#72: collab with g_esquared - Little Mister Sunshine
Title: Little Mister Sunshine (11 Episodes and 2 SPs)
Characters: Arashi
Rating: G for gratuitous
Summary: ¿Everyone has a dream? Opening titles narrated by Ken Watanabe. Nino, Ohno, Aiba, Jun and Sho are nowhere near successful. This is the story of their lives together. TV Asahi, 0255-0325 every Wednesday
Word Count: 2,333
A/N: A collab between __sine and g_esquared. We may have watched too much TV in this process. Acknowledgements to every JDrama in existence, as well as Community, Inception, Little Miss Sunshine and Naruse Ryo. This is for calerine. :D
Little Mister Sunshine
TV Asahi, 0255-0325 every Wednesday
¿Everyone has a dream?
Opening titles (Narrated by Ken Watanabe)
Theme song by TOKIO - 'チイサイ! ~Mr. SUNSHINE~'
This is Ninomiya. [Shot of Nino in a dark room] He aspires to be a video game review blogger but has met no success; this, plus the fact that he has no exposure to sunlight has resulted in depression. Among other things, he watches Little Miss Sunshine on a regular basis in an attempt to cheer himself up.
[Close-up of Ohno's face.] Ohno is the only successful one. [Zoom out. He is sitting behind a 7-Eleven counter.] He achieved the height of his ambition at the age of 20 as a 7-Eleven store manager. He is the only one who earns a regular income.
[Shot of hands making an eagle.] This is Jun. [Zoom out to mid shot of Jun.] He calls himself a model but he never gets work, apart from foot and hand modeling gigs every few months. One job paid him in hand cream instead of cash. [Shot of stacks of hand cream.] He has a portfolio full of his feet and hands [Example.]
[Close up on pile of books] Sho is trying to pass the bar exam. [Sho leaving the exam venue, looking dejected.] He has been trying for five years. He has long since ceased to go out for meals with his successful lawyer friends. [Shot of successful lawyer friends (cameo) Horikita Maki, Aragaki Yui, Naruse Ryo and Shige. They are suited up and eating dinner at a posh place. An empty seat has been occupied by a funereal photo of Sho in his graduation cap.]
And finally, we have Aiba, an aspiring actor best known for appearing in five separate dramas one season. In each of these dramas he played various dead bodies. [Five shots: Aiba as a dead fisherman, Aiba as a dead Paleontologist, Aiba as a dead gangster, Aiba as a dead male cheerleader and Aiba as a zombie.] He is currently trying to gain weight for his latest role in a film. [Aiba eating everything in sight. Aiba sitting next to Nino's empty fridge.] He will play a pastry chef. Nowhere on the script does it say he has to be fat, but he believes in taking the initiative.
Everyone has a dream?
EPISODE SYNOPSES
Episode 1: Change your hair, chang your life
Ratings: 5.0% (Kanto and Kansai)
Riisa dyes Nino's hair blonde. Her reasoning is that with happy hair comes a happy person. Sho declares that Riisa is demented, but does not stop her because he is creating a mind palace to help him remember all his cases. Nino watches Inception. In the meantime, Aiba eats everything he can get his hands on, Ohno deals with juvenile delinquents terrorizing his 7-Eleven on the night shift, and Jun gets a manicure.
Next week: Nino gets a job at a construction site but is too weak, cries in rain. Sho runs into Horikita Maki and Naruse Ryo at Ohno's 7-Eleven branch; things are awkward. Jun interviews for a car commercial. Aiba goes to America.
Episode 2: Sho must go on
Ratings: no feelings actually (Kanto and Kansai)
Sho moves into the house of darkness and pain because his lease has expired and his funds have been diminished by multiple attempts at the bar exam. He has a lot of stuff and enlists Jun to help him. But Jun's hands cannot be taxed. Thus Jun decides to supervise. In the meantime, inspired by Inception, Nino goes to sleep. Aiba continues to eat, while Ohno's war against the juvenile delinquents continues.
Next week: Aiba finds himself saddled with a child. He now has an eating buddy and they make sandwiches together. Jun and Ohno get trapped on a tropical island. Nino tries for pilot school. Sho starts his prime ministerial campaign.
Episode 3: The Lovely Bones
Ratings: 2.0% (Kanto and Kansai)
Aiba reports for his first day of filming, only to realise that he is now too fat for the role. Enraged, the director chases him off the set. He decides that his specialty is corpses, but there are currently no casting calls for fat corpses. Disappointed, Aiba resolves to start exercising again. Sho has completed his move into Nino's house of darkness, and now that they are sharing a bedroom, we wonder if there is any sexual tension. Nino does not wonder. He has discovered back episodes of SMAPxSMAP and spends the day watching them. Jun devises a new portfolio concept - FIERCE HANDS. Ohno befriends a juvenile delinquent named Chinen Yuri.
Next week: Jun meets a rich girl who bullies him but also falls in love with him. Aiba punches a bear. The rich girl owns the 7-Eleven chain. Nino goes to a supermarket to buy 100 yen croquettes. Sho becomes a blackboard salesman like his father and grandfather were.
Episode 4: You're waiting for a train
Ratings: 0.2% (Hokkaido)
The sexual tension between Sho and Nino (maybe) increases. Sho is tense and finds himself unable to study. They watch Inception together. Aiba goes jogging but keeps getting waylaid by people he feels the need to help (e.g. old ladies, troubled youths, children in the park). He gets mistaken for a fat pedophile. Ohno and Chinen attempt to form a rival delinquent gang to cancel out the powers of the current one. Jun's FIERCE HANDS are under way.
Next week: Ohno turns out to be a monster. No one notices.
Episode 5: Hana Yori Gang
Ratings: ceased to count
Ohno's gang absorbs five other gangs around the area. He finds himself now controlling most of the neighbourhood. But with gang powers comes responsibility. He has to keep the fact that his 7-Eleven is now a base of operations a secret. Sho gets way too invested in Inception and sees himself in the role of Dom Cobb, with Nino as Mal. Nino has moved on and is now re-watching Little Miss Sunshine. Aiba gets a warning from the police for harassing children with offers of ice cream. His attempts so far to get fit have failed. His fatness is making him demoralized. Jun moves on to FIERCE FEET.
Next week: Sho has nightmares about a continual quiz. Ohno hypnotises him in an attempt to help. Nino unearths a deep secret about his family. Aiba joins a host club and is kicked out almost immediately. Jun comforts Aiba by inviting him to his maid café.
Episode 6: Perfect Body
Ratings: 1 person who left TV on by accident (Kanto and Kansai)
Aiba learns to embrace his current body shape. His prospective employers do not. Sho reminds him that this is sizeism but it can't be helped because this is Showbiz. Nevertheless Aiba is happier and begins to exercise in earnest, purchasing an exercise bike for Nino's living room. The whirring of the bike wheels disturbs Nino, who can no longer hear the dialogue of Little Miss Sunshine. Sho decides that Riisa might be a better target for his affections, but they seldom see her because she is a popular DJ at a club in Ikebukuro. Ohno's gang has been tampering with exercise bikes to make quick cash. Jun goes clubbing and twists his ankle.
Next week: Nino breaks out of his depression and becomes a counselor for troubled youths. Jun wins the boxing championship. Aiba joins sumo but finds less success because it involves more than eating. Sho wins a supermarket lucky draw and finds himself embroiled in a battle of wits with Ohno and the cast of Battle Royale.
Episode 7: The Shibuya Incident
Ratings: -0.3% (Okinawa)
The exercise bike falls apart. Aiba is devastated and blames Nino, who hides underneath a table and finds 2000 yen. This cheers him slightly because money is great. Ohno's gangsterism is affecting his perform as the manager of a 7-Eleven store. Jun awakens by the Hachiko statute. Someone throws change at him. For a long moment he contemplates homelessness. Then he goes home and takes a bath. Sho gives up on Riisa and he runs out of cash so he tries to sell his law books, only to discover that they are now the wrong editions.
