zelie

Wonderful drama, great performances from all the cast. The main strength of this drama is the script, the writers treated difficult topics like child abuse and adoption with sensitivity and never took the easy way out. The backstory of Reina/Tsugumi's mother is quite an eye-opener, the drama makes no excuses for her failure to protect her daughter while helping you to understand how she ended up the way she did.
There was just one thing I found annoying about this drama: too much of the dialogue is whispered, often in scenes where it makes no sense to whisper.

Somehow the writers managed to turn a wickedly funny manga into a sentimental crapfest. They also missed out the best storylines which doesn't make any sense. The cast all did a great job from the teachers to Tarou's younger siblings but good acting can't redeem a bad script. Nino did his best to portray Tarou with the poor material he was given to work with. This is a sad example of writers who don't know how to translate manga into live action drama successfully.