Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo (2020)

Overall:
I think that this drama is amazing. I would recommend it to anyone that wants to watch it. I loved the story and thought it was executed great from beginning to end.

Story:
At first, it was a little weird to think that she had been obsessed with him for soo long without knowing if he was married or had a girlfriend but I soon overlooked that with the rest of the story. She made a very big decision in her life, become a nurse, just because she had a crush on him after seeing him one time? This is what the drama is portraying at first but then it makes sure to explain that she became a nurse because of the feeling of helping from that one time that she help the older lady and also had a crush on the doctor.

Another negative would be that if you only watched the main episodes you think that some storylines where completely forgotten at times but many of those plots were handled in the extras. That said after a bit the extras basically focused solely on one and left the rest behind as well.
I liked that the drama did not take itself too seriously and I think that the comedy was on point. It also had great serious moments that were amazing and they blended together perfectly.

Characters:
I really liked Tendo sensei's Tsundere character. I was amazed to see him mad at the beginning and slowly soften to Sakura, who is really devoted to her work and seems like a sweet girl for sure. The side character was also fun to watch as lots of comedy came out from them. I loved it when the Koishikawa sensei thought that Nishi was in love with him and that whole debacle.

Acting/Cast:
TBH I started watching this drama because of Woz's actor being in it and now I am going to start Den-O because Tendo sensei's actor is the main lead of that. Since this is one of my first JDramas that are not Toku related, I did not know most of the cast from other works but I am glad I saw them here.

Music:
The theme song, in my opinion, was actually really good. I Love has been stuck in my mind since the first episode that I watched. The other songs used were also good in their own moments.

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This is one of those rare dramas where the cast, their chemistry, the location and the OST all comes together to make a perfectly fluff filled rom com. Yes, the story has some points that aren't entirely believable, but then is any story based on 'love at first sight' truly rooted in reality? I watch dramas for a break from reality, so I suspended my imagination for 10 perfectly made episodes and thoroughly enjoyed this drama. And now I have a new favorite japanese actor (Takeru Satoh), and a new favorite japanese band. (Trust me, the OST is amazing and you have to check out other songs by them, like Pretender).
If you saw the poster and were immediately drawn to it, then stop contemplating and just watch the drama right now!!

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If you liked dramas like Love in Tokyo, you will probably like this one, I loved the story, because I like when the man is tough and difficult to like people and the sweet and warm girl makes him change. I think the backstory of the male protagonist is amazing, his personality and story are perfect matched, now about the female one, I just think the story was a bit poor if compared to the male one, because she just love him because of a preconception of him, she doesn't know him at all, and she continue to humiliate herself to get to him, this just always bothers me in the japanese dramas like this, in the most part the woman just have an huge love for the male for no reason at all, it is too shallow I guess, but when things start to work between they, it just turn out to be amazing and very romantic, I'm just sad they had to hurry up a bit with the story in the end, I wish they could have made it more detailed, but it was a good one anyway.

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Wow, I am just mesmerized on how this drama has been made. Beautiful story line. Even the side couples got to show their part. Being a medical theme, they managed to show different patients and their bond with Sakura and Sensai. Chemistry between Sakura and Sensai was amazing. Each time when she called out ' Sensai' , with her bubbly smile ...just gave my heart a jump. I like the part where Sakura firmly believed to chase after Sensa. Thankfully there wasn't any annoying characters.
Music was amazing, I have fallen in love with it. Last not the least, I loved Sakuras and Sensais team 'Cardiology dept'
Will definitely watch it again with no regrets.

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LOVE IT!

I am absolutely in love with this drama oh my cat God! Because I started watching this at midnight, every episode I just keep internally screaming. Gosh all those butterflies in my stomach wouldn't go away. The FL and ML are just TOO CUTE! I would actually rewatch this again and again. I love this drama not just because of the cuteness of the cast, but also because of how much I relate medically to this. Those scenes with the patients, it keeps hitting home. As a nurse, this really motivated me to work hard again and relieved my motivation. This was so helpful for me as I wasn't sure with what I was doing with my life. I really commend the staff who worked hard to make this, as well as the actors and actresses. Kudos to everyone and thank you so much! Love how this is cardiology ward based, defo hits home hahaha. This is my first review on public here on MD - it speaks a lot on how much I love this drama.


