Fan reviews: Strawberry on the shortcake

areshi · 5 Aug 2011

I just wanna aired again in the Philippine TV station that JDORAMA coz the story is very nice! 100%

ester_grace · 24 Dec 2010

Perfect chemistry from takky & kyoko, I really like them as a couple.. They were the main reason I watched this for many times.

mrsmith10 · 11 Oct 2010

I really don't understand the negative reviews that this series gets. SOS is a great drama, with a great storyline and the cute as usual Kyoko Fukada. Though as much as I love Kyoko it's Takizawa who really shines in this drama. I loved his character Manato and I can really relate to him growing up. I love how he narrates the story in the past tense and his line "dakara kimi no koto ga wasurenai yo," which means "that's why I'll never forget you." Rina's and Yosuke's characters are solid as well. The love triangle is complex and leaves you curious to see what happens next. I also love the dramatic ending, especially since it's a happy ending when the story 99% of the way through leads you to expect a sad one. I also love the ABBA music in this drama, it fits the drama perfectly. This drama is better than any American romance movie and the acting in this series is better than it's given credit for.

MonsterZero65 · 15 Aug 2010

This is a kind of love it or hate it drama for most people. I did not really like it very much myself. I liked Uchiyama Rina in this a lot though. It was my first time watching her and I thought she was the best part of the drama. Sadly her roll is short. I liked the music and that was about it... Sadly.

Yola · 27 Nov 2009

Despite the plot being relatively simple this drama is definitely worth watching. The cast is excellent, I loved all of the characters. The actors made them very real and human. This drama makes you think about love and relationships. I didn't think it was too slow; the story developed very naturally. I don't think that the ending can be foreseen easily, until the very last minute I thought every option might be realistic. This drama has a very special feeling to it which is very rare (I had this feeling after watching "Yasashii Jikan" or "Hitoni Yasashiku")
I highly recommend it!

MonsterZero-65 · 13 Nov 2009

I am sorry but I could not just get into this drama. I watched the whole series and really wanted to like it but I didn't. Hideaki Takizawa and Kyoko Fukada both did fine but Uchiyama Rina was so outstanding in this story and stole the show in my opinion. I started to like her as a result of her perfomance but the story seemed week and there just was not much to it. I kept waiting for something that never happened.

sos_fukada · 16 Jan 2009

The Best JDorama i've ever seen..and i've watched 40 JDorama already..and this is the greatest ones! Kyoko Fukada is the cutest ones and her cute senpai, Kubozuka Yosuke is amazing ones! Hideaki Takizawa and Uchiyama Rina was a great also! Near perfect ones!

Ø“ÞŽq · 11 Sep 2008

i kept trying and trying to keep watching this .... kyoko fukada is immensely annoying and the drama just lacks substance and emotion. I can't sympathise with any of the characters and I don't believe the actors' performances. And to think I just got excited about Tackey after watching his amazing performance in majo no jouken to be disappointed in SOS and Boku dake no madonna.. sigh

ryuuseigun · 27 Sep 2007

i only watched it coz of tackey..duh..it was alittle draggy but damn tackey is so hot i cnt help myself watching it...i love the episode where he graduated from being a 'cherry'(that lucky hoe..grrr)..tackey kakoi!

fujimay · 15 Aug 2007

I watched this series because of Yosuke. well, im a bit disappointed beacuse he's not the lead actor but its okey cause he was really cool in this. it's just that it irritates me seeing him with the teacher. Well, i can't say that this is a really good series since i skipped some parts of it but i gave it the rating of 6.... first because of Yosuke... and second because it really has a good ending.

itachi666 · 13 May 2007

There is a certain phrase that Manato always says that kept me asking myself "Why am I even watching this?". Kept watching and from episode 6, I was suffering till the last 10 minutes of the last episode. SPOILER: It really bothers me that I didnt know earlier that Yui liked him. I hated how much she and Manato suffered. It was an excruciating dorama. Had me completely hooked.

rendy_pranadithya · 25 Nov 2006

not good but not bad either.. the drama was helped by the strength of act of kyoko fukada

Wynter · 12 Nov 2006

Before I go into the many things disastrous about this drama, let me start off by saying that the actual storyline was not completely helpless. The idea of questioning who one can fall in love with is a great concept, and ideally we would have seen this explored through the relationship between female teacher and male student, and two people brought together under the titlehood of "siblings", but otherwise being unattached by blood. This alone should have been enough to make a hitc but somehow the creators of Strawberry on the Shortcake lost all direction and all intelligence.

To start with, the casting was terribly done. The only actors who held any talent were Kubozuka Yosuke and Uchiyama Rina, but their characters were so lame that even their acting ability couldnft save the dismalness of their roles. This was my first drama with Takizawa Hideaki and I can truly band together with all the other haters now in proclaiming that watching him act is far less amusing than watching a dog lick his own butt. He may be nice to look at, but his acting leaves much to be desired. This was my second time seeing Fukada Kyoko in a drama and although she, too, is nice to look at, her acting was nothing spectacular.

