Zettai kareshi

This is titled "My Absolute Boyfriend" on Viki. An older drama from 2008, but still fun to watch, I actually liked main male cast MIZUSHIMA HIRO the best who played the executive - chef who was the robot's rival. The robot itself was a fun character to watch and the actor playing him did a good job which must be hard to bring a robot to life and be lovable but still have robot characteristics at the same time. I liked the development of the romance with the rival and you know from the beginning who the FL is going to have to choose - after all, is she really going to have sex with the robot as it keeps suggesting? Let's face it - so the question is how is the robot going to be killed off in the end - that's the question, and of course you love him and don't want to see anything happen to him. So depending on how your emotions are it could be a tear jerker for some people to watch. I did like the ending to the romance story.

This dorama is amusing but also unusually engaging - a big hit in 2008's Fujisankei line-up. What if a cute, eligible girl wins the use of the "perfect boyfriend" - a robot?

An appealing group of players make the story fun in the same way as, say, Bewitched. Aibu Saki is the definition of cute in the role of the girl, though the remainder of the cast acquits itself capably as the people who slowly come to realize the strange situation. Of course, there are the expected episodes of mistaken identity as the robot gradually proves to me more "human" than the rest of them. This is the kind of fluffy entertainment you can polish off in a night or two - realizing, of course, there are eleven episodes.

For the genre, Zettai Kareshi ("Perfect Boyfriend") is refreshing and sweet, with any number of small laughs thrown in for good measure.