I was excited when I read that there would be another adaptation (you know, it's never enough lol) although I would know that it would not top Yuki's performance and Miki was looking forward to it.

Also because I saw that the actress was really excited and somehow her enthusiasm was transmitted to me. The cast didn't have much recognition, so I saw that there really was not a great expectation for the film in Japan but I still decided to wait. I said, "Maybe it will surprise me."

However, I must have realized that something was wrong at the time the trailer seemed ... lousy.

And that's how it is, the acting is very bad (even surpasses 1996). Everything happens very fast and there is no feeling whatsoever on the part of any actor.

Also in their second film they changed the actress from the mother and that seemed quite unfortunate to me.

It makes me sad because until the end of the credits they put drawings of Naoko and thanks are all fans but this movie and its prequels are terrible.

It would be fine if it was because they didn't have a big budget but they should at least act well or the director direct it properly.

The story is well adapted but it has no grace or value when you act as if you are reading a book.

I watched the movie 3 times, trying to make me like it, but I'm sorry. It's lousy.

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The story is the same and there really isn't much to complain about because I think they addressed a lot of the story.

The big problem that I find with this adaptation is that it is, strangely, boring. And the main actors have absolutely no chemistry.

I can't tell if they act bad or good, it's just like neither of them has feelings and they just read the script.

That was my big problem with this adaptation. I do not know if I would recommend it or not because there are divided opinions regarding this adaptation. So I can only say that if you are bored, try watching it. Maybe you like it or it bores you like me.

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Like some reviews, I only saw this adaptation because I am a huge fan of Itazura Na kiss.

It was the first and I am very sorry that Naoko could not live to see a great adaptation of her manga such as Love in Tokyo 2013/2014.

The story is bad and does not resemble the real story one bit, except for some situations.
This Kotoko is unbearable with her screaming and Naoki is ... I think he's second worst besides Baek from Playful Kiss.

It's weird because the actors had offstage chemistry but not in the drama. Perhaps this was due to misdirection.

I really don' t recommend it, although maybe if you are a fan of itakiss, you only watch it to see another version but there is nothing remarkable about it.

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I really think people are being a bit picky about this adaptation.

I didn't read the manga but I saw the Taiwanese version a few years ago already. However, I consider this drama a great adaptation!

He is fast, he goes to the concrete and the acting is very good. Also, I really liked how they put the episodes, as if you were reading a book or a manga, along with the 80s style.

I really sympathized with the characters and because of Rei's past, you really didn't know what was to come.

From my point of view this adaptation is very well achieved, it is entertaining and has a quite original execution.

If you can be impartial, I highly recommend seeing it! I watch it every time I get bored and it is a story that entertains me whenever I see it.

I highly recommend it.

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A drama that makes you think that sometimes you are corrupted by your duty.

There is nothing bad I can say about this drama. Clearly Ji Chang Wook feels more comfortable with this type of genre and it shows because he left it all alone in this drama.

The plot seems simple, a police officer who is generally not afraid of anything, who at first finds himself obliged against his will in a leak in an association dedicated to drugs and all kinds of crimes.

But it is not as simple as it seems. The more Park Joon-mo is involved as an undercover, the more he has to do things, like kill, that he didn't dare to do at first. His vision of what is wrong and right begins to blur little by little. And that's because even though he was supposed to stop this entire drug trafficking network, he begins to take appreciation to Jung Ki. Somehow, upon learning his story, he begins to feel some sympathy towards Jung Ki even though he knows that what they are doing is totally wrong and bad.

The problem really begins when Park Joon-mo's wife interferes in the investigation.

He knows that Jung Ki was always in love with his wife, he feels jealous in this situation but he must maintain his composure, so that they do not suspect him, as if he did not know her and at the same time protect her.

What really bothered me was his wife's attitude. When they find themselves in a bloody fight where Park Joon-mo must protect his boss/friend Jung Ki and his wife. His wife looks at him as if he were seeing a monster. First, why do you meddle your husband's work knowing that he must do everything possible, even if it is not morally correct, to not be discovered. They had weapons of all kinds and her and Jung Ki's lives were in danger, what did you expect? What will a water gun use to defend them? However, it seems like he has no problem with what Jung Ki does. Here it clearly marks an inevitable end for them.

