Love Stories from Fukuoka 20 (2025)

Sweet food, sweet memories

This is the 20th installment in this series of short love stories. The location is Fukuoka, Japan, a prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu. I’m proud to say I live in this beautiful part of Japan.

What I like:
The story is short, at only 51 minutes. And it is literally sweet, as the FL is a pastry chef. And the drama, this time taking place in Kitakyushu City, is well-produced, as are all the previous episodes of this series. The two main leads are great, as usual. Nakata Seina, playing the part of Matsumoto Hikaru, and Inaba Yu, who plays Ueda Keita, are both very capable actors, and they make for a nice, albeit older-man, younger-woman couple. The viewer definitely won't want to miss the beginning, to see how the two got together. It's very cute. As well all the delicious sweets that fill the screen!

What I don’t like:
I felt like Hikaru's trouble could have been more fleshed out, and more attention could have been payed to Keita's frustrations when he couldn't get in touch with her. But because of the short time of this special, I don't think that was possible. I wanted to know more about what happened after everything, but I guess they just ran out of time.

I recommend this to anyone who wants a well-made, short and sweet romantic drama. You get main leads showing a variety of emotions. You get lots of sweets. And you can enjoy taking in the parts of Japan away from the usual Tokyo locations.

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