Kimi Wa Petto (2017)

Failed to be really entertaining

I have never read the novel or source material of this drama and I have not watched any other versions of this drama. I watched it because it popped up in my list of suggestions and because it was the latest version. Here is a feedback FULL OF SPOILER.

CHARACTERS/CAST:

- Sumire: She looked beautiful, competent, with a lot of professionalism and she was a successful woman at work. On the personnal plan, she was a mess. She was wishy washy and indecisive. She did not know how to address her own issues always looking for her pet to comfort her. I really had hard time to understand the difference of personnality and I could not find her likable. She was annoying specially when things started to become draggy. She was dumb to accept the marriage proposal when she was not sure of herself. Only at the end she decided to make things clear because she accidently found the truth.

- Takeshi: I liked him for the qualities he displayed although he looked very young: He was caring, gave attention, he was cheerful and he really had the ability to understand people and situations. In the same time, he looked struggling himself and trying to use the situation to his advantage to find the courage to progess. I thought he was a real good boy despite his own challenges and shortcomings. I liked how he managed the situation and the emotions and feelings he had the best way he could.

- Hasumi : Granted he was handsome and charming but that was the nice facade. I found he was pretty bland and not sincere at all. Too good and too proper to be real. I did not liked him as a person even if I could understand his sitution. And he was a coward until the end when she liberated him of their deadlock.

- Fukushima: She looked a total psycho and a gold digger and a stalker with her crazy schemes to steal the man she likes. Her personnality is weird because in the end, she reveals herselfs a reckless woman full of insecurities, family issues and she has to fight crazily for these reasons and find what she calls happiness. For me it does not made her any better.

STORY:

Basically it is about the relationship between Sumire and Momo and how it contradicts and enters in conflict with her relationship with Hasumi.

- Sumire and Hasumi: Sumire felt inlove with this student who cared for her and looked for her in the forest and saved her and her glasses . But their relationship short and intense does not last because he has a gf and Sumire moves to the USA. 10 years later, she meets her first love again and they quickling rekindle their feelings but truth is the guy is another guy now. He is a handsome professionnal reporter who is always looking neat and great and every girls like him. Their relationship is wrong. She is stucked with her old emotions and feelings for him and she likes being in his arms because it makes her feel valued but she cannot open her heart to him and be herself. As for him, work is his priority, he is not very sincere and never calls her when he is on business trip. He barely cares to know her or what she wants and what are her intentions or needs. It is like he is with her just for sex and he would not pay attention if she does not tell him. They are both human and I can totally understand their situation but I was still annoyed they could not find a solution like adults. Only their continuous mistakes will lead them to an inevitable exit.

- Sumire and Momo: This is called a pet/owner relationship but it has little of that. You can call the drama "You are my baby brother' or 'You are my little step cousin". There are few moments where he behaves like a "pet". He is rather a baby brother that she takes for cuddling playing with his hairs and giving him shampoo. The pet narrative is so inconsistent that it has little credibility. So it is normal that the "baby brother" who is not blood related starts to develop feelings for her and he hides this and plays the game she likes to support her. I thought that relationship was cute and the complexity of it was well described but it became draggy at some points. Maybe there was too many episodes. Momo put an end to this by making a big choice but his declaration was weirdly done. Luckily in the end it unflods greatly for them.

- Hasumi and Fukushima: Yes this is the second couple which forms towards the end. For some reason, Hasumi falls for Fukushima. Because on the contrary of Sumire who does not open to him, Fukushima has no shame and no fear to march head on to woo him. So he cannot resist the panzer charge and starts to think about her and be drawn to her. So it is easy for her to finish the job by establishing brazzenly a de facto "pet/owner" relationship with him which rather looks like a married couple relationship. I hated how he went back and forth and tried to marry Sumire asap to escape the situation. I started to really dislike these two even if they looked funny. Good thing they ended together as their personnalities and sexual needs looked very compatible

MUSIC: Good but nothing special

REWATCH VALUE: No I would not rewatch that.

OVERALL:
I would say it is a drama well made, well acted, with characters who are very humans and sensible despite their many shortcomings but it failed to entertain me because most of the time, they are tortured by their inabilty to face their problems and speak their true self. Overall, I think these kind of romances and their outcome are understandable but it does not make the characters involved any likable or sympathetic so I finally had little sympathy for them .

