The thread is open, @GB and @FGB4877.
Is this another slice-of-life drama?
Here’s the synopsis from mydramalist:
In her beloved car, “Grace”, a wife is on her way to Narita. Following a bus accident that kills her, her husband, Kikuo, gets access to her GPS which contains the history of all the places she travelled to without his knowledge. Suspecting infidelity, Kikuo embarks on a journey to trace the history of the cars GPS in order to solve the mystery.
This type of drama reminds me of haikus. They’re able to capture and compress a perspective of life in a microcosm of refined words and selected scenes. Haikus only have three lines, with five syllables in the first and last lines, and seven in the second. Doramas have only 10 episodes with 40 to 60 minutes running time. Nowadays, I truly value brevity and soul in my dramas.
I’ll try to drop in to check on this show.
Enjoy the show.
Thanks heaps @pkml3 and I do hope you can join us!!
@FGB I hope you see this thread!!! I like haikus. I tried to compose a simple one here and there. Not easy!!!
How’s this haiku?
Dramas beacons shine
Show the way to lives today
Living in watching
🤭😆😄
EPISODE 1
Before I started the proper watch, I tried a few minutes of Episode 1 and was intrigued. That was a couple of weeks ago. Then I tried a few minutes of Episode 2 yesterday. Not a show for light viewing, this one. It’s full of emotion, both understated and overt. Show gets under one’s skin fairly quickly, but at the same time gets me feeling that I have to watch very slowly and carefully.
The Mise en scène is thoughtful. The first scene and our introduction to the leads. I refer to Minako and Grace. The aerial view of the interior of the garage in three-quarter darkness, tells us that the main players are the ones in red. Grace is the red two-seater convertible, sports car and Minako is its owner, also in red top. But they remain in the dark of the garage because of the secrets they keep. When MInako opens up the garage door for the car, we see her reflection on Grace’s windscreen. We are only shown a silhouette her in the semi-darkness, and the details will come later.
I’m struck by the fact that Grace has a left-hand drive with manual transmission, in a land where the majority are automatic cars with right-hand drive. Minako’s car is a rare import and a status symbol.
I find Minako’s farewell with her husband somewhat awkward. They are affectionate but undemonstrative, seemingly uncomfortable in their final goodbyes. Her relationship with Grace seems warmer, filled with pride. They tower over the little car, standing awkwardly beside it.
Minako is disconcerted that Kikuo found her e-Ticket and looked at it. But he does not seem to notice anything amiss. Kikuo who is so much taller than Grace, looks tiny in the rear view mirror as he waves goodbye: another image captured and diminished by Grace. Perhaps the size of Kikuo in the mirror reflects his importance to Minako.
At the last minute, Minako decides to turn around in the driver’s seat to say something to Kikuo, but Grace’s loud engine covers her words. Kikuo can’t hear Minako but she drives off without repeating what she said. (I wonder if this is a sign that we will have a tug-of-war between Kikuo and Grace, and the destinations (persons) saved in Grace’s navigation system).
Despite the need to bring viewers all on board with the past through narration, the exposition did not drag the episode down. Enough scenes of the back story with Minako filled in the explanation of what she went through and her decisions. As to why she chose to hide such important information such as the state of her health, her fertility treatments and the need to hold off having a child from her husband, we are given to believe that it was her pride.
I wonder if there are other reasons. Perhaps her good friend who is a doctor will throw some light on the dark corners of Minako’s life.
I feel for Kikuo whose belief in his happy marriage of 7 years gets torn apart by the Lawyer and then by Grace. So many important things had been hidden from him, right up to the time Minako left for her ‘holiday’.
During the identification of Minako’s body, I felt that Kikuo should have let the tour guide translate what the doctor said about the scan. Perhaps there was more that Minako had hidden and that had made her decide to quit her job. When the tour guide broke down in tears in order to translate the scan, I thought perhaps the French medical examiner had said she was also pregnant. But Kikuo stopped wanting to hear the results of the examination, hence we do not know for sure. (It is later that we also hear that Minako had said she would quit work when she got pregnant. Therefore I save this thought for later).
