All crucial information is absent in this series. If you don't believe me and got intrigued by the introductional episode as I did, just know you have greatly been deceived because that desire to watch is short lived.
Sorry, no, that's a lie. I did indeed feel desire but it lead to disappointment.
The character progression was a load of shit and pretty much non-existent & that also goes out for story development.
Yours truly,
Suicide.
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Messed up adults in one house.
3/5. This drama is so messed up. Just like the title, "Screwed-Up Adults Sharehouse", basically a bunch of adults with a weird way of thinking. It's cute and great in some scenes, but can't count how many times I want to puke myself out with the possibility that someone did this in reality. Glad, they ended the drama before everything goes in much more complicated way. They have almost a zero percent of character development. The story went on and on in a circle. The cinematography in highschool flashback somehow looks like Thai drama, the current one is more like a Korean drama. The genre is YA romance. The acting feels much more mild compare to other Japan drama, which mostly overstate. Still, a lightwatch to spend your times with.Was this review helpful to you?
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Potential great love story however cheapened by its main theme on sexual drive!
FL and ML has their first sex experience in their high school day. The experience created and impact for both of them.In adulthood, FL didn’t have much success in love and life, she met the ML again who was having trouble with his male libido. ML’s libido to him was also equivalent to his creativity. So as a writer, he was in despair when he lost his writing ability due to his lost of libido. However when FL came into the scene, ML found his miracle cure, where he was able to regain his sexual arousal. So subsequently the few episodes were about ML trying to convince FL to have physical intimacy and sex with him. Which she gave in eventually. In this drama, FL was portrayed as a ‘push over’, giving in to ML’s advances and requests again and again. After she gave in to him and had sex with him, which she was still unable to set clear boundaries and resulting in her wondering was she just a sex object. Deep inside, FL seems to love ML previously or/and was once emotionally hurt by him (in high school, she couldn’t understand why after she gave her virginity to him), he abandoned her. As adult, she tried to act mature and cool about the matter but still deeply curious and drawn to ML as she was in high school.
There was another matured SML who was gentle and respectful to FL and took interest in her. But yet ultimately we know that she chooses to stay with ML because she accepted ML’s term of loving her is via physical connection (or sex). Partly she is flattered that she is the only women that can aroused him and maintain his sexual desire/needs. So they end up staying together and be happy in the moment.
What I dislike:
Normalizing woman to be a ‘push over’ and sex object to man. Allowing woman to be a victim to man’s fantasy.
Suggesting that it’s acceptable to allow a man to act on his sexual drive to manipulate a woman through her emotional vulnerability and love for him.
Dehumanizing man to a state only being driven by sexual drive and needs.
What I like
The actors/actress acting were natural and believable in their roles.
ML’s character is uniquely designed and he is not really like all man, one can see a mild autistic traits presented. And as FL learnt and choose to love and accept his flaws, their love is simple and uncomplicated as they meet each others’ needs.
The boldness of the director and script to explore this topic in an open manner.
One need to watch with an open mind or you won’t appreciate it.
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Que acabo de ver???!!
Si estás pensando en ver este drama, hazte un favor y no lo veas, no pierdas tu tiempo.Para empezar, la trama es ridícula!!!!
Estos personajes necesitan un psicólogo urgentemente (o debería decir que le lleven un psicólogo a la persona que escribió esto?)
Una decepción total, no entiendo como puede pasar de una situación rara a otra peor.
Empezando por que:
• La protagonista no tiene dignidad.
• Tomo es egoísta y es prácticamente alexitímico.
•Hase y sus mommy issues, solo quiere tener a la protagonista para que le de el cariño que nunca recibió de la madre.
Y que no se me olvide que también trata a Terada como un objeto o un animal, hablando siempre de marcarla, para que otro no tenga oportunidad de estar con ella! (Que horror)
•Y por último, la unica que se salva un poco es Akari, que simplemente no hace nada!
No hay progreso ni en la trama ni con los 4 personajes.
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Women that have no goals in life or success getting into a full house with new friends(with benefits)she has no confident in herself, and she learn couple of things on the way.
some of the episode you feel the sparks of deep thoughts like loneliness or weirdness, not fit in to society, its common in Jdrama but yet it's little fluffy as they shown desires and also they progress and more open in the bed scenes
the deep questions rising at the end and i will write about it in the end
The music is cheesy not interesting.
1-9 episode talking about sexual relationship and how does it develop to emotional connection, from the female side at least, you watch her stay the same but going trough this, and it's very cute you can relate to her feeling,
the only problem is the last episode when you don't see any emotions or understanding the main man lead, he has a problem but it's not cover nothing he don't have any emotions,
When the women confess at the end again she get answer: why do you like me i don't understand...it's more desire.
and i think it's sum up the problem in the end: we don't know why she like him except the desire for him, he doesn't give her nothing or care about her at all,
i think if she would have end with the other man that more showing emotion or something it would have close better
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Absurdist, Offbeat Goodness
I've been a bit surprised by the lack of interest or love for this show, but then again I guess I shouldn't be. It doesn't give us any of the tropes that we get fed in other Asian rom coms - there's no "accidentally" falling into his arms, there's no getting drunk and piggy-backed home, there's not even any reaching out to wipe food sensually from her mouth. So what do we get? We get four highly quirky people living in a shared house. They sort of function in society but navigating the real world and its expectations of them is a struggle. We get varying details of their back stories, not a lot but enough to empathise with them. The FL and ML are solid in their portrayals of two misfits - I especially enjoyed the ML, his expressions and body language were spot on. The FL is over the top in many ways, but this is the Japanese way - it is a live-action take on very normal behaviour in the anime world. The love dynamics between the four characters is fun to watch, and the show is so short and snappy so you get to enjoy the brief ride without it getting too absurd or dull.I was even more surprised with some of the reviewers commenting on how badly the story is resolved, because I totally disagree - I watched four people progress by the end of it and there was definitely a resolution. Have we become so trained by K and C dramas to expect the beautiful confession, the happy tears, the story book wedding, the glossy magazine happily ever after? Or worse, are we so passive as viewers now that we need the message for a show to be spoon-fed to us as some sort monologue by the lead actors themselves? If this is what you're after, then okay this show is absolutely not for you. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy and want good HEAs too but more and more I've been seeking out Japanese shows to balance this out a bit.
Because there is a nice romantic story here. There is a really compelling second lead, and not a love triangle, but a four way one even! And there is even a happy ending. But just like the weird and wonderful people that this show is about, this story is quite a bit weird and pretty darn wonderful. I enjoyed it immensely. Watch it so that you can argue with me - I look forward to it! :P
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Interesting idea, but I don't like the characters
This is a kind of drama with quite more adult topics and talking a lot openly about sex, although not in any offensive way, just in a way I am not used to in other Japanese dramas, so I kind of liked the more realistic side of this.The main story is a little bit strange if you think about it - what kind of girl would do such things with her roommate like Terada did? But still it works somehow and it caught my attention, so I kind of enjoyed watching the whole series.
I have to say I like the character of Terada, she's kind of genuine girl and we can see all her emotions very clearly, so I think this was a very good acting. But other characters are just trash I think. Hongyo is cold, abusive and so strange that it seems like he has a kind of psychotic disorder and to me he looked scary all the time, so I don't understand Terada's behavior towards him. Hase is the opposite, too flegmatic, always smiling, even though it seems like a strange kind of mask and acting his feelings all the time, his behavior was also abusive and egoistic and I didn't like him. Another crazy character is Akari. If I lived with her she would scare me all the time. Like all in all, I would leave this sharehouse immediately, as it seemed like a house of horror to me.
The plus for me were some steamy scenes and how I already said, good psychology in case of Terada.
It probably won't be my favorite jdrama but it's definitely worth watching (not again though). But be prepared to think how strange this is.