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Kind of drama that You want to watch over and over again

First of all i have to say its heart warming one its not about romance warming thing its about the healing the the main female and male giving to each other

i have watched the korean moive and the 2003 ver of this drama and this one is the best of all of them ( moive and the 2003 ver r great as well but this one beat them )

and most good thing about it its u can watch it again with out getting bored

story about the main leads help and heal each other in deferent ways and they can go far with helping one another even if its hurt them self but make the another person happy

for me its must watch

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Honestly, this was one of my first J-dramas, but I was a huge manga and anime fan anyway.

It follows the original story perfectly, the acting and casting are brilliant and it really captures the expressions and emotions and creates tension and tugs at your heartstrings. It's Kimi Wa Petto as a drama, to the letter. If that's what you want, that's what you're getting and I cannot find a fault with it in that respect.

However, it literally cannot help but fall into the "cliche" tropes since it's so faithful to the source material, which is a pretty old, original manga (which is still good, and the scans/translation and drawings are still very clean and not outdated art style if you haven't read it). In a way, it wasn't cliche as this was one of the first manga doing this kind of thing. But if you were to only watch the show, you may see it that way.

Still, I think people who had never watched the anime would still enjoy it.

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Sweet Concept

I know this has been done a few times but I thought the actress here is one of the best and it doesn't matter Japanese, Korean or Chinese. I thought the sleeping with him while drunk was bad writing but I guess she thought she loved the other guy but how could she have loved him if she couldn't show any real emotions around him so that made no sense. Also, the young man sticking around to be humiliated was a little too much but actually setup okay. It was a weird drama from the aspects of how could a women who graduated from two of the best universities in the world not have a clue. Like I said before, this is a beautiful women in all aspects including her acting, looks, facial expressions and she is not overly skinny like the Korean and Chinese actresses. It's a shame she got married to some loser and stopped making dramas for a while during the marriage. Why do women do this in their prime? Run off 5-7 years of good work then do whatever you want because the momentum of your career might not come back.

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I have mixed- feelings about the 2017 adaptation of the series and work ‘ Kimi Wa Petto’ and how it lived up to the original adaptation version of Sumire and Takeshi’s beloved relationship.

I think where the series flourished came through the main leads’ acting. They did have good chemistry and I really enjoyed seeing our leads onscreen together. On the other hand I didn’t really feel the dynamic charm of our characters onscreen.

One of the beauties of the original relationship between the unusual and somewhat surreal love story between our leads came through their ability to help one another through unusual circumstances. It was oddly sweet and gradual and presented many clear sociological messages against conformity and gender expectations in relationships.

In the recent version? I’m not sure if i felt the same emotions. It wasn’t bad per day but there was something slightly more hollow about their onscreen relationship. Perhaps it was a consequence of more conservative implications on dialogue or less focus upon original messages, but the recent version of the beloved series felt like not a bad but a slightly pale comparison to the original.

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Such a fun ride!

I was in a drama slump but this picked me right up and I blew through it in two days. I’m fond of dramas with unusual premises, and what could be more unusual than a career woman keeping a younger man as a pet?! Naturally such a situation led to many humorous mishaps and unique scenarios. Momo was charming and endearing without crossing the line into obnoxiously childish, Sumire was relatable and multifaceted, and both characters felt nuanced. The attachment between them felt so genuine and heartfelt, and their chemistry was electric. The drama wonderfully pulled off the transition from platonic affection to sexual tension. From other reviews, I’d expected this to be pretty PG, but was pleasantly surprised by multiple bold and steamy moments to never let the viewers forget that Momo may be a cute, playful “pet,” but he’s still very much a man! I rarely rewatch dramas but I could definitely see myself watching this again. (I’ll also mention that after I finished, I watched the 2003 original, and I prefer this one.)

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Surprisingly good

Also known under the title you are my pet. This is a 2017 Japanese television series. It has alternate titles “Tramps Like Us”, and “Kimi Wa Petto”. This romantic comedy has 16, 45 minute episodes. It was a remake based on a popular Manga entitled “Kimi wa Pet” by Yayaoi Ogawa (2000-2005).

