is feeling, not sure how they are feeling and they are just dancing around the possibility not willing to take that risk and step forwards. This drama delivered in that aspect: Ohara Yamato with his repressed love and Ashiya Kakeru struggling with understanding his changing feelings.
While the lead characters were obviously the stars, I have to say my heart was also stolen by Hosaka Yui played by Matsumoto Leo and Ohara Mikoto played by Konno Ayaka. There was something really unique about these characters and I appreciated how both were rather bold, but different flavour.
The drama mixes all the typical tropes and themes associated with the genre and delivers them in a fun way. You have your favorite pinning against various surfaces, jealousy over each other, the bestie who understands everyone’s feelings better than they can themselves, pushing the boundaries, creating the boundaries, 5 stages of grief when your friendship moves into more romantic territories.
Performance wise it was good, but nothing truly noteworthy. Standard good quality. I did like how expressive Kashiwagi Haru was without making it unnatural and over the top.
Overall, it was a perfect afternoon chill watch.
You know what’s the best part of both enemies to lovers and friends to lovers? The pinning era. The time when they are both unsure how the other is feeling, not sure how they are feeling and they are just dancing around the possibility not willing to take that risk and step forwards. This drama delivered in that aspect: Ohara Yamato with his repressed love and Ashiya Kakeru struggling with understanding his changing feelings.
While the lead characters were obviously the stars, I have to say my heart was also stolen by Hosaka Yui played by Matsumoto Leo and Ohara Mikoto played by Konno Ayaka. There was something really unique about these characters and I appreciated how both were rather bold, but different flavour.
The drama mixes all the typical tropes and themes associated with the genre and delivers them in a fun way. You have your favorite pinning against various surfaces, jealousy over each other, the bestie who understands everyone’s feelings better than they can themselves, pushing the boundaries, creating the boundaries, 5 stages of grief when your friendship moves into more romantic territories.
Performance wise it was good, but nothing truly noteworthy. Standard good quality. I did like how expressive Kashiwagi Haru was without making it unnatural and over the top.
Overall, it was a perfect afternoon chill watch.
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