Dorama 2020

Peanut Butter Sandwich (Japanese Drama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: Youth, Romance, Marriage, Government Agency, Investigation, Love Theme, Live-Action Manga
• Release Date: 2 April 2020
• Origin: Japan, Adapted from a manga
• Dorama: Dorama

Cast

• Yahagi Honoka as Tsubaki
• Ito Kentaro as Kobayashi
• Ito Shuko as Gonda
• Hotta Akane as Sayo
• Takimoto Miori as Miharu
• Kakei Miwako as Miwa
• Niwa Niki as Akane
• Okuno So as Yuto
• Sato Ryuji as Ryota
• Yoshida Jinto as Shin
• Hama Shogo as Aoki Suku
• Hamao Noritaka as Igarashi Osamu
• Ichinose Ryu as Kenji
• Oshinari Shigo as Takumi

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Episode 1

Tsubaki is a new recruit to Peanut Butter Sandwich or PBS, a government agency that monitors marriage hunting women who are now becoming rarer species.  At the latest statistics only 55% of women still think of normal happily ever after with a husband.

PBS is just like the FBI, CIA, and NASA which uses the latest technology to keep track of their target.

Tsubaki was rather aghast that a spycam was being used to observe women.

Anyway, Gonda one of the team just dismissed her worries while Kobayashi gave her her mission.

The mission was to put four women, who attend a yoga class, under surveillance.  She has to infiltrate the group

The first woman is Sayo, who is a successful IT manager.  She earns more than most women of her age. After climbing the ladder of success, she wanted now a ‘normal’ guy in view of a normal relationship.  She wanted ‘normal’ because that one relationship she put her trust to was a work colleague.  After a year of the relationship, she checked his social media and found out that he was married with a young child.

Her friends though said that her idea of ‘normal’ is still above expectations.

Miharu, the second girl, was living with her boyfriend for 6 years and she was getting fed up with him.  Instead of feeling more love from him, he takes her for granted and forget important occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries.  The girls commiserate with her, telling her that he has no excuse as there are so many apps now to use as reminders.

The boyfriend was Ryota, who was asleep when he was around and leave everything where he drops them.  He was so comfortable, it does not look like he was going to propose anytime soon.

Miwa was an executive secretary,  she was so beautiful, she was so popular with men loaded with money.  Miwa, however, gets bored easily.

And then there was Akane, who was totally lacking confidence that she allowed herself to be just a temporary sex partner of those who asked her.

PBS has to guide these women to attain a marriage that suit them.

Episode 2

I love this drama, it gives a lot of stats about dating and breaking up.

Miharu went on a date with a younger man but does not really feel guilty that she was cheating on her lazy, inattentive boyfriend of 6 years.