Ohitorisama Review

Title: Ohitorisama

AKA: Miss Alone

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Episodes: 10

Broadcast period: 2009-Oct to 2009-Dec

Theme song: Koe we Kikasete by BIG BANG

Cast: Mizuki Alisa, Koike Teppei and Matsushita Nao.

Akiyama Satomi (Mizuki Alisa) is hardworking and ambitious teacher at a prestigious all girls high school. Not only does she love her job, but she firmly believes that she does not need anyone in order to be happy. Due to her abilities and perfectionism, she is called “Ohitorisama” meaning “Miss Alone” or “Miss One” since she preferred to be alone. This all changes when a new substitute teacher arrives at the school: Kamisaka Shinichi (Koike Teppei), a younger man who used to be a freeter and crashes at his friends apartment.

Kamisaka is less ambitious and pretty clumsy in his way of teaching, irritating the perfectionistic Akiyama sensei, so the principle decides to put her as his mentor. This not only annoys Akiyama, but also makes her have a ‘follower’ so now she can’t be alone anymore.

When she finds out his financial situation she decides to help him by making him stay at her place. Now ‘miss alone’ isn’t alone anymore. Can these two different people cope with one another?

This drama was great all the way through, until I got to episode 8 and it somehow went through a ridiculus slurp and made everything useless, or at least the emotions I had for it. They did try and save it at the climax and really did it so everyone was likeable, but what kind of dumb way is that to end a drama! I am nor going to say why and what, but I was so disappointed. I think yes it has to do with the fact that he is younger and we still are in the 00’s.(If you don’t know what I mean think about the endings of Sapuri and Anego.)  To put simply it becomes a sudden problem that he is younger and less uneducated, so they try to make sure that he is improving, in the last 10min of the drama......

Anyways, the first part is good and interesting, so I would recommend it.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts

Hanawake no Yon Shimai Review

Title: Hanawake no Yon Shimai

AKA: The Four Hanawake Sisters

Genre: Family, Comedy, Romance

Episodes: 11

Broadcast period: 2011-Jul to 2011-Sep

Cast: Mizuki Alisa, Kanjiya Shiroi, Kawashima Umika, Kichise Michiko and Kato Shigeaki.

This story is about the four sisters of the Hanawake household as the second oldest sister returns to the house with her three children after third failed marriage.

Hanawake Takemi (Mizuki Alisa) is the second oldest of the Hanawake sisters and has three smaller children. She is beautiful, smart, open, and can get every man to do what she wants. This is also her problem: her husband gets jealous the moment she speaks with another man. After finding out that her current fiancé didn’t divorce his previous wife she decides to go home to her parents’ house. The three sisters on the other hand are not too pleased with that: all three hate her and refer her as “The Devil” especially the second youngest since she had lost several boyfriends due to her sister’s beauty. The oldest daughter is Hanawake Fujiko (Kischise Michiko) who doesn’t have time for men, mainly because she loves her job. The second youngest Hanawake Sakurako (Kanjiya Shiroi) has zero luck in men, meets a photographer Mashiko Shozaburo (Kato Shigeaki) who is somewhat a player. And the youngest Hanawake Ume (Kawashima Umika) starts to hate men after seeing how her sisters lead life.

Even though the sisters protest Takemi moves in and makes havoc wherever she goes, and everything starts get really messy when Mashiko gets interested in Takemi, and Takemi doesn’t seem to mind…

Hmm, when I started I really liked it since I didn’t know what to expect, but as I continued I had issues being satisfied, because I really was let down most of the time. Not that I was disappointed, but I had a hard time relating to the characters as they kind of made unreasonable choices and statements. Even though I like serious dramas, this kind of story with sister feuds and seducing I kind of lose my base, mainly because it doesn’t make sense to me. The cast is generally great with good actors, but when you make characters that are unlikeable, you would usually give them at least one decent quality instead of trying to make them sympathetic. But I guess they didn’t think of that.

So not to spoil anything I would say a okay drama with good moments.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts