Title: Ando
Lloyd
Tagline: A.I.
knows LOVE?
Genre:
Sci-fi, Futuristic, Romance
Episodes:
10
Broadcast period:
2103-Oct to 2013-Dec
Cast:
Kimura Takuya, Shibasaki Kou, Oshima Yuko, Kiritani Kenta, Honda Tsubasa and
Endo Kenichi.
Matsushima Reiji
(Kimura Takuya) is mathematical genius with a bit of an awkward stance. He
works as a professor at a college with his younger sister who is equally
brilliant as he, as his assistant professor. After meeting his girlfriend Ando
Asahi (Shibasaki Kou) while playing Shogi online, the two fall deeply in love
and decide to get married. All this changes when Reiji one day notices that a
fellow researcher dies in what seems to be an accident, but Reiji firmly tells
his sister that he is next in line, as he has found a list circulating online
of people who will die: and he is next on the list. Reiji leaves the office in
order to save the next one on the list after him: Asahi. He calls Asahi and
declares his love for her, which confuses Asahi, especially when someone calls
her right after. This makes Asahi suspicious and she leaves to check his
office, where Reiji’s sister tells her about the list. Shortly after Reiji’s announced
as missing and presumed dead, while in fact he had been murdered.
Unaware of this, Asahi is heartbroken and the next morning is pushed on the train rails by the
same murderer that killed Reiji, but is saved by someone looking exactly like
Reiji, yet is completely different than him. He introduces himself as an
Android from the future with the mission of saving her from the same people, or
in this case androids that killed Reiji. Now the questions remain why was Reiji
killed, and why do they want to kill Asahi?
Okay I guess I
spoilt a bit of the first episode, sorry.
This drama is not
what I has expected: I kind of thought it would be a Kimura Takuya version of
Absolute Boyfriend which is why it took me 3 years to begin watching, but it
kind of reminded me of Terminator.
Anyhow usually a
recipe for a good Japanese drama you would need two things to make it good: 1.
A good plot, and 2. Kimura Takuya. Occasionally you need a 3. which is a great
cast, but most of the time Kimura is enough. So basically you have an all
ingredients, including no. 3, BUT then why is not a 5 star you ask? Well, that
might have to do with me having quite the standards for sci-fi/time-travel
dramas. As a fan of both categories, I have one thing that I mind: love stories
between robots and humans. I won’t indulge but those kinds of stories make me
uncomfortable. Also the plot kind of felt dumb at the end… I need a decent
explanation for it – I really didn’t understand how feelings/emotions can
become particles, and not to mention something that connects the future as well
as makes people send emails, or whatever… But I guess that is Japan for you,
not everything has to make sense.
Other than that,
this drama is really thrilling, and I would recommend it to action and sci-fi
lovers.
☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars
♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts
