Sunao ni Narenakute Review!
I did this watch a long with a twitter (and now LJ) friend of mine! The deadline was for today but I enjoyed it so much that I finished it over a week ago! So let's get onto the review!
Synopsis: This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves.
Non-Spoiler Thoughts: I LOVED this! From episode one I was hooked! The themes brought up in the dorama are serious, not mocked and ultimately handled VERY well. I also love the fact that it's like 'even though we're in our mid-20s, well can still enjoy life like we're teenagers'. The music is probably the most problematic - it's during the early 2000s where they used western music rather than their own music and the music's lyrics and meaning doesn't fit the dorama at all! BUT the actual dorama soundtrack was good and felt VERY familiar, pretty sure it's used in a lot of TV shows cos it was not the first time I've heard the OST.
Besides that, the story was amazing, the comedy was great, the themed discussed and dealt with where realistic and great, the ending was mostly satisfactory and the characters and the acting was solid!
This was so good, so entertaining, so funny, interesting, heartbreaking. It touches ALL the emotions perfectly!
My favourite character was probably Nakaji - he was so cute (and very attractive! It's the first time I've ever been physically attracted to him!). And I shipped Doctor x Haru, Nakaji x Haru, Linda x Nakaji, Linda x Peach SO hard! I also really liked the parents' story line that happened too. However, I feel we didn't get enough development with Haru's brother's storyline (WHO by the way is Nakamura Yuichi from D-Boys! You can tell it's him straight away xD)
Spoiler Thoughts:
Some things that I want to discuss but are spoilers:
1. WHY DID LINDA HAVE TO DIE!?!!?!? There was no indication NOR any reason for him to die!! They didn't even explain was he died of! He was recovering fine and BAM he blacks out and dies? That doesn't make sense!
2. The doctor - I LOVED him at first but the longer we spent with him the more I realised that he wasn't just childish, he was OVERALLY oblivious and insentive to some things e.g. Haru when she discusses drugs and he's like 'people that like don't deserve a chance' are you for real 24/25 years old and working in a MEDICIAL profession?! Also he is the ONLY character who speaks MASU form (which is the standard polite form) the entire dorama. Even his sister speaks in short form. I can't help but be stuck between A. that's just how his character is, too nice and polite for his own good, OR B. the TV studio was being subtly racist and making him LOWER than the Japanese characters/actors. What do you think?
3. The ending - it was satisfactory BUT I was annoyed that it ended with them running alongside each other. I know Japan is a FAN of open-ended ending but I needed something more solid from Haru and Nakaji that confirmed that they would be together.
4. The final was is: Nakaji's father and the parents relationship - I wanted them together SO badly! We hear about Haru's father a few times but he's working all the way in Hokkaido so he practically doesn't exist. I wanted them together SOOOOOO BADLY! And also, are we just gunna ACCEPT his father didn't want treatment?! I'd be going fucking mental if my mother had cancer and decided to not even TRY and get help from a hospital. How can Nakaji just be OK that his father isn't gunna do anything about it?! I honestly thought, when they whole war photographer job came up, his dad would say 'they offered me the job... do you want it and I'll go and get better a hospital instead?' but NO. All that happens is 'Dad, stay alive until I come back' THAT'S IT?! I just personally could not understand it....
5. I REALLY like how they handled the homosexuality, Linda's suicide, death, the pregnancy AND miscarriage, and also the little segment about drugs that we had, SO much. It felt realist but also they were all very mature and supportive and just how they handled it made me very happy. The whole commiting suicide in Peach's story was a little childish in my opinion (it was too similar to the childish shit I experienced in the teen years from friends) but she redeemed herself.
Overall Rating: 8/10
Have you seen this? What did you think? Have I persuaded you to watch it? Let me know below! OH! And what should be our next WatchaLong?
Synopsis: This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves.
Non-Spoiler Thoughts: I LOVED this! From episode one I was hooked! The themes brought up in the dorama are serious, not mocked and ultimately handled VERY well. I also love the fact that it's like 'even though we're in our mid-20s, well can still enjoy life like we're teenagers'. The music is probably the most problematic - it's during the early 2000s where they used western music rather than their own music and the music's lyrics and meaning doesn't fit the dorama at all! BUT the actual dorama soundtrack was good and felt VERY familiar, pretty sure it's used in a lot of TV shows cos it was not the first time I've heard the OST.
Besides that, the story was amazing, the comedy was great, the themed discussed and dealt with where realistic and great, the ending was mostly satisfactory and the characters and the acting was solid!
This was so good, so entertaining, so funny, interesting, heartbreaking. It touches ALL the emotions perfectly!
My favourite character was probably Nakaji - he was so cute (and very attractive! It's the first time I've ever been physically attracted to him!). And I shipped Doctor x Haru, Nakaji x Haru, Linda x Nakaji, Linda x Peach SO hard! I also really liked the parents' story line that happened too. However, I feel we didn't get enough development with Haru's brother's storyline (WHO by the way is Nakamura Yuichi from D-Boys! You can tell it's him straight away xD)
Spoiler Thoughts:
Some things that I want to discuss but are spoilers:
1. WHY DID LINDA HAVE TO DIE!?!!?!? There was no indication NOR any reason for him to die!! They didn't even explain was he died of! He was recovering fine and BAM he blacks out and dies? That doesn't make sense!
2. The doctor - I LOVED him at first but the longer we spent with him the more I realised that he wasn't just childish, he was OVERALLY oblivious and insentive to some things e.g. Haru when she discusses drugs and he's like 'people that like don't deserve a chance' are you for real 24/25 years old and working in a MEDICIAL profession?! Also he is the ONLY character who speaks MASU form (which is the standard polite form) the entire dorama. Even his sister speaks in short form. I can't help but be stuck between A. that's just how his character is, too nice and polite for his own good, OR B. the TV studio was being subtly racist and making him LOWER than the Japanese characters/actors. What do you think?
3. The ending - it was satisfactory BUT I was annoyed that it ended with them running alongside each other. I know Japan is a FAN of open-ended ending but I needed something more solid from Haru and Nakaji that confirmed that they would be together.
4. The final was is: Nakaji's father and the parents relationship - I wanted them together SO badly! We hear about Haru's father a few times but he's working all the way in Hokkaido so he practically doesn't exist. I wanted them together SOOOOOO BADLY! And also, are we just gunna ACCEPT his father didn't want treatment?! I'd be going fucking mental if my mother had cancer and decided to not even TRY and get help from a hospital. How can Nakaji just be OK that his father isn't gunna do anything about it?! I honestly thought, when they whole war photographer job came up, his dad would say 'they offered me the job... do you want it and I'll go and get better a hospital instead?' but NO. All that happens is 'Dad, stay alive until I come back' THAT'S IT?! I just personally could not understand it....
5. I REALLY like how they handled the homosexuality, Linda's suicide, death, the pregnancy AND miscarriage, and also the little segment about drugs that we had, SO much. It felt realist but also they were all very mature and supportive and just how they handled it made me very happy. The whole commiting suicide in Peach's story was a little childish in my opinion (it was too similar to the childish shit I experienced in the teen years from friends) but she redeemed herself.
Overall Rating: 8/10
Have you seen this? What did you think? Have I persuaded you to watch it? Let me know below! OH! And what should be our next WatchaLong?