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This movie is a satire of a phenomenon that occurs in Japanese culture. Like most Asian shows, it is based on a Manga story. Yes, he is a dweeb and you have to accept that as part of the writing. Usually male leads in these shows are model good-looking. However, in this one, you are getting a kind of Jerry Lewis. The characters in the show are all colorful. The satire is played up well. I found it to be very entertaining and the cast dancing at the end of the episodes adds to the fun.

The lead is a big pop star in real life and just does a stupendous job in this role. The main song with the whole cast dancing at the end of each episode became a big hit for him. You can find the music video.

There is a sequel special that was done a few years after the series. Be sure to watch that as well.

The two leads met on this show and were married in real life. Unfortunately, at this writing there seems to have been a TMZ type scandal and there is speculation whether they are still together. Well, enough gossip for now!

"Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu", also known as "The Full-Time Wife Escapist" or "We Married as a Job" is a one of the best josei manga out there, and it was brilliantly adapted into a TV series version some years back.

The casting is simply perfect. The lead, Aragaki Yui, is perfect for the role of Moriyama Mikuri, an over-qualified professional unlucky to be born a woman in modern-day Japan - i.e. No good job or career prospects. She's maybe down, but she's not out.

The supporting characters are equally well-cast. The plot is interesting and entertaining. And the dialogues are generally good. But Aragaki Yui stands out the most for me - she's so cute, sincere, and head-strong as Mikuri that she practically steals every scene.

The story line is so apt for today. Declining birthrates, sexless marriages, too many singles, etc. Then there's the cultural/societal limitations on women with respect to work and career. Add to that the usual marital infidelity, challenges of dating, etc.

Everything hits home with this series.

Writing this, and having watched some other shows in the genre, I feel like this one is not spectacularly better than the best I've seen, but by the end of it I realize I was very invested and entertained - I just had the best time with this show.

Like any other dorama or anime show, the premise starts heavy within the trope-space allotted to these by kami-sama (or so it seems, for many a show to follow this path). Then it's up to you to evaluate whether the build-up for the setting and the main characters are worth your time.

I'm happy to say this one has risen over the top for me. I will not spoil the stuff but let's just this is far from my first rodeo in this genre, whether it is anime or live-action - still this show had me genuinely going all the way. It also features a very interesting but down to live female main character together with a very interesting stricter male character, from which the main energy of the show stems from, and lots of events ensue.

If you are not looking for those over the top once in a lifetime hero-characters, but rather the sweet "what if?" in stuff akin to your real life - this is another great show for you. Even the intro and outro are sweet without being over the top performance-wise.

Quite a decent heartwarming show that even manages to bring out some interesting characters and day-to-day concerns in life that ended up being really enjoyable and thoughtful.

Cheers.

It starts out with the female lead having just finished graduate studies and finding it difficult to land a job. After being let go from a previous employment her father gets her a job cleaning the male leads apartment. When her parents decide to move away she convinces the man to have a contractual marriage so that she can stay there as she did not want to move with her parents. He is very shy and closed off but she manages to get him to open up little by little. He became this way due to his past during his childhood. They eventually have a child and he starts to fall in love with her. She was already in love with him but was ready to give up when he wouldn't open up. Eventually he did. They rode out the pandemic together and in the end he tells her that he wants another child to correct his mistakes from when his first child was born. This is a must watch. At the end of each episode the female lead and the others do their dancing. She's sexy when she dances also the actress that plays her aunt. That was my favorite the ending of each episode. Eventually the male and female lead got married in real life. Now that's a happy ending.

Called "Full Time Wife Escapist" on Netflix, this is a cute and definitely innocent love story about a real geeky guy, who is so geeky he would never be able to even want nor find a wife and a girl who has a master's degree but can't find employment other than a housewife that has been contracted for house chores - a scheme she concocted and convinced the geeky guy to take. A cute comedy especially in the beginning when his co-workers at first are suspecting that there is something fishy when he puts his "wife" on the work insurance policy but no one has ever met her. They decide to go over to his house because they suspect it is a meta verse wife as he is so geeky there is no way it could be a real woman. They also suspect maybe he is gay. They snoop and find he has a twin bed which only gives them more suspicions. All in all, an innocent romance that is a Japanese drama with a bit of humor.