Ahhhhh, after much crossing of fingers and praying, my wishes have come true and the Satomi Ishihara drama "Heaven?~Gokuraku Restaurant" has been picked up by a subbing team for translation!!! Good things come to those who wait!!!
Heaven? tells the story of an able if introverted waiter named Kan Iga who is diligently working at a high-end French Restaurant.
When he is confronted by a team of unruly bigmouths with a calm and collected manner, this catches the eye of a mysterious woman who has been canvassing French restaurants for a special person for a secret project....
Later that night Iga is confronted by the woman who introduces herself as Kanako Kurosu, and she tells him he is just what she's looking for in a waiter for her OWN restaurant she is starting!
She tells him that under her supervision, he can become a great waiter, and gives him her card (as well as a shakily scrawled map of how to GET to her establishment)!
Iga doesn't quite know what to make of this eccentric woman, but as his job at the restaurant seems to be at an end, he makes the trek to the strange new business. He has been told to show up at night, and when he finds the place and meets the staff, it only gets weirder!
When he gets inside, he meets Kurosu once again, and it's here he finds that each and every employee has been hand-picked by Kanako from various places to create what she considers her dream team to complete her vision!
Iga is quietly satisfied with his choice to join her...til he find out that she expects the barely-put together place to be up and running in an impossible FOUR DAYS time!
Iga and the staff are speechless. It's there that they find out that this Kanako Kurosu has no experience at ALL in staring up a restaurant, much less running one and taking care of the multitude of headaches the business creates!
As she sets down her edicts, they slowly realize that far from an experienced entrepreneur, this Kanako Kurosu is a VERY naive, scatterbrained and spoiled rich girl who comes up with the most outrageous of expectations for the befuddled crew at every turn!
Where to get the food and produce? She doesn't know. Where to get the plates and silverware? She expects them to figure it out. Even the BATHROOMS are merely an afterthought for Kurosu, and, with nary a solution or care for the problems she creates, it's all they can do to keep from strangling her! (LOL)
But the one thing she DOES have is the passion for her dream restaurant. And having experienced camaraderie with his fellow employees for the first time, Iga finds himself wanting to make a go of it!
With consideration of the owner's selfish indulgences, Iga and the crew band together to give it all they have! Will they succeed or will it all end up in tears? Only time will tell!
This is yet another one of Satomi's trademark characters, the "Scatterbrained Rich Girl", which we've seen as recently as Takane No Hana's Momo Tsukushima! Truth be told, her role of Kanako Kurosu gets on my nerves at times. Hope they flesh out her character more so we can begin to start caring about her!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com