Episode 1 was a good set up so that we now accompany Kikuo on his quest of find out what his wife had been doing for years in secret, and in the process I trust he gets beyond anger, chagrin, resentment … to get to know her better posthumously.
You will find that Minako is just adjusting her expressions due to her husband’s stoic temperament 😺.
You will slowly realize why I wanted to introduce Minako to you and all our Friends. She is a very rare and special female lead. Lets just said that besides that brief Intro, we will never see Minako and Kikuo together except in flashbacks. She is a very complex character that embraces her paradoxes boldly.
At this moment my Internet has failed again so my neighbor and friend gave me access to her Wi-Fi. My main PC has a LAN Wire so I am kind of crippled. Hope service will be reestablished tomorrow so I can join to Queen In-Hyun’s Man viewing.
That said texting from a Smartphone is way more comfortable than I thought 💭 . Also being able to use emoticons easily is a big plus 🙀😉😸
Another thing I loved in this Drama is how differently those same scenes speaks to us as our understanding deepens.
I watched Episode 1 which was all about exposition. SPOILERS AHEAD
@GB the scene in the hospital was notable to me too. Part of what played into the failure to get the diagnosis was the tour guide’s own trauma and tears. She was breaking down in the midst of the translation. It’s a little like sliding doors – what would have happened if the other tour guide who hadn’t been involved in the accident had performed the translation – would he have received more information? I think the scan would have revealed she had cancer or she was pregnant. My first thought was pregnancy until we learned about the cancer diagnosis.
I’m also curious about the attendant at the parking facility who brought Grace back home. Is he a one off character or is there something more there? He knew the car and seemed familiar with her. Maybe he was just there to highlight why the car was so special.
I do find the exposition a bit clunky in the first episode where it is tell tell tell (not show )but that is probably the challenge of the first episode in that it has to establish the background from which the husband has to operate.
Here is my haiku about the first episode:
Watched episode one
Should have let doctor finish
What did scan show?
Oops. Let’s try that again:
Watched episode one
Should have let doctor finish
What did THE scan show?
LOL @Good Twin, Great haiku to accompany our watch!
Yes, the other fellow should have done the interpretation/translation. The injured tour guide was already an emotional mess, wracked with guilt and what not.
I take from MDL’s Cast and Crew list that the car parking/special car garage guy is important as his face and name shows up. So I’m sure he’s got stuff to say that will be interesting.
I’m thinking husband should just go for the wife’s BFF lady doctor to get the lowdown on her. I wonder if he knows his wife’s friends.
News from Episode 2… the exposition continues anon and increases seriously! I feel that I have to watch a few more episodes before I can comment. Now that we’re investigating a ‘dead’ character with flashbacks, it’s a toss up whether we get to see or only to hear what happened.
Something a character in Ep 2 said that struck me. It’s not that bereaved husband has no hobbies, he used to hang out with wife which was his hobby, so now it appears like he has no hobbies LOL. Hmmm… never considered hanging out with spouse a hobby before!
My Haiku for the next episodes
Words and silence hide
Revelations cannot be
Interpreted well
or in other words
Other Haiku
Exposition sucks
Review suspended for now
I need to see more
🤣🤓🤓🧐🧐🤪😇
LOLOL
@FGB, yes, after watching Episode 2, I feel that I need to watch on ahead to see how to interpret stuff. What I’m hearing (so much exposition!) I need to double check with what happens in future episodes.
So if as you say we will get a deeper understanding of the same scenes later, then I feel I have to wait a while before I comment.
Maybe I shall just leave behind haikus of enlightenment or frustration along the way LOL.
Thank you for the laugh @GB! Is the emoji with glasses the ML? I’ll watch episode 2 tonight
I don’t know how you all are watching this show. Through Google, I only see it listed on a site called myasiantv, but when I click on it, my phone starts sending me warnings and junk links pop up. Are you using a VPN to see it on another site?
I watched it on daily motion. But for these sites you need a vpn and a pop up blocker or ad blocker to keep you from getting redirected.