P.S. UGH I LOVE YOU SATO TAKERU!!!!!!!!

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This dorama deals with the doctors' professional and personal lives which I like because it humanizes them. It also digs deeper into the patients' story, reminding the viewers that there's more to a patient than his sickness. Although our female lead could get things wrong, I love how she uses her heart in looking after the patients. She knows a lot of things other doctors/nurses don't because she doesn't only use her head but also her heart in caring for them. On the other hand, our hero has an emotional baggage but being with the heroine makes him more open and willing to try. I haven't finished watching this yet but I have no bad comment so far.

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This drama is truthfully quite silly. Much of the viewership in dramaworld is past stories about female leads chasing the male lead around hoping he'll fall for them. I'm not really over this type of story as long as it can be done in a way that's not over-dramatic or requires a truly awful male lead or a female lead with no worthwhile personality traits (or worse, Both). But I don't necessarily gravitate towards these stories anymore either. But as silly as this drama can seem, it's also quite charming. And swoony. And cute. And laugh out loud funny.

Off the bat, you have to respect the female leads determination and drive, both in love and in work. This is one of the things that keeps this drama from being totally grating. The female lead has a major crush on the male lead, and she pursues him doggedly. But she also takes being a nurse seriously, and cares about doing well at her job.

The male lead is perfect, and I will not complain about him. (Look. Kairi is just way too good at being smoldering and brooding and adorable and unexpectedly moved by Nanase all at the same time. Also, the kisses are on point.)

The only thing that would have made this drama better would have been for the writers to ex the secondary couples. I didn't enjoy anything about them. They felt like the writers trying to shove as many age-gap couples in as they could, whether they should or not, and neither couple really has any reasonable story or plot reason for being together.

So in conclusion, An Incurable Case of Love is quite silly, but it's also a whole lot of fun. And now I want to read the manga, lol.

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i...I can't believe that it's over from the first time I saw this drama I knew it was gonna be good and honestly I don't regret watching it. It made me laugh, sad, mad and it made me feel happiness honestly if you still haven't watched it then I recommend you do because it has romance and doctor stuff in it. I am grateful to every cast that played in it because without them it wouldn't be the same, they all made it so special. Even though it ended I won't ever forget the special feeling it gave me and especially THE THEME SONG SONG!!! It's so good like I downloaded it. Anyway thank you so so so much for making a beautiful drama and I won't ever forget it.

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A cute romance about a Heroine who falls for a Demon. Or, a chaotic but sweet and kind nurse who falls for a tsundere doctor with a heart of gold. It was interesting to see these characters grow, her maturing as both a woman and a nurse and him finally opening up after having lost the woman he loved many years before.

I get that Nanase's chaotic personality might be too much for some people - my mother included - but I liked that about her, that despite being clumsy and making a fool of herself on a regular basis, she just kept going, she never gave up, determined to become better, to learn and grow - and she does. She proves that even if you aren't gifted, a natural born genius, perseverance goes a long way, that you simply need to pick yourself up and do it again and again until you learn.

Another thing that I loved was that when Tendo agreed to become Nanase's boyfriend, he was all in. He didn't treat her any differently, he just loved her and supported her and helped her achieve her goals.

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Success Story of a Stalker Girl

Ok I know I'm being a bit harsh on Sakura Nanase. She didn't technically stalk Tendon, she only obsessed over him for 5 years, then went to work at the same hospital as he does, lived (accidentally) right next to him, etc. Cute, right? Yes!...mostly :)

Sakura is an interesting character. I don't mean she's interesting as a person, I mean she's frustratingly incompetent and incomprehensibly simple, but Mone the actress is so likeable, she somehow sold this character for me. With her charm, I can kind of see why Tendou fell for her. But if she was a real person, she's exactly that annoyingly bubbly incessantly lively coworker who is liked by everyone and fails at everything and needs help every time and you even feel bad for getting mad at her even though it would be justified to be mad at her. I don't know about you, but this kind of coworker gives me stress.