Park Joon-mo is not the same and his wife cannot conceive what Park Joon-mo does. Knowing that it is his job and he had to stay undercover as much as possible, because the members of Jung Ki's original gang had already begun to suspect him.

Clearly Jung Ki by committing suicide gets what he wants. Let no one be happy.

This is clearly seen in Park Joon-mo's promotion scene. I don't know if he's happy, he's furious. He lost his best friend and right hand man. What really for? Not at all. At this point for Park Joon-mo, nothing made sense anymore. He was disgusted with his own job and didn't give a shit about the promotion he got. At the end of it all, he was the one who had to get his hands dirty so that others wouldn't get them dirty. And that disgusts him.

He doesn't even look at his wife once and stays away from her. Everything that once brought them together is gone.

Clearly when he goes to Jung Ki's grave he leaves his wedding ring, which tells us that he has cut off all relations with his wife. I don't think they will get back together in the future.

Everything has changed. The two of them have changed and the love they felt for each other died. He knew it the moment he saw the face of his wife, who looked at him as if he were a monster.

At the end they let us see a small scene in which Park Joon-mo and Jung Ki smile genuinely. In the end, as mean and ambitious as Jung Ki was, they treated each other like brothers the entire time they were together.

Which leaves us reflecting that in life there is no black and white. Each person has their nuances, whether good or bad. Sometimes by doing our job we are corrupted, it is inevitable.

A Park Joon-mo who didn't dare kill anyone at first, is forced to start killing. And as we all know, when you cross that line, nothing about you will ever be the same again.

The action, the story, the performances and the OST was perfect.

There are no complaints for this drama. I honestly think it's the best drama Ji Chang Wook has done in his entire career. He is a very good actor, who can show you different facets. But without a doubt this type of genre is the one that suits him best.

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Really, who is he monster? Society or us?

When I started watching the movie I didn't know what I was going to find. In fact, I didn't understand anything, why Minato started behaving strangely? Why did he tell his mother that he had the head of a pig? Whether his teacher was good or not? I didn't know what was happening in front of me but then I realized where the movie was going.

Let's say that the movie is divided into 3 visions, that of Minato and Yori, that of the teacher and the present. With the teacher's vision, it was there that I understood what a pig's head means, since the teacher, when he goes to Yori's house to find out what was happening, His father tells him "that he has a pig's head, that he is a monster and not a human and that he is trying to make his son "normal".

At first you are left as the teacher "What the hell is this man saying?", the pieces begin to fit when Minato's mother tells him that his father only wanted him to have one. "normal family" and an enlightening talk with the school principal makes you put together all the pieces of the puzzle, since he confesses to her that he likes someone but he can't be with that person he loves and also fulfill his mother's wish. In these three visions, you realize why Minato acted the way he acted and it wasn't that he was crazy or something, it was just that he, mainly, was at first denied his sexuality and this is seen when Yori wants to hug him and he pushes him away very hard. and Yori tells him that he understands.

At first everything seems very normal, two children playing, nothing more, but the further you go you see how dark the matter is. And I say this because when Minato goes to visit Yori he tells him that "he is cured" but moments later, before Minato leaves, half saddened, Yori tells him that he lied to him and he still has a pig brain and that's when his father takes him inside and begins to beat him, a beating that Minato hears but cannot do anything about.

Minato hasn't seen Yori for days and despite the typhoon, he goes in search of Yori and there he finds him in a bathtub, where clearly Yori's father wanted to kill him. As best he can, Minato goes to the shelter, the shelter that they had built (where they could be happy without the prejudices of others and be together). Meanwhile, the teacher, upon reviewing his students' work, realized that Minato had written his name along with Yori's, where he realized everything, he was going to apologize to Minato for having misunderstood him with Typhon, Yori's mother. Minato is angry with him but the teacher asks her to listen to him, as he has something to show him. From there, regardless of the typhoon, they go to look for Minato.

At first you think "they have been saved from the typhoon" but that is not the case. There is a celestial gate that could not be opened at one moment, but in their astral field that celestial gate no longer exists and they are seen running, happy. But they are clearly dead.

What Koreeda presents to us is a harsh and sad reality, if you go outside of the normal or "common" you are seen in society as a sick person (there is the metaphorical "pig's head"), an abnormal or even a monster. People who like people of the same sex can tell you clearly that the supposed "diversity" is a lie. Even I who have "normal tastes" (and I put it in quotes ironically) can tell you that I have seen how they are constantly discriminated against, their relatives do not accept them because they believe that they are sick, beaten, or even driven to the extreme of suicide.

Minato was clearly raised in a macho environment, where there are things or greetings that only "real men" do, while Yori likes "girly things" and is severely beaten by his father to "make him normal", when clearly you see that he is abnormal and has a big mental problem.

Here Koreeda does not call us "monster" because he considers children to be one. He does it on purpose, so that the viewer asks questions about who the real monsters are. Putting us at a crossroads and breaking all our beliefs. Clearly I know that children are completely normal and the abnormal ones were the adults. Not them.

I don't have that many beliefs about myself, so I totally believe in the book alberdrio. Everyone likes what they like, period. But there are a lot of people out there who don't think the way I am and I'm aware of that. In fact, when the other day I was choosing a bracelet for my father, my boyfriend told me "this is for women" and I told him "maybe there are things for men or women?"

Perhaps it may seem painful to many that they have died, but seeing their Panorama I think the only thing that would free them would be death. Since they could be free without ties from society or prejudices. The children acted very well for being children. Everyone acted very well and the cinematography is beautiful and clearly showed the children's dark moments as well as when they were happy.

And the message and the metaphors are beautiful. Although it is very sad, it is a reality.

Koreeda gives an invitation to reflect on the world we live in, our beliefs or values, even the values ​​of our parents.

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You may find it strange but it is charming!

I know people will find it ridiculous but teenage love is full of nonsense and ridiculousness. I really loved the movie!

I was already a big fan of Lovesick Ellie, I really enjoyed the manga so I was looking forward to the movie and it didn't disappoint me at all.

Although it has been several years since I read Lovesick Ellie and I don't remember the entire manga well. They kept the essence of the manga and parts that I liked (I really laughed a lot when Ellie tried to kiss Omi and ended up kissing her neck instead of her lips hahaha).

Omi is not the type of bad boy who mistreats the protagonist to "hide" the secret from her. No, he seems like an interesting person despite his strangeness and more because she sees him as she really is and loves him just as he is.

Many may complain about Ellie's overacting, but Ellie is like that! It's the essence of her and somehow I find it tender. Who hasn't fallen in love and fantasized about her crush? I think everyone has been through that situation. So I identified a lot with Ellie, not only is there the fantasy side of her, but also her side of loneliness and not being able to have friends. So I create her own world on networks, under anonymity, to be happy. Many young people take refuge in social networks when they don't have friends but Ellie is evolving just like Omi.

I actually did it in the past, it's embarrassing but it's a part of my adolescence that I remember fondly.

I also liked the most popular boy in school, I remember seeing him in gymnastics and watching him from a distance because he was really very popular and I used to talk about him a lot with my friends. Somehow he noticed my feelings, although we went at different times and he was a year older than me but we coincided at some times. In a way I also experienced my own shojo manga at that time, because when he played recess and I walked around the schoolyard, he pushed me slowly. We spent a couple of time doing that strange flirting hahaha until one day in gymnastics, while I was sitting in front of his classroom, and he spoke to me. I was as red as a tomato and my heart felt like it was going to burst out. We dated for a long time, but I had to change schools and we lost contact. I understand why Ellie didn't want to tell it, in fact my relationship with him was also like that because I was afraid of what they would say, and I also understand Omi because he was also frustrated by not being able to say that we were dating. But I am very glad that Omi gave her security and protected her.

Today, we talked again after a long time and we remember those moments as something very nostalgic, fun and beautiful. He's already engaged and so am I but we're friends and that's the great thing about adolescence!

The chemistry between Hara and Miyase was really good and they acted very well. That's the most important thing for me! I have had many disappointments with other lives actions because the acting was poor and the chemistry 0. But here it was different and I enjoyed it a lot.

I laughed a lot, I got excited and I was transported back to my adolescence.

The music is beautiful, NiziU gave it that charm and represented the film a lot. The cinematography is beautiful too!

Even though it may cringe you at times, give it a chance, it's worth it!

