Aino Kekkon Soudanjo (2017)

This was one cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs little drama, but it was entertaining.

At the Aino Mating Agency the ringmaster of this circus is a former ethologist who dresses in outrageous suits and breaks into song and dance at least twice an episode. Every move is exaggerated for dramatic effect. On the plus side he has a nice voice, unfortunately the rest of the cast that often join him doesn’t.

His assistant is a Catholic nun because...well, why not? As she falls in love with every client I don’t think she will be one for long.

The agency has a 100% success rate of relationships leading to marriage. Aino Shingo repeatedly says there isn’t a more wicked emotion than love and that love is data so he tries to take that variable out of two people getting to know each other. The couple isn’t allowed to meet in person until they agree to marry.

In each episode Aino practices a strange alchemy of ethology observation techniques and logic, insight, and a little magic to match two seemingly disparate personalities. He then guides them on their way through various obstacles to marriage. The fun is in figuring out how two people fit and what threatens to keep them apart.

The Aino Mating Agency is a zany, feel good comedy, often bordering on the ridiculous. If you are feeling blue this singing and dancing ethologist and matchmaker with his nun sidekick just might lift your spirits.

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Here only for Yamazaki Iku but it turned out quite fun!

I'LL RECOMMEND THIS TO
those who like the actor(s), like I did
those who likes weird/quirky main character with light story and funny moments
those who is quite open minded about types of drama. Cause this drama is sure different from most of the drama I've watched. But I still enjoy it, so I think some people would too.

STORY
This is a light story, with some misunderstanding between human and some interesting ending (e.g. episode 5).
The story actually isn't that funny, but because the character is weird, the situations become funny.
If you care about character development... I do not see some major character development in this drama. But I can tell that character development is not the focus of this 6-episode drama, so I'm not disturbed by that.

CAST/ACTING
After watching "Ichikei no Karasu", I'm surprised by Yamazaki Iku's acting detail. I find myself searching for his older drama.
The character gap between the character he played is huge that its shocking!
I think that they choose a suitable cast for each character, they could portray the quirk of each character well. Not only the main character, the guest actors done a great job too!

MUSIC
I think the music served its purpose, to make the watcher and even the characters laugh as well as uncomfortable at the same time. The drama use lots of song, to the point that I want to call this a musical drama haha~

I'm trying so hard not to be biased about this drama cause Yamazaki Ikusaburo is here hahah
And I think I do quite well,
But really, he's THAT GOOD hahah XD

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