First Kiss

29Mar08

Title: ファースト・キス
Episodes: 11
Genre: Romance
Broadcast period: 2007-Jul-09 to 2007-Sept-17

Synopsis: A bitter-sweet and uplifting comedy drama about a young girl Mio and her brother Kazuki. To treat her illness overseas, Mio has been living away from her older brother Kazuki for the past ten years. After learning about the upcoming surgery, which she has only a fifty percent chance of survival, Mio decides to fly back to Japan to spend time with Kazuki. Looking forward to seeing his sweet younger sister, Kazuki anxiously awaits Mio’s return in Japan. However, their reunion is nothing but full of surprises as Mio has transformed from the innocent sickly girl Kazuki remembers from ten years ago into a sassy woman with an attitude. Kazuki has difficulty dealing with his wickedly selfish younger sister, but soon learns about the truth of her medical condition and has a change of heart.

First Kiss

This Drama surprised me early on. The character of Mio being sassy makes one a bit agitated. Her brother Kazuki seemed like a bother throughout, always interfering with Mio’s life. Though he tried his best to help, it only seemed like he was nuisance. Initially the linking romance was subtle, as the show progressed you realised who liked who.  The timeline of the story was too fast in the given frame. Yea i know love happens in all shape and sizes and time, but seriously in the two months Mio visits she falls in love, her brother falls in love, and everyone matures. Impressive for two months! I don’t know about you the reader, but for me two months is never enough time to accomplish what is really needed. Another positive thing about First Kiss is that they really emphasized the title given. The first real kiss to happen to Mio does not happen till the very last episode. It’s a long passionate kiss in an airport as she prepares to depart Japan from her lover. A great way to end the Drama. A subtle thing in this Drama is a the re-occurring actor that subtly walks across the screen or is just there. In my interpretation he represents Kazuki from the past, when Kazuki was a over weight child. Appearing in every episode even the last, when Mio and her lover are kissing, this character walks pass them, with a little girl holding his hand, walking towards presumably a airport gate. This is possibly another symbolism of the past when Kazuki was with Mio and the fact they eventually separated.

For this kind of brother, sister rekindle reunite drama
8/10

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