A Harem Romance

 
Also had time to check out the very, very silly comedy “Harekon”
After finding out her latest boyfriend has been cheating on her (her third such failed relationship) Koharu Maezono (Haruka Shimazaki) decides to swear off men and packs up to go home.

Upon arriving home, she finds out two things: One, that her family’s coffee shop is set to be seized due to debt incurred during her father’s (Ikkei Watanabe) illness, a real bummer since Koharu planned to work there...

...and two: That the mayor of the town has just announced that Polygamy will be LEGAL!

It seems the new trend is having a Harem Marriage, or, “Hare-kon” and in an effort to boost declining family rates, many towns have opted into this new thing!

Koharu is lamenting the closure of the coffee shop which she grew up in, when a dashing young man named Ryunosuke (Yu Inaba) comes into the cafe for a drink. He gushes over seeing her like a lost friend, but Koharu doesn’t remember him at all.

The next day he shows up back at the Coffee House with two beautiful women,Yuzu (Yurina Yanagi) and Madoka (Nana Asakawa) who Koharu is shocked to find are his two wives! Yes, Ryunosuke has embraced the new harem trend…and hopes to make KOHARU his third! 
Hearing about her money problem, he’s come with a bag of cash but surely this gift must come with some strings attached!

LOL,  Looks like it’s gonna be another “Heroine has a money problem but she can solve it by marrying an affluent guy” that seem to be so ubiquitous nowadays (gads, I still haven’t finished Konin Todoke yet and here we are with the latest!)

Funny, the whole time I was watching it, I kept thinking, huh, that girl looks a little bit like the girl who played Honami Suzuki’s daughter in  "Shufu Katsu”. Little did I know, that’s exactly who it was!

PS- been a few years since I stopped making these screengrab headers for my monthly livejournal entries...maybe I should revisit it sometime...was a pain to make but made the blog look so much nicer than the plain text it is now...

The Art Of Talking: Beshari Gurashi

 "Beshari Gurashi", the story of two young guys who dream of making it big as a Manzai Duo reminded me not just a little of the old 1996 Takeda Shinji/Tsutsui Michitaka drama "Konna Watashi ni Dare ga Shita", and I was gonna pass on it...until I realized Fuka Koshiba AND Mayu Hotta was in it, and immediately grabbed the first three episodes!

So far, been pretty entertaining, with Shotaro Mamiya and Daichi Watanabe as the comedic hopefuls, with Mayu as Mamiya's childhood friend and Koshiba as Watanabe's former partner!

Also Yuma Yamoto and Yurina Yanagi as friends of the main characters...

...We'll see where this goes!

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