Riding A Unicorn

ThoughCharming in its own way, this appears to be a remake of the Korean drama series called start up. By removing the key character of the grandmother and merging her qualities with one of the two suitors in the story, they have transformed the drama enough to be different.

But personally, I think start up is a farsuperior product.

The TBS version of the story has some merits, but it does seem to reduce the story to a rather simplistic narrative. Whereas start up the Korean drama maintains a nice complexity.

The best part of riding a unicorn, is the character of Katori, through whom ageism is addressed nicely.

This is one of those happy cheery drama where every issue problem is handled with a very bright smile and words of wisdom. While I haven't watched many Japanese drama the over the top niceness is overbearing. While every company has it's ups and down in the corporate world it's overcoming these hurdles with a smile and thank you is not reality. The lead actress smiling and happy after each scene is a bit much. As well the disconnect between the children and their parents is a bit unbelievable. Way too much happiness and the ease of finding solutions to problems in the company makes it a very unrealistic show. This drama is mainly for kids as they attempt to show that life is easy if you smile a lot.

Normally I'm not into Japanese series, cause they always somehow feel burdensome (or until now I just hadn't found a lighthearted one yet, that can be the case as well 😉) but this one had a Korean vibe.

It's a sweet, lighthearted feel good series. The problems that occur are solved almost immediately.

The friendships and characters of all the main characters are beautiful.

The vision on corporate life and 'education for all' is great. We all want to work for a CEO like Sana.

Perhaps a little disappointed about the ending... I missed one thing. Something about a promise, don't want to spoil. 😉