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"Hope is for the living, not for the dead"

I just saw it, I knew what it was about because I saw the Chinese movie, I thought I wouldn't cry but I ended up crying more.

Bo (Bright) knew that he was a versatile actor, although many (and I don't understand why, don't believe in his acting).

From the beginning he always wanted to help people despite being a debtor. He was a very pure, sweet and kind soul, unfortunately sometimes we fall into circumstances that we do not want but nevertheless he was always willing to change until the end for Im, with whom he has great chemistry.

What I really liked was the ending and the letter that he wrote to Im, that he wanted him to love each other and have a very long and happy life even though he nor his father were by his side. Also that he was able to see the store that Im wanted to build and that former debtors came to visit them.

After all, he wasn't mean to them or hurt them like the others.

I won't say that it surpassed the Chinese version, which is my favorite, but it lived up to my expectations. Good soundtrack, good acting and good cinematography.

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Fucking painful

While I'm writing this review I'm crying and listening to the ending song in the background.

The story is about a good-hearted debt collector who falls in love with a girl who has to take care of the debt of her father who is sick. The story seems simple but it is not at all.

At the beginning you will find scenes that are beautiful and fun but then everything goes downhill and your emotions will be a carousel. Questioning many things, not only about the complexity of Zhang's character and her life, but about your own life and your past.

When Zhang meets Wu, he wants to change his life to be better for her but her past haunts him, no matter how much effort he makes. At some point your past and what you did will catch up with you in the present.

Zhang always considered himself a useless man and part of the reason he had that life was his father's fault. The inferiority complex that he has is also thanks to his brother, who blames him for the fact that his family is like this because of him. Although his brother cries after him and repents, belatedly.

On the other hand, Wu, despite his fights and problems, does not blame him. She wants to be with him. Maybe he is two sides of a coin, a person who blames his brother without trying to understand why his brother went that route, and a woman who does not blame him because he put himself in her shoes.

This movie in particular brought back a lot of memories for me. When my grandmother died and actually at her funeral there were few people. Her memory loss in the last moments. And my father's crystalline green eyes during her funeral. I think that is something that you will always carry in your heart and the only thing left to do is survive with that pain that never goes away.

On the other hand, it reminds me of my ex-boyfriend's family. Although I don't really have anything good to say about my ex-boyfriend, I remember that his father was in a lot of debt, I don't know (to this day) why he opened up so much about it to me, instead of telling his wife. And he asked me if he knew a lender. Clearly I'm knew lenders, not because i'm was involved in strange things, but because my father's ex-boss was involved in those things. When he asked me, I lied and told him that I didn't know any of them and that it wasn't a good idea for him to get involved in those things because he could get into worse trouble.

Because clearly the theme of loan sharks is well captured in the film. It's what happens in real life.

After I separated from my ex-boyfriend I found out that his father had gotten involved with several lenders and now they were in big trouble. Although I really didn't wish my ex-boyfriend anything good, I didn't think it would end that way and I'm not happy about it either.

I've already moved on and I'm about to get married soon but somehow I feel guilty for not being more persuasive so that this doesn't happen to him. Clearly I was the only one who saw his father as desperate and deeply depressed. But at the end of the day, everyone makes their own decisions and the consequences of them.

Just like Zhang, though he tried to change and actually did. The past will always catch up with you and make you pay for what you did in the past. It hurts but it is the sad reality.

I think what I learned from this movie is to be with the person you love, I'm not just talking romantically, but also about family. And do not judge lightly, because we do not know the person's past that led him to take such paths. Even when his father speaks badly of his brother, Zhang reprimands him and tells him not to be so hard on him and to be more grateful. He definitely understood his brother and didn't hate him at all.

The acting was so good, I felt like each character's pain felt like my own pain.

Obviously this doesn't have a happy ending, I wish it had but with that premise it was strange that it did. It's very painful, I think i'm would see it once a year.

It is not an easy film to digest and you end up crying buckets. But I think you should see it at least once in your life. It leaves great lessons and makes you think a lot.

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A love that couldn't be.

I don't usually watch BL dramas and movies, because I feel like they don't represent the real difficulties that gay people face.

But this movie made me cry, I don't want to say much about my private life but there is a person very close and dear to me, who suffered the same thing for being homosexual. So I could feel the pain firsthand, the pain of both characters.

The two loved each other, but due to homophobia, the thought that they were sick, the beatings, neither wanted to admit what they felt freely about the other and they had to pretend before society to be accepted.

Time and circumstances separated them and although they loved each other, everything remained memories. But when you truly love, that person's name remains engraved in your heart.

The ending is sad but realistic. Many years had passed, each one made their own life and it was not realistic that they could be together, this time freely.

There is a phrase that will remain engraved in my heart and it is when he talks to his teacher: "help me go to hell, I prefer to be there now. Isn't that a place that homosexuals should be in? Maybe more people will understand me in hell."

Maybe God gave us that rule. If this type of love exists, it is because God wanted it that way. We were only human beings who set that rule to limit others from loving people of our own sex.

Love is love, no matter your sex. To say we have really advanced as a society to accept homosexual people. Even in my country where same-sex marriage is allowed, I have never seen two men holding hands. And if they do, there is the typical comment calling them "faggots."

There are many people who do not accept that their children are homosexual so they throw them out.

Sometimes I really wondered if we have moved forward or are we still the same as always, disguised as an inclusion, which clearly does not exist.

I hope there comes a day where people can love whoever they want, that they don't hide from society and people see them as ordinary people. Because in the end, no matter our sexual orientation, we are still common people but with different tastes and no one should judge another for loving another person of the same sex.

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I far surpass the disappointment of the second season.

We got to see Cha Hyun-su (Song Kang) more screen time than the second season and that's good, because well he's supposed to be the main character.

The pace is fast, you really watch it in one sitting, the scenes were much more well done than the first and second seasons. Obviously people can have criticisms about characters that were removed and included. Well that's normal, they live in an apocalyptic world (something like The Walking Dead), not all the characters manage to survive and they have to introduce new characters.

People also complain that there are unnecessary deaths (well if you are not used to this type of genre it may shock you, but when you are already used to this type of genre you know that this will happen). There's a reason my older brother and I, who enjoy this genre, usually say "don't get attached to anyone, because you'll know they'll die."

About the motives of some characters... well I come from the old school of The Walking Dead, so I have understood that some characters do not have a reason to act or be differently. Human nature is already monstrous, you will find that there are people who really have no reason to act in a monstrous way. Even if you kill yourself analyzing why, you'll never really find the answer in the real world.

About Lee Eun Hyuk, I know many were hoping to see him again. But you have to understand that she presents herself as a counterpart to Cha Hyun-su. Chan Hyun still maintains his human emotions, while Lee Eun Hyuk, after his transformation, has to deal with regaining some of his humanity. Not all transformations are the same, so they can have different nuances. For some reason, his sister tells him that I tried to remember how it felt to be human, so as not to become a total monster.

Pyeon Sang Wook, he doesn't die for no reason. He still kept the human part of him even though he was possessed most of the time. If you see from the first season everyone feared him but deep down, with his hard shell to never suffer again, he was a gentle man. So he preferred to die along with his monster before his humanity was completely lost.

Honestly there will be no fourth season. This is the end, the monsters will have to learn to live with humans and the three main characters deserved to be happy after everything they went through.

I want to say that your opinion is valid if you were disappointed by this last season. But in my opinion, if you have not traveled a long way through this genre, there are many things that you will not like and you will not find meaning in it. But for those of us who already have a long history in this genre, you will really enjoy it and understand many things and some things, characters that die or actions of some characters, do not seem incongruous.

For my part, I enjoyed it a lot, from the story, the ending, the acting, the soundtrack and the cinematography.

Spoilers about the original work, they actually tied up loose ends about Hyuk, that it was unknown if he would become an unfeeling monster or not. Here they leave you to hope that Hyuk is trying to keep the human part of him from disappearing.

At the end of it all, because they are still alive. Well, they are still alive for those they lost along the way and that their deaths are not in vain.

Many people also die in weebtoon. So I wasn't really surprised about that. Furthermore, I reiterate, that I am used to seeing many deaths because I consume this genre.

I think you have been disappointed, I can tell you something: investigate more about this genre and you will realize that the story followed the pattern of many series of this genre and secondly, never get attached to anyone! Otherwise you will suffer when your favorite character dies.

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Friendships and love will not always last forever.

When you are in a relationship, fights become frequent, especially when there is distance. Not many people can withstand being away from their partners for a long time. That also wears out a couple a lot, because it takes great communication, patience and willpower.

I've always said that there is no reason to break up with someone. There are thousands of reasons. And you shouldn't always get into a discussion about who has done things wrong, who has made a mistake, or what could have been done to improve things. Sometimes it's just accepting that things aren't working out, that you don't feel good feeling that way even if you love that person. Sometimes neither party is to blame, it's just that time and what you want to do with your life don't match what your partner wants or what you want. The best thing is to say goodbye to that person wisely and be grateful for the time shared.

First love is always unforgettable and hurts a lot, but it is part of life's learning.

Then, friendship. You won't always be able to keep in touch with your friends from the past and even more so today. There are few people who maintain a friendship for years.
Time, priorities, and everything that comes with being an adult take you away from those people. It hurts, yes, but it is a reality. In an era where everything moves very quickly and everyone is busy with their own affairs, it is normal for you to lose contact with those who were your friends.

The issue of the protagonist leaving her career is something that happens to many athletes. For many reasons they decide to retire and concentrate their lives on their own families. An athlete's time is very short, so you have to make the most of it when you are young, because you know you will end up retiring. It's sad but the athletes themselves know that their time is short. In any sport.

About why the protagonist's husband is not shown. I think it was better that way, otherwise it would be like adding salt to the wound.

This drama is realistic. Life is not a Disney story. Life is hard and even more so as you get older.

In the end, only the golden times of when we were young and enjoyed our time to the fullest remain with us. This is life.

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A strange but captivating series.

Nanno reminds me a little of Tomie from Junji ito, we don't know what she really is and she is destined to be reborn again and again.

I say this in the in the episode "lost and found" This chapter we see that Nanno does not really seek to bring out the worst in the boy nor does he want to punish him. She, for the first time, creates a true connection with a human being, has fun and genuinely enjoys herself with the boy and appears sad when the boy tells her that he does not want her to disappear from his life or lose her. Nanno for the first time shows a feeling of sadness and guilt. Since she knows that it is not something she can promise him, she disappears whether she likes it or not, that is her destiny.

Clearly Nanno, as she says in the final monologue of the first season, is a karmic entity. Nanno doesn't really do anything, if you think about it, to make everyone show how evil what are human beings. She somehow always gets caught up in the evil of human beings and in the end they receive punishment from her. Everyone attacks Nanno but Nanno is really outraged in many episodes, it's not that she cares or is affected by it, she knows the most perverse nature of human beings, so she lets them do whatever they want with her and then they receive their consequences.

The stories may seem bizarre, but it is something that happens every day. How many times have we seen human evil without limits? As I study criminology as a hobby, the situations shown in the series are actually mild when you see reality. It is always said that reality is stranger than fiction and it is totally true.

Nanno only demonstrates the most perverse and dark reality of the human being.

What's your objective? Who knows, it just shows that it is an entity that shows people's true colors and that people have no limits when we want to achieve something. Nanno dies and revives to show everyone the consequences of his actions.

I would not classify it as a "demon" but rather as an entity that is the representation of karma.

Why are she laughing? Well simply because she finds human beings pathetic. Looking for excuses to justify her actions.

I really enjoyed this drama. The actress acts very well, she can pretend that she is innocent and you really believe it, until she shows her true colors, showing you that her that every action has its consequence.

The music matches the drama and the cinematography shows how gloomy a seemingly beautiful place can become when in reality everyone is sick.

Some may say that Nanno incites others to commit atrocious acts but does he really do it? With her mere presence, she already arouses envy, they call her a bitch, they make up rumors about her, they beat her, they rape her, they kill her and they do many other things without Nanno really doing anything. Nanno simply awakens the desire to destroy her, almost always because of her beauty and out of envy.

This is pure psychological terror and in my case it is what I enjoy watching the most.

I have no complaints about the drama. Really, when I started watching it I completely immersed myself in the story and each story is interesting, although some remain unfinished (but this, I believe, is that the director does it so that you reflect on what kind of punishment they deserve). It won't always be Nanno who gives you the answers and that's very interesting.

