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I watched eight episodes and gave up on this series so my views come from just those episodes and not the series as a whole (personally, I wanted to stop watching after episode one, but I kept hoping it would "get better" because the premise is interesting enough. Unfortunately, this series did not come through for me.) One reason why I think Yaoh failed was because of its actors/actresses. The ones who play the main characters cannot act. period. And the second reason, is the overly corny script. Even the serious moments became laugh-out-loud moments because it was dripping with drama and the lines were just eye roll inducing. An example? Matsuoka Masahiro's character (Ryousuke) asking Kaname Jun's character if he could "make every woman in the world happy"...and Kaname Jun's character replying...with a STRAIGHT face "yes, you can". This basically becomes his slogan, he mentions it at least twice in each episode. And that overly emotional relationship with Remi-san was just pointless. Good actors can convince the viewer that he IS what he is acting to be. And from the eight episodes, Matsuoka did not convince me at all. The music did nothing to save the series either. Similar to the script and the acting, it is often over-the-top without meaning. Especially the music playing in the background while the "Number 1 Host" of the Romeo Club was talking was too much. It made him look comical rather than the "sophisticated, cool" character that I'm (guessing) he was supposed to be.