Yikes! Was I living under a rock? How come I didn’t know that this dorama was out already? Eight of 10 episodes are available on Amazon Prime.
Anybody here watching this? Fern? Welmaris?
I didn’t finish the original kdrama starring Park MinYoung and Na InWoo. But Sato Takeru is enough inducement for me to binge watch this.
Let’s enjoy the show!
Me! Me! Me! I’m watching this when I’m free. 🥰
They said it’s really good. I was going to say this is what I’m going to watch in the what are we watching in July thread but Dad takes priority, obviously. ☺️
Let me know what you think.
Thank you!!! 💐💐💐
Hi @pkml3 and @agdr03, oh my… I can’t pass up on Sato Takeru. I did not really like the kdrama version all that much. I like that the jdorama version is much shorter and hopefully sweeter!
Kalimera @Packmule3!
I am watching this and I am up to date with Episode 7…
It is pretty good, that’s all I am going to say for now… ☺️
You didn’t tell us it was on, @Cleopatra!
Or did you??
I downloaded the first two episodes and, fingers crossed, I’ll get back to you all with a short write-up. Good night!
I thought you were enamored with the leads in the kdrama version, @GB!
I’m in a quandary. Don’t know which show I should watch first tomorrow:
kdrama: Head Over Heels, ep 9
cdrama: Coroner’s Diary, ep 21
dorama: Marry My Husband, ep 1
or my variety show, 2 Days, 1 Night.
Hope your dad’s healing faster, @gdr03.
Will see you when we see you. Family comes first.
The truth is that there are some things going on in RL time, @Packmule3 and I am not in the mood to write…
I am not watching any k-drama for some time now.
I started it in a whim and it was the only thing I was watching until the Coroner’s Diary came along…
I was waiting for the July thread to come along, but it was a bit late this month.
Sato Takeru is amazing… I really liked the k-drama adaptation, but this one is more to the point!
@agdr03 and @cleopatra: hope all will be well, and praying for peace in your hearts and homes too.
@packmule3: I’m intending to watch this! But after I’m done with the two left on my watchlist for July- I can’t do concurrent watches. I enjoyed the K version but understand the J version to be differently good!
Hi @pkml3 and Everyone,
I think I like this jdorama version better than the kdrama version. It really packs it in and I find that the FL is more fiery in Ep 2 (which I like).
@pkml3, you’re trying to watch 4 concurrent shows!!! While waiting for ‘Coroner’s Diary,’ I’ve started this jdorama.
I might have written a lot about the kdrama version, but I don’t recall praising the leads much. It’s rare that I reach the level of ‘adulation’ like I did for Tan Jian Ci’s Xiang Liu and Yang Zi’s Xiao Liu/Xiao Yao in ‘Lost You Forever’.
I believe I may have liked the early episodes more and got bored after the middle of the series, but plodded along.
I believe the jdorama will be more satisfying since it cuts off unnecessary scenes, and since Satoh Takeru is emitting those killer vibes!!!
I am hoping to watch this, @packmule3. I started reading (gasp) and got distracted from c-k-j-dramas.
@fern Me too. I want to watch this drama. I actually read a few pages of a novel because I wasn’t finding anything to watch? A korean novel in english.
Now I am watching in the name of blossom.And enjoying it for what it is without trying to understand the politics. Letting myself off the hook there.
Putting my effort into understanding the characters in coroner’s diary.
Head over heels sounds like it could be fun, As well.
@Packmule3, I’m in! For now I’ll put aside trying to catch up on Cdramas that took viewers by storm while I was traveling. Today at my cabin I’ve got repairmen solving an issue with the dryer vent (hoping it’s not necessary to cut drywall). Once they leave, I’ll settle in for a serious spell of drama watching. (I did just get good news: the repair won’t be as complicated as feared, drywall won’t have to be cut, and the cost will be less. I won’t complain!)
Ugh! Don’t you just hate home maintenance work, @Welmaris? I do so I let my dear hubby deal with them. We just had a stormdoor replaced, the chimneys/fireplaces cleaned, and the bushes trimmed. It’s only July!
More expense will add up next month because we’re calling the plumber to come in and check the pipes after our vacation (I hope they hold until we return!), contractors to pave the driveway, and power-wash the deck and windows, and the electrician to replace some lighting fixtures.
I think the cheapest home maintenance we did so far this month was to replace the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
I get why some retirees prefer to sell their homes and rent an apartment in their old age.
Finished Ep 1 today and will write a comparison tomorrow.
@Packmule3, generally my husband handles property management himself, either DIY or arranging for workers, but responsibility for the cabin usually falls on me because of its location in the mountains. My husband is not retired yet (though past the age for it), and doesn’t like the inconvenience, when at the cabin, of being farther from customers and job sites. (Isn’t that the point of a vacation home?) I don’t have those kinds of job responsibilities and my schedule is more flexible, so I’ve taken on arranging repairs and other work at the cabin. It never ends, because at a mile-high elevation in a forest setting, the cabin takes a beating from climate, flora, and fauna.
