Please Love the Useless Me Review

Title: Please Love the Useless Me

AKA: Please Love Me! 

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Episodes: 10

Broadcast Period: Jan-2016 to Mar-2016

Cast: Kyoko Fukada, Dean Fujioka, Shohei Miura, Maho Nonami, Takehiko Ono, Mimura,

Michio (Kyoko Fukada) is 30-years-old. She keeps looking for a job after her previous employer went bankrupt, but she is unable to find work. Michio still supports her younger boyfriend and her savings is almost gone. Then, Michio meets her ex-boss Ayumu (Dean Fujioka). She was scared of Ayumu when they worked together. Ayumu now runs a tearoom which his grandmother ran. Michio decides to work part-time at Ayumu's tearoom, there, she various troubles everyday. Ayumu helps Michio, which allows her to see a different side of him that she never noticed before.

A short simple love story, but more than romance it felt like it was a life lesson. Like ‘Love yourself first, so others can love you’. It didn’t have the heavy feeling or anything, but that’s what Japanese dramas are best at, having to deal with life-problems and still manage to make it bearable and enjoyable. The cast were well picked and definitely had character growth throughout the drama. I definitely enjoyed this drama, and recommend to all.

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

Kanojo wa Uso Wo Aishisugiteru Movie Review

Title: Kanojo wa Uso Wo Aishisugiteru
AKA: The girl who Loved Lies (literal title)
Genre: Romance,
Origin: Japan
Release Date: December 14. 2013
Cast: Sato Takeru, Sakurako Ohara, Shohei Miura, Masataka Kubota, Kouki Mizuta, Koudai Asaka, Ryo Yoshizawa, yuki Morinaga

 Aki (Takeru Sato) decided to quit his band right before their debut, but he would still provide the band ‘Crude Play’ with his self-composed songs. He then decides to date Riko (Sakurako Ohara), who doesn’t know anything about Aki besides his humming. Their relationship was set on a test, when Riko decided to become a singer and all the lies were exposed.
A love story between a 25 year sound-engineer with a heavy depression, and a 16 year old high school student with a voice of an angel. These two meet and start a relationship based on lies, but how will this turn out when they are both entering the show business.

A beautiful, emotional and relaxing movie, exactly how I love it. There is no clichés, no drama, no dragging just 2 hours of emotions. I know it sounds crazy, but I’ve waited for this movie for quite a while now, but it just took them so long to sub, so when I watched it, it totally lived up to my expectations. I watched it after the drama Bitter Blood, so I was really shocked to see Sato Takeru, I totally forgot he was the main actor. But a nice surprise I must say ;)
All in all a totally worth-watching movie!

☆☆☆☆½ / 4½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts