Drama Time! Sunao Ni Narenakute

This drama deals with the lives of five people who have meet through twitter, each one has their own life and while meeting each other for the first time they attempt to deal with they're own problems while maintaining their friendship. Nakajima Keisuke 'Nakaji' is an photographic assistant for a porn magazine who dreams of being like a photographer like his father, who was a well known war photographer, but so far cannot reach his dream. Mizuno Tsukiko 'Haru' is a provisional high school teacher on probation questioning whether teaching was what she was meant for when she can't seem to do the right thing by the schools standards. Nishimura Hikaru 'Peach' is Mizuno's best friend who although did not meet everyone else on twitter decides to join the group to deal with loneliness in her life. Ichihara Kaoru 'Linda' is a magazine worker who is being sexually harassed at work by his chief editor and cannot get anything published unless he does as she asks. Park Seon Su, on twitter, says he is a doctor but is actually a medical equipment salesmen who is down on his luck but is trying his best to take care of his younger sister. The story revolves around all five simultaneously and does a splendid job of keeping each characters story down to earth and realistic.

This was literally the first Japanese drama that I ever watched, before I thought that all dramas where like Spanish soap operas about love and this guys loves that girl but she loves some other dude, and the thought of watching dramas made me really nauseous since love stories aren't really my thing. But thanks to one of my friends who is a kpopper and is in absolute love with the actor that plays 'Doctor', Jaejoong who's from one of the biggest Kpop groups in all of Asia named TVXQ but now is in JYJ (long story behind that not getting into it). Anyway since she knew that I liked Japanese and had been slowly introducing me to TVXQ and JYJ because they also make Japanese songs and albums and had been nudging me for some time to watch any form of drama she, with much effort, made me watch Sunao ni Narenakute. This drama opened a whole new world for me because it was nothing like I had expected. It was lovely to watch and the characters where very well portrayed and had a lot of definition to them against the 2D personalities I had been thinking they would have had. The story was beautifully written and it dealt with real life issues such as homosexuality, suicide and social pressures but at the same time it also gave moments of laughter, love and friendship giving a well rounded portrayal of the real life of each character. The character whom I connected to the most was Linda as his problem struck a cord in my heart because he was afraid of what others might think of him while at the same time hiding who he really was, it was extremely saddening and had me completely and utterly depressed.  He was a character that brought all the other characters together he was kind and wise and I absolutely fell in love with him though I loved all the characters he was indeed my favorite.  So this drama I extremely recommend as it is a wonderful drama to watch.


Matane
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