Last night I started watching a Japanese TV drama called Hotaru no Hikari and I should thank the person who recommended this on net because it is beautiful. One of my favorite storylines is being forced to live in the same house (no wonder Full House and Long Vacation are fave dramas of mine) and this one is so hillarious and well done.
Hotaru is a 20 something office lady in Tokyo. Hers is a low level job at a hip design firm and she seems to enjoy it a lot. She looks very prim and proper, tidy and fashionable. But as soon as she steps in her house she wears tracking suits and cute t-shirts and does her hair in a strange comfy looking but not very pretty way. She is untidy and likes to drink beer straight from the can (apparently this is some sort of a social faux pas in Japanese society) so she fits right into the type that Japan named Himono Onna - a driep up woman who long gave up feminine charms and hope/try to have a relationship. Oh she also talks with a stray cat who visits her little garden from time to time.
Her life is turned upside down with the arrival of the son of her landlord. This thirty something man who is recently separated from his wife is unfortunately her manager at the office. He is a tidy individual who likes nice things such as expensive cheese and wine and can even cook a decent looking schnitzel (at least it looked that way from where I was standing). He first couldn't understand the ways of Hotaru and thought that she was doing these to get him out of the house. But later in the first episode found out that this is Hotaru's life style and she is happy the way she is. So since he doesn't see her as a woman (or considers her a dried up woman) he agrees to share the house with her.
To mix things up a bit arrives a new hot designer Matoko who actually likes Hotaru. But the one who loves Matoko is Yuka - a girl everyone, even Hotaru admires and likes. Yuka is loved by another guy (Kagane) at the office. Looks wise Yuka and Matoko are very compatible but Matoko is head over heels over Hotaru. And Hotaru likes him right back but those two cannot really communicate. Matoko actually kissed Hotaru while she fell asleep on a chair he designed (seriously there is something wrong with Matoko). Hotaru thinks that it was a spur of the moment thing and since Matoko is so cool and she not so much (despite being well liked by everyone) she can't belive Matoko likes her back.
At the end of Ep.3 Yuka and Hotaru declared war at eachother over Matoko (and poor Buchoo's wife has returned all his love letters back at him).
Usually Japanese humour doesn't really appeal to me. I like their melodramas and dramas but when it comes to comedy I don't really laugh at their jokes. Hotaru is very different in that aspect. I laugh out loud at Hotaru's antics and find her weird way adorable. This ended up being a good purchase so far and I hope that it will give me a happy ending.
Meanwhile I have started to read The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes. I love her and this book started out so well.
Monster in the Box was not as good as other Ruth Rendell's I have read but even so I have stopped everything to read the last chapter.
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