Sunao ni Narenakute - I am in mad mad mad love!
I have checked out the first half of the currently airing jdrama Sunao ni Narenakute and I am madly in love, you guys! The kind of love I haven't felt since Love Shuffle.
SnN's story starts when five 20-something Tokyoites who follow each other on twitter decide to meet in real life. I am going to be using their screennames for ease.
They are "Haru" (Ueno Juri), a new school teacher, still on probation, a little clumsy but very grounded and forthright (I am madly in love with her already).
"Nakaji" (Eita), a professional photographer who it is hinted has a "past," and is someone who looks up to his dead father, a war photographer.
"Peach" (Seki Megumi) is Haru's best friend who is popular with men but is more troubled than Haru will ever be - she cuts herself and has also just discovered she is pregnant and the father wants nothing to do with her.
"Linda" (Tamayama Tetsuji) is an editor blackmailed for sexual favors by his chief editor.
"Doctor" (Hero Jaejoong) is a Korean who pretends he's a doctor on twitter but in reality is a medical equipment tech struggling to take care of his troubled sister and looked down upon because of his ethnicity.
And now their lives are going to intersect.
In some ways, the drama really reminds me of Love Shuffle, even though the plots are completely different - it has the same fresh, crisp colors and fast-paced vibe, the same ability to have mutiple main stories at once (as opposed to one main one and a few secondaries), it also deals with wounded 20-something urban professionals with secrets. It also gives me a wonderful OTP with warmth and genuine chemistry and great scenes together (including a piggy-back ride), something jdramas are normally not great on but this is (just as LS was). Oh, and it also has a sexy photographer, just like LS :P (Side note, this is the first time in my life I've found Eita sexy :P)
I love the filming.
Haru excited about a purse and Nakaji is excited about a camera.
Fate:
Fate again. They don't know who each other is and she overturns coffee on him and he assumes she's a pervert. LOL.
Meet up:
She is excited to meet Nakaji. Little does she know.
He is actually amused now:
It turns out they live nearby.
True job:
And a potential hook-up:
It's interesting to find out that the 'popular' and glamorous Peach cuts. I ship her with Linda already, is that wrong?
Nakaji walks Haru home because it may be dangerous. And she insists he apologizes for calling her a pervert. Heee.
And she hurts her foot and he totally piggybacks her. With all his bags! I died!
He takes her to his house and treats her knee:
And gets so enthusiastic about his new camera. I love a man into his work.
Putting on a bandaid:
She is all "eeeek? huh???" I love it. But they still drink tea and talk and how what she posted inspired him and just squish - like puppies!
Peach took Linda off for some one-night-stand but apparently he fell asleep before anything happened. I love her reaction - well, at least we can still be friends, if we slept together it would have been too awkward. I ship them.
I bet Nakaji's tattoo will be important in the future.
And so will the girl he is so eager to talk to.
