Everything felt somehow off here!

This is a story about a journalist and a photographer working for a investigative news magazine.They start off as enemies but very quickly things between them become serious as they investigate "case of the week". Things change when journalist goes investigating all by himself, without the photographer.

Ameiro Paradox is a weird title. The manga has been sitting on my "Plan to Read" list forever now but I never got around to reading it so I do not really understand the title!
Practically every episode deals with a different case they investigate. And in the background their relationship develop. It is mostly one sided. Onoe, the journalist very quickly falls for Kaburagi. These characters are such opposites. Onoe is a child, behaving and thinking like a 2 year old(vexed, sulky, throwing temper tantrums!) so much so one cannot help but wonder how he managed to become investigative journalist: every time he tries to follow someone, he is so conspicuous his target notices him immediately: he is clumsy and unconvincing! Kaburagi, on the other hand is an adult, with adult experiences in adult world, who knows how to investigate and in the beginning he cannot believe that he had been saddled with such an incompetent journalist child but he quickly falls under his charm.

And there is the word that keeps repeating: quickly! They go from enemies to friends to lovers in a blink of an eye! This is also based on a manga so there is some manga like exaggerated behaviour ! But I must give it to them they managed to tone it down quite a bit!

Other reviewers mentioned that the lack of communication as the plot feature moving the story forward, is a hge problem with this drama. I'd take it a bit further, and say that the problem is the characters: when you have a child and an adult interacting, the child will act as any child would by not speaking and sulking and hiding in their room. Towards the end, Kaburagi seems to have been too long under the child Onoe's influence that even he starts behaving like a child and sulk!

The love story is not convincing either: they have no chemistry. I was more interested in Editor-in-Chief and his sidekick: their story seems to be more interesting so I am a bit disappointed we never really find more about those two together!

Mercifully it is short and easy to watch, there is no unnecessary toxicity or serious conflict. But the whole series is far from convincing: everything seemed unreal. Even the streets were weirdly empty!

You can watch it if you need something beginning with A for the Alphabet Drama Challenge like myself. If not, you won't miss anything if you skip it. Maybe just a couple of skinship scenes in the last episode!