I know many of you didn't like 'Anego' but I must confess I loved it. I see many of you complain about the fact that Anego is always worried about marriage and so. But that is the life of a japanese woman, they are educated thinking a life of a woman only begins when she is married so it's only normal (and this still happens nowadays. I live in Europe and my japanese teacher - who is married to a European man - still thinks the duty of a wife is to follow her husband everywhere and obey him, so...). Also Anego is in her 30's which is already too old to marry in Japan (I don't know of any japanese woman in her 30's who is not married). I think Anego represents the average japanese OL, but I also think that the only thing she has in common with the average japanese woman is the fact she wants to marry. All woman in Japan want to marry a rich man (and when they don't they are the lover of one - something that is also portrayed in 'Anego') and look to no means to do it. As for Anego is nothing like that. She doesn't want to be manipulative, or false; she ALWAYS just want to marry a man that she can like (even if just a little bit) and that he can also like her a bit. Midway through the drama she also believes she found her fated man (who is already married to one of her friends) but she doesn't want an affair; which she will have (with that same man) but will end up regreting it (like she always knew she would). As for Kurosawa-kun I think he represent the average man (and not only japanese man). He is the guy who likes Anego a bit but doesn't want to marry just yet (he even tells Anego not to marry anyone so he can have her, but he will also not marry her - if that is not the average man I don't know what it is). It's true though that Akanishi and Shinohara don't have great chemistry, but to be honest I never seen Akanishi with good chemistry with anyone. Overall I loved this drama. Anego portrais the concerns of a woman in her age in a very realistic and funny way. I think all of us have a little bit of Anego inside.