Shiawase ni Narou yo

Predictable - but still an enjoyable drama. Boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl... well you get the idea.

Nothing really original here and it's basically your typical Jdorama formula series (lot's of running by the male lead and lot's of walking slowly by the female lead reflecting/thinking), but still and for whatever reason I kept watching. Kuroki Meisa is seriously pretty, and despite her narrow range in playing this character (she seems to play really just one emotion here), she kind of fits the part well. Katori Shingo plays another nice guy like he did in Flower Shop Without Roses, which is a much better romance drama.

Katori's character does get annoying towards the end, as you would think that he would be smarter in realizing faster his love for Kuroki Meisa, especially since he's a master match maker.

Dispite some flaws with the script, I realiized that I enjoyed this drama because it had a happy ending. So many JDorama don't finish well and you're left feeling a bit empty at the end. At least here almost all the characters get what they want.... so how could you not like that!

Finished yesterday watching "Shiawase ni Narou yo", though it wasn't anything great I still enjoyed it; I found Katori Shingo and Takahata Atsuko particularly good, while the rest of the cast did a decent job (with the exception of Naka Riisa, whom I found as incredibly annoying as she was in "Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo" - at least this hairstyle suited her better, but seriously...does she always "act" that way?...>__<)

If we had the chance to give half points I'd give it 6.5, but since we can't, let's be generous, LOL: 7/10