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Kingyo Tsuma (2022)
An enjoyable J-drama
There are a lot of things this tv show does right. The cinematography is really great. They use really inventive camera angles to get a lot of actors in a single shot and (most of the time) this works out great. I speak a little bit of Japanese but not enough to judge if the actors were great or not. However, their acting felt pretty good and there weren't many scenes where I noticed a lot of bad acting (although there are some scenes where bad acting becomes pretty apparent). The score was also really nice. The usage of classical instruments worked really well with the beautiful cinematography.
Now onto the 'bad' side of this show. The pacing in this show is all over the place. The audience does not get enough time to process all the information that the show is giving. There are also a lot of plot lines that the audience has to keep track of (there are several housewifes, each with their own story line). The show also has several cliches which I will not explicitly write down because of spoilers. I will however give one example to explain the extremely fast pacing of the show:
SPOILER--> The female lead gets into a fight with her husband. He slaps and beats her during this fight and he also smashes her fishbowl on the ground, cutting her hand open. She rightfully flees from their apartment and runs to the guy she bought the fishbowl from. He tends to her wounds and talks to her for a bit (this indicates that he knows that she has had a fight and he also knows that she is married. Later scenes make it even more apparent that he knew that her husband was abusive). After cleaning her wounds they start making out and they even have sex... Why??? It really feels like he is taking advantage of her situation. If they had put an episode between the fight and the love scene it wouldn't have felt so wrong but they put it the fight and the love scene in less than 10 minutes... There are more instances where the pacing of the show is way too fast.
Let me finish by saying that it is really nice to see a new J-drama produced by Netflix. Netflix has a lot of amazing K-dramas but unfortunately not that many J-dramas so it's awesome to see that they are trying out new things. All in all it was a pretty enjoyable show and I hope Netflix keeps making more J-dramas like this one.
Ano hi mita hana no namae o bokutachi wa mada shiranai.: Ano Natsu ni Saku Hana (2011)
Tears
I cried super hard throughout the entire episode. I really recommend you watch the entire anime though, it's super good.