Next week: Sho becomes a detective on a cruise under the guise of being a butler. Nino kills someone with a golf club and Sho forgives him. Ohno prowls the streets of Ni-chome for no apparent reason. Jun is pimp. Aiba is a pimp.
Episode 8: The Ashes of Our Hopes and Dreams (Part 1)
Ratings: )-: (Everywhere)
FLASHBACK EPISODE: The five look back on their teenage days when they were full of dreams. Ohno achieves his dreams precisely because he had very few of them. Nino wanted to be a baseball player. Jun also wanted to be a baseball player who had an adidas endorsement deal. Aiba wanted to be a world reknowned actor or a zookeeper. Sho wanted to be Prime Minister. What happened?
Next week: Shots from Episode 1.
Episode 9: The Ashes of Our Hopes and Dreams (Part 2) (Narrated by Ken Watanabe)
Ratings: Ken Watanabe (Ken Watanabe’s house)s
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE COMMENCES: Prime Minister ohno diffuses a tense political situation regarding yakuza infiltration into combinis. Zookeeper Aiba successfully raises a dinosaur to full adulthood. Sho leaves on a one-way mission to Mars with no spacesuit and only a camcorder. Nino and Jun compete on Court 13 at Wimbledon. Their Mizuno endorsements are on the line.
Next week: Nino wakes up. It was all a dream. IS HE BEING INCEPTED?
Episode 10: Where’s Olive?
Ratings: 5.5% (People who want the truth about Nino’s inception)
Back in the present, they go on a road trip in manner of Little Miss Sunshine. They plan to go to Mt. Fuji because Nino saw it on TV. Ohno's gang accompanies them in a black van driven by Toma, the only one with a license. However, their van breaks down. There is no space in the black van. They drink a lot of beer, and Jun and Sho have a slappy fight. Aiba tries to start a fire and fails. Nino wants to see the sunrise and demands that they go to the sea, in manner of many Japanese movies. They get lost because most of them are drunk. The delinquents steal Nino's 2000 yen and bail, leaving them with two broken down vans. They watch the sunrise. When they return to Nino's place, they discover an eviction notice from his landlord.
Next week: Godzilla attacks Tokyo again. Nino, Aiba, Sho, Jun and Ohno are a team of intrepid firemen who aim to stop the rampage but end up getting eaten. The day is saved by Naruse Ryo.
Final episode: The Last Promise
Ratings: negligible (Everywhere)
Nino, Aiba and Sho are evicted. They move to Ohno's, but the atmosphere is tense because of Jun and Sho's slappy fight. Jun claims he lost his livelihood because Sho bit his hand during the fight. Sho has trouble transporting all his unsold law books ("We'll use them as firewood when the heating goes out," Aiba offers.) There is a four-person limit in Ohno's apartment, so they smuggle Nino in swaddled in bedding and clutching his entire DVD collection in his arms. The landlord is none the wiser. That night, Ohno returns saying that he has been fired from his managerial position, because he left his store alone and expanded his gang turf. (Chinen's gang has declared that they will avenge him.) Aiba brings some beer and they decide to light a fire with Sho's books to keep warm. Ohno's apartment catches fire but thankfully Ohno's neighbour is a fireman. They stand on the sidewalk
watching the fire brigade put out the blaze.
Next week: An all-new reality programme - KAT-TUN ~Making the KAT~ The search for the ultimate knife begins!!
Little Mister Sunshine SPECIAL EPISODE: The Dog Days Are Over …Or Are They?
Ratings: no one (Despite the half-naked promo photos in Akita Prefecture)
THE GANG RETURNS FOR A SPECIAL EPISODE. We mean Ohno's gang. They have infiltrated 7-Eleven as part-time youths but are secretly sabotaging the business. Only, Chinen wants to continue having a job after having gotten a taste of the upstanding life. Toma challenges him to a blood duel.
