I've been addicted to Japanese dramas but not this much, especially when I found out about a 1999 Drama series named Majo no Jōken (魔女の条件) that shows us the story of a teacher named Hirose Michi(Matsushima Nanako) and a deliquent yet spoiled brat Kurosawa Hikaru(Takizawa Hideaki). It's somehow surprising that it's not just a simple teacher-student relationship but also fighting through all the pains they face against the world and with each other. It also mirrors real life but in a twist: they remained with each other till the end. In real life, most teacher-student relationships that hopes for romance and true love ended up failing(big exception is that of Mary Kay Letorneau).
Speaking of J-Dramas, they are dark, serious but better to understand than Korean or Taiwanese Dramas. In Korean and Taiwanese dramas, love is focused and mostly happy endings. Happy ending everytime makes no sense at all. But in Jdrama, you can see the main characters themselves struggle to either be happy with the flow or just to survive whether they have everything or not. There are times that the ending so vague but it's worth to watch, since it has a lot of "twists" along the way.
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