[review]: Love Shuffle - ラブシャッフル

[rosa_elefante]

Few weeks ago (maybe two) I started watching the drama 'Love Shuffle'; I was curious about it because yaoilicious_53
said in a meme that it was her favorite dorama, and che suggested me to watch it because it's beautiful...
And she was right!! I watched it in almost a week, and I loved every single moment!
But what is this drama about?

 

Usami Kei (Tamaki Hiroshi): a man who was dumped by his girlfriend Mei (Kanjiya Shiori) just before their marriage.
Aizawa Airu (Karina): a beautiful young interpreter with a character a bit masculine.
Sera Ojiro (Matsuda Shota): a playboy photographer always surrounded by beautiful women.
Kikuta Masato (Tanihara Shosuke): a kind psychiatrist obsessed with giving nicknames to others.
They are the residents of the top floor of a luxurious building; one evening they remain closed into the elevator because of a blackout. Then they start chatting with each other to spend the time: so they discover that they live on the same floor and that they're all dissatisfied with their love life. One of them, Kikuta Masato, offers to the others to partecipate with their partners in a game called 'Love Shuffle'. The rules? Each of them will have to change partners every week for 2 months, and at the end of the ga,e they can choose whether to return or not with their original partner.

I don't know how to explain why this drama is so special. From the plot maybe it seems an ordinary romantic comedy, but it's not only this. True, the main theme is love, the drama is funny and fecs everything very lightly, but it talks about some serious topics too, like suicide.
It was especially nice seeing the interaction between the characters, and how each one seemed to be confortable with every partner.

My 'favorite' couple was UsamixAiru. Omitting the fact that Usa-tan was my favorite character in the drama, those two together are a great couple.. Maybe because they're friends, maybe because they fight often, maybe because together they could be at the same time sweet and stupid... But they're great <3

 

Another pair I liked was the one YukichixKairi (respectively DAIGO and Yoshitaka Yuriko). Sadly they didn't interact so much, I think that together they were a very cute couple. I think they're similar to each other: at the end they were both looking for a bit of love!
Also, UsamixKairi wasn't bad. But maybe this is only because  I loved the scene were he bought her the panda (YAY, PANDA!)

 

I HAVE to mention Tara-chans XD Or Yukki and Usa-tan, two men totally different that became great friends. And I liked Yukichi's character: he's obsessive, he's a stalker, and at the beginning he was a bit annoying because he always tried to please others. But he changed during the drama and... well, he's cute XD

But the thing I liked more was the friendship that was born almost immediatly between the 4 residents of the building. Most of the better scenes were the ones where they were together drinking in the hallway at night. I love their pajama-parties ♥

Sadly, a character that I really didin't like was Mei's one. She's a kind of person that I don't like: always changing her mind and making the others (Usami) suffer u_u
(Sorry if I didn't talk abou Kiku-rin, Ojiro and Reiko-san... I like them, but their character didn't left on me a very deep impression XD)

Conclusion: AWSOME !

Comments

[rosa-elefante.livejournal.com]

I heard good things about that drama!
I'll try it (because your last suggestion was so good XD)