@Good Twin the emojis reflect my state of mind or attitude LOL.
Hi @BethB You may also need a VPN but I get it from this site:
https://ww1.dramanice.video/grace-no-rireki-2023/
Haiku as Summary of Episode 2
Wife’s secret with friend
Obsession is number one
Still remains untold
Haiku as Summary of Episode 3
Family not found
Number two on bucket list
Grace is overworked
Haiku as Conjecture from Episode 3
Making him happy
Keeping him safe like a child
That she could not have
@GB when I tried to watch it on dramanice, I got warnings that I was on a site that might let my phone and then my computer get compromised. Maybe because I don’t have an ad blocker or VPN? (I have so many streaming services and add-ons right now that I don’t want to add anything else at this point). I’ll have to wait until it’s on a site like Viki or Netflix.
Yes dear @GB, it is a series that invites to a detailed watch yet since we don’t have clues (they come along the way) we can’t make our minds properly… yet 😀 . As the story continues it will reward your patience 😉 .
Dear @BethB, I watch the series in:
https://watchasian.mx/
That said I am taking a risk.
@GoodTwin, hope my selection of this Drama suits your taste 😀
@FGB I am going to give it a couple more episodes. I started the second episode but didn’t finish it yet. I like the premise and I think this drama may be perfect winter viewing. Right now I am finding myself to lighter fare.
Thanks for your honest review, dear @GoodTwin.
MAYBE SPOILERS… BUT MORE THAN THAT AN OVERALL COMMENTARY ON THE SERIES AS A WHOLE.
I loved the female lead because even if she had a failing health she loved and cared for her husband deeply. Grace almost seems like a toy car compared to the truck following her husband in Episode 2 (almost the size of a modern superbike), a metaphor of the fragility of her failing body but also of the indomitable will wielding it. Her Soul is tough as nails.
Minako is strong in her will to live and to love, also fiercely independent. She has taken many hard decisions by herself (maybe she should have told her husband – I understand where she comes from, but at the end of the day I don’t know). Yet she is deeply caring and doing her best to give her husband a better outcome when she is gone.
Kikuo is also a deeply caring and compassionate person. But that will have to wait to episode 5 if memory serves well.
Minako is what a strong and independent person should strive for, not only for herself (at the end of the day she DID take her week in France!) but also for the sake of her loved ones. She knew she had to search for the missing pieces of her husband’s Soul while she still could. Strong and independent but with a greater purpose.
That is why I wanted to share Minako with you, @GB and the BoD Community 😉
Hope I don’t reveal much plot,
On another note, this is a Drama where things starts slowly and confusing then get better as its run progresses 😀
@FGB, I’ve watched “Grace… ” further along enough to know now what Minako was doing. It both breaks my heart and lifts it up. What an amazing love.
I really like your analogy of the little car being a sickly Minako, holding her own on the freeway of life against the big, impatient trucks. She adamantly makes it through the long journeys to reach her different objectives each time, all in pursuit of one goal. I am already certain and inspired by the conviction that she has succeeded in achieving her one ‘obsession’ even after her death.
Perhaps show’s main little failing is that it depends on a lot of exposition to bring us into the current situation. The prologues may help the new viewer but are repetitions for those of us who have watched from the first. Still, they give us the perspective of the soul of Minako, and hint at the richness of life after death. 🥹😄🥰
Being kind with the writer, I don’t know how exposition could have been avoided or at least tamed, dear @GB. The little exposition at the beginning of each episode by Minako’s Soul became a little grating. Her Soul is in a Better Place yet she is still worried over Kikuo’s journey retracing her steps, so she cannot rest yet.
Sometimes the best of intentions could be grossly misinterpreted, as Kikuo on getting to know Minako’s surfer ex. Yet the ex-boyfriend gave Kikuo a lot of perspective while appeasing his fears in episode 2:
(Talking to the waitress he knows since he is a regular – PARAPHRASING)
Ex: How is going your life as a newlywed?
W: Excellent!!!
