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The Butterfly

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The Butterfly

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Aino Kekkon Soudanjo japanese drama review
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Aino Kekkon Soudanjo
4 people found this review helpful
by The Butterfly
Oct 10, 2019
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 7.5
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 5.5
This review may contain spoilers
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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