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| Yuina Kuroshima as Yui in Ashigirl |
Yui is a clumsy and not-too-bright student who can barely keep her eyes open for classes and can’t keep up with the class and its history lessons. The only thing she’s interested in is running, and in that she excels! In fact, the teachers are considering her for state finals! But something happens that suddenly makes her take a vested interest in history…
One night she is in the family’s outside shed, where her genius brother has created a time machine to “send his bullies back into the past” (LOL).
Unfortunately, the always unlucky Yui just happens to grab the sword which serves as the switch for the time-transfer, and before her brother can stop her, she has unwittingly sent herself off to the past!
When Yui opens her eyes, she is shocked to find herself in the company of some fatigued soldiers regrouping after a devastating attack. She dons some armor and a hat to conceal her looks, and her tomboyishness comes in handy when the soldiers think she is just another boy serving the war.
She tries to escape from them and make it on her own, but she soon weakens from hunger. She is met by a young man on a horse who she later finds out is the son of a Lord, named Hagi (Kentaro Ito). After some argument, he leaves her, only to be astonished when she runs after him and keeps up with his horse! Impressed, he helps her back into town, and so dazzled is Yui by him that she decides to go to the castle and offer to be his runner.
But things aren’t as easy as that and Yui finds herself promptly thrown out on her butt. After all, she’s just some peasant girl and despite her declaration that she was invited by the young lord, they ignore her and keep her out.
She finds a place to eat and sleep with the kind woman Kitsuno (Rie Tomosaka). Kitsune is the mother of the fallen soldier whom Yui has been pretending to be, and instead of being angry, takes her under her wing. She offers Yui a chance to be a hard-working part of their family, but after only a day of farming, she knows she just can’t be happy unless she can be the runner for the young lord. For she’s properly fallen in love with him!
After one month living in the past, during a full moon, she abruptly slips back to present day, where her brother informs her that the machine is synchronized with the moon patterns and one can only travel back and forth during those times.
Yui goes back to school and, now with a keen interest in the fate of the young lord, begs the teacher for information about the past.
She’s excited to learn of the historical events which happened in the very lands they’re living in now…but her excitement turns to despair when she finds out that the entire castle, soldiers and men had all perished in a battle shortly after she’d returned home! She just HAS to get back to the past to warn them!
Hahaha, this is a really fun story to watch, and despite its high-school setting (I really hate high school dramas), you jsut can’t go wrong with these time-traveling kind of shows! And though this is the first time I’m seeing Yuina Kuroshima, I’m already a big fan of hers. Her portrayal of Yui/Yuinosuke is so likable and FUN!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
