Mio Meguro (Koshiba) is a sweet but very naive young girl who has just been unceremoniously dumped at her boyfriend Ken’s door whom she catches with another girl.
She is already on the run from collectors after losing both her funds AND her job thanks to this moocher, and had come to his house hoping for sanctuary.
Instead, she is out on her feet and without a place to stay, ends up at a temple where she is hoping to use her last coin to exorcise her bad luck. But because of her ex boyfriend’s constant leeching off her, she's been starving from lack of food. Add in the constant badgering and pursuing by the collectors, her harried body finally gives in, and Mio collapses on the ground.
Little does Mio know, but off to the side of the temple is a share house where some peculiar people have been staying. One of the tenants, the beautiful Iwa (Marika Matsumoto), has been watching Mio and has recognized her as someone who has been betrayed by a lover just as she has. She takes pity on Mio and brings her in to the house, and when Mio comes to she is greeted by Iwa and a woman named Utako (Nobue Iketani).
Mio thanks them and tries to be on her way, but the smell of yummy food keeps her there until the other tenants arrive home. Ryo (Katsuya maiguma) and Hiyo (Koji Ohkura) aren’t too pleased to find a new girl suddenly in their domain, but when they all hear of how she was deceived by her boyfriend, they all agree that this girl needs help!
Embracing her, Iwa vows to put a curse on Mio’s ex for doing this to her.
Mio is invited to spend the night in the sharehouse, and, having no where else to go, accepts gratefully. However, when she happened so awaken during the night and hears them talking ,she is UTTERLY SHOCKED to find that Iwa and all the other guests… ARE MONSTERS!!!
Mio screams and faints away…only to awaken in her own bed. Was it a dream?
In the morning, everyone just carries on as if nothing happened, and Mio makes herself believe everything is fine, despite Iwa’s insistence that they find Mio’s ex and curse him!
Making good on her plan, Iwa successfully seduces and lures the hapless Ken to the house with the intent of punishing him and showing Mio what a truly bad person he is.
In the end, the yokai show their true forms and scare the cowardly Ken out of his wits, leaving him running scared out of the house and ready to deal with later.
But now Mio knows that her nightmare wasn’t a dream after all- Iwa and her friends are INDEED monsters, but, though she is frightened, she returns to be with them as they are the only ones who have had her back, and she accepts them for what they are.
Sittign down with Mio, the yokai reveal their true selves to her, showing her in an ancient book just which demonic personalities they are! Mio could become an expert on the lore hanging out with roommates like this!
Good thing, too, because after taking take of that nuisance ex-boyfriend (where a now confident Mio demands he pay her back what he “borrowed’ from her)…
...she lands a job interview...at, of ALL things... a HORROR Magazine!
Below: Daito Shunsuke, Miyu Miyamoto, Risa Naito
Asking what kind of skills she has, Mio is at a loss…
...til she exclaims aloud…"I know about Yokai!!”
Well! that’s JUST the kind of thing the magazine NEEDS, and they hire her right away!!!
"OK Kid, You Got the Job!"
Looks like things are finally looking up for Mio…if she can ONLY GET USED to her new roommates' appearances!!
LOL
Below: Daito Shunsuke, Miyu Miyamoto, Risa Naito
Oh My GOSH, this drama is SO MUCH FUN, Fuka is absolutely in her ZONE here, using her skills as a spazzy, dorky misfit to its Zenith!
Such a treat to get this show so fast after Bishoko Tantei Akechi Goro ended….I was seriously needing my Fuka Koshiba fix!!!
Can’t wait to see MORE!
PS: More J-drama Deja-Vu! Looks like the apartment where Mio’s boyfriend Ken lives in…
…is the EXACT SAME apartment that Asami Mizukawa and her beau lived in in Love Distance!
Can’t blame them, seems like a very cozy place!
Posted By Zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