Nino reopens his video game review blog, expanding it to a review of everything. He reviews their new apartment, Aiba's latest drama (he is a dead body again), and Sho. Sho illustrates for the blog, but Nino reviews all the illustrations too. Nobody is sure how well the blog is doing, but at least he's not watching Little Miss Sunshine any more.
Jun's hands are beautiful again, but he has moved on to be a hair model. He gets a perm as a result. FIERCE HAIR.
Ohno becomes a fireman as he was so inspired by his neighbour. He slides down his apartment using the poles instead of taking the stairs. Nino reviews this.
Little Mister Sunshine ONLINE VIDEO SPECIAL: The Remains of the Day
Ratings: 500 YouTube views (499 dislikes)
Nino reviews the series so far.
Characters - believable to an uncanny extent.
Character development - not bad. I felt that the return to square one for many of the characters is frustrating, but I am glad that some of them have moved on.
Plot - original but derivative. There was too much reliance on Inception. I also could not sense any sexual tension between Sho and myself.
Style and pacing - good. Enjoyed the quick cuts and narration.
Soundtrack and special effects - nothing special.
Favourite episode - The alternate universe. It was a breath of fresh air, and the only time there was product placement. Transcended the boundaries of the format.
Overall, this was not bad. But I enjoyed Papa wa Idol more because the lead was more compelling.
Watch my other videos on Ni_no_Everything:
REVIEW Sakurai Sho Draws… Terribly
REVIEW Ohno’s Pole
REVIEW Mt. Fuji
REVIEW The United Nations
REVIEW Aiba Masaki’s Onscreen Return to the Morgue
REVIEW Fierce Matsumoto
End
A/N: We’re not sure whether to apologise for this, but since you’ve actually read the whole thing (we presume), we apologise. The person who picks out the most references will get a secret prize. The prize is Season 2, with guest appearances by Kimura Takuya. SECRET!
Cally we wish you were here!
Characters: Arashi
Rating: G for gratuitous
Summary: ¿Everyone has a dream? Opening titles narrated by Ken Watanabe. Nino, Ohno, Aiba, Jun and Sho are nowhere near successful. This is the story of their lives together. TV Asahi, 0255-0325 every Wednesday
Word Count: 2,333
A/N: A collab between __sine and g_esquared. We may have watched too much TV in this process. Acknowledgements to every JDrama in existence, as well as Community, Inception, Little Miss Sunshine and Naruse Ryo. This is for calerine. :D
Little Mister Sunshine
TV Asahi, 0255-0325 every Wednesday
¿Everyone has a dream?
Opening titles (Narrated by Ken Watanabe)
Theme song by TOKIO - 'チイサイ! ~Mr. SUNSHINE~'
This is Ninomiya. [Shot of Nino in a dark room] He aspires to be a video game review blogger but has met no success; this, plus the fact that he has no exposure to sunlight has resulted in depression. Among other things, he watches Little Miss Sunshine on a regular basis in an attempt to cheer himself up.
[Close-up of Ohno's face.] Ohno is the only successful one. [Zoom out. He is sitting behind a 7-Eleven counter.] He achieved the height of his ambition at the age of 20 as a 7-Eleven store manager. He is the only one who earns a regular income.
[Shot of hands making an eagle.] This is Jun. [Zoom out to mid shot of Jun.] He calls himself a model but he never gets work, apart from foot and hand modeling gigs every few months. One job paid him in hand cream instead of cash. [Shot of stacks of hand cream.] He has a portfolio full of his feet and hands [Example.]
[Close up on pile of books] Sho is trying to pass the bar exam. [Sho leaving the exam venue, looking dejected.] He has been trying for five years. He has long since ceased to go out for meals with his successful lawyer friends. [Shot of successful lawyer friends (cameo) Horikita Maki, Aragaki Yui, Naruse Ryo and Shige. They are suited up and eating dinner at a posh place. An empty seat has been occupied by a funereal photo of Sho in his graduation cap.]
And finally, we have Aiba, an aspiring actor best known for appearing in five separate dramas one season. In each of these dramas he played various dead bodies. [Five shots: Aiba as a dead fisherman, Aiba as a dead Paleontologist, Aiba as a dead gangster, Aiba as a dead male cheerleader and Aiba as a zombie.] He is currently trying to gain weight for his latest role in a film. [Aiba eating everything in sight. Aiba sitting next to Nino's empty fridge.] He will play a pastry chef. Nowhere on the script does it say he has to be fat, but he believes in taking the initiative.
Everyone has a dream?
EPISODE SYNOPSES
Episode 1: Change your hair, chang your life
Ratings: 5.0% (Kanto and Kansai)
Riisa dyes Nino's hair blonde. Her reasoning is that with happy hair comes a happy person. Sho declares that Riisa is demented, but does not stop her because he is creating a mind palace to help him remember all his cases. Nino watches Inception. In the meantime, Aiba eats everything he can get his hands on, Ohno deals with juvenile delinquents terrorizing his 7-Eleven on the night shift, and Jun gets a manicure.
Next week: Nino gets a job at a construction site but is too weak, cries in rain. Sho runs into Horikita Maki and Naruse Ryo at Ohno's 7-Eleven branch; things are awkward. Jun interviews for a car commercial. Aiba goes to America.
Episode 2: Sho must go on
Ratings: no feelings actually (Kanto and Kansai)
Sho moves into the house of darkness and pain because his lease has expired and his funds have been diminished by multiple attempts at the bar exam. He has a lot of stuff and enlists Jun to help him. But Jun's hands cannot be taxed. Thus Jun decides to supervise. In the meantime, inspired by Inception, Nino goes to sleep. Aiba continues to eat, while Ohno's war against the juvenile delinquents continues.
Next week: Aiba finds himself saddled with a child. He now has an eating buddy and they make sandwiches together. Jun and Ohno get trapped on a tropical island. Nino tries for pilot school. Sho starts his prime ministerial campaign.
Episode 3: The Lovely Bones
Ratings: 2.0% (Kanto and Kansai)
Aiba reports for his first day of filming, only to realise that he is now too fat for the role. Enraged, the director chases him off the set. He decides that his specialty is corpses, but there are currently no casting calls for fat corpses. Disappointed, Aiba resolves to start exercising again. Sho has completed his move into Nino's house of darkness, and now that they are sharing a bedroom, we wonder if there is any sexual tension. Nino does not wonder. He has discovered back episodes of SMAPxSMAP and spends the day watching them. Jun devises a new portfolio concept - FIERCE HANDS. Ohno befriends a juvenile delinquent named Chinen Yuri.
Next week: Jun meets a rich girl who bullies him but also falls in love with him. Aiba punches a bear. The rich girl owns the 7-Eleven chain. Nino goes to a supermarket to buy 100 yen croquettes. Sho becomes a blackboard salesman like his father and grandfather were.
Episode 4: You're waiting for a train
Ratings: 0.2% (Hokkaido)
The sexual tension between Sho and Nino (maybe) increases. Sho is tense and finds himself unable to study. They watch Inception together. Aiba goes jogging but keeps getting waylaid by people he feels the need to help (e.g. old ladies, troubled youths, children in the park). He gets mistaken for a fat pedophile. Ohno and Chinen attempt to form a rival delinquent gang to cancel out the powers of the current one. Jun's FIERCE HANDS are under way.
Next week: Ohno turns out to be a monster. No one notices.
