“That Girl Must Go To Hell”

The Insidious Yukie Nakama Punks Kyoko Fukada

Way back in late 1997 or so all us J-drama watchers were glued to the Kyoko Fukada/ Takeshi Kaneshiro drama “Kamisama, Mou Sukoshi Dake”, the story of a young girl named Masaki Kano (Fukada) who contracts HIV, her struggles dealing with the ailment, and her relationship with rock star Keigo Ishikawa.

In all these kinds of dramas, there’s always a foil, and in this case came in the form of Kaoru (Yukie Nakama), the sister of Keigo’s deceased lover and partner. Incensed and jealous over Masaki’s burgeoning romance with Keigo, she plots a devious plan to separate them for good.

Masaki is supposed to meet Keigo at the airport and start a new life with him, but the unscrupulous Kaoru, at her wits end, intercepts Masaki and, with Keigo still on the way, constructs an elaborate lie about how Keigo sent her to dump her because he didn’t want to be with her...

HOLY CRAP, That was how that episode ended and EVERYONE was UP in ARMS at how diabolical this woman could be!

The next day at work, asked a co-worker if she had watched the latest episode of Kamisama Mousukoshidake, and she said, “That Girl Must Go to HELL!” LOL, no explanation was needed- EVERYONE knew who she meant and was thinking the SAME thing!! AHAHAHAHA!

And so we come to the drama “Unmei Kara Hajimaru Koi~You Are My Destiny” with the shy and mousey plainjane Aya Sato (Miori Takimoto) unbeleiavbly finding herself in a relationship with rich upper class Kei Ichijou (Takumi Kizu) with plans to marry and have a baby-

The foil this time is Ichijou’s socialite ballet dancer girlfriend Anna Shiraishi (Ren Ishikawa) who, similarly to Yukie Nakama’s Kaoru, is incensed at how this lower-class bumkpin girl managed to worm her way into their lives and steal Kei away.

At wits end, she plots a diabolical scheme to get rid of Aya, and, WITHOUT GIVING AWAY ANY SPOILERS, will just show you the screencaps to the scene and tell you that the words coming to my mind as I watched this were the SAME as when I watched Yukie Nakama and Kyoko Fukada all those years ago!

You don’t NEED to know the details of the plot. It is clear just by their reactions who the innocent one is and who the EVIL one is! Ladies and Gentlemen, I nominate Anna Ishikawa for this year’s “Meanest Character” Award! Repeat after me- 

“THAT GIRL MUST GO TO HELL!!!”