Dorama 2021
Koi Desu: Yankee-kun to Hakujou Garu (Japanese Drama Review & Summary)
✴️✴️✴️✴️/5
Super cute, super sweet, super charming actors
- Genre: Romance: Disability, Blindness, Yankee, Kawaii, Live Manga, Shouju
- Release Date: 6 October 2021
- Origin: Japan
- Dorama: 10 Episodes
Cast
- Sugisaki Hana as Akasa Yukiko
- Sugino Yosuke as Kurikawa Morio
- Suzuki Noboyuki as Kanazawa Shishio
- Nao as Akasa Isumi (Yukiko’s sister)
- Kizhitani Goro as Akasa Seiji (Yukiko’a father)
- Inuzuka Kokoro as Hiyama Shoto (Yukiko’s crush)
- Nukumi Meru as Tono Hachiko
Quick Precis
A yankee meets a partially sighted girl.
Episode 1
Kawaii🥰🥰🥰
This first episode is the cutest! It has also led by the three people I quite like: Hana, Sugino and Noboyuki.
Anyway, Yukiko was not born blind. She was in middle school when her sight worsen to the point that she can still see light and a little colour but nothing else. She can read if she uses a magnifying glass or in the font is large enough, she can put it really close to her face.
One morning, Yukiko was late and hurrying to school when she noticed that a group of boys was sitting directly where the braille area was.
She called out but they were taking no notice of her. She was beginning to get frustrated and was going to walk into them when her white stick was grabbed by one of the boys. With reflexed action, Yukiko kicked the boy in the groin leaving him writhing in pain on the ground.
The other two boys started saying that she could not hurt their boss, he was the undefeatable Black Panther of the North. They did notice that she was blind.
Yukiko was worried that the boy on the ground was really hurt so she crouched down and held on to his face tenderly and then brought it very near her face to ask him how he was.
The Black Panther fell in love. So cute.
Episode 2
Aww it is so cute.
Yukiko was on her way to meet Sora so they could go to the cinema.
Sora called her at the last minute that she was unwell and can’t go.
Morio heard about this and asked her how can she watch a movie.
She said that there are special apps for blinds called an audio guide.
Morio convinced her to go him. He said that it would be a waste of tickets if she did not go.
Seeing the logic of it, Yukiko agreed to go.
Morio was very thoughtful and bought them snacks. It was the cutest scene when he had to give her the popcorn to eat.
They had a lovely time.
Hachiko who had been crushing on Morio since they were children saw them and got very jealous.
She went to speak to Morio who was concerned that Yukiko jumper got stained with her drink. So Morio left Hachiko to talk to Yukiko.
Hachiko did not lose time to tell Yukiko that Morio was doing his charity work with Yukiko. He likes helping blind and disabled people. That is all he sees Yukiko, a charitable case.
Yukiko got upset and went home.
The next day, Yukiko begged her sister to give her a lift to school because she does not want to see a boy who waits for her just by the school.
After sending Yukiko to school, Izumi confronted Morio to stop harassing Yukiko. If he keeps waiting for Yukiko, she would not be able to go to school.
Poor Morio was so upset and had to agree with Izumi.
Shishio appeared and challenged Morio to a fight. Morio however was lackluster about it which infuriated Shisho.
He said that he had been wanting Morio to fight him since he cut Morio’s face seven years ago.
Aww Shishio was feeling guilty, he really wanted Morio to beat him up.
Yukiko was missing Morio which made her think of the past.
When she at middle school, she could still see but gradually she started to have very partial sight. At first, Yukiko refused to use the white cane because it would make her different from anyone else.
But one day, Hiyama saved her from being run over when she crossed without minding the traffic.
Poor Hiyama hurt himself and cannot play football again, he was her crush during those days.
Yukiko looked so at of sort at home that her father noticed.
He told her to follow her heart, because he remember once that she ran even forgetting to take her cane when heard about Morio being in trouble. Her father said that sometimes one has to do what one has got to do as you only live once (YOLO)
The next day, with a can of coffee from a vending machine, she went to look for Morio.
He was no longer waiting for her by the park near her school. So she went looking for him by taking a bus for the first time.
She got lost but was saved by the gorgeous Shishio.
At first, Yukiko was rather taken aback when he offered her a lift but then he said that he knew Morio and they were mortal enemies. He was the Golden Lion to Morio’s Black Panther.
Shishio was so cute asking Yukiko if she likes Morio.
She denied it but Shishio just smiled.
They found Morio falling from a perron while blindfolded.
Morio said that he wanted to know how Yukiko feels.
Yukiko was charmed while Shishio left the lovebirds alone.
Morio asked Yukiko why she was looking for him?
Yukiko said that she wanted to see him that day.
Morio asked if it was a confession.
The bashful Yukiko quickly denied that it was a confession.
So cute.
Episode 3
Izumi was overprotective of Yukiko. It got so bad because Izumi absolutely forbid Yukiko to have anything more to do with Morio.
Yukiko said that Izumi was not letting her grow up. Izumi had become so protective she had started treating Yukiko more like a tumour rather than her living breathing sister.
Because of this, the two had stopped talking for while but they made up when their father had a word with Izumi.
He told her that Izumi should start thinking and looking after herself and let Yukiko find her way in the world. Make Yukiko fully independent.
Izumi agreed and she gave Yukiko the space she needed. She was still in the background but Izumi had stopped doing all the things for Yukiko.
Meanwhile, Shishio went to see Morio and told him that he was going to be employed.
The shocked Morio thought that he wanted to find a job as well.
And he did. And his boss was Shishio, who told him that he will hire provided Morio called him manager.
This episode had a rather shocking ending.
Morio took Yukiko at his friend’s restaurant where his gang meets and where Hachiko works as a waitress. Morio and Yukiko were having popcorn parfait when Hachiko kissed the shocked Morio in front of Yukiko who was blissfully unaware of what was going on.
Episode 4
Morio was really shocked and then confused. He likes Yukiko and he also likes Hachiko.
He was really confused for a while especially when Hachiko kept telling him that she like him.
It was the male schoolmate of Yukiko who made him see that Morio both like Yukiko and Hachiko at the same time but like the colour red, it has different shades but still red.
He likes Yukiko romantically while Hachiko was like family.
Meanwhile, since Morio had a job, Yukiko decide and persevered to get a job as well. She kept saying that she wanted to be at the same level with Morio and no disadvantaged.
Meanwhile, Izumi had fallen in love with Shishio.
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