9791Egon
London, England
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If I'd read reviews before watching this, I probably wouldn't have bothered... But I'm really glad I did. And having watched it once, I've now seen it 4 or 5 times and I like it more on every watch.
The story in itself, is not that strange albeit it's uncommon. I suspect you'd be hard pushed to find another drama that deals with impotence and has sexual overtones quite as brazen as this one. However, the subject isn't what makes this strange. It's actually the characters - their behaviour and interaction with each other is bizarre most of the time.
Now, I've not seen many Japanese shows but I like their brevity and their quirkiness. I've seen about 10 now (versus 50+ korean and more than 20 chinese) and I'm loving the 10 episodes or less set-ups... And I'm loving just how odd and in some cases, controversial you could say they are in comparison to their chinese and korean counterparts. Given this is reasonably short and doesn't rely on significant use of flashbacks to help viewers understand why someone is the way they are, don't expect to be able to put any meaning to the characters behaviour or expect them to change or grow in their psychology or make up. Our female lead does become a little bit more assertive but to some extent, this assertiveness just extends to her recognising what she wants or even who she wants. And if what or who she wants is weird or strange, she'll go after it anyway if she wants to whereas in the past as an adult, she was a people pleaser who apparently couldn't say no to anything which meant that she did things for others because they asked her to, rather than having dreams or goals for herself. The other characters saw no such self-awareness and seemingly continued their lives doing what they had always done.
The story was interesting. I've never seen anything like this nor do I think I'll ever see the likes of it again and I liked the acting and characterisation. Our male and female leads pretty much downplayed and dead-panned everything despite both their historic and present relationship being so unconventional... And their need for each other both then and now was at best, interrupted by their housemates and at worst, it was positively interfered with (I'm looking at you Hase!). The male lead has a knack for just coming out and saying whatever he wants to with no shame or embarrassment which actually makes some of these episodes or scenes hilarious.
Music was inconsequential. I actually really liked the opening theme but there was barely any music throughout the episodes so if it was there, it neither added or took anything away and as for re-watch value, as mentioned above I've seen it several times both because I think it was a good drama and because it's a fairly quick watch.
I'd definitely give it a go as I genuinely don't think anyone could 'lose' anything by watching it... But be prepared probably for something you've not experienced before. Its rated 18+ for a reason and whilst nothing is shocking, it's definitely not traditional.
The story in itself, is not that strange albeit it's uncommon. I suspect you'd be hard pushed to find another drama that deals with impotence and has sexual overtones quite as brazen as this one. However, the subject isn't what makes this strange. It's actually the characters - their behaviour and interaction with each other is bizarre most of the time.
Now, I've not seen many Japanese shows but I like their brevity and their quirkiness. I've seen about 10 now (versus 50+ korean and more than 20 chinese) and I'm loving the 10 episodes or less set-ups... And I'm loving just how odd and in some cases, controversial you could say they are in comparison to their chinese and korean counterparts. Given this is reasonably short and doesn't rely on significant use of flashbacks to help viewers understand why someone is the way they are, don't expect to be able to put any meaning to the characters behaviour or expect them to change or grow in their psychology or make up. Our female lead does become a little bit more assertive but to some extent, this assertiveness just extends to her recognising what she wants or even who she wants. And if what or who she wants is weird or strange, she'll go after it anyway if she wants to whereas in the past as an adult, she was a people pleaser who apparently couldn't say no to anything which meant that she did things for others because they asked her to, rather than having dreams or goals for herself. The other characters saw no such self-awareness and seemingly continued their lives doing what they had always done.
The story was interesting. I've never seen anything like this nor do I think I'll ever see the likes of it again and I liked the acting and characterisation. Our male and female leads pretty much downplayed and dead-panned everything despite both their historic and present relationship being so unconventional... And their need for each other both then and now was at best, interrupted by their housemates and at worst, it was positively interfered with (I'm looking at you Hase!). The male lead has a knack for just coming out and saying whatever he wants to with no shame or embarrassment which actually makes some of these episodes or scenes hilarious.
Music was inconsequential. I actually really liked the opening theme but there was barely any music throughout the episodes so if it was there, it neither added or took anything away and as for re-watch value, as mentioned above I've seen it several times both because I think it was a good drama and because it's a fairly quick watch.
I'd definitely give it a go as I genuinely don't think anyone could 'lose' anything by watching it... But be prepared probably for something you've not experienced before. Its rated 18+ for a reason and whilst nothing is shocking, it's definitely not traditional.
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