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Dreamy hunk and timid titmouse
The ML was devoted, tender and sensual and maybe just a little scary. The FL was milquetoast. Her timidity and lack of confidence was distressing. She was a beautiful gentle woman who constantly apologized and acted like the ML was doing her a favor to even notice her. I would have liked the plot and character development to be more complex. I hope she shows more assertiveness and spirit in the next several episodes. The degree of subservience was demeaning and somewhat offensive. The skinship was definitely appealing and worth rewatching. Again, the FL could definitely be more of a participant instead of a doormat. The ML's acting was excellent. He portrayed an enamoured suitor with unlying strenghten and ruthless. Would love to see both leads in a storyline that supports more development of their characters and portrayal of their acting abilities.Was this review helpful to you?
The dialogue needs a little more polishing, but I can't comment too much as I am reading the translation.
For someone who is supposed to be older, the male lead seems to fall into a teenage type of lust. His secretary comes in at the most inopportune time with no regards to privacy.
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Don't waste your time watching this. I dropped it after 3 episodes
This show is terrible. That literally summarizes everything.What is wrong? Everything. From the plot, acting, male lead, female lead, supporting characters and just everything. I mean, who falls in love with someone you just meet? Or no, it's more like this; you've met that girl before, long ago, and develops obsession for her to the point that you'd build a café inspired by her and now that you meet her again, it's certainly the time where you sweep her off her feet! Is that sort of story realistic? No!
And then there's the female lead. I hate her. So much. She is naïve, gullible, plain, stupid, idiot and the list could go on. Someone like her wouldn't last a day in real world, that's what sort of person she is.
Do I have to start with the supporting characters? Okay. They're simply useless and only add more drama. Oh, and guess what? There's love triangle too! I don't get it, what's to love from a girl as useless as the female lead in this story?
I have to give credit where it's due though; even through the entire show is an unmitigated disaster, the acting is passable. At least it's good to the point where I really want to choke the female lead for her cutesy, weak and frustrating traits.
This is such a waste of time. It's a shame that Dori Sakurada is a part of this show. He should've chosen better offers other than this trash.
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it's cringe
To be honest for me it was not watchable, I couldn't watch it further than episode 3. The girl was way to shy even if it was her first time in a relationship and her 'mature' boyfriend was just to cheesy and cringe and I find him weird. He opened up a cafe or something for her, what is actually sweet, but I didn't have the feeling like awww he opened up a cafe for her, it was more like wtf he watched her the whole time like he was stalking herhe was sort of stalking her and that was it. I couldn't watch it anymore. it was to cringe and weird to watch. The cast was great tho, but never watching it again.Was this review helpful to you?
EVERYTHING IS SO WEIRD.
Cringey. I don't know what to tell you, folks. The acting here is off compared to "The Morning Call". Their acting at The Morning Call was better, great actually.
I just wanna be fair since I liked the drama anyway.
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Extremely weird and obviously differing with the manga
This show opening starts with a picture from the manga, which clearly portrays people of completely different looks and BEHAVIOR than the cast of this live action. It's a huge contrast. And during the ending credits of each episode, we can see how the scenes were pictured in the manga. Somehow it looks MASSIVELY different. It gives you completely different vibe. So, maybe 'Coffe & Vanilla' was cute & hot as the manga, but it looks somehow lame & creepy with real actors. It happens...Unfortunatelly, this seems rather extreme case of it, when the mismatched content, mismatched cast and too short a runtime completed the product that's close to a parody in terms of how absurd it all comes across. My detailed experience follows. But I dropped it halfway. Some viewers praised the skinship scenes that kept them going, but problem is... This couple is in bed all the time, but you're not EXCITED.
Okay, manga aside, what we watch in the beginning is: The female lead of this drama is a pretty girl who reject all guys for no reason, and who is shy and insecure in any situation. Despite getting up every morning and dressing up to be a pretty girl, and despite that nothing stops her from gradually gaining experience in whatever, if she only wanted to.
While rejecting one of the guys asking her out, she meets another guy, who "helps" her to get her rid of the first guy, then smoothly asks her out himself. He takes her to a suspiciously expensive restaurant and lets her drink one sip of wine after which she falls unconscious. It looked like she met some kind of a crook, to be honest, LOL. But, she finds out he didn't do anything with her when she wakes up next morning at his place. He just politely asks her to date him, lol. He claims that he fell in love with her at first sight, and they have their fist kiss. It really is a "Fast Paced Romance" to say the least. They are complete strangers. We hear the girl's inner thoughts, excited about finally experiencing love she knows from all the dramas and mangas. We don't hear the guy's thoughts. Goodness gracious.
We move onto bed scene right in episode 1. You know, it's not without fun, to just watch empty-headed people getting it on... I wouldn't exactly call it "romance", but it's certainly not wasting time on bulls**t, lol. Just, when he opened the night with saying: "Let me be your first and your last man.", I briefly wondered whether he planned to kill her, LOL. Maybe, the comparison to 'Twilight' one fellow review here made was not so far fetched? That also had a girl suddenly falling in love with a strange boy desperate-fangirl-style for absolutely no reason, apart from him being "beautiful". But at least there were the ridiculous fantasy elements. There's no one at least having their skin sparkling in the sunlight, here. There's literally nothing here, in the small runtime, but the couple.
Moving onto episode 2... It really does remind me of 'Twilight' now (yeah, cannot get that comparison out of my head, "thank you", other reviews!) with the main guy being all keen to know every single detail about main girl's life and all her little likes and dislikes, despite her being UTTERLY uninteresting. Yet we keep listening to her inner commentary. At one point she wonders: "Can he read minds?" Now, can you tell me NOT to think of 'Twilight':-) Also as soon as episode 2, he gives her a ring. He IS super possessive & jealous since day 1, check. He keeps saying he needs to treasure her. Overall, he acts like she is the only pretty girl he is allowed to date till he dies. Also, other boy shows interest in the main girl, and I would actually prefer him... Yeah, I would prefer the main girl to live normal life, instead of jumping into a weirdly fast relationship with... also weird guy, if you ask me.
Main guy speed-attacks the main girl into dating like in some kind of a women fantasy, but it's weird to watch it happening live action. Nobody acts normally, here. Like, the other boy who also likes the main girl. She introduces him an attractive, rich guy as her boyfriend and tells him that she loves only him. I think this is a situation where person gives up, and it's understandable. His reaction is he that states he still won't give up on her. Who does that? It's like we KNOW we don't watch real people. In the ending credits, we can see how the scenes were pictured in the manga... And it's SO different. Like I mentioned above in my opening paragraph.
Episode 3... The other boy is all over the main girl. Something nasty in me wishes that she'd go for him. Let her cheat on the main guy! I'm bored with him already, LOL. Such a creep. Okay, it's then revealed that ML actually met FL a bit while back, and started liking her BEFORE the 1st episode encounter. It makes things a BIT better, though I still did not warm up to him. FL is thinking: "I can't believe that he loves me this much!" with a happy smile all across her face. I admit I was thinking exactly the same thing, LOL. Just not smiling the same way. Then, another guy is introduced... He is shown smoking a big cirarette and blows the smoke right into FL's innocent face, so that all the viewers know that he is a BAD boy, lolz. It's like in 'Vampire Diaries' (to put yet another vampire reference in:) when Damon gets introduced. Then, after like 30 seconds, his scene is over, LOL. Maybe, this show could pass as a Parody? Then, it IS funny;-) ML then delivers plenty of beautiful clothes and shoes for FL to choose from - a classic cinderella moment, he even calls her "my Cinderella" - so that the women-fantasy line is kept going on, no matter how dated and pathetic it is, then when she's wearing red dress and standing in red light (for it not to be exaggerated:) they share a hot moment which made me think of all the j-drama couples I would enjoy having a scene like this. Just about any other couple but this one, sadly.
Epi 4: ML's weird brother (still, actually less weird than ML himself) managed to kiss FL forcefully, so ML states he needs to make her forget that. So, yet more make-out scenes occur. My, why this was NEVER there with couples I did ship, lol. Put these scenes into any proper j-drama, and I'll say thank you. But do not create some weird 25-minute collage of them with "characters" no one cares about!
Epi 5: ML's brother is all over FL, trying to seduce her. I don't care for him, yet I almost love him for usurping some of the screentime. I do prefer scenes where ML is absent. FL is massively boring. So much that ML's brother's awkward attempts to shake things up are actually an improvement. Whenever there's only a half of the boring/creepy main couple onscreen, it's a plus. So, I'm all for inviting more and more side-characters into this show, so that we won't have to watch the mains all the time. Sadly, ML reappears after 1/3 of the episode runtime or so. Still, BETTER than having him there ALL the time. Then FL is joined by her female friend... she is also interested in ML. Pitty she can't steal ML and drag him somewhere far. I could bear watching FL - despite her empty personality she IS very pretty - with someone else. I've grown to hate ML both inside and out. I cannot withstand watching FL & ML both. Someone, PLEASE split this couple, LOL.
Epi 6: FL's "friend" asks her to allow her one date with ML. FL agrees, unfortunatelly she also goes on the date so we have to watch it. From my point of view, I didn't mind FL's suffering, it was still less boring to watch than if the date was just ML & FL alone. ML obviously agreed because he wanted to teach FL a life lesson, which I agreed she needed, I just didn't care. Soon main couple is in bed again, and he teaches her some stuff there. Best part of which is, he mentions he'a about to go abroad. That got my hopes up. Shall he be absent for some screen time? Perhaps even whole episode or two? That would be great. He then leaves, and FL is surrounded by both the secondary males, her female friend, plus she meets (yet another) psycho. I now realize I'm not interested in this "drama" WHATEVER is happening. So, nothing against the manga, perhaps that's fun but this, I don't need to watch it all.
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Except wasting time
I think This is the worset version from
Cinderella and four knights
The genre shouldn't be romance at all
It based on lust, Sexeul scence,
and no story at all
Guess what I jumped from ep 04 to the end and I discovered I missed nothing
Literally nothing
The acting was extremely fake and bad
Solid faces with poor performance
The FL was extremely annoying
There is a huuuuuge different between being shy and being naive, annoying , stupid, dump and weak character
I didn't get a point,
how come the ML was obsessed that much with the FL and suddenly every time he Left her and disappear for a whole week without explanation or logical reason ???
