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Okay, I realize there are a lot of stupid issues with this drama. To begin with, it really annoyed me how Mika�fs mother�fs story began in the EXACT same way as hers. I mean, the boyfriends even had the same lines, with the EXACT words. I know they were trying to show how Mika�fs chance meeting with Ryosuke was similar to her mother�fs tragic love (who happens to be Ryosuke�fs own father), but to make it that exact just ruined the reality of the coincidence (or fate) of the situation. Also, the fact that Mika and Ryosuke fell in love at the end of the second episode, far too quickly after they met, was also unrealistic. It felt really rushed and there wasn�ft enough ground for their relationship. It felt like Mika was forcing herself to fall in love simply because she wanted to feel what her mother had felt, and Ryosuke was conveniently available.

It was also annoying how the Diary entries revealed throughout the duration of the show served only to shadow the incidents in the main love story. For example, Ryosuke is asked to go to Korea, and asks Mika to go with him. She pulls out her mother�fs diary and TA DAA! There�fs an entry where her mother and boyfriend went to Korea. This happens a lot and it�fs dumb. It takes away from the actual power of the Diary itself.

And lets not forget the melodrama. I mean, they go off to Korea, and the same day Ryosuke�fs mother randomly goes mental, and Inoue is randomly stabbed in the back. After episode 7, things just went downhill at an abrupt pace�c from being siblings, to introducing a third lover, to getting amnesia, Kamiya�fs book being published out of thin air, Ryosuke learning Korean over night, even Mika�fs seeming indifference to the fact that she has an estranged father and a brother she�fs never met�c

So�c I KNOW and can see the many issues this drama has�c and yet I still can�ft dislike it. I mean, I don�ft necessarily love it, but I don�ft dislike it. And I can�ft dislike it because I find Mika�fs situation so much like my own. Her problem about not really knowing who she is, because of her culture clashing with her birthplace�c clashing with everything she knows, and coming from such a strict family with rules she just doesn�ft understand�c being forced into a marriage when all she wants is to marry a man who will love her for who she is, just as she as, and not because of where she�fs from or where she lives. This is me exactly. Because of this, no matter its faults, I find that I liked Tokyo Wankei�fs story. I could relate to the plot, and to Mika. Regardless.