I felt bad for Kotoko that she had to go through so much but I also felt bad for Irei towards the end after his dad fell sick. And like one million other dramas, the hero realises he does not want to lose the heroine only when she starts dating some other guy.
Unlike the Korean version there weren’t too many surprise kisses, the whole series was mostly about Aihara's one side quest and Irei occasionally reciprocating it. She is naturally cute unlike other girls who force Kawaiiness or aegyo and Yuki has this mischievous side to him, which makes them a perfect pair. Anyway I decided to give it a watch and the true showstealer was Yahagi Honoka. I did not know what better Japanese could do with such a bad plot. I had deliberately not watched this drama for all these years because I had watched Playful Kiss and it was awful. Mischievous Kss Love in TOKYO: Since I previously mentioned how I found Yuki soo damn cute I checked out what drams he was in and to my surprise he acted in Mischievous Kiss.
If I were the director and I were to caste Satomi and YamaP I would definitely choose a better script to maximaze their full potentialĢ. But I have to say the chemistry between Yamapi and Satomi is so natural but the plot was really bad. I mean he was that representative cool Japanese corporate employee probably from a top B-School. The major take away from this drama for me was Yuki Furukawa who didn’t have many scenes, had me crushing on him the entire time. I was surprised to see how well Zettai Kareshi's Night spoke English but his acting is sort of the same. There were definitely loopholes in the plot, for instance, Satomi Ishihara's character not pursuing her boss after knowing the truth about his marriage, Satomi not reciprocating to her best friend although she knew he had a crush on her etc but they tied the loose ends by the end of the series making it a satisfactory watch.
Had the ending been different from the one that was showed, I swear I would go on a rampage about how unfair everything is towards women, she had to quit her job for “love”, her lifestyle, the kind of dresses she wore and her personality was reduced to cleaning and looking after the temple like *eye rolls*.
He released a song called Lätkäjätkä-Ville (hockey dude Ville) a couple of years ago where he makes out with a hockey jock in the locker room and it caused this whole controversy because hockey is like a religion in Finland and the toxic masculinity surrounding it is crazy. Henny Harjusola is a pretty big trans youtuber though I don’t personally watch her content (it’s a small country of five million people so 100k subscribers is a big channel.) Tuure Boelius is a gay youtuber that teens watch but I’m way too old for his content haha. Kaksi äitiä ja kaksoset a channel by lesbian moms raising twins. The podcast he does with his boyfriend is also pretty funny and down to earth. He’ll cook and clean and talk about anxiety and insomnia for forty minutes so it’s relatable content lol. :( I do like watching Valtteri Sandberg’s vlogs from time to time when I’m doing chores. Sadly I don’t really vibe with the Finnish Youtube scene, which is a shame really now that I’m unable to go back there because of the Japanese travel restrictions for who knows how long, with no other Finnish speakers around but myself.