So yes, I totally recommend it. I think it's the best Thai drama I've ever seen in my life.

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At what cost are you willing to harm yourself, to be loved?

This review will have a lot of spoilers and personal reflections.

Yuki is a college student with a very sad past. Coming from a broken home, where no one has loved and protected her (in that sense and in many others I see myself very much reflected in her). So she has had to learn to take care of herself and protect herself. Her past has left her traumatized, so she has closed her heart so that no one will hurt her and also because she believes that she cannot live a normal life like other girls. However, despite working as a rental girlfriend, she is very intelligent, knowledgeable, cunning and wise. Her tough personality may make it seem like she is a bad person but that is not the case, she takes great care of her friend Rina, advises her and protects her. She is also realistic and sincere and she knows how to read other people very well.

Rina is a very kind and good girl but she lacks self-love, no matter how beautiful she is, she does not see herself that way, and her loneliness and emotional attachment to men makes her have relationships with older men to satisfy her emotional emptiness. It is incredible to see her evolve, to see her take another path, modeling, I left that world and her analyzed herself and realized that depending on other emotional people has not gotten her anywhere. That she has to find her own happiness for herself.

Here we get into the most fucked up part. Personally, I have never liked hosts, I consider them bad people, who take advantage of girls who are not mentally well so that they spend all their money, sometimes on lies like "you are the only one" and "the most special to me."Clearly this is a lie, and it is clearly demonstrated in this drama, but it is a reality that happens a lot. Clearly a person who is mentally well would not believe it but the girls who go to this place are not, so they believe it. When they run out of money, they start prostitution and it's a never-ending cycle. So the hosts don't give a shit about what happens to you, how you feel or what you do to get the money. They only see you as an ATM to indulge in their own luxuries.

With that said, let's move on to Moe. At first Moe does not believe in love and she has many self-esteem problems, because she does not consider herself beautiful like the others, but rather a disposable woman. So when she meets Yua (damn the time she met this girl) she reluctantly goes to a host. At first she doesn't feel comfortable until she meets Kaede (I mean he's not that bad even he cares that Moe doesn't do weird things to make money) and starts to fall in love. Obviously Kaede is becoming more popular and the money she has to invest to be with him is becoming higher, she can't afford the money with her job, so she invests money from her scholarship but it is still not enough. So she abandons university, her old job and starts prostitution to earn money, after all it's the quickest way (unfortunately). The clients they have are disgusting and Moe begins to feel dirty and begins to wear out even more mentally. But when she calls Kaede and he answers, she continues doing that job no matter how disgusting it is. Yua runs into her and listens to Moe's conversation with her pimp (because there's no other way to call her boss). So Yua thinks it's a great idea for her to be a prostitute just like her ??‍♀️ and invites her to see the boys and continue spending money. Kaede's birthday arrives and she already has the money to celebrate Kaede's birthday at the host club, so she is happy until she sees that he is having a great time with his other clients. Moe's heart breaks and she leaves, just at that moment she receives a very understanding message from her mother and also the invitation from her friends, that they miss her (because even she distances herself from her real friends) and she realizes all the mistakes, that she has fallen very low and the absurdity of it all. There she decides to never see Kaede or set foot in a host club again. Moe also has a big change, and she resumes her friendship with her friends, who really loved her, and begins to study hairdressing, but she still wanted to continue having her "friendship" with Yua even though she no longer goes to host clubs or works as a prostitution. Yua's response is really shit, Yua tells her that they both belong to different worlds and that it was a waste of time to talk to her (it's normal that Yua doesn't have friends, with friends like her, it's preferable to have enemies)

Now let's talk about Yua, I honestly don't know what kind of mental illness she has but she is clearly not a normal person. She is addicted to host clubs and prostitution, although she says she is disgusting.
But her reality is quite sad, since her host boyfriend (what a shitty man, if I can call him a man,he is). He forces her to prostitute herself more and more so she invests even more money for him. He doesn't care that she is so tired mentally and physically, he wants me to work three times as hard. He even tells her that he will get her a new boss because he didn't make her earn or work as much as he wanted. He treats her very badly and when he treats her well, which is only once, he tells her that he would always treat her like that if she didn't always make a fuss, he is really sick shit.
After all, Yua gets tired, she even cuts her wrist and he goes to see her because an intimate photo with another client had been leaked. Yua is tired and wants to break up with him, she tells him that she really didn't care that he slept with other clients but that he was very careless in his work, there he begins to choke her while telling her pure meaningless shit to justify himself, but then he stops and He apologizes to Yua, but she is no longer interested in anything about him. So she breaks up with him, warning him that she will expose him and report him for physical assault. One at that moment thinks that Yua has come to her senses but no, a year later she is still addicted to the host and continues to spend money on they. Unfortunately, but it is a reality.