Ex: Do you keep many secrets even from him?
W: Of course!!!
Would like to think that the two of them will become friends. He did not spell out Minako’s mission: he encouraged Kikuo to see for himself.
MAYBE SPOILERS:
In some ways Minako’s tracks not only are her spiritual will but also Kikuo’s opportunity to finally overcome his isolation and search for answers… his very own. By putting himself into Minako’s shoes he gained much needed perspective to live more boldly than he did, also his grief over her departure became the growing pains to be birthed to a wider World.
This was Minako’s Gift 😀
@FGB, @Good Twin
Here are Summary Haikus of Episodes 3 and 4, just for the fun of it!!!
Second female lead
Directs movement to future
Possibilities
Bringing together
Past and present princess Grace
With good food and joy
Possible new love
Adding to main objective
Busy car is Grace
@FGB
Ah yes, I see it better now with the visit of Minako’s soul to the brewery. I could not tell at first that she was revisiting her steps.
Very true. The quiet herbivore who stayed home to cook somen noodles and eat alone had to be taken slowly out of his shell to do new things outside his comfort zone. He started with learning to drive and eating meat instead of just noodles.
After he has met a few times with kind and helpful strangers, he comes out of his shell to do the ‘unpopular’ thing ie to give a ride to a hitchhiker who is a stranger to him. The little detour that Grace gave him in bringing him together with the motorcycle Grand Prix engineer who had designed the Honda S800 Hachi engine, brought Grace back to her ‘maker’, brought the engineer back to ‘Grace Kelly’s car’ and brought Kikuo new friends and a willingness to try a new adventure with a stranger in his car.
How coincidental that the stranger, Haneda was on a trip, looking for his older half-brother, while Kikuo was unconsciously following a trail leading to his real younger brother. I liked how the game of Catch eliminated the years of separation and brought the brothers (both sets) closer.
(To be continued…)
(Continued…)
I have come to the conclusion that Minako had carefully planned her trip, in the off chance that she had to leave Grace with Kikuo. All her trips were intentional and in a deliberate order, one trip leading to another, like clues leading Kikuo to the ultimate gift she had for him. He didn’t know that he was on a treasure hunt with Grace.
I believe that Minako deliberately installed the car navigation system in Grace, which looked out of place in that vintage car. She didn’t want to use her mobile phone with GPS which most drivers prefer, but spent the money to have a navigation system with voice instructions installed. This was so that when Kikuo inherited the car, he would see her itinerary of the week, and be able to follow her tracks. He would not have noticed this if she had used a phone GPS.
I feel she also started her road trip with a visit to her ex-boyfriend on purpose. Ex-bf being the first on the list would raise Kikuo’s suspicions further. The trips would begin as if Kikuo was making an investigation on whether she was cheating on him, but after meeting ex-boyfriend, he would have learnt that she had a quest and that she wanted to have a baby with Kikuo. This would ensure that he would continue on retracing Minako’s steps.
By Episode 5, I understood better why Minako hid from Kikuo, her illness and the fact that she was receiving fertility treatment. It was not just her pride, although that was a big reason. She really wanted them to be a family with children of their own, and she didn’t want Kikuo who had lost his mother and brother, to be alone.
After losing his father as well, Minako did not want to grieve Kikuo by telling him that not only was it going to be difficult to have a baby, but that she might die sooner than expected because of her illness.
She had noted that the home of Kikuo and his father had been bare because the less they had, the less loss they would suffer. They were a family in long-term grief, never having come to a peaceful resolution over the separation of the brothers.
Minako wanted to bring them to reconciliation and to ensure that Kikuo had at least his brother as family, instead of being alone.
(To be continued…)
(Continued…)
I joked in my Haiku that Grace is the second lead female. She would hold the traces of Minako that would guide Kikuo’s trail, but she inadvertently was able to bring together Kikuo with the Nishina Grandfather and grand-daughter, Haruka. It brought home to homebody Kikuo, that there was a very large world outside of his wild plants and pharmaceuticals, that Grace had a significant history and that even traveling as a stranger, he was not alone.