Episode 5: Hana Yori Gang
Ratings: ceased to count
Ohno's gang absorbs five other gangs around the area. He finds himself now controlling most of the neighbourhood. But with gang powers comes responsibility. He has to keep the fact that his 7-Eleven is now a base of operations a secret. Sho gets way too invested in Inception and sees himself in the role of Dom Cobb, with Nino as Mal. Nino has moved on and is now re-watching Little Miss Sunshine. Aiba gets a warning from the police for harassing children with offers of ice cream. His attempts so far to get fit have failed. His fatness is making him demoralized. Jun moves on to FIERCE FEET.
Next week: Sho has nightmares about a continual quiz. Ohno hypnotises him in an attempt to help. Nino unearths a deep secret about his family. Aiba joins a host club and is kicked out almost immediately. Jun comforts Aiba by inviting him to his maid café.
Episode 6: Perfect Body
Ratings: 1 person who left TV on by accident (Kanto and Kansai)
Aiba learns to embrace his current body shape. His prospective employers do not. Sho reminds him that this is sizeism but it can't be helped because this is Showbiz. Nevertheless Aiba is happier and begins to exercise in earnest, purchasing an exercise bike for Nino's living room. The whirring of the bike wheels disturbs Nino, who can no longer hear the dialogue of Little Miss Sunshine. Sho decides that Riisa might be a better target for his affections, but they seldom see her because she is a popular DJ at a club in Ikebukuro. Ohno's gang has been tampering with exercise bikes to make quick cash. Jun goes clubbing and twists his ankle.
Next week: Nino breaks out of his depression and becomes a counselor for troubled youths. Jun wins the boxing championship. Aiba joins sumo but finds less success because it involves more than eating. Sho wins a supermarket lucky draw and finds himself embroiled in a battle of wits with Ohno and the cast of Battle Royale.
Episode 7: The Shibuya Incident
Ratings: -0.3% (Okinawa)
The exercise bike falls apart. Aiba is devastated and blames Nino, who hides underneath a table and finds 2000 yen. This cheers him slightly because money is great. Ohno's gangsterism is affecting his perform as the manager of a 7-Eleven store. Jun awakens by the Hachiko statute. Someone throws change at him. For a long moment he contemplates homelessness. Then he goes home and takes a bath. Sho gives up on Riisa and he runs out of cash so he tries to sell his law books, only to discover that they are now the wrong editions.
Next week: Sho becomes a detective on a cruise under the guise of being a butler. Nino kills someone with a golf club and Sho forgives him. Ohno prowls the streets of Ni-chome for no apparent reason. Jun is pimp. Aiba is a pimp.
Episode 8: The Ashes of Our Hopes and Dreams (Part 1)
Ratings: )-: (Everywhere)
FLASHBACK EPISODE: The five look back on their teenage days when they were full of dreams. Ohno achieves his dreams precisely because he had very few of them. Nino wanted to be a baseball player. Jun also wanted to be a baseball player who had an adidas endorsement deal. Aiba wanted to be a world reknowned actor or a zookeeper. Sho wanted to be Prime Minister. What happened?
Next week: Shots from Episode 1.
Episode 9: The Ashes of Our Hopes and Dreams (Part 2) (Narrated by Ken Watanabe)
Ratings: Ken Watanabe (Ken Watanabe’s house)s
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE COMMENCES: Prime Minister ohno diffuses a tense political situation regarding yakuza infiltration into combinis. Zookeeper Aiba successfully raises a dinosaur to full adulthood. Sho leaves on a one-way mission to Mars with no spacesuit and only a camcorder. Nino and Jun compete on Court 13 at Wimbledon. Their Mizuno endorsements are on the line.
Next week: Nino wakes up. It was all a dream. IS HE BEING INCEPTED?
Episode 10: Where’s Olive?
Ratings: 5.5% (People who want the truth about Nino’s inception)
Back in the present, they go on a road trip in manner of Little Miss Sunshine. They plan to go to Mt. Fuji because Nino saw it on TV. Ohno's gang accompanies them in a black van driven by Toma, the only one with a license. However, their van breaks down. There is no space in the black van. They drink a lot of beer, and Jun and Sho have a slappy fight. Aiba tries to start a fire and fails. Nino wants to see the sunrise and demands that they go to the sea, in manner of many Japanese movies. They get lost because most of them are drunk. The delinquents steal Nino's 2000 yen and bail, leaving them with two broken down vans. They watch the sunrise. When they return to Nino's place, they discover an eviction notice from his landlord.
