Unmei Kara Hajimaru Koi~You Are My Destiny seems to have taken all the cliches of a bunch of different romcom dramas and built an entire story around it, but it doesn’t matter because Miori Takimoto is so doggone adorable in it that I’m gonna watch it all anyway!
Miori plays Aya Sato, a plain and shy OL working in a company where everyone treats her like their personal slave (Sticking post-its on her whenever they need something and inevitably ending up with Aya completely covered in them, LOL). Though she is taken advantage of, she knows it and, rather than blaming others, chastises herself for being a coward.
Meanwhile we have Kei Ichijo (Takumi Kizu), a charming and dazzling young man set to take over his family’s company…if he can marry and produce an heir!
Kei already has a bride in mind, the gorgeous Anna Shiraishi (Ren Ishikawa) but she is pursuing her career as an actress and her romance (such as it is) with Kei is sidelined by her goals.
Back at the company, Aya meets a young lawyer named Yamaguchi who seems to have an interest in her.
He asks her out on a date and even invites her to his college Anniversary Celebration. But when he asks if she can foot the expenses for both him and her, we know something is up…
Indeed, when we get there, we find that his only intention with Aya was to make an ex girlfriend jealous!
But Aya doesn’t know this and, in an attempt to be accepted by his friends, has drunken herself into oblivion, even as Yamaguchi begins hooking back up with his ex!
Kei is also an alumnus from Seio University and is at the get together, waiting for his beloved Anna who promised to meet him there. He’s on pin and needles as he’s been waiting for this day so he can propose to her. But she is late to the celebration, and, in the end, has to return to the states for an acting opportunity, leaving without ever seeing Kei.
Kei doesn’t know any of this as he has been surreptitiously drugged by a team of workers protesting his closing of one of their warehouses. Fighting them off, he staggers to his room....
Meanwhile, a thoroughly drunk Aya stumbles to her room, but in her inebriated state, goes to the wrong room...KEI'S ROOM, where she promptly falls asleep!
A dazed Kei makes his way to his room, expecting his Anna to be there, not knowing she has departed. In his state he doesn't realize that the girl in bed is not Anna but the drunken Aya!
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And so it is that the two end up in BED together!
The tale of the mousey and shy downtrodden girl who crosses paths with the dazzling rich socialite is one we’ve all seen before, and I was surprised to find Unmei Kara Hajimaru koi was based on a Korean drama…With such a generic plot wouldn’t it have been easy enough to just write an original story?? But so far it’s a satisfying way to idle away the hours, and like I mentioned before, Miori is great in this one!
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