Shiratori Reiko is a pretty good series i admit to laughing out loud a few times but there are times when the series comes across as campy like for example whenever the main female character introduces herself they have this what i think is a heart shaped effect going on around her and it just seems odd and almost out of place but when the series is funny it will make you laugh so bottom line watch this series but be ready for some camp to come your way

Spoiler Alert!: It's interesting to me to see Japanese TV drama's such as these with the main characters end game being what it is. Makes me think about how close Japanese romantic comedies are close to real Japanese women's fantasies of love. If it is even close at all. I know it's a comedy(parody) but there is always some amount of truth to the jest. What kind of "grandeur's of delusion" is harbored about acquiring and sustaining a relationship by these type of women? Entertaining to watch, Yes it is, but this isn't the first show to have more or less exactly the same theme for love by offering a extremely dangerous and unrealistic ideal to solve one's loneliness simply with marriage alone. Yes, I see development of the characters with the ups and down's and the struggles they face in the show but that is just development of a story for the biger resolution with marriage. Thus, suggesting that the end game of marriage is all that is needed to find true happiness. I'll leave myself open to be wrong and to have overseen other important points in the story but this was my take away. I know it can be interpreted other ways and I'm open to hear it. At any rate, I laughed a few time and found myself entertained so I can't say I hated it or disliked it at all. But, it just makes me wonder if any part of this fantasy TV show maps any bearing on the psyche of real Japanese women's thoughts about love and relationships. Is this a story simply poking fun at life with tongue in cheek or is this a dark satire disguised with happy faces and up beat music?

The characters and the main idea are cute... but I lost interest in the 3rd or 4th episode. I kept watching just to know if anything would change, I thought maybe the series had a slow start but things would become better... didn't happen.
The problems are the same over and over again, and they are not even big problems, but dumb tiny problems that could easily be solved if the characters acted like adults as they are supposed to be instead of 11 year olds. I thought this would be a romantic and funny drama, but I just never got the "feeling" of romance and true love between the main characters.
It does not stink, but I got annoyed sometimes by the dumbness of the characters and how easily they make poor decisions and accept things. If you just want to kill sometime... go ahead and watch it, but don't expect a great show.

yes this is the third version of the drama and i will say that i did enjoy it but i guess i found it odd that there love was so easy to break like every episode like i know it slap stick humor at times and she a very innocent girl and boy but really you both love each others have common sense with this. what i do think is cute is how much work at the end they did to be together. if this is not enough there is a movie coming soon check it out