''Algernon ni Hanataba O'' is a thought-provoking drama. It's quite an emotional ride - it makes you happy, sad, even angry and frustrated.

The drama follows Saku's journey from being ''stupid'' and ''not equal'' to becoming smart, ''equal'' and unfortunately, very lonely. The drama shows that to be smart and to have knowledge is one thing, but being happy and making the people you love happy is much more important. I feel like this is something we, people, often forget. Even if you are genius, if you're unhappy, then your existence won't have any meaning or purpose. People should learn to accept others as they are - with their positive and negative sides. I believe humans are perfectly imperfect and trying to change yourself completely to fit this shitty world and society is needless and wrong. Everyone has their own flaws and that's what makes us humans. Having emotions makes us humans. The drama delivers this message excellently.

The characters were all very well-written. My personal favourite character is Hiyama - as soon as I saw this man, I fell in love with him. Yanagawa Ryuuichi is an interesting character indeed. He was horrible at times, some of his words were very painful and inconsiderate. His behaviour was extremely annoying at some scenes. However, no matter how flawed he was, he grew on me a lot.

Haruka, however, was very unlikable character. I could accept her behaviour and I tried my best to understand her, but at the end, she was a character that I didn't care about at all. Which leads me to the romance between her and Saku which I didn't like. I don't think this drama needs any romance between these two. I do understand the writer's idea, but I'm still not a fan of it. The other couple though - Rio and Hiyama were very adorable!

Yamashita Tomohisa is excellent as Shiratori Sakuto, one of the best performances I've ever seen. Kubota Masataka was a show stealer though or maybe I'm too biased. The other performances were good, too.

So overall, I recommend ''Algernon Ni Hanataba O'' to everyone. It's very well-written drama and even with its negative sides, I enjoyed watching it a lot.