Bara no nai Hanaya: Wanted, one single widower with no money and a tight ass. Pop stars may apply.
Bara no nai Hanaya
He's a single father running a flower shop. She's a blind neighbor offered an umbrella in the rain. Together, adorable pseudo-family battling old secrets!
This is a drama so perfect I wouldn't change a single second. It's one of those rare creatures that never loses steam and only gets better and better. It's sweet, tender, and utterly charming, a little sad, a lot adorable, and will always carefully mend your heart after breaking it.
Even if you're not a fan of family dramas, I dare you not to get hooked by Bara no nai Hanaya.
Eiji is a single father raising the most adorable little girl in the world:
SHIZUKU. ♥ ♥ ♥ She's cute and precocious and precious. She gives her father dating advice and assures him she can get their rent lowered, don't worry about it, she knows someone in her class.
And she's capable of putting Matsuda Shota in a wrestler's headlock and making him beg for mercy.
BEST CHARACTER OF THE WHOLE SHOW.
Eiji has closed his heart after Shizuku's mother died during childbirth. He's a big old woobie wrapped in soft sweaters and lingering grief, the kind of character you want to soothe. With your tongue.
SERIOUSLY, LOOK AT THAT FACE. He's like... he's like Mr. Rogers if you wanted to fuck Mr. Rogers. Yes, yes I do want to be your neighbor, I want to be your neighbor pressed really close. *______*
This is what he looks like under the poor man's clothes. SAY YOU BLAME ME.
(Before I get anyone excited, that's the actor, not the character. I just think Shingo's ass should be shared at every opportunity.)
This is Mio. She's blind and new to the neighborhood, so she and Eiji wind up touching a lot, steadying her balance, guiding her through busy streets, their hands lingering... you know where this is going.
The twist? She's a plant. Someone hired her to seduce Eiji and wreck his life.
In dramaland, no one has heard of therapy, only elaborate revenge schemes.
The question, of course, is what sweet woobie Eiji could've done to make someone hate him, and what he and Mio do when they realize they've fallen in love for real, neither knowing the other is full of secrets...
I like to call it The Grudge: The Love Story.
Further complicating things is Eiji's ex-best friend, the cold, ambitious hotass doctor whose arrival upheaves everything.
If you've seen Dare Mama, then no, this isn't a repeat performance. It's just the beautiful noble bond of two young boys who grew up in the same orphanage with no one else to depend on... and they hug all the time... and touch faces... uh... it's a sacred friendship! Really!
Er...
MATSUDA SHOTA. He takes baths and gets hit in the face with doors.
So, this drama is pretty much perfect. The perfect balance of angst and humor, the perfect blend of heartwarming and sad, and again -- you have no idea how good it can get until you're already hooked and desperately shoving in a vein for more.
At the end of the day, we know who rules the roost. ♥
He's a single father running a flower shop. She's a blind neighbor offered an umbrella in the rain. Together, adorable pseudo-family battling old secrets!
This is a drama so perfect I wouldn't change a single second. It's one of those rare creatures that never loses steam and only gets better and better. It's sweet, tender, and utterly charming, a little sad, a lot adorable, and will always carefully mend your heart after breaking it.
Even if you're not a fan of family dramas, I dare you not to get hooked by Bara no nai Hanaya.
Eiji is a single father raising the most adorable little girl in the world:
SHIZUKU. ♥ ♥ ♥ She's cute and precocious and precious. She gives her father dating advice and assures him she can get their rent lowered, don't worry about it, she knows someone in her class.
And she's capable of putting Matsuda Shota in a wrestler's headlock and making him beg for mercy.
BEST CHARACTER OF THE WHOLE SHOW.
Eiji has closed his heart after Shizuku's mother died during childbirth. He's a big old woobie wrapped in soft sweaters and lingering grief, the kind of character you want to soothe. With your tongue.
SERIOUSLY, LOOK AT THAT FACE. He's like... he's like Mr. Rogers if you wanted to fuck Mr. Rogers. Yes, yes I do want to be your neighbor, I want to be your neighbor pressed really close. *______*
This is what he looks like under the poor man's clothes. SAY YOU BLAME ME.
(Before I get anyone excited, that's the actor, not the character. I just think Shingo's ass should be shared at every opportunity.)
This is Mio. She's blind and new to the neighborhood, so she and Eiji wind up touching a lot, steadying her balance, guiding her through busy streets, their hands lingering... you know where this is going.
The twist? She's a plant. Someone hired her to seduce Eiji and wreck his life.
In dramaland, no one has heard of therapy, only elaborate revenge schemes.
The question, of course, is what sweet woobie Eiji could've done to make someone hate him, and what he and Mio do when they realize they've fallen in love for real, neither knowing the other is full of secrets...
I like to call it The Grudge: The Love Story.
Further complicating things is Eiji's ex-best friend, the cold, ambitious hotass doctor whose arrival upheaves everything.
If you've seen Dare Mama, then no, this isn't a repeat performance. It's just the beautiful noble bond of two young boys who grew up in the same orphanage with no one else to depend on... and they hug all the time... and touch faces... uh... it's a sacred friendship! Really!
Er...
MATSUDA SHOTA. He takes baths and gets hit in the face with doors.
So, this drama is pretty much perfect. The perfect balance of angst and humor, the perfect blend of heartwarming and sad, and again -- you have no idea how good it can get until you're already hooked and desperately shoving in a vein for more.
At the end of the day, we know who rules the roost. ♥