rambles & mumbles...

It feels like ages since the last time I watch a romance themed drama, well not that long, but you know with the rows of detective-themed drama... yeah, it's been ages. And yey for the new lovey dovey Getsu9 drama and this time it's Oguri Shun's turn to grace FujiTV's Getsu9. And from the first 2 episodes, I'm loving it! Is J-drama finally picking up K-drama formula minus the merry go round plots? We'll see in the next episodes to come, but for now, let's enjoy what this drama offers us...

The story? As the title suggests (yeah yeah yeah, the title not so damn creative and the story idea is not that original as well, but who cares? It's Oguri Shun!) we have the rich guy, Hyuga Toru, who is the up and coming dot com start up high flyer (hello Facebook/Google whichever replica) and roughly earn 60K$$ per hour (the subtitle says so!) and on the other side we have the poor Todai almost graduate student, Sawaki Chihiro, who's struggling to find a job. So, both are living in a totally different world, so how their path comes across each other? Well, like any other companies, Next Innovation is also opening themselves to the new hopeful university graduates to join their empire, and off course, Chihiro jumps to the bandwagon. But, alas, Toru, though genius in his own way, is a quite obnoxious personality (he has the right to be so, he's the big big big boss) and their first encounter well... not so good. So you have the main couple, but what about the rivals? Yes, this is a romance themed, off course it has to be a square love drama (love triangle is so in the past). We have Asahina siblings to haunt the main couple. The sister, Yoko, is a quite successful chef opening a restaurant next to the Next Innovation building. She obviously likes Toru from the very beginning, it's so obvious from the gestures etc. And, the brother, Kosuke, is Toru's partner in crime. Together with Toru, they created Next Innovation from the ... during their university time... sounds familiar? LOL, told you not that original, but did anyone care? It's Oguri Shun!

So where's the juice? Apart from being totally opposite in the bank account section, Toru and Chihiro is bipolar in terms of their memory. Toru despite being a genius, can't remember people's face and name, while Chihiro can remember... everything. But there's a catch in Toru's memory glitch, he remembers 1 name, Sawaki Chihiro. Why? and Why it's so coincidence that Chihiro is Sawaki Chihiro? Is it that coincidence? Or it's all planned? Stay tuned!

Now the characters... I like Chihiro a lot. She's timid but when pressed she's panicking and all she'll burst our the speedy words in chirpy sounds. It's cute and funny. Her off mode is totally zombie-ish, no energy at all. But she's earnestly a hardworking girl, just that has not really discovered what she wants to do with her life after graduation, aside from working. Toru on the other hand is breaming with confidence and charisma to the point of being an jackass. The close description is a Doumyouji who earned his own money, so I'd expect Toru to be... well more DoS LOL.. So far I've seen Toru scolding Chihiro like crazy just because she blurted out something unexpected after she saved his a$$, Doumyouji much? And an apology means awkwardly scolding Chihiro in public place with all eyes staring at them. OK, from this angle it's a total K-drama type of male lead. But hey, it's Oguri Shun (how many times I've mention this LOL). I hope to see some angst on Yoko and a battle between Toru and Yosuke... See, we've laid out what we want to see and hope the producing team grant us what we want :).

Last note, OST by Miwa, it's such a nice upbeat song to get the excitement on the happy moments. So, yay for rabu rabu Getsu9 drama!