Beautiful Life: I can't stop
Oh my Gosh. I am crying. It's the end of the first episode of Beautiful Life and I am crying. Not because it's angsty or anything (though voice-overs worry me) but just because...you know. It's so so so perfectly wonderful. The characters, the scenes, the drama. The works.
But OMG omg OMG. He waited for her.
In the rain.
Most of the night.
And the man at the restaurant (that long closed for the night) gave him an umbrella but he didn't even open it.
(To set it up. After the publication of the magazine, he waits for her at the library, all hunched up and half hiding. (I love him) but she left and he actually gets her number. Eeee! I love that she asks him straight out if he used her (after a brief, rote atempt at saying she didn't see the mag) and the thing is, he is so straightforard that he admits he might have, he doesn't know. And she asks him if she can hang up now. And then he waits for her at that restaurant anyway, the way they agreed).
And finally he gives up and he starts draggily walking to an underpass, and he is all soaked, but his umbrella is still closed, but as he is almost downstairs, he sees her car pull up and she gets out (OMG, I love how she earlier looks out of the window and got worried it was raining.) You know, they both took such a leap of faith there. And he sees her and she sees him, and she is radiant (because OMG, he really did like her, not use her or anything) and is a bit more reserved but you can tell, as he just stares, how happy he is.
And they cross to each other (and much as I love over-emo drama running in Kamisama or Hanadan, I love that there isn't that here) and just stare and then he is all 'come on come on you are going to get rained on use umbrella' while he is completely attuned to her getting dripped on and oblivious to getting soaked himself. And he gives her the umbrella and she makes him duck under it too and it's just...
I HAVE NO WORDS.
You guys.
YOU GUYS.
But OMG omg OMG. He waited for her.
In the rain.
Most of the night.
And the man at the restaurant (that long closed for the night) gave him an umbrella but he didn't even open it.
(To set it up. After the publication of the magazine, he waits for her at the library, all hunched up and half hiding. (I love him) but she left and he actually gets her number. Eeee! I love that she asks him straight out if he used her (after a brief, rote atempt at saying she didn't see the mag) and the thing is, he is so straightforard that he admits he might have, he doesn't know. And she asks him if she can hang up now. And then he waits for her at that restaurant anyway, the way they agreed).
And finally he gives up and he starts draggily walking to an underpass, and he is all soaked, but his umbrella is still closed, but as he is almost downstairs, he sees her car pull up and she gets out (OMG, I love how she earlier looks out of the window and got worried it was raining.) You know, they both took such a leap of faith there. And he sees her and she sees him, and she is radiant (because OMG, he really did like her, not use her or anything) and is a bit more reserved but you can tell, as he just stares, how happy he is.
And they cross to each other (and much as I love over-emo drama running in Kamisama or Hanadan, I love that there isn't that here) and just stare and then he is all 'come on come on you are going to get rained on use umbrella' while he is completely attuned to her getting dripped on and oblivious to getting soaked himself. And he gives her the umbrella and she makes him duck under it too and it's just...
I HAVE NO WORDS.
You guys.
YOU GUYS.