I haven’t yet started watching Marry My Husband: Japan. Yesterday I decided to keep plugging along with A Dream Within a Dream, and am glad I stuck with it. I’m now at Episode 27, and am feeling more engaged than during earlier episodes. Although I found the “inside the script” schtick amusing, being constantly taken outside the story disrupted the flow. The tensions between tropes and characters’ experiences still exist at this stage of the drama, but seem less intrusive to me.
I’ve reached Episode 8 of this drama. I realise that I had a bit of a hard time when I watched the kdrama version when the good heroine, Misa, repeatedly chooses to insert the substitute person into her fate. On the one hand, we can see it as survival since she has prior knowledge of how her life would pan out if she did not do something to change her ‘fate’. On the other hand I find it upsetting that she has to lie and gaslight also, quite similar to the way she had been gaslighted before by Reina and even Hirono. So her character has become grey.
In this late stage of the series, she still does not know that Dir. Suzuki had also died and returned to the past. He seems adamant about not telling her.
Oh for those interested in the kisses: between the OTP and illicit ones between others, there are scenes of thorough kissing in Ep 7 I believe!
I enjoyed Marry My husband(japan).
It was interesting to see how some parts of the story were edited out, for example, the unnecessary romances.
As I said earlier I liked their relationship more than in the kdrama. I did miss the OTT performances of the evil couple.
I was not really very satisfied with the ending.
Overall, worthwhile, in my opinion. Some nice cinematography of mountains and snow, as well.
@GB Maybe because this drama was short I did not feel it explored the morality of the lead’s foisting her bad fortune on others. I did feel that at the end she had some realization of what she had done to 2 people who had already had such difficult lives.
I cannot remember the details of the Korean version well enough to make a considered opinion about how this was handled differently in the kdrama version. I do not really like PMY so that coloured my view.
I remember thinking how harsh she was but then they were pretty harsh towards her in both timelines.
My take away from this drama is that I really want to watch First Love again!
@MM, yes First Love (Hatsukoi) was such a gem. I still listen to the OSTs from that show. Takeru Satoh was wonderful there as well.
As I come almost to the end of this series, I’m thinking it could be renamed the “Strange Obsession with Misa”. I guess I can’t wrap my head around sadism or whatever it should be called … how the suffering or failures of another person are necessary to make someone else feel good.
It’s interesting that in this genre of having a 2nd chance at life or of being able to predict the future (‘While You Were Sleeping), when changes are made to prevent something evil from happening, the belief is that it is inevitable that the evil not done at one time would then take place at another time to another party. It cannot be merely stopped or removed but would reappear in another form.
At the end, I suppose we are deliberately left to figure out whether we feel more pity or repulsion for the characters who chose to be evil. Reina had an unfortunate childhood, however that did not entitle her to then take out her anger on Misa. Sadly, what pity one might have felt for Reina evaporates as we see how she taints everyone who comes in contact with her. How she manipulates and uses the poor fools who fall for her charm and how ruthless she is.
Even our ‘hero,’ wataru tried to throttle her. A lot of throttling took place in this series. Tomoya throttled Misa and so did Reina. Tomoya’s mother wanted her dead. However she placed all the blame on Misa instead of taking responsibility for her choices.
The second chance themes: what would we choose if given a second chance to live, and would we choose to do so with integrity? Misa almost fell into the void of putting herself first at the expense of others and hence of being almost like Reina. She had a conscience, however, and friends, and was pulled out of that void before she got in too deep.
Reina, however, even with friends, would have chosen to bring them down into the void with her.
The other second chance theme would be how knowing it was not worth it to have done only what was expected and then to die, one would choose differently to live one’s life to the full and without fear.
Wataru and Misa were willing to take risks, to stop doing what family/society expected, and chose instead to follow their dreams.
Wataru left the family company and went back into Research (his real forte) but at the same time opened a lab linked to the Suzutoya food business and started the food delivery that kept restaurants in business during Covid.
Misa stopped working in a big company in order to reopen her favourite snack restaurant with the wife of the original snack master.
Since the good guys had avoided their fate of being killed or of killing themselves, their deaths were replaced by those of the evil couple who ultimately offed themselves or each other.
I prefer this jdorama version to the kdrama. This one reduced the melodrama and gave a clearer link between the OTP from early on. Everything fell into place neatly in 10 episodes. The suspense was good and the characters were less over-the-top. Best of all it had the charm of Takeru Satoh and the lovely Fuka Koshiba, and the actors who played the bad guys were pretty good too.
One thought I had as I was reading your summary above:
Writernim put the leads in a situation where legal ways of dealing with what happened (her murder) Would be pretty impossible, thus giving them additional rationale and permission for vengeance As far as the actual plot is concerned. Of course, We can still look at it from a moral point of view.
PS I am almost finished rewatching first love hatsukoi And enjoying it almost as much as the first time. I have forgotten enough that it is fresh enough again.
I too like the ending for the main characters as they move on with their lives.
I was not so keen on the action and violence Of the endings For the evil couple. It was
Somewhat jarring considering the tone of the rest of the drama.
Glass Heart with Sato Takeru starts July 31 on Netflix. I’ll be there.
OK @MM, let me know if Glass Heart is good. I’m not sure I can get a jdorama immediately. Sometimes they come out weeks or months later in other streaming sites.
@Swiss_postscripts,
Even though, I am late…Thank you for your kind wishes.