Love Kome no Okite: Kojirase Joshi to Toshishita Danshi (2021)

Meh

It started out cute, probably a 7-star drama, but after episode 6 it deteriorated quickly.

I feel like the story wasn't quite sure what it was doing, and the writers also weren't sure what to do with Mamiya-kun. He's sweet, then he's demanding, then he's sweet again, and everyone's saying how he puts everyone else first, but that was never the impression of him that I got. His selfishness was very apparent in his behavior towards the heroine, and in the end, it really ended up turning me off him. I rolled my eyes at how the characters were trying to paint him as this self-sacrificing person, when clearly his own goals and his independence and his desires were primary in his mind. Painting him in any other way when I'm not blind and can see his true character quite clearly was ridiculous. I'm not saying he shouldn't have put his own life first, but it's stupid to pretend that's not what he was doing.

Of course, my finishing this drama after watching the pure genius that is Issei Takahashi in "Bokura wa Kiseki de Dekite Iru" probably didn't help my overall opinion.

For me, "Love Kome no Okite" will fade into the background and be utterly forgotten. I've seen so many better Jdramas with a longer-lasting theme. Being prettily filmed does not a quality drama make.

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