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Okaeri Mone
Nov. 8th, 2021 09:56 amMomone Nagaura lives with her parents, grandfather and younger sister on an island in Kesennuma Bay, Miyagi Prefecture. In the spring of 2014, Momone Nagaura graduates from high school and moves to the city of Tome. She fails to enter a university. While she tries to figure out what to do with her life, she begins to work as an apprentice of a forest guide. A turning point in her life occurs. A popular weather forecaster from Tokyo arrives. Momone Nagaura walks on a mountain with the weather forecaster. She hears from the weather forecaster that the weather forecaster can predict the future. Momone Nagaura becomes touched by that comment and decides to become a weather forecaster. She studies hard for the exam to become a weather forecaster. With the help of the people around her in Tome, she finally passes the exam. Momone Nagaura moves to Tokyo and begins to work at a private weather forecasting company. Working there, she grows up as a weather forecaster. Several years later, in 2019, a major typhoon approaches Japan. To help her hometown, she heads to Kesennuma Bay.(MDL-2021)
This is the first Asadora I watched that didn't feel like an Asadora in all sense. Yes, some parts, like when the Tome people were spying/cheering on Mone and the doctor felt a bit, but besides that, nothing. It honestly didn't have any climax... it was a steady story that wasn't particularly asadora-ish in the sense that, was there a moment where I was rooting for Mone?
Which is strange because I adore Kaya. I wanted her to be an Asadora for years. It may be because she is so mature-like in her acting? Like she doesn't need improvement. Lesson learning yes; but maturity no. She is so calm, and even her dream was so calm, not a passionate one that made you go "gambare Mone!"
The big letdown for me was that most of the drama was very technical. And only a tiny bit was human, which is the thing that attracts more about an asadora. Everything was about the forests, the weather, why the trees this, why the sea that, etc, etc. I loved most of what was about the tsunami, because this tragedy resonates so much to me, and it was impossible to not cry a bit over Minami's story and the Kesennuma tragedy and how the people moved on. I also liked the relationship between Mone and Michan... both actresses are very mature-like so their characters were also like that, serious and calm.
But as a whole, it was a bit disappointing for me. It also ends so abruptly. There is closure, but you can see they didn't have time and just rushed to the ending.
**My rating: 6/10**
This is the first Asadora I watched that didn't feel like an Asadora in all sense. Yes, some parts, like when the Tome people were spying/cheering on Mone and the doctor felt a bit, but besides that, nothing. It honestly didn't have any climax... it was a steady story that wasn't particularly asadora-ish in the sense that, was there a moment where I was rooting for Mone?
Which is strange because I adore Kaya. I wanted her to be an Asadora for years. It may be because she is so mature-like in her acting? Like she doesn't need improvement. Lesson learning yes; but maturity no. She is so calm, and even her dream was so calm, not a passionate one that made you go "gambare Mone!"
The big letdown for me was that most of the drama was very technical. And only a tiny bit was human, which is the thing that attracts more about an asadora. Everything was about the forests, the weather, why the trees this, why the sea that, etc, etc. I loved most of what was about the tsunami, because this tragedy resonates so much to me, and it was impossible to not cry a bit over Minami's story and the Kesennuma tragedy and how the people moved on. I also liked the relationship between Mone and Michan... both actresses are very mature-like so their characters were also like that, serious and calm.
But as a whole, it was a bit disappointing for me. It also ends so abruptly. There is closure, but you can see they didn't have time and just rushed to the ending.
**My rating: 6/10**