This wasn't interested at all :/
And if there is less than 1 for rating
I'll give it ( -100 ) -_-
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STORY
it count overall concept so i say worst (starting is nice)
ACTING
actually i'm biased on it i don't know its only me who felt that or may be some others also , i've watch almost every country drama but i felt only Japanese actors are under-confident i doubt their acting skill i've watched some J-Dramas which i'm satisfied with acting but most of them i can't say
SUGGESTION
only epi 1-5 or don't watch it even a single epi if looking for great ending
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eh
I was curious to see what the drama was about. Honestly, I was disappointed. It had a lot of potentials to be somewhat good but it was just every cliche of a drama stacked and compressed into a drama. I could see this more as a parody but overall it was too fast-paced, The actress, I know from Good Morning Call, but too innocent is too much in my opinion. It's really exaggerated. The fact that they fall in love, do everything, and yet she doesn't even know anything about him in the first episode was low key lame. I understand dramas are like that but that's what we love about dramas, the building of a relationship. I want to give it a chance, maybe one day but for now I am just going to have to put this in my drop list.Was this review helpful to you?
Dropped it after 1st episode and didn't even think twice about it
This is bad. Just as bad as the manga itself. I'm still trying to finish the manga because I hate dropping things but I didn't want to waste my life with this The plot is bad but it's understandable as it is based on a bad plot. The acting is bad. No chemistry, no emotion. The fl is really dull, souless, not sure if she's stupid or naive, or maybe both, but she will not develop for sure even if I keep watching. The male lead is a pure pervert and toxic, and just as dull as the female lead. The whole idea of both the manga and the drama is toxic. This is neither romantic or sexual, it's full of abuse and somehow people are mistaking it for romance. In real life this guy will be the top of the psycho chain. You meet some random dude and after 2 hours he's like "i love u so much i can't help it". Run sis, RUN.Not sure why but japaneses keep presenting abuse (physical/mental/sexual) as something normal, cool and romantic in both their mangas and their dramas, and I think that this is really wrong and unhealthy especially for the female audience. It's really disappointing.
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I can't do mental gymnastics to make myself like this
I'm fascinated why this has such high ratings but the reviews are so polarizing (loved it or hated it - i'm clearly in the second camp)Both the female lead and the male lead have the personality of a piece of wet cardboard. Sure there's great chemistry between them, but I can't ignore the entire dumpster fire of a plot bringing them together. I'm all for suspension of belief, and indulging in unrealistic fantasies, but this is so far removed from reality I had to drop it because it was hurting my brain. The female lead has NO agency whatsoever, there's quiet and shy girls and there's this girl whose only personality traits are being a.) jaw-dropping pretty and b.) a pushover. Don't get me started on the male lead - again, there's slightly questionable age-gap relationships and there's this walking predatory red flag. The supporting characters also have no substance to them but to fill cookie-cutter drama roles. Disappointing.
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Um drama que gera muia polêmica
Em um contexto geral, Café e Baunilha entrega um roteiro fraco, com uma história clichê polêmica (depende do seu ponto de vista) e com pontos favoráveis e não-favoráveis.
Acredito que esse seja o primeiro que vi, em que o drama contém um conteúdo mais adulto e constrangedor em certos momentos.
A personagem principal Risa, me deixou irritada, seu jeito de ser ingênua em certos aspectos, insegura e que aceita tudo só com um 'sim'. Em muitos momentos, eu queria que ela tivesse mais maturidade, que entrasse no papel de uma mulher universitária, segura de si e madura o suficiente para entrar em um relacionamento. Vejo que Risa, é somente uma mulher saindo da fase dos 18 anos, mas de certo caindo na fase dos 20 anos, mesmo com o interior ainda criança.
Entendo que ela parece só viver em seu mundinho, mas sabe?! Há um contraste...
A questão dos ciúmes Hiroto, em relação à Risa, é retratado de forma compreensiva de parte - compreende-se de fato. Hiroto é um homem de 32 anos, criando uma relação com Risa de apenas 20 anos.
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Coffee & Vanilla começa a ser polêmico, a partir de:
- Risa conhece Hiroto e em menos de 24 horas, ela já aceita ter um relacionamento com ele;
- Muitos pedidos de desculpas (ela definitivamente não tem problemas com perdão! - risos!);
- Risa pensava muito em Hiroto, e para se distrair enquanto ele estava em uma viagem, "arruma um emprego para se distrair".
Enfim, claro que há outros fatores, bons e ruins, há uns que não posso listá-los aqui, se não corre risco dessa análise perder sua essência... e cá entre nós, opinião cada um tem a sua.
Observações:
Ost: 0.0
Cenografia: 2.0
Desenvolvimento: 4.0
Produção: 6.0
Atuação: 5.5
Enredo: 2.0
Elenco: 6.0
Nota geral: 2.5
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