Algernon Ni Hanataba O (2015)

Loved it

Did i said I love this drama? It has become
my favourite! ( Of course) I mean it has
everything that i need in my
drama-tearjerker, psychological, characters,
friendship and a little romance and
science fiction. I swear although the drama
is a little sci-fi but it explains life and
human nature perfectly! Story of a mentally
challenged person has to be sad , right?

But this one is different . Yes it is sad but
its not all about saku being stupid . Its
about was saku good when he was stupid
or he became good when he became
smarter? The questions are answered
slowly at the end.

Its the story about saku who is like 6 year
old boy although he is 28 years old . He is
often called " stupid" but he doesn't wants
to be stupid becuase of his loved ones he
wants to become smart so the people he
love will be proud of him but when he
really got genius becuase of a scientific
miracle he realises that being smart is not
all the best.

He realizes the corruption of the world and
struggels to find his " equal" friends . Its
an amazing story of an amazing boy aka
my son?yes i adopted him?I don't want
to be his girlfriend. He is my son no
matter what ? Yeah so its amazing
drama! I swear! Every character have their
own story which i love the most! Overall
one of the best drama!

Ps. The actor is hot and one of my favourite
and that surely is a plus point.

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Yamashita Tomohisa is THE best part of this drama. He had me sobbing at intervals and all out bawling at the end. This is a MUST SEE; I cannot stress this enough. The story is really interesting and the characters who are friends to 'Algernon' are wonderful to him. The acting is wonderful and the actors all make their characters so believable you become very invested - especially in Algernon; you root for him so much. The cast really give their roles their all; especially the always great Tomohisa and Masataka. All in all this is a really good drama; I didn't really expect much - but my stars, was I so VERY wrong. WATCH THIS, seriously, you won't regret it.

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Knowledge must be shared to prove its worth.

People are often overwhelmed by this delusion that being a genius can make someone powerful and act like God. These intellects tend to think that everything is an experiment and that everyone can be subjects and guinea pigs to experiment and test with. Little did they realize that without the people around, Knowledge is just as useless as being in an island all alone.

I like how the story carry how friendship among varied people of different set of intellect and social status can still survive through the trials of mental capacity, emotional disputes and even between different specie like Algernon , the rodent and his human counterpart Sakuto.

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Commendable Attempt to Adapt

Flowers for Algernon was actually one of my favourite novel during my teenage years as I was given this novel to dissect for my literature class. I remembered the story was very thought provoking though I forgot a lot of details as I have lost the book. But this was a commendable attempt to adapt the literature text as the ML did justice to his role. I really felt for him in all his struggles from someone who has lower IQ to become a top genius.

However, my issue with the adaptation is that a lot of the side character development got neglected. But I guess I understand its hard to develop these characters as the original text was very protagonist driven too as it was written in a first person account. I think its not an issue if its a novel but for a drama, I wish there were more development for the side characters. Also, I feel that the turning point for ML from being cold hearted when he first became a genius to realising his inner warmth felt very abrupt too. Perhaps, the drama would benefit from a longer episode span. I was kinda meh with Haruka's acting too, felt that the actress is having issues with embodying and relating to her character.

The choice of OST was really good, I think it fits the story and a nod to nostalgia since the original text is pretty old. But like many Jdrama, I wish they would have more OSTs for a drama.

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