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Unmei Kara Hajimaru Koi: You Are My Destiny (2020) – Japanese Drama Review & Summary

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Dorama 2020

Unmei Kara Hajimaru Koi: You Are My Destiny (2020) – Japanese Drama Review & Summary

Unmei Kara Hajimaru Koi: You Are My Destiny (2020) poster

  • Genre: Romance, Love Triangle, Tsundere
  • Release Date: 2020
  • Origin: Japan,Remake of Taiwanese drama, You’re My Destiny
  • Dorama: 10 Episodes

Cast

  • Takimoto Miori as Satoh Aya
  • Kizu Takumi as Ichijo Kei
  • Ishikawa Ren as Anna
  • Tokito Yuki as Okamoto Hayato

 

Episode 1

This drama is rather faithful to the Taiwanese version and also it was given a manga-style action.  The exaggerated expressions and actions are everywhere.

The leads are likable.  I have to admit, of all the versions, Satoh Aya is the most pathetic.  She doesn’t have an ounce of self-confidence.  And therefore her portrayal of a very easily led and manipulated girl is so believable as a girl who would willingly enter a very temporary contract marriage that favours the male lead’s character.

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Episode 8

Aya was invited by Anna to meet up in a restaurant where Anna gave Aya a document which Anna said Kei asked her to give to Aya to sign.

Episode 9

The document was an Abortion Contract which shocked and broke Aya’s heart.

Despite the contract, she refused to sign it.  She walked for miles without meaning to.  she was just too shocked.

Kei was getting worried about Aya and went to look for her.  He found her crouched on a playground trying to protect the sand sculpture of their unborn baby Prince.  But it was a losing battle, the rain poured heavily.

Kei tried to approached Aya but she ran off thinking that he might drag her to a clinic for an abortion.

Unfortunately, Aya was too distraught to notice the coming car before she crossed the road.

She lost little Prince, her baby.

A week later, she still had not seen Kei as she absolutely refused to see him, to have anything to do with him still thinking that he wanted their baby gone.

Hayato told Aya that perhaps a change of scenery would take her mind out of her troubles, sadness, and Kei.  He said why not go to Okinawa with him.

Episode 10

Kei tried to see Aya but was told by her mother that Aya had already gone away in a far place.  Kei was heartbroken.

His assistant though told him that he saw Aya with her sister at the jetty just yesterday.

A very guilty Anna came to see Kei.

She confessed to him what she had done.

Kei told her that she indeed did such an unforgivable thing but ultimately the fault lies on him because he made Anna the way she was now.

Anyway, Kei’s assistant went to see Aya to beg her to agree to see Kei even just once.

Aya still refused and she said she does not ever want to meet up with Kei again as there was nothing connecting them.

Aya was slowly coming to terms with the loss of her baby.  Aya saw her mother praying in the rain for her to regain her smile again.  This made Aya think that she should do something.

So she made up her mind that she was going to Okinawa.

Aya and Hayato were on their way when Kei turned up.

They had a very emotional conversation where Aya thank Kei for giving her confidence.  But if she stays, she can see herself turning back to being a post-it girl once again.  She said she needed to find herself in order to grow.

With this reasoning, Kei cannot really stop Aya.  So with breaking heart, Kei said to Aya. “Go. I will never forget you.”

And with one last look Aya smiled her goodbye to the sobbing Kei.

The End.

There must be a season 2?!!!

 

 

Yuru Camp (Japanese Drama Review & Summary)

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Japanese Drama 2020

Yuru Camp (Japanese Drama Review & Summary)

Yuru Camp poster

  • Genre: Adventure, Friendship, Camping, Live-Action Manga
  • Release Date: 2020
  • Origin: Japan, Adapted from a Manga
  • Dorama: 10 Episodes

Cast

  • Fukuhara Haruka as Shima Rin
  • Ohara Yuno as Kagamihara Nadeshiko
  • Yanai Yumera as Inuyama Aoi
  • Tanabe Momoko as Ogaki Chiaki
  • Shida Sara as Saito Ina
  • Yanagi Yurina as Kagamihara Sakura
  • Tsuchimura Kaho as Toba Minami

Episode 1

Shima Rin was a high school student who was an experienced camper.

One weekend she went to a forest camp that overlooks Mt Fuji.

On her way to the forest, she saw a girl asleep by the bench on the waiting shed.

The camp assistants were wondering why Shima Rin would go camping in the winter when it was only 5ºC.

It was way too cold.

Then there was a panoramic scene of Mt Fuji and it answers all or any question.

Anyway, the campsite shop assistant told her that she can pick up bits of woods for her campfire.

As she was going into the campsite, she saw the girl again asleep now on the ground by the toilet.  She wanted to tell her to get up as it was very cold but the girl seemed to be in a happy place.

Shima Rin set up her tent immediately.  She had a veritable view of Mt Fuji.

She then went to the woods, to pick up firewoods and pinecones.

Shima Rin’s tips of lighting a campfire:

  • Collect pinecones.
  • Collect dry woods/sticks and cut into smaller/manageable lengths
  • The pinecones are easy to light.  Good as a conduit for lighting the woods.
  • Put thinner dry woods over the lit pinecones.
  • Then blow or apply air to the woods as they gather up heat from the pinecones.

Shima loved the surrounding, love the feeling of being alone while drinking a mug of sweetcorn cuppa soup.

It was getting dark.  She was on her way to the toilet when she noticed that the girl was not there anymore.

But as she turned around she was surprised by the girl, who was crying.

The crying spooked Shima who ran away into the dark followed by the girl.

Anyway, they ended up in her camp where the girl introduced herself as Kagamihara Nadeshiko, who had just moved to Yamanashi.

She wanted to see Mt Fuji so much she cycled from quite a distance and then got so tired she had to sleep and seemed to have slept all day and now she does not know how to get back.  She really wanted to see Mt Fuji as how it appears in the coin.

Shima pointed to Mt Fuji behind the girl.

Mt Fuji looked so scenic as the moon reflected on the water below it.  Nadeshiko was ecstatic.

Shima began thinking that maybe camping with someone might not be a bad idea after all.

Nadeshiko was later collected by her worried sister.

Nadeshiko begged Shima to go camping with her one day.

Back at school, Shima was looking at a cookbook of one-pot meals.  She did not notice a girl bounding with enthusiasm.  She was a new transferee.

 

 

Unsung Cinderella (Japanese Drama Review & Summary)

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Japanese Drama 2020

Unsung Cinderella (Japanese Drama Review & Summary)

Unsung Cinderella, Character poster