After a grueling and morally sapping experience at her advertising job under a power harassing superior, Chiharu Hitsujitani (Fuka Koshiba) had been trying to get a new job, with little success.
=She is losing hope, and the long looks she takes over big falls makes one think she's thinking of ending it all!
She is greeted warmly and Aunt Yoko is sympathetic to her problems. She tells Chiharu she will be placed with an special agent named Arashi Kurusu (Ryo Narita), whose unorthodox means and special insight has helped him become the “Ace” of the company with his record of success!
THIS is the person that Aunt Yoko wants to handle her employment? Though he managed to de-escalate the situation and send the man on his way, she does have to wonder what could POSSIBLY have happened to make the man so FURIOUS as to pull a KNIFE on him!
Looking him over, Chiharu has doubts about this man and his methods!
Indeed, this man is a hard person to crack. He is cold, standoffish, and blunt to the point of offense! And in just a short time, he's realized something: the problem is not with the jobs Chiharu has been applying for, but her lack of personal self-worth. He proves this by making her re-visit her old job and breaking her down. Arashi wants Chiharu to realize her true self and wants her to imagine the person she really wants to be, and that can only work by starting from the ground up!
Until she can figure that out for herself, she cannot truly be happy at any job she is placed in. So for the time being, kind Aunt Yoko has a place for her at the agency- as one of the career agents who will help others find work!
but her biggest obstacle will be her on-hands training…for the man set to teach her the ropes is the super-strict and coldly blunt Kurusu himself!!!
Will have to watch a few more episodes of this show to see if I warm up to it more- as it is, it doesn't really grab me, and I’m really just watching this show until Fuka’s last drama “Nai Yo Kiite Kuru” gets finished being subbed. But perhaps this one will become a fave, who knows?
PS: Have to smile when I see how wonderfully Yuriko Ishida has made the transition from saucy chanteuse type roles to the ”cool and fun Aunty” characters she’s now portraying!
OOOHHH, and gotta give a shoutout to how freakin’ PRETTY actress Ayaka Imoto has gotten! Haven’t seen her since the highly wacky (and totally fun) “Joshi Kosei no Mudazukai”, but her role as a friend whom (along with partner Shota Inoue) runs a Lunch Truck where the characters meet and talk, had me STUNNED by her BEAUTY!
Man, we GOTTA see MORE of her!
Okay, back to J-drama watching.....
