The story piles on a lot of small time concerns; meeting an ex-lover at work, recovering from such a meeting, questioning your current lover, confrontation of other partners, a lot of rather typical things that do actually happen in relationships. Pile on a cast of characters that are either rooting your relationship on, or prepared to take you apart, there is no room for middle ground. While you would think there's no way a plot like this could surprise you; every episode twisted away from what I thought was going to happen, and brought it in a new direction. This drama had me on my toes the entire time, rooting for some people, cursing others, and it was rather quick how I was to turn around who I was cheering for. The best question is who snatched whose love away in the end? (Btw, the title translated roughly to 'stolen love in winter'.
Acting; oh boy. This is where it gets good. The whole cast is golden. A little concerned about execution of such an over dramatic plot? Have no fear, the whole cast is here. Misuno Miki (Ran) absolutely STEALS the spotlight with her over the top but oddly relatable reactions. You'll be despising her character as much as you sort of sympathize with her at the end. A perfect villain or the perfect victim? You'll have to chose. Kurashina Kana (Hikaru) is the perfect opposite. More or less you will be rooting for this girl the entire time, and rightfully so. And while she appears much less dangerous a character then Ran; her development will give her the backbone to surprise you. Otani Ryohei (Shin) is the perfect match for and against Miura Shohei (Kota). Both lead males are so handsome, and believe me, incredibly romantic in the series like Hikaru you'll have a hard time choosing. Although I will have to admit, Shohei is experimenting with his acting style and it's got mixed reactions from me. Sometimes seeming too dramatic, sometimes not dramatic enough, it's fitting for this series though.
Music, realizing the ending theme is 'Magic' by AAA sold it for me. The use of repetitive songs kinda gets boring though to be honest. You can read a lot of the action and the direction it does by just the music cueing up. At least the opening theme and opening in general is short to focus more on the story. I'm not a rewatcher, but I'm curious when the subtitles come out (I did raws for this and mostly understood all the dialogues) how I'll feel about the series then.
Overall, if you're a fan of any of the main cast I highly recommend this series. If you want something so over the top, and somewhat of a guilty pleasure please watch!
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Eventually i only felt bad annoyed for Kota. Being asked to pick up the pieces at the end.Most of the mess would not have happend if : Hikaru moved on after she was really over Shin
Shin was the biggest troublemaker for me. A big loser also. I felt close to nothing after he died.
And Ran just went to far for a useless man. Even if she could walk just fine, Shin would have not married her out of guilt regardless. The actors did their best with what was given, but the story ended up being a chore to get through
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New Title, Loving you like a crazy person
This show was FUNNY! I am not sure if it was meant to be that way but I binged watched it and had many belly laughs. I read some of the reviews of this show on Viki and on here and I disagree that this show was bad. The pacing was on point and each scene contributed to the plot.Everyone and I mean everyone on this drama is Bat Chick'n Crazy. What surprised me in the reviews was that Kota was getting so much sympathy and I was expecting an all around good character that never did anything wrong to be betrayed...boy, I was wrong. Instead, you got a man that went from sane to insane in a couple episodes, doing unthinkable things in the name of saving his love. His overexaggerated expressions were funny as heck and I would not consider it bad acting but a way to make the audience chuckle at the ridculouslessness of it all.
Ran was also an absolute nutcase, willing to do anything to trap and keep her man...sometimes doing things to hinder herself.
I would not recommend this to anyone who is expecting a realistic...idea plot...this story is not for the light hearted because it deals with many sensitive topics.
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