Although a beautiful and successful career woman, Sumire Iwaya (Noriko Iriyama) hides a painfully shy, socially uncertain and self-effacing nature from all but her close friends. Having both attended Tokyo University and Harvard she is considered elite in terms of a marriage prospect. Expecting a proposal from her current boyfriend, he instead breaks off the relationship after telling her he cheated and has fathered a child. Iwaya is devastated and gets inebriated to drown her sorrows. After staggering back home, she opens a cardboard box to discover an attractive young man who is hiding from the jealous partner of a current romantic interests. He looks up from the box at Iwaya and his wide eyed look reminds her of her beloved pet Momo. The next day she wakes up to find this young stranger, Takeshi Goda (Jun Shison) in her bed. When she tries to kick him out and he says he has no place to go. So Iriyama issues a challenge and says he can stay but only if he will act as a pet. Surprisingly, he agrees. Iriyama finds comfort in her new pet, Momo and can talk through her many concerns and worries with him. Things get complicated when Iwaya’s long time love, Shigehito Hasumi (Seiiche Tanabe) returns from oversees. She must hide her unusual pet from friends and family. Who will she choose? The young man seems to understand her like no other but her lost love is back and just as handsome and charming as ever.

Spoiler ? I was a bit surprised how well I liked this. I have known people just like Iwaya who are beautiful and people assume their lives must be perfect. Really attractive people must develop a tough shell as people have very high expectations and are often less forgiving of mistakes and flaws in persons they deem that lucky. Her vulnerability is what made the situation more plausible. Momo is also understandable as he is in desperate need of a place and also is drawn to Iwaya’s kindness and vulnerability. Momo constantly builds Iwaya up and helps her to overcome her fears. Takeshi loves Iwaya but is willing to help her relationship with Hasumi if it means she will be happy. There was a female rival after Hasumi, Shiori Fukushima (Wakana Sakai), and evening if Iwaya and Hasumi did not wind up together I did not want to see him with Shiori because she went about it in a very catty way. But it became clear that love often has its own ideas. It ended perfectly all the way around. Noriko Iriyama is genuinely beautiful so it was easy to see why so many men would be interested despite her somewhat awkward nature. It is a fun, feel good watch.

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Perhaps it's fitting that people are most moved by the stories that most relate to them, but this story is easy to relate to for anyone who wishes they had someone special to spend their downtime with. Although I haven't read the manga or seen the earlier version of this drama, I was truly touched by this drama and found myself laughing and crying during almost every episode. A unique, touching story that leaves you wanting more. Although some of the side stories and interractions felt like filler or felt forced, the main story between the two main characters made it worth sticking around for. The ending could have so easily been ruined, but they did a good job.

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Esse drama tinha tudo para ser perfeito, porém faltou mais desenvolvimento da história e também uma cinematografia boa. A história em si é boa, porém infelizmente não foi explorada muito bem. E sobre a cinematografia, achei péssima. Parece que estou assistindo um drama de 2005, creio que o Japão deveria investir mais nas produções de seus dramas já que é um mercado enorme. Para um drama de 2017 (recente até) achei que seria mais desenvolvido e mais bem feito, porém acho que tiveram preguiça na produção.
E falando sobre o romance? Bom, não foi aquela coisa esplêndida mais foi um romance legal até. Se bem que ela fica com o outro mais do que com principal. E isso PARA MIM é ruim, já que a história tem eles dois como principais. Tirando isso, foi ótimo. Música boa, história boa mas NÃO explorada e uma cinematografia péssima (AO MEU GOSTO).
Não acho que assistiria esse drama de novo devido ter quase dropado ele, mas como não goto de deixar dramas em lista de espera continuei, porém com vontade de dropar ainda..

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Increíble pero lo vi todo jajaj

Bueno.... creo que hacer una reseña de este drama es muy raro pero siendo sincero quitando la parte de la mascota y todo lo exageradamente raro que eso conlleva, el drama esta bien. Las actuaciones estuvieron bastante acertadas, la verdad ninguno me pareció fuera de lugar y la música estuvo linda.
En resumen, si pueden tolerar todo lo raro que es el 80% del drama en lo que tiene algo que ver con la chica adoptando un ser humano como mascota y el ser humano aceptando ser una mascota, se pueden apreciar algunas cosas lindas como los sentimientos cambiantes y la superación

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