Just before meeting Grandad Nishina, he’d been thinking how Minako had said that travelers at dusk had no home to return to, since they were in places where they were strangers. She had not felt lonely because of him. But being with Nishina and Haruka, (and before that, with Minako’s ex-boyfriend Fujiki), had shown that even without Minako, Kikuo found that he experienced warmth and care among strangers.
I like that the kindness he experienced from others, Kikuo extended to hitchhiker Haneda. And that from the Game of Catch played by Kikuo and Yukio, Haneda got the idea to connect with his own brother. The goodness of wanting to give without ulterior motives, automatically spread and grew from Minako to Kikuo and to others. Minako, with Grace’s help, was more influential after her death than before it, in turning Kikuo’s life around to becoming warmer and brighter.
Yes and yes, dear @GB 😀 . I second your thoughts. Minako may be gone yet her presence turned from lovingly and soothing when alive to challenging and world-opening after her death. As Minako said about Kikuo: a passive person is not a bad one, just someone that does not have the energy to look for the things he wants.
She knows her husband and in some ways she used her Navigation System’s memory to rock him out of his lethargy.
That is why I love that character so much.
Will not spoil further 😀 .
My dear @FGB, I have watched all the episodes and completed the series. Phew!
And so to both my delight and with some sorrow for the sad death, I found that I had guessed correctly. There was happy-sad news and a more happy possible outcome that Grace rather than Minako brought about.
The car, methinks, has outdone its owner, with some help from chance/fate/coincidence?
I felt that the goodbye was somewhat obscure. Perhaps the missing words I wished to hear are: ‘Go in peace’. 🥹 😄
Grace no Rireki Summary in Haiku
Hoping for the best
While preparing for the worst
An amazing love
I am grateful that you liked it 🙂
SPOILERS
I would love for Kikuo to date Haruka. She can give him plenty of children (she is still young) aside that she seems to be strong yet gentle and steadfast. Character traits she has in common with Minako. That she is a teacher means that most probably she knows how to deal with children.
She being an excellent cook is a nice addendum, but since it is not a character trait it is just something nice.
Also loved the sassy and wise Grandpa. Kikuo would be marrying into a good family.
STILL SPOILERS!!!
Kikuo’s ex-girlfriend spent years with him yet she didn’t know him. That she knew him since childhood (Kikuo asking if she remembered how he got a scar on his arm) but didn’t observe him properly (in her conversation with Minako the later had to spell out a certain character trait. Ex should have known better) makes her a poor choice. Aside the fact that she already had her chance and decided to screw up royally.
That Minako tried to give her future widow the opportunity to find love means that she was actively setting him free to find his happiness. That is why (I think) after Kikuo talked to his Ex the difference between Minako’s true love and his ex’s barely mediocre companionship based on an old habit became patent. Minako also knew and terminated her deal: she had to live. Then he wanted to get out of his Ex’s place as soon as possible.
@FGB,
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
Having watched the entire series, I understand now why we see the sad-looking soul of Minako, not quite able to let go and head off into the afterlife.
Although to a large extent her plan to get Kikuo reunited with family and to open up to new experiences, so as to live more fully, was successful, she must have been immersed in the great failure at the highest point in her life: of dying when she was finally pregnant.
Her decision at that stage was still so painful. To continue with the pregnancy or to abort the child. At this stage, I felt she should not be making the decision alone anymore, however the accident took the choice away.
Perhaps she’d been doing too much in the way of planning, pushing for an end that she proposed… in a sense, she was ‘trying to play God’ in Kikuo’s life. So at the crunch, that ability to choose and plan was taken away (by fate?). She was probably doing too much, when including Saori in her plans as well.
I was extremely glad to see that happenstance could still take place, while Minako’s itinerary was being followed. IE fate or God or destiny could still have its say… It just so happened that a traffic jam would cause Kikuo to make a change in the route. It then so happened that finding himself in a race car along long country roads that he should overdo racing it. Then it was really fortuitous that Haruka came along, heard the sound of the engine and pulled Kikuo over to offer help and to offer her grandfather. Of course it was really fortuitous that Grace was a Honda S800 Scarlet Hachi that was recognisable from a distance!!!
