Sawada Kyoka works as a yoga instructor. Her mother died two years ago and she moved in with her father Sawada Rintaro afterwards. Sawada Rintaro works as a Japanese language scholar. His only interest now is in the study of the Japanese language. After his wife died, his life seems to have no energy.
Sawada Kyoka gets into arguments with her father Sawada Rintaro constantly and she is also burdened with taking care of him. Sawada Kyoka wants to have a life where she can focus on herself. Due to everything around her, Sawada Kyoka doesn't care about getting married. But, one day, Sawada Rintaro finds a divorce document among his late wife's belongings. This pushes Sawada Rintaro into wanting to remarry. He also pushes his daughter Sawada Kyoka to find a marriage partner. The father and daughter begin to look for a person to marry. At this time, Sawada Kyoka meets Higashimura Seita, who is single father with a 7-year-old son. (MDL-2022)
A very calm and nice drama, very easy to watch, although I am not sure if I would rewatch it. I think what I liked the most was that Ueno Juri and Matsushige Yutaka played daughter and father, I loved them. They are so natural, when they smile, I smile, when they cry, I cry. Their relationship was one of the things I loved the most, even with that twist in ep 09. I got also interested in lexicology and yoga XD
The "twist" is also part of what this drama is about. Family and marriage. There are different kind of marriages, not everything has to be "normal". And family is not precisely something blood-related.
I think I was more invested in the older couple than in the younger one. First of all, I think the love triangle was unnecessary, I wished Hayate was only an old friend from the family. And 2nd of all, I was disappointed at the end that Kyoka decided to marry... for 9 episodes she was convinced she was never going to be married, and at the end... disappointed to say the least :(
**My rating: 8/10**