Haru and Shotaro Mamiya in "Mahou No Rinobe~Renovation is Magic!"

More FUN Home-Related Shenanigans, this time into the wide world of Home Renovation with "Mahou No Rinobe"- Renovation is MAGIC! Our Story:

 Gen Fukuyama(Shotaro Mamiya)  is the eldest son working for a family Home renovation company named Marufuku Komuten. He hasn’t had a lot of luck getting any of his proposals accepted, and this time is completely trounced by a rival company’s ace, the sharp-eyed and considerate Koume Shinyoji (Haru).

With her attention to details regarding the house, the goals of the home owners and being able to get a read on their feelings, she has a gift for finding exactly what the client truly wants, a talent Gen is sorely lacking!

"Wow, she totally stole that sale from me."

One day, the president of Marufuku Komuten Kuranosuke (Kenichi Endo) announces to his staff and sons that they are bringing new life into the sagging business, and Gennosuke is stunned to find that the new hire is none other than Shinyoji herself!!!!

Seems Koume went through a bit of a scandal at her last company, and after being blamed for an error, was sent on her way. Thankfully for all, she knew Kuranosuke through a mountain hiking club, and once he found the maverick agent free, instantly scooped her up!

Koume is paired up with Gen for their most recent clients, where he is schooled over and over again by the savvy Shinyoji over perception, of being able to read a room and “not step on any landmines”! 

However, step on them he does, and it’s all Kome can do to clean the messes up!

Somehow Gen just doesn't have the tact (or luck) to make a good impression, leaving Koume wincing and waiting to give it to him later....

Unloading on Gen and pointing out all the ways he totally screwed up the presentation!!!

But if there’s one thing Gennosuke has, it’s passion, and what he lacks in shrewdness he makes up for with heart! And Koume will find that with his help, the two can become an unbeatable team and ultimately nail down that sale!!

WOWOW, gotta say, I love, love LOVE this drama already!!! You all know how I have a soft spot for these avante garde real estate agent type show, and with vibes both parts “Ie Uru Onna” and “Shojiki Fudousan”, it’s an EASY win for my fave drama of the season!!

After a hard day of work, time to suck down some cold ones with okazu!

Cheers!

Always love Haru, and I don’t know, maybe it’s her hair and eye make-up or what she’s wearing in this one, but her role of Koume is one of her PRETTIEST yet!!! Such a catch!

And it’s also worth noting that this is Shotaro Mamiya’s third drama in a row that ranked in my top 5 for each season! And PS, as I recall, he held an unrequited love for Haru back in the  2020 drama “Remolove”, hopefully he gets another chance to woo her here!

I'll be checking in every week to see how they do!!!

Youtuber ni Musume wa Yaran!

 Chisa Taira’s (Nozomi Sasaki) happiest day of her life turns into the worst when her groom-to-be leaves her at the altar a la The Graduate (complete with Simon and Garfunkel overtures) and she and her family are left wondering what to do about the upcoming reception and all its attendees!

Father Soichiro (Kenichi Endo) had counted on giving a wonderful tearful speech while Mom Mieko (Yuki Saito) is worried about having to return all the gifts (LOL) if the entire event is cancelled. With the hotel demanding to know if they intend to continue the reception or call it quits, the family is pressured to make a decision!

When it is discovered that a popular Youtuber named TAKTAK (Junki Tozuka) and a bigtime TV Station director Shin Enomoto ((Nobuaki Kaneko), outspoken younger sister Fuka (Yumi Wakatsuki) has an inspired idea: to go ahead with the reception so everyone can do all the things they planned- and have TAKTAK (with some assistance from Enomoto) make a video in their famous style explaining the whole fracas to the guests!

In this way everyone gets to have their special moment for the non-refundable event and hopefully when the masterful video edit is finally presented, the guests will be sympathetic to Chisa’s plight!

And so, the wedding reception goes on as planned, much to the guests befuddlement! The cake is cut and the family carries on with all the speeches and announcements they'd intended, all biding time while TAKTAK puts together the ceremony video! 

Finally it is time for the wedding video to play, and it is a fine one, explaining to the audience that, yes, Chisa's groom left her at the altar, but he left because he loved someone else, no that he hated Chisa. He asks them not to see this as a failure of Chisa's but rather another chance to make a fresh start in her young life. And when the well wishes from her family end the video, there is not a dry eye in the place!

After the reception, the family can finally breathe a sigh of relief- they pulled it off! Chisa relaxes with her would-be conspirators  but is taken aback when TAKTAK the youtuber AND Enomoto the TV Director BOTH PROPOSE to Chisa!

What's newly available young bride to do!
An entirely wacky, silly and SPIRITED comedy full of zany hijinks that promises to entertain, with Nozomi looking as lovely as ever and WOWOW, Yumi Wakatsuki looking fine as heck!!! Those are more than reason enough to check this one out!!!

PS: Don't know who this Nobuaki Kaneko is, but gotta confess, the whole time I was watching him, I thought he was Odagiri Joe!

Only when I looked up the credits did I realize it was some other dude!