So it can be said that on top of and despite Minako’s great efforts to ensure that Kikuo would not end up alone, it was Grace that finally sealed the deal by bringing Kikuo and the Nishina family together. They would always have a connection because of Grace…. LOL the 4 of them would make a great family since they knew and loved Grace as well.
And yes, Haruka looks like she’ll make a good mother with many children.
Back to the sad soul of Minako… I liked that she was ‘visible’ to Kikuo somehow and that he looked at her but did not cling to her. I liked that he spoke with her to show that he was not alone. She still stood there looking sad. I wanted to see her walk off with a smile, after all that she’d done with such unconditional love. However he also told her that not being able to see her anymore would always be the loneliness for him.
We finally find out what her last words were to him, before she drove off : “I’ll find them. All that you have lost.” But perhaps, she only needed to get him started, and it should have been his quest to find what he needed for himself. The decisions would ultimately have been his.
SPOILER
One more thought along the same lines as above …
It was perhaps a foreshadowing that Grace’s loud engine drowned out Minako’s last words to Kikuo. Grace would have the last say!!
EPISODE 8
@FGB Yes to what you say about why Kikuo rushed out of the apartment. Perhaps not only because the difference between Minako’s love and Saori’s indifferent regard became obvious, but also to avoid any further misconception that Saori should have a chance with him.
SPOILERS
I forgot to save and accidentally deleted my long comment on the Oracle of Grace.
Saori’s admission that Minako had rescinded her agreement immediately precedes Kikuo’s attempt to start Grace’s engine to drive away, but Grace would not start. In effect she was saying that although Minako had died, any attempt to return to the past where Saori and Kikuo had been together, was a non-starter. LOL.
When Nishino and Saori spoke of Grace Kelly and Minako, noting that both women had been reckless, brave and loving, Nishino had said that Grace Kelly’s motto was “I avoid looking back.” This was the right motto when it came to Saori and Kikuo. They could not go back but should go forwards.
I wondered if Saori’s washing of Grace was her attempt at an apology that she had still tried to get Kikuo back into her life, while knowing it was no longer what Minako wanted.
Proper Grieving and the Fourth Stage of Grief
I was a little bothered that Kikuo was not shown to have mourned sufficiently before he went off on his investigations, on Grace’s tracks. I felt that it was premature. He had jumped into learning how to drive with suspicions aroused, and before he had grieved fully.
I was pleased to see that he finally spoke to the people he should have approached 2 months earlier. He confirms with the tour guide that Minako had been pregnant and with her obstetrician friend that Minako had been undergoing treatment and had to make a most heartbreaking decision over their baby. There were just no easy decisions for Minako to make, but the one over the baby, she should not make unilaterally.
The responsibility and pain of having to choose was taken away from Minako by her death. Man proposes, but God disposes.
I was glad to see that Kikuo is finally shown going through Minako’s personal effects sent to him from France, and able to start a proper grieving process. By the time he arrives again to see Nishina and Haruka, he has entered the stage of acceptance. In his grieving, perhaps he grieved also over the loss of mother and father, and the years of separation with his brother. He returns to Nishina with happy anticipation to visit his brother again, unlike before. When he sees Minako’s spirit, he is able to let her go.
It is now the right time for Kikuo to have his fresh start with the people Minako brought back into his life and with his new friends.
It is a magical Drama, Isn’t it? 😀 .
Thanks to Kikuo’s voyage with Grace looking for answers he finally got the strength to look for what he wanted, and maybe the strength to learn what he would have not wanted to.
Open to life with all its ups and downs.
Minako’s plan came to fruition even better than she envisioned. Yo say that Minako was trying to play God, personally I see a deeply desperate person trying to do her best while her body could afford it. Generally good outcomes derives from such mindset, as you said “Man proposes God Disposes” 😀 .
