Watashi wo Hanasanaide Review!
Here is my first Winter 2016 review! I finished this one first so it's only fair! The winter season has officially ended for 90% of the stuff airing ^_^
As always: SPOILERS!
Let's get this piece of shit with it's piece of shit actors out of the way shall we?
This show had SO much promise in the beginning; it was very mysterious, lots of secrets, had a very creepy feeling to it, and I knew it was about clones so I was all like 'fuck yeah we're getting another Clone Baby awesomeness show about clones!!!' BUT in the end; there is nothing sci-fi about this at all and they might as well just be 'normal' humans and not clones. We're told they're clones but there's nothing that proves to us that they're clones! We've never really shown their origins and we're never shown who they are clones of! This is just basically a depressing love triangle story. That's literally it.
It's very depressing, there's nothing that makes you feel good when watching this story - it's 'clone' that are bred to be organ donars and there's a love triangle drama in between people giving their organs away. That's literally it.
Even Ayase Haruka didn't wow me enough in this. It was definitely a different character to what she normally plays but there wasn't anything in this that allowed her to show her acting skills. It was all very morbid and depressing and nothing really happening besides a crazy bitch trying to steal Ayase's boyfriend.
Which leads me to the two other motherfuckers: Miura Haruma and Mizukawa Asami - we ALL know how much I fucking hate these two as actors. ALL Mizukawa does is MOAN and SCREECH the ENTIRE. 9. FUCKING. EPISODES. In fact that's the ONLY fucking character she ever seems to FUCKING play (everyone remembers her selfish and screeching self in Gou Himetachi too right? Need I go on with a list of other examples?) . And her voice GRATES me so FUCKING much. And Miura Haruma is obviously playing himself cos the entire time he's on screen (no matter WHAT dorama it is besides like Bloody Monday) not matter WHAT dorama he's in, no matter WHAT role he plays, all I see is HIM the entire time. I NEVER see his character. Hence = he can't fucking act!
Nakai Noemie was DEFINITELY the best part about this dorama! She probably had all over about an hour total screen time the entire drama but DAMN her performance left an impression on me and her character was SO interesting! Why did the interesting one die so soon?!
Now that I've torn apart your favourite actors (for some unknown reason they're both popular!) and lost a few friends through that, let's talk about a part of the dorama that actually stimulated my brain and REALLY hit a cord with me.
But first the background of the drama (aka I reveal the entire dorama here): These kids are brought up in a school that is HIGHLY guarded and they never see the outside world until they finish school at like 18. One day when they're like 10 years old, their headteacher reveals they're 'special' and that they're clones and will give the gift of life to those that needs it AKA. the only reason they're alive is so they can donate their organs when a 'normal' human being needs them. (Already fucking enraging and fucked up right?) And once they graduate high school they move out and live with already graduated clones but out in the real world and are now expected to either be donars or careers. We then jump like 10 years in time and Mizukawa and Miura's characters have just had their second organ transplant and recieve a letter that they have been selected for another donation which will be their third transplant, which will be their last cos they pretty much just take everything in the third operation. And thus they go through it (even though Mizukawa screams and screeches that she doesn't want to do it and many times ALL the clones around them question why they have to be donars) and die.
That's the main jist of it okay. So please answer me this question (Tilmon ALREADY know's where I'm going with this I think): Where is the security and the guards that are apparently forcing them to go through with these donations?
Trick question: THERE ARE FUCKING NONE!!!
THERE ARE NO MOTHER FUCKINGS ONCE THEY LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL THAT ARE FORCING THEM TO DONATE AND BE KILLED THROUGH DONATING! SO WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY ALL NOT GOING INTO HIDING AND/OR GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF THE COUNTRY?!?!?!?!!? This entire drama EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER complains and yells 'why do I have to do this' BITCH NO ONE IS MAKING YOU! ARE THESE CHARACTERS FUCKNIG STUPID?! They are clearly NOT brainwashed and they are all CLEARLY seeing that the system is wrong but NO ONE fucking runs! Everyone just goes 'oh I've been selected to donate. wai! wai! I don't want to' but end up calmly going into the fucking hospital and having the fucking operations!?
OMG SO MUCH FUCKING RAGE RIGHT NOW!
THERE IS NOTHING STOPPING THEM FROM NOT DOING! SO WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY GOING THROUGH WITH IT WHEN THEY THEMSELVES SEE IT AS WRONG ASN UNFAIR?!?!?
omfg I need to stop... I can't fucking understand this MASSIVE plot hole at all....
Maybe it's different in the book but in the drama, there is literally nothing stopping them from living a normal 'human beings' fucking life.
UGH....
And it's fucking disgusting that clones are born only to be donars. It actually makes me physically sick. No one, even clones, should be born just so they can be someone else's heart or liver in the future. Ugh.... absolutely disgusting.
And the only other thing I wanna touch on is the lack of world building. Apparently the clones have to live seperately to the 'normal' humans because the humans were like creeped out by clones when they first came out and so the clones were separated to keep the piece. BUT, we don't get shown any of this clonism (as in discrimination against clones). We see them living their life on the streets of tokyo, surrounded by 'normal' humans and no one bats an eye lid. There is nothing that shows clones are being discriminated at all in the drama. So I was disappointed about that.
This is all I can say on the matter.
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Overall: This dorama is NOT sci-fi, it's NOT dystopian, it's just a depressing love triangle with two actors I dispise and one actress who didn't get a moment to really shine. It's depressing to the core which, while fitting for a winter dorama, it's just ugh... to much. And the main topic or element of the drama enraged me a lot!
