Tuesday, November 17, 2015

What's In A Name?

While watching the latest episode of "Okitegami Kyoko No Biboroku" (The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami), that wacky mystery drama about the keen detective who has to solve her cases by the end of the day because her memories reset when she goes to sleep, where I hwas hit with a case of "Sudden Clarity"!
In this episode there was this one scene where Yakusuke is on an excursion with Kyoko, who has been excitedly looking forward to it.  He receives some bad news, but doesn't want her to know because it would spoil the trip for her, and, because of her memory rest malady, knows that "For Kyoko San, There is Only Today".
They made a point of showing this statement printed poem-style onscreen, and it was only then, seeing the kanji for both "Today" and "Kyoko" printed onscreen, that I realized what an apt name they had given the character, for, of course, "the name "Kyoko" can be read as "Today's Child"! How Clever!!! Just another small thing that makes this drama so good!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com