Watashi ga renai dekinai riyuu starts off by asking the audience whether they are in love, showing some random normal looking women with their attitudes towards love written on the screen. Then we are introduced to our three main characters ; Karina plays a tomboy who is best friends with a dude, Yoshitaka Yuriko is two years out of uni, looking for a job and has a lot of fuck buddies and lastly Oshima Yuko is young, very straightforward virgin.
The purpose of the elaborate introduction in ep 1 is too fold. First is to say that the three ladies are ordinary girls and asking the female audience to relate to them because apparently girls watch doramas/movies to relate to the characters and project themselves onto them. First off, if you look like Yoshitaka Yuriko and you have problems finding love, what you are claiming is an impossibility. Secondly, the whole let's talk about modern girl issues could quite possibly take a back seat to telling a good story.
I can't complain about what Renai Dekinai is. I very much want it to be watchable because its got crazy eye candy. I am so tempted right now to buy the Kurashina Kana calender. I went into this series with the lowest of expectations and so far its been pretty good. Its clearly got a high budget with cool music everywhere but the surprising thing is that this is one 'trendy' dorama in a long time that doesn't try to hard. I don't even want to go near the new Kimutaku one. If Renai Dekinai can be half as fun as Love Shuffle, I will be happy.
So far, the stories are holding up. Karina's got the best friend who's getting married plot. Hhmm, I never really bought her tomboy act which she started in Freeter though. Now if they got Yoshizawa Hitomi, that would be different. Looks like there's trouble in the horizon for Karina's best friend's engagement. Personally, I think Karina stands no chance against Kurashina Kana. Oshima Yuko has the most boring story of this girl who is too serious for her sempai. Her most important role so far has been the catalyst to cause Yoshitaka Yuriko to rethink her stance on fuck-buddies.The best storyline so far belongs to Yoshitaka Yuriko who will undoubtedly get involved with the married T.Shiraishi.
One sign of the apocalypse for me is Katou sensei from Iryu/Mrs Shiraishi on the title screen. Please do not have her move into the house and have an episode of them sleeping in the living room together bashing men for one whole episode. Actually, I wouldn't mind it if they were all wearing lingerie. Just gotta have the older woman who wanted independence and then turns around when her biological clock is ticking and makes decisions on her own.
In summary, pretty watchable and I hardly fast forwarded anything. A must watch in terms of eye candy but story wise remains to be seen. Everytime I see Oshima Yuko, I can't help thinking about the ending in AKB1/48 where after running from paparazzi, Yuko asks the player to wait for her to become a full fledged actress as love relationships are forbidden in AKB48.
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