I am officially 0 / 2 after potentially making the move to expand my drama list by adding J-Dramas to my list. Maybe I made the mistake of picking two dramas that were based off manga, but I thought it would have helped since I grew up loving manga. But I have learned to realize that manga and dramas have two different vibes. Yes, they can translate well into anime or dramas, but this one seemed very incomplete. I am not sure if that is what the manga was like, as I did not read it, but it was basically a premise I have seen before (nothing new), but I felt like in those other stories, they seemed to feel a little more complete. Such as, in this drama, I felt like the characters jumped through a single hurdle which almost made them finally confess their feelings for one another, but that was it. When the grandfather was like, "you passed the first test," I was like...uhm...wait...there are no more episodes? The ending was fine, don't get me wrong. What they were both willing to do to take all the blame off of one another and all on themselves, was cute, but I wanted to see more of that cute aspect.

Nonomura Hana is a very strong character who stands up for what she believes in, no matter how hard the task, and also leaves room to tease Takane whenever she can. Saibara Takane was a complicated character. I definitely have seen his type of person in many other stories. One example that is coming to mind is Uehara Hisashi from Good Morning Call. Literally, the whole vacation to the springs episode was literally identical. Given, I would rather watch this drama than Good Morning Call any day, as Hisashi was way more stubborn that Takane, and Takane was hella stubborn. But, he was easily swayed by Hana and was actually pretty solid guy behind the scenes. I think the reason why I wasn't in love with his character as I could have been was because towards the middle when he has to learn how to live without his "trust fund," and even though Hana told him she basically liked him not because of his money, he still distanced himself from her because he thought that all that was likable about him was money. Which blew my mind. He was so confident in himself throughout the drama, as well as confident in his feelings for Hana, but the moment he became a lower middle class worker, he blew her off, with zero intention of ever seeing her again. Like damn dude. It hurt me because it was a double blow for Hana. The fact that he ghosted her after their cute af vacation and the fact that he thought that she was only attracted to him if he had money. But ultimately, I did give this drama a little higher or a score because I realized half way through that Takasugi Mahiro (Takane) played one of my favorite characters in my still #1 Jdrama, Kakegurui. I watch episode after episode until Takane opened up and we saw how extra and funny he was...and I realized that I had seen his extraness before.

Overall, I won't watch this again, but it was cute. Just predictable and nothing really new.