Friday, April 26, 2019

Mukai no Bazuru Kazoku (My Family Goes Viral!)

Akari Kagari (Rio Uchida) is a young girl living at home with her Mother, Father and Younger Brother. on the surface they seem like your average happy family, but inside they do not socialize with each other at all, only retreating to their own respective activities.
Akari has a job working as a cafe Manager where she deals with the ups and downs of the job, from bad commuting, lazy co-workers and rude customers.
In one such instance, a customer gets mad because wait help girl Momo (Sara Ogawa) keeps ignoring him in favor of younger , more attractive men, and then laughs when he can’t pronounce the menu item.
As manager, it is up to Akari to go over and apologize and smooth things over. What she doesn’t know is that a customer is recording the whole episode and uploads it online for laughs.
That evening, her brother shows her that the video of her apologizing has gone viral.
She is surprised but is only concerned that the online netizens aren’t getting angry at her. “Naw, just making fun of the old guy,” Brother says. But that’s only for now.
When Akari returns to work the next morning, she is puzzled to find a crowd outside the cafe doors. Seems after she’d checked out the viral video of her, the comments turned from making fun of the guy and commenting on how cute the manager is. Akari HERSELF has become a viral sensation!
From that day the cafe is swamped with fans and onlookers who want to see and take pictures with her. She abides it at first but it soon becomes overwhelming and she wishes things would go back to normal.
There is ONE customer whom Akari will always have time for, Ryota Minato (Jin Shirasu) the guy that she’s secretly in love with and considers her “Shining Prince!”
She is floored when he asks her out for dinner, however, it’s only to give advice on a friend’s new restaurant. Or is it?
For over the meal, it is clear the Ryota really admires Akari, telling her that he’s had his eye on her for awhile. And the reason? He tells her it’s because of her super-positive attitude and the fact that she is always calm and never complains like some do on SNS and the like.
This stuns Akari, not only because she’s surprised he sees her this way…but also the fact that she has a burning secret: she has “another” personality to her!! When her problems become too much, Akari goes to a discreet locker and retrieves a certain costume.
With this in hand, she goes to the Karaoke Room, locks herself in, sets her phone to "record"...and becomes a mad demon who calls out and vents on ALL the things and people who have given her crap that day giving them the NAMAHAGE CHOP!!!
And once she’s raged it all, she uploads it to her humble, secret video site! This is her catharsis for her problems each day, and as long as no one knows about it, where’s the harm?
But with this possible budding romance between her and Ryota, Akari must make some decisions on whether or not she can continue with this “negative” side of hers.
She wishes she could just give it all up for the guy she likes…but with her disjointed family and the burden of her internet fame to deal with, she’s not sure if she can do it without SOME kind out emotional outlet!!!
Man, I was very excited to hear of a new Rio Uchida drama starting! As you all know, I love her very much, and she is just radiant here, super charismatic and lovable as the cluelessly addled Akari!
Also, bonus points for having sexy Saki Takaoka as Akari’s  Mother who has a Youtube Cooking Channel where the guys who watch are there to check her out more than any lessons they might learn!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com