But there's always someone for everyone, and Sakura has 3 suitors pining for her, including our ML, handsome tsundere doctor Tendou. Now he is an interesting character, and by interesting I mean I don't understand him. He's nice and gentle to his patients, but curt and sometimes outright rude to everyone else, and especially to our FL Sakura. It does help to highlight how good of a doctor he is, but it wasn't until episode 10 (the last ep) that I believed he felt anything genuine for Sakura. Usually tsundere characters are swoony because we get to see the soft side that they hide from the world, but we very rarely get to see things from Tendou's perspective, so he's more or less a mystery, a walking fanservice, till the end (that face! Those kisses!)

Speaking of kisses, I wish the director helped Mone with her dead fish/Park Shin Hye syndrome, because it felt like Sato was kissing her all by himself without any reciprocation...

This drama is the first jdrama that feels like a kdrama to me, in the sense that they learned all the good and all the bad from kdrama about romance. Self sacrificing second male lead? Check. Shameless second female lead? Check. (Thankfully both arcs were brief). Noble idiocy? Check. Truck of doom? Check. Random "one year abroad" separation? Check. But all the great push and pull typical of kdrama is there as well, so maybe I shouldn't complain too much.

In short, I don't regret watching this drama, but I also don't know why or how I finished it. That's actually how I would describe the drama core story/relationship as well: neither of them probably knows why or how they end up together, but they probably also won't regret it.

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"Baaaka..."

This J-dorama was very... ~shojo. I don't know if this is based on a manga or not, but I've read alot of them and this concept is exactly like that. So, whatever tropes you have in mind, it will happen. All of them.

It's been awhile since I last saw that kind of a happy-go-lucky FL. She's overly confident with her love interest and expresses that shamelessly. She doesn't care that everyone knows, she's happily grinning whenever someone talks about it. The whole staff is even encouraging her - though indeed in an earnest way and without any ulterior motives. (If I had a crush on a colleague and everyone openly knew about it, I would hide in my locker for a year or something.). She's also clumsy and drifts off to lalaland during work. If I had to work with her, she would be my worst nightmare >.<

>>> This represents the whole absurdity of the drama - plus the non-existing hierarchy between nurses and doctors (I don't mean showing off who the boss is but maintaining certain boundaries).

NEVERTHELESS... this was still a very entertaining watch and a guilty pleasure-watch done right.

Pros:
1) The characters were enjoyable. They were overall good-natured people, and even though one or two made a dick move at some point, they held it low-key.

2) The medical stuff. I'm a medical assistant, so I'm extra strict on these things. I won't vouch for everything, esp. not for the cardiological cases, but most of the simple medical tasks were done quite right.

3) The FL somehow managed to grow on me. At first she gave off a child's vibe but as the story went on, it gradually improved. She got better at her work and she also became somewhat (pheromone-induced) beautiful. You know what they say, love makes you beautiful.

4) Skinship!
This is something (as far as I can compare) J-doramas are partially better at than K-dramas. When there's a hug, they huuug, when there's a kiss, it IS a kiss. No dead-fish peck, no lip-caressing, no tongue-digging. Just a normal kiss. When they want to brush the other one's hair, they don't hold back as if it's some super fragile glass-carpaccio or something. They simply caress that damn head. They don't futilely try to put a single strand of hair behind the other one's ear, that eventually falls back onto the cheek anyway.

5) No overdone slow-motion.

6) Some things felt a lot more natural than in K-dramas. First of all, I think that Dr. Tengo Kairi (Sato Takeru) was the most authentic character in this. His behavior never felt exaggerated and I synced with his annoyance every single time. Furthermore the vibe that a couple radiates after a certain time. The shyness disappears and gets replaced with cocky confidence. That's what you want to see in a drama.

7) There's Sato Takeru. Period.

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