Special Delivery from Marie Iitoyo in “Sono Goen Otodokeshimasu”

This humble drama reminded me a bit of “Midnight Diner”- that show featured “slice of life” stories based around a hole in the wall Izakaya; in "Sono Goen, Otodokeshimasu: Mercari de Atta Honto no Hanashi" , these stories are centered around the packages that a young girl named Riko Kuroe (Marie Iitoyo) delivers, and how they touch and affect both the sender and the recipient!

In the first tale we have Kuroe deliver a DVD of an old rock band named Mighty Ducks to a young fan named Takayuki (Mizuki Itagaki) who recently discovered them on Youtube. 

As a lonely guy who is constantly bullied by his peers, he finds strength in the Mighty Ducks music and has become obsessed with them, ordering collectibles online to feed his fandom!

What Takayuki doesn’t know is that the vendor selling him the Mighty Ducks goods is none other than Miyashita, (Asaka Kodai) the former lead singer of Mighty Ducks!  With his youthful heyday long behind him, Miyashita has put his old music career behind him and has been try to move on into the “real” world.

Very nice story of two guys: one a young, enthusiastic hopeful boy with a love of music and dreams of a career in rock, and the other, a bitter, jaded musician who has faced the hard reality of  the music business and has given up. Together, they manage to inspire each other.

And of course, between them all is Kuroe, delivering through packages the expressions that the two want to convey to each other!

Not sure how involved we are going to get with Kuroe’s personal life in this show, like Midnight Diner’s Master, it seems they are the fixtures that encourage the catalysts that form their customers stories...

A VERY relaxing and thoughtful show to watch at the end of a long day!

Posted by zdorama@zdoramaagain.blogspot.com