Crush Of The Day: Riho Yoshioka (Again!)

I had predicted at the very beginning of the wacky futuristic comedy "Toki wo Kakeruna Koibitotachi" that I was gonna once again fall helplessly in love with Riho Yoshioka- And SURE ENOUGH, the role of Megu Tokiwa has to be one of the most endearing and adorable characters Riho's done yet!

So wide eyed, sweetly naive, and clumsily dorky, she was charming me left and right in each and every episode, but BOY, the last couple of episodes really went over the TOP as Megu and her eccentric love interest Kakeru (Eita) journeyed into the past (looks like the early 90's?) and we got to see entire episodes of Riho duked out in the CUTEST outfit, a smart striped summer dress complete with stylishly oversized shades- OH MY GOSH, I couldn't stop taking screencaps, she was SO DARLING!

The comical nature of this series permits both Riho and Eita into giving the most wacky, exaggerated expressions to every scenario, each one a PERFECT PICTURE which could tell a story in itself! Before I knew it I had a folder full of screen-caps and Riho had once again become "Crush of the Day"!!!

Below: Kakeru: "I wrote you a love letter!"

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Well! Looks like she likes it!

"But you wrote by name wrong."

LOLOL

In ways, Riho here reminds me of Keiko Kitagawa's early comedy stuff- stuff like Mop Girl, where each situation got the cutest reactions out of her and made for some wonderful screengrabs... Riho's charm just oozes out of the screen!

We are at episode 7 of Toki wo Kakeruna Koibitotachi (out of a total 10) and, without so much as a waver, has remained my #1 must watch of the season since it began! 

True, it's no epic, earthshaking drama, instead simple and light in substance and should only be taken as a fun comedy to while away the time, but it's been such a sweet and, at times, really touching ride, one which I don't want to get off of!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com

Back to The Future with Riho Yoshioka and the Gang

Riho Yoshioka stars in ”Toki Wo Kakeruna Koibitotachi”, a cute story about a young advertising designer named Megu Tokiwa who gets recruited into a futuristic team of Time Police  led by Kakeru Iuru (Eita) whose job it is to catch illegal time travelers (a la Retake), repair the damage they made, and take them back to their futures!

One of those stories where the time traveling aspect is treated very lackadaisily as a vehicle to set up the stories of the illegal time jumpers, rather than shown in any serious technical fashion, this one focused more on the human side of things and actually ended quite sweet and touching. And that’s just the first episode!

Megu Tokiwa, Ad Designer

...suddenly sucked down into another dimensional headquarters where she meets a group of rather...unusual people!

"Will you join us for the sake of the WORLD?"

Below: The Team of Eita, Jiro, Marika Ito, Gota Ishida

"They want me to join...THEM?"

Later, Megu reluctantly coming aboard.

"SO....How does this WORK?"

Rion gets an alert: it's a new time trespasser!

Megu gets the crash course in Time Theory...

Confronting the outlier and hopefully bringing everything to a peaceful close.

As is the fashion nowadays, each episode of Toki Wo Kakeruna Koibitotachi is a mere 22 minutes long, just enough time to set up the plot, introduce the characters and solve the case all at once!

Must add that Riho is back as her cute and irresistible self again, after the sombre and melancholy “Rakujitsu” it was high time to see the whimsical and playful Riho again!

The dimples that can bring world peace!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com