Overall Rating: 2/10
As always: SPOILERS!
Let's get this piece of shit with it's piece of shit actors out of the way shall we?
This show had SO much promise in the beginning; it was very mysterious, lots of secrets, had a very creepy feeling to it, and I knew it was about clones so I was all like 'fuck yeah we're getting another Clone Baby awesomeness show about clones!!!' BUT in the end; there is nothing sci-fi about this at all and they might as well just be 'normal' humans and not clones. We're told they're clones but there's nothing that proves to us that they're clones! We've never really shown their origins and we're never shown who they are clones of! This is just basically a depressing love triangle story. That's literally it.
It's very depressing, there's nothing that makes you feel good when watching this story - it's 'clone' that are bred to be organ donars and there's a love triangle drama in between people giving their organs away. That's literally it.
Even Ayase Haruka didn't wow me enough in this. It was definitely a different character to what she normally plays but there wasn't anything in this that allowed her to show her acting skills. It was all very morbid and depressing and nothing really happening besides a crazy bitch trying to steal Ayase's boyfriend.
Which leads me to the two other motherfuckers: Miura Haruma and Mizukawa Asami - we ALL know how much I fucking hate these two as actors. ALL Mizukawa does is MOAN and SCREECH the ENTIRE. 9. FUCKING. EPISODES. In fact that's the ONLY fucking character she ever seems to FUCKING play (everyone remembers her selfish and screeching self in Gou Himetachi too right? Need I go on with a list of other examples?) . And her voice GRATES me so FUCKING much. And Miura Haruma is obviously playing himself cos the entire time he's on screen (no matter WHAT dorama it is besides like Bloody Monday) not matter WHAT dorama he's in, no matter WHAT role he plays, all I see is HIM the entire time. I NEVER see his character. Hence = he can't fucking act!
Nakai Noemie was DEFINITELY the best part about this dorama! She probably had all over about an hour total screen time the entire drama but DAMN her performance left an impression on me and her character was SO interesting! Why did the interesting one die so soon?!
Now that I've torn apart your favourite actors (for some unknown reason they're both popular!) and lost a few friends through that, let's talk about a part of the dorama that actually stimulated my brain and REALLY hit a cord with me.
But first the background of the drama (aka I reveal the entire dorama here): These kids are brought up in a school that is HIGHLY guarded and they never see the outside world until they finish school at like 18. One day when they're like 10 years old, their headteacher reveals they're 'special' and that they're clones and will give the gift of life to those that needs it AKA. the only reason they're alive is so they can donate their organs when a 'normal' human being needs them. (Already fucking enraging and fucked up right?) And once they graduate high school they move out and live with already graduated clones but out in the real world and are now expected to either be donars or careers. We then jump like 10 years in time and Mizukawa and Miura's characters have just had their second organ transplant and recieve a letter that they have been selected for another donation which will be their third transplant, which will be their last cos they pretty much just take everything in the third operation. And thus they go through it (even though Mizukawa screams and screeches that she doesn't want to do it and many times ALL the clones around them question why they have to be donars) and die.
That's the main jist of it okay. So please answer me this question (Tilmon ALREADY know's where I'm going with this I think): Where is the security and the guards that are apparently forcing them to go through with these donations?
Trick question: THERE ARE FUCKING NONE!!!
THERE ARE NO MOTHER FUCKINGS ONCE THEY LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL THAT ARE FORCING THEM TO DONATE AND BE KILLED THROUGH DONATING! SO WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY ALL NOT GOING INTO HIDING AND/OR GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF THE COUNTRY?!?!?!?!!? This entire drama EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER complains and yells 'why do I have to do this' BITCH NO ONE IS MAKING YOU! ARE THESE CHARACTERS FUCKNIG STUPID?! They are clearly NOT brainwashed and they are all CLEARLY seeing that the system is wrong but NO ONE fucking runs! Everyone just goes 'oh I've been selected to donate. wai! wai! I don't want to' but end up calmly going into the fucking hospital and having the fucking operations!?
OMG SO MUCH FUCKING RAGE RIGHT NOW!
THERE IS NOTHING STOPPING THEM FROM NOT DOING! SO WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY GOING THROUGH WITH IT WHEN THEY THEMSELVES SEE IT AS WRONG ASN UNFAIR?!?!?
omfg I need to stop... I can't fucking understand this MASSIVE plot hole at all....
Maybe it's different in the book but in the drama, there is literally nothing stopping them from living a normal 'human beings' fucking life.
UGH....
And it's fucking disgusting that clones are born only to be donars. It actually makes me physically sick. No one, even clones, should be born just so they can be someone else's heart or liver in the future. Ugh.... absolutely disgusting.
And the only other thing I wanna touch on is the lack of world building. Apparently the clones have to live seperately to the 'normal' humans because the humans were like creeped out by clones when they first came out and so the clones were separated to keep the piece. BUT, we don't get shown any of this clonism (as in discrimination against clones). We see them living their life on the streets of tokyo, surrounded by 'normal' humans and no one bats an eye lid. There is nothing that shows clones are being discriminated at all in the drama. So I was disappointed about that.
This is all I can say on the matter.
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Overall: This dorama is NOT sci-fi, it's NOT dystopian, it's just a depressing love triangle with two actors I dispise and one actress who didn't get a moment to really shine. It's depressing to the core which, while fitting for a winter dorama, it's just ugh... to much. And the main topic or element of the drama enraged me a lot!
Overall Rating: 2/10