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I found this drama quite interesting in the more weird way. this is just a Japanese version of a girl with low self esteem and a guy who cannot 'heal' without his sexual fantasies being satiated. I definitely feel like the adults in this house need counselling and not trying to push their expectations of the lead actress to act in their expectations. I'm just confused but the premise of this show is interesting. The ending was a bit obscure like it doesn't fully explain whether she found closure with the guy or not because if I were her I'd not live in the house seeing as he never fully apologised or showed any remorse for raping her. smh…. Was this review helpful to you?
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I'm not sure how I feel about this drama
The trope was exciting, which got me into this drama (it was also free on Viki). A broke girl moving into a sharehouse with 2 other males and a female. One of the guys happens to be her first love, who wouldn't wanna watch this.BUT a bit into the drama I realized I found her housemates creepy. A guy who has no emotions whatsoever. I felt sad for him honestly, a bit frustrated coz I couldn't decipher him. Another guy who's encouraging FML to spend the nights with MML, just asks them openly but this very guy also asks her hand for marriage? He legit asks her to sleep with him, says he's fine with her being pregnant with MML's baby and still wants to marry her. And the other girl who's very much obsessed over MML. Yes, I find these bits creepy, had it been me I would have hightailed out of that sharehouse the first chance I got.
But towards the end, they became less creepy I guess. They all enjoyed each others' company, supported each other, and had fun living together. I guess that's the only plus point in the drama.
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Odd Housemates and Abrupt Ending
The acting was okay, but the whole show was too short, so the last episode was just barely showing character development and then it ended.The CHARACTERS:
Tomoya seems autistic, but had no back story on his home life to let us understand why he’s expressionless and unable to share how he feels.
Taichi obviously has mommy issues and no back bone; did everything mother wanted & let her control his life, lets his work control his life.
Akari is naive, but her character is the least messed up
Aki has low self esteem and zero life direction, no back bone and is very submissive.
THE STORY:
Had so much potential to be a good drama, just needed more episodes. There also needed to be more back story for Tomoya and Akari. The intimacy moments were well done, without showing much skin. The ending was too open.
The PRODUCTION:
Smooth filming, nice cinematography/ location shots, and decent music that didn't become annoying.
The WRITING/Script:
Not enough development of concept, circumstance, backstory and little to none character development. They could have taken out her work scenes and used the time more efficiently for the 4 main characters.
OVERALL: Fast watch, not worth a rewatch and it will annoy most people.
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Loved this drama!
Quirky and entertaining. I really love watching this because of the way the actors interact with each other and they have made their own little family in order to meet the needs of each other. Each character has their own flaws but they also each had their own outstanding character attributes. I really do wish they would do a season two because in my imagination I assume that The ML and FL end up together! I really didn’t feel it was necessary to go back and over analyze their childhoods or different issues that let him to this point because basically were dealing with what situation there currently in and how to move forward at this point in their lives.Was this review helpful to you?
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Cringe-fest at it's best!
Okay, I just literally finished this drama.First of all, this is a screw-up arrangement like what it literally says in their title. Both ML & FL are weak. The SML has a kinda dark personality and the SFL - is probably the most likable character because she stayed true to herself and straight to the point till the end. I just don't like how she treats the FL like a nanny.
While I love the FL since I've seen her in Kakegurui, I cannot take her character seriously in this drama. She's so insecure and thinks so little of herself, it's downgrading. In the whole episodes, you will only see her either cooking, cleaning, serving her housemates and as a bedmate.
2nd, even Irie-kun (Itazura Na Kiss ML) will be a green flag if compared to this ML. The most emotionless ML I've ever seen, even Kdrama ML's will not win with this one LOL.
I only like the bed scenes because it is arousing even if they don't show ero moves and a lot of skin.
I only tried to finish this to see if the FL will redeem herself even in the last episode but No. She still decided to be his f*** buddy. What a sad life.
On a pleasant note, what a cute sharehouse! Even the FL's when she makes food- looks oishi!
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