Also think that Saori lovingly and repentantly washing Grace was her atonement gesture for thinking that any kind of rekindlement with Kikuo on the romantic level could be possible, also was a gesture of deep respect and gratitude. Before having that conversation she knew her love was subpar. After having that conversation she, like Kikuo, were made painfully aware not only why her love was subpar… but more importantly had a peek view of what true Love was like.
It must have been painful for Saori who now had all the pieces on what her role in her own misery was (confusing her infatuation with her ex-husband for love vs. the serene and hard working decision to accept her and make her grow from Kikuo and his father), but also for Kikuo that now finally knew that Minako really fought for a better outcome for him: She deeply and selflessly loved him. He was marked with both that knowledge and what Love was like, and that measurement made Saori look from an old flame to a beggar.
Kikuo’s life was changed for the better, yes, but also Saori’s.
Almost envision a spin-off with Saori’s visit to the USA to try to connect with her estranged son 😀 .
@FGB I applaud you!
Yes, I agree with your take on Saori’s realisation about her ‘love’ and her reason for washing the car so repentantly, but with respect and gratitude towards Minako for opening her eyes.
Again we see that something done out of good intentions, spreads its goodness even to unexpected persons.
LOL a spin off with Saori? Perhaps someone would care to write fan-fic about her.
Everyone’s life became better in the end, even Grace’s life because she can keep getting special care from Nishina!
Would a spin off with Grace, Kikuo and Hakura be too boring? 😂
I see Grace becoming the car that Kikuo and Haruka use while dating, but being eventually and lovingly relegated to a weekend car for any of them as they have to buy a normal car… following their first baby girl called Minako out of Haruka’s initiative and gratefulness. Also envision Minako’s father and sister going against Japanese convention and becoming an extended family with them, so even if little Minako is not a relative of Grace’s former owner by blood she still can become a spiritual child, enriched by Kikuo’s late wife visit into this world 😉
@FGB, now this is what I call a great spin off tale!! I could actually imagine them with baby in another car!
The family extends also with Kikuo’s brother’s family of course, and his mother. In the end, instead of being alone as Minako feared, her husband will have a big family scattered in different parts of Japan.
As for Grace, dear grandpa Nishina will drive her the way she’s meant to be driven … maybe even joining in some small-scale local races, so she won’t be relegated to just being a weekend car! LOL.
Approved 😉
Love to read that this little show has stayed with you.
This is not a show about how people meet but about what they mean to each other. And about what love should be like.
Hopefully a future lurker will find this little gem in the future like a beautiful shell in a pristine beach on a perfect holiday 🙂
@FGB
How beautifully poetic and what a lovely intention! And I believe that’s many a bitch’s hope too, by leaving our thoughts on his blog. May we somehow enrich the view pleasure of other drama viewers who happen along our way!
Dear @GB, as I commented in “what are we watching in September” I am in a slump. Could you recommend me another show?, “One Day Off” ended being a no-hit-no-run gem 😀
Hi @FGB, I do not know if you saw my recommendations before when you asked previously. I did give twice, a list of sorts of the kinds of shows that I thought good, or at least I enjoyed, although they may not have the same arty feel of ‘Shitsuren Meshi’ or ‘One Day Off’.
Here’s a link to the list of the latest shows and the top 10 for me. You can find my GBgrowingbeautifully’s Drama List online too on MyDramaList for all the shows from aeons ago until now but I believe you may have watched some of those already, so my list below is just of the recently aired ones. 🙂
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NEQ_31781uaIY2gWxaTCbuguoC6b91GG/view?usp=drive_link
Echo it is then 😉 .
Hi @FGB, besides Echo… did you see my post about watching “A Time Called You”? I hope you can join us for that kdrama!
In fact, after watching Episode 1 of “Three Body” I got intrigued. Echo could wait.
Would love to watch “A Time Called You”. Found fantastically funny that the Taiwanese “Someday or One Day (2019)” Original is still unsubbed since 2019.
Loved to know that “Grace No Rireki” became your 4th recommendation 😉
It is always a pleasure to share something good 😀