Up In The Air with "Nice Flight"

Airport-based Romcom featuring a young pilot named Sui Kurata (Yuta Tamamori) who finds a connection to the voice of an air-traffic tower controller when she guides he and his co-pilot Nanami Kitami (Michiko Kichise) out of a tense landing situation.

Drawn to the soothing and concise voice during his missions, he becomes obsessed with finding the woman behind the voice in hopes of thanking her for her service…little does he know but he’s already bumped into her!

Her name is Mayu Shibuya (Anne Nakamura), and though she is stoic and sure-footed behind the microphone of the Air Traffic tower, she is a gruff and introverted person outside, and after literally bumping into Kurata outside, has decidedly negative feeling towards him!

During a goukon (of sorts) which CA Rikako (Tomoka Kurokawa) has put together (to hook up with a mechanic James (Ukon Onoe), LOL), both Kurata and Shibuya are rooked into attending, and when he realizes both Shibuya and new trainee Kasumi Kawahara (Tina Tamashiro) work in the control tower, Kurata asks if any of them know the woman behind the voice.

Though both girls know it is Shibuya that Kurata is looking for, they say not a word, and in fact Kurata manages to get even further under Shibuya’s skin!

Things could have been left at that, but when Shibuya’s bicycle chain breaks as she's ready to go home, Kurata takes it upon himself to repair it, and a truce is made. For the first time, Shibuya can see the good side of him!

It’s during this short time that they make a connection between each other, alas it is seemingly too late as the crafty Kawahara, who is interested in Kurata, has lied and taken credit as the woman whose voice he was looking for! (Nooooo Tina!!!!)

A fairly basic Airport drama of which we’ve seen many times, I suspect the bulk of this show will be the usual: irate or incapacitated passenger problems, prideful or put-out personnel, etc, however it features a nice cast and I’ve been looking forward to seeing Anne Nakamura branch off into bigger roles like this!

PS: While I was anticipating this drama for the Anne Nakamura goodness, I had no idea Tina Tamashiro was going to be a part of it til she tweeted out some behind the scenes pics on her twitter before the first episode!!

Awww, so glad to be seeing her again, even though it seems a very naughty role at that!

Just what are you up to, Tina?!

The Devil Wears Prada, Japan Version

 The story of the meek assistant and the domineering boss is an oft used trope of dramas, yet “Oh! My Boss! Koi wa Bessatsu de!” manages to make it fun and interesting show, one which I couldn't stop watching!

Mone Kamishiraishi is the shy and reserved Nami Suzuki, a girl who has only come to Tokyo to follow her childhood crush, but by chance ends up working for a new Fashion Magazine as the harried assistant of the Devilishly demanding supervisor Reiko Horai.

From day one Nami is put to task answering to all of Horai’s demands, running back and forth with parcels, setting up meetings, calling cabs and of course getting her coffee first thing in the morning! Horai has been appointed to held the launch of a new fashion magazine and she intends to put everyone to work to achieve her goals!

Wehn Nami feels she can’t go on, a young man whom she has met by chance, a pro photographer named Junnosuke (Yuta Tamamori) is there to offer support and keep her going.

Indeed, she soon becomes charmed by this guy and when he asks her help in pretending to be his girlfriend to get his parents off his back about marriage proposals, she jumps at the chance!

And so begins Nami’s double life of playing girlfriend to the kind Junnosuke while at the same time juggling the crushing task of being Reiko Horai’s overwhelmed assistant! 

Mone Kamishiraishi is slowly becoming a new fave of mine with her sweet and innocent portrayals of the wide-eyed, naive girls in the big city!

Like her earlier character Nanase Sakura in the drama “Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Dokomademo”, Mone completely captures the small-town girl dazzled by the bright lights off the big city whose sincerity wins over even the hardest of hearts!

Posted by Zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com