So, bad actors, plus bad characters, makes for a bad combination. The characters | every single one of them | were the most selfish and annoying I have ever witnessed in a drama. I understand that the creators wanted to portray the angst, fear, and ignorance of youth, but instead they created selfish, whinny, annoying, and fearfully demented characters. I had no sympathies for either of them (tho I did feel for Rina-chanfs character in the first few episodes).

In all, the drama could have been a masterpiece, but poor planning and poor direction totally destroyed any attempts at making this a success. I would not recommend this drama, watch at your own risk.

AmaiTenshi · 26 Jul 2006

I really started watching this because of Kubozuka Yosuke, because he has yet to disappoint me with his amazing acting. I quit after the first few episodes, because I didn't like the story at that point, and I didn't like any of the characters--including Yosuke's. I'd already downloaded the whole thing, though, so I continued to watch it at about an episode a month. The story was too slow, not to mention somewhat pointless seeming and depressing, and overall, it just didn't pull me in. Somewhere around episode 8 or so, though, I started getting interested, and I ended up watching the entire end of the series at once.

I've gotta say, the last few episodes redeemed the whole series in my eyes. I realize others could feel different, but after an entire series of one depressing, unrequited love after another, and knowing this was JUST the kind of series where all the characters killed themselves (or each other) in a tragic, depressing way, I was so happy when everything worked out, and everyone was happy in the end. Also, I finally got to like Kyokofs and Hideaki's characters (until the last few episodes, I really kind of hated them).

I don't know if I'd exactly 'recommend' you see this series, but if you're a big fan of any of the 4 main characters, you should probably give it a try, because I thought they all performed very, very well (particularly, of course, the incredibly talented Kubozuka Yosuke!). Final thoughts? This series was painful to watch, but Ifd say it was worth it.

idiscolikeathug · 14 May 2006

I thought this drama was okay, but it lacked a certain thing for me. It wasn't as interesting as I'd hope but overall, it's still worth the watch.

mieux · 12 May 2006

i really love this drama and manato !!!

marsqurine · 17 Mar 2006

This started out okay, but I find myself hooked on this drama as time goes by :) I actually find myself feeling for the drama especially in the ending. It was really touching :)

V(~^____^~)S · 19 Sep 2005

I watched this show juss cuz of Tackey, but I was really disappointed. It was definately not his best performance. and that one girl, the main character ahh I forget her name.... Kyoko! ya her... her acting was so bad, I seriously couldn't tell when she was smiling or grimacing. It was like she permantly had one expression.

The plot was so boring that I couldn't even finish it, I juss totally gave up on ep. 8.

even though the acting was bad and the plot sucked, it's really not a bad show. I found the whole thing really.... for lack of a better word, artsy. Like even the story line was really surreal and fantasyish. the ending song was so beautiful. It was actually the more artistic ending I've ever seen and I fell completely in love with it.

so ya, basically the show sucked but the song was amazing. XDXD

karmyk · 14 Sep 2005

I went into this dorama only being familiar with one of the actors: Kubozuka Yosuke (from GTO). Thus, I didn't really have any preconcieved notions about what to expect from the other actors or actresses.

I say this dorama was unintentionally interesting because I didn't really care much for the main characters, who not only bored me, but annoyed me to the point that I almost stopped watching the Dorama. I understand that Manato (Takizawa) was playing the part of someone who was more or less an emotional coward.. so I don't blame Manato's overwhelming dullness on the actor.. But for some reason, I'm convinced that I was supposed to see Yui (Fukada) as an innocent and cute angel... but she came across to me like an annoying, spoiled brat.

What I found more interesting, instead, was how the personalities and relationships of two of the supporting characters, Haruka (Uchiyama) and Saeki (Kubozuka), developed as a result of their involvement in the lives of the main characters... Sawamura Haruka being the most interesting because she seems to be the one who actually changes and develops as a character the most throughout the show (and quite possibly the only one who really matures as a character).

The pace was slow... but it made sense. The series lasted only 10 episodes, but it ends well-- somewhat open-ended, but with a fair amount of closure. Actually, what I found out in the real end-- the one that came after the credits on episode 10, specifically about the fates of Haruka and Saeki-- actually was what gave the series a satisfying amount of closure to me.

Thus, MAKE SURE YOU WATCH AFTER THE CREDITS ON THE LAST EPISODE!!!!

Shindou · 14 Sep 2005

An OK jdorama. Plotwise, it has a nice but somewhat shallow feel to it. However, the jdrama was unexpectedly thought-provoking for me. Not an exceptionally captivating tale but perhaps worth watching for fans of any of those actors or actresses in it.