Drama Review: The Reason I Can't Find My Love (Watashi ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu)

Lets know about the drama:

•  Language: Japanese
• No of Episodes: 10
• Genre: Romantic Comedy

The Characters:

(From Left to Right) 

• Yuko Oshima (Former AKB48 member) as Mako Hanzawa
• Karina Nose as Emi Fujii
• Yuriko Yoshitaka as Saki Ogura
• Izumi Inamori as Misuzu Shiraishi

and others

Plot:

The Reason I Can't Find My Love" follows the lives of three women who have difficulties in dating and finding love. They all went to the same high-school and now begin to live under the same roof by chance....

My Thoughts:

  I absolutely love this drama. Its my type of drama. Its fun yet deals with the main content of the drama with real depth. Its a romantic comedy, which automatically means its in my favorite Japanese drama list.

Saki-Emi-Mako

The most interesting part of this drama was that the characters are very relate-able.

Each character is shown dealing with their own struggles in life and love.

Mako - Afraid of falling in love with someone; Emi - Finds love bothersome; Saki - Hasn't found true love; Misuzu- Has decided not to be tied down in her professional life due to love/marriage.

All the characters are likeable and the drama does absolute justice to each story.

Though there was a point in the drama where I wanted to shake Mako really hard just to put some self respect in her.

Overall it is super emotional and really tugs your heartstrings in all sort of directions. I feel like a lot of people can relate to the show in one way or another, like i did, because it seems so real and believable.

 

Tit-Bits:

 There are these narration or words in the beginning and end of the drama, which personally really touched my heart.

"Sometimes its good not to worry about love. Take a step back and look things over again. You'll fall in love again. Maybe a new love. May be an old love"

"Although love sometimes goes not as a planned, sometimes it also hurts"

 

 

 (You can find all the quotes episode wise here )

 

 Music to my Ears:

Good background music and original soundtracks of a drama have a major role in making the drama or breaking the drama.

The music of this drama immediately made this drama awesome for me. I enjoyed the music of this drama as I enjoyed the drama.

 

Love Story <Amuro Namie (安室奈美惠)

 Full Music Video- here

Sit! Stay! Wait! Down! (Amuro Namie 安室奈美惠)

I just couldn't find any full videos for this song but a part of it is here

 

Then there is this Instrumental track which I love

私が恋愛できない理由／メインテーマ 

Instrumental- Ballad Version

(Note- Its super hard to find the Original Soundtracks of this drama. I could barely find the instumental version.)

 

Final Word:

I would definitely recommend this drama. Its fun and definitely touches your heart. Its hard to find a drama that is both. Everyone can relate to this drama one way or the other. I found a pieces of myself in this drama. So just watch it and you would not regret it.