The season 2 of this drama is currently airing on every Wednesday night. Watched the first 3 episode of season 2 and i love this drama! It's hilarious! Thus i went online to search for season 1 which was aired in the year 2007 with only 10 episodes. I'm done with it in a day. heh.

The story is adapted from a shoujo manga with the same title ホタルノヒカリ which was first released in 2005 with 15 volumes completed in 2009.

The story:

Hotaru works for a famous interior design company. It's a glamorous job but Hotaru's private life is totally the opposite of glamorous. She lives alone, and when she isn't working she's mostly lazing around her rented house in sweatsuit. She's not interested in men. In fact, she isn't interested in anything. "I do not wish to work hard during off time, I'd rather lay around than be in a relationship" is her motto. They termed this kind of girl 干物女.

"オフタイムには頑張りたくない。恋愛するより家で寝てたい!"

Her landlord is a bar owner, and one day his son, who has just separated from his wife wanting to start his life afresh returns to his old house, not knowing that someone is living there. He is shocked at the mess, but not as shocked as Hotaru because he turns out to be her boss, Takano!!

The cast:

雨宮 蛍 - 綾瀬はるか, 高野 誠一 - 藤木直人, 三枝 優華 - 国仲涼子 and 手嶋 マコト - 加藤和樹

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Though the story is kind of predictable and not very lovey dovey but it's hilarious! The boss is the exact opposite of Hotaru, he's neat and tidy and does things in a routines and systematic way. They have very funny and interesting interactions in every episode.

Spoilers ahead if you haven't watch and planning on watching this drama.

Hotaru believes that being in a relationship is something unreachable for her until one day she fell asleep on a chair designed by Makoto and he stole a kiss from her! He turns out to be a colleagues who is transfered back to the design team. He's the "perfect guy" that every girl likes and the "perfect girl" in the company likes him naturally however he likes Hotaru! Due to lazing in the house for too long, Hotaru is totally lost when she found out that she likes Makoto and worse when she realised Makoto likes her too! With the help of her boss, Takano she is able to convey her feelings to Makoto and eventually goes out with him. Like i've mentioned, it's typical and so the boss, Takano slowly falls for Hotaru! (Very slowly in fact, he's feelings were only revealed in episode 9, 2nd last episode when Hotaru went missing after a fight with Makoto. She did not plan on going missing on purpose, she was locked up in the warehouse!) Season 1 ended with Hotaru knowing that her boss likes her and she realised she likes him too! Happy ending!

Season 2!

The 2 main characters are acted by the same people while most of the supporting cast have changed.

The story starts with Hotaru back from Hong Kong after 3 years. She was sent on an overseas business trip. When parting with the boss at the airport, she promised she will work hard on this long distance relationship and promised to call the boss everyday, write to him everyday and email him everyday but it turns out that not only did she not returned to Japan once in 3 years she only sent him a postcard in 3 years! She returned to the house like before believing that the boss hasn't changed and is waiting for her. However the boss told her everything has changed except her and he's going out every night to meet a lady. The lady turns out tot be the boss high school lover! Her husband died and she had a daughter. Takano is helping her out with her new Okinawa restaurant. Nothing scandalous is happening between them yet. It's obvious the lady likes Takano but he only got his eyes on Hotaru. He proposed to her at the end of the 1st episode.

Season 2 seems a little more interesting with new competitor.

1. The boss's old flame. Hotaru is obviously clueless about it. Lucky the boss only has eyes on her.

2. イケマン (Ikeman - handsome guy). He seems to like Hotaru, can't really tell now thou. However the boss already sense that this イケマン might be a threat to him and again, Hotaru is clueless! Another co-worker, a pretty young lady likes this イケマン and sees Hotaru as her rival.

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Looking forward to ep. 4 this Wednesday!

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posted by 腐女子 at 9:16 AM