And finally we have Aya, a fairly irrelevant character but who shows us the obsession with being beautiful. Although she has had many surgeries, she does not stop. And the ending for her is the same as Yua's, nothing changed.

There is also a somewhat relevant character like Tsubasa, a boy who likes "women's" things and who becomes confused by his sexuality. Although he has dated both men and women, he has not been comfortable with either gender. And in the end he repeats to Moe the words he had told him before becoming obsessed with Kaede, is love really that important? The important thing is to do the things you like and love yourself.

Here I want to explain something about the hosts, which I didn't know but through a YouTube video I found out, that rule that you can't get involved sexually with a client is a lie. Yes they can, as long as the club doesn't find out. He tends to flirt a lot on Tinder and they are a walking flag network, so if you go to Japan NEVER think about messing with a Host. In reality, never go to a Host club, it is usually more addictive than going to a casino and you really become a gambling addict.

As you can see, it is a drama complicated by the complexity of the characters. And it also keeps you waiting for how each of the girls will end up. There are cases where things have ended well and other cases where things remain the same. But in the cases that have not ended well, it is not because they have not had development as a character, but rather their obsession with host clubs or achieving a perfection that does not exist are trapped in that world.

There is a phrase by Yuki that stuck in my head from "I will never give my body or my heart for money" and it is a harsh but realistic phrase.

Clearly the director gives you the possible reasons why each girl makes those decisions so that you can understand the girls. The issue of Yuki, Aya and Yue could be solved if they went to therapy. But we all know that the topic of going to a psychologist or psychiatrist is a taboo topic and that there is zero knowledge that going to therapy does not make you a crazy person.

That's why there is a high suicide rate or more people who decide to stay out of society. Because Japan is such a rigid country that if you have a mental problem, it is your fault because you did not know how to adapt to society, that is Japanese thinking. Clearly the government has a great debt with mental health for years and that they have not wanted to solve. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to.

Is it a drama that I recommend? Yes, for me it is a must see because it will make you think a lot and open your eyes about Japan. Because the director of this drama does not hesitate to explain this. She doesn't romanticize anything, she just shows you reality.

Everyone's acting is great, so much so that you really come to hate some of the characters and want to get on the screen and give them a good kick in the ass.

The soundtrack is incredible as is the cinematography, allowing you to see how each character feels, especially Yuki.

Honestly there is nothing I don't like. There are 11 chapters and it is rare for a Japanese drama to go beyond 9 chapters and have a long duration, but for me it was very good because it doesn't leave any loose ends.

You feel very sad for Yuki, Yua and Aya, yes but it is a reality. That this could be solved by each one going to therapy, is true. But the director is realistic in this case, since the topic of mental health is a taboo topic and not very well regarded, you could not expect another premise. So it was quite realistic, in all aspects.

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What I liked the most was that they didn't portray as much how aggressive Yano was towards Takahashi in the first part as he was in the manga. I really hated him for so many things and I still hate him, I'm sorry lol I completely understand what he was dealing with but he made a mistake and hurt Takahashi so much that I always dreamed that he won't stay with her.

Likewise, Takahashi, young and adult, was a strong character. She is not the typical silly protagonist who allows everything, she is intelligent, she says what she feels and does not dwell on the lies she tells Yano, she goes deeper making Yano recognize everything she really did and happened.

Sincerely Nana's sister (Yano's dead girlfriend). She's... a crazy bitch. She is so crazy and bad that she has no limits. She really wanted her to suffer for her entire life for being so bad, the worst thing is that people like her exist and it's scary.

I really enjoyed the movie, it goes from an innocent love to something that becomes a very twisted story.

The performances were very good and I sincerely recommend it. But you really won't stop hating Yano, sorry lol

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