Next week: Godzilla attacks Tokyo again. Nino, Aiba, Sho, Jun and Ohno are a team of intrepid firemen who aim to stop the rampage but end up getting eaten. The day is saved by Naruse Ryo.
Final episode: The Last Promise
Ratings: negligible (Everywhere)
Nino, Aiba and Sho are evicted. They move to Ohno's, but the atmosphere is tense because of Jun and Sho's slappy fight. Jun claims he lost his livelihood because Sho bit his hand during the fight. Sho has trouble transporting all his unsold law books ("We'll use them as firewood when the heating goes out," Aiba offers.) There is a four-person limit in Ohno's apartment, so they smuggle Nino in swaddled in bedding and clutching his entire DVD collection in his arms. The landlord is none the wiser. That night, Ohno returns saying that he has been fired from his managerial position, because he left his store alone and expanded his gang turf. (Chinen's gang has declared that they will avenge him.) Aiba brings some beer and they decide to light a fire with Sho's books to keep warm. Ohno's apartment catches fire but thankfully Ohno's neighbour is a fireman. They stand on the sidewalk
watching the fire brigade put out the blaze.
Next week: An all-new reality programme - KAT-TUN ~Making the KAT~ The search for the ultimate knife begins!!
Little Mister Sunshine SPECIAL EPISODE: The Dog Days Are Over …Or Are They?
Ratings: no one (Despite the half-naked promo photos in Akita Prefecture)
THE GANG RETURNS FOR A SPECIAL EPISODE. We mean Ohno's gang. They have infiltrated 7-Eleven as part-time youths but are secretly sabotaging the business. Only, Chinen wants to continue having a job after having gotten a taste of the upstanding life. Toma challenges him to a blood duel.
Nino reopens his video game review blog, expanding it to a review of everything. He reviews their new apartment, Aiba's latest drama (he is a dead body again), and Sho. Sho illustrates for the blog, but Nino reviews all the illustrations too. Nobody is sure how well the blog is doing, but at least he's not watching Little Miss Sunshine any more.
Jun's hands are beautiful again, but he has moved on to be a hair model. He gets a perm as a result. FIERCE HAIR.
Ohno becomes a fireman as he was so inspired by his neighbour. He slides down his apartment using the poles instead of taking the stairs. Nino reviews this.
Little Mister Sunshine ONLINE VIDEO SPECIAL: The Remains of the Day
Ratings: 500 YouTube views (499 dislikes)
Nino reviews the series so far.
Characters - believable to an uncanny extent.
Character development - not bad. I felt that the return to square one for many of the characters is frustrating, but I am glad that some of them have moved on.
Plot - original but derivative. There was too much reliance on Inception. I also could not sense any sexual tension between Sho and myself.
Style and pacing - good. Enjoyed the quick cuts and narration.
Soundtrack and special effects - nothing special.
Favourite episode - The alternate universe. It was a breath of fresh air, and the only time there was product placement. Transcended the boundaries of the format.
Overall, this was not bad. But I enjoyed Papa wa Idol more because the lead was more compelling.
Watch my other videos on Ni_no_Everything:
REVIEW Sakurai Sho Draws… Terribly
REVIEW Ohno’s Pole
REVIEW Mt. Fuji
REVIEW The United Nations
REVIEW Aiba Masaki’s Onscreen Return to the Morgue
REVIEW Fierce Matsumoto
End
A/N: We’re not sure whether to apologise for this, but since you’ve actually read the whole thing (we presume), we apologise. The person who picks out the most references will get a secret prize. The prize is Season 2, with guest appearances by Kimura Takuya. SECRET!
Cally we wish you were here!