Oh my boss! Koi wa bessacu de

Something interesting was playing out in the beginning. Slightly frivolous, slightly serious, slightly conceptual, slightly reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. In the beginning it had a swing to it, it was fun and kind of nice in that everyone was fairly normal in character, i.e. no one was a murderous bad guy who wanted to ruin the heroine's life. It was really a romantic comedy that glided between clichés, bouncing off them but not living through them. It wasn't until the end that it kind of weirdly broke down. It slowed down, it broke up, it changed its mind... It's just that for how the beginning was kind of breezy, good, the end was a dragged-out nothing. Too bad. The heroine's fine, likeable, not a pushover. Maybe a little annoying at the beginning, how she kept wanting to live her life her way, but luckily it didn't matter, it just kind of went on without words. The object of her affection was such a positive simpleton, no one exceptionally gifted or smart, just an ordinary guy with some background. But her boss was quite an interesting character: talented, beautiful, fair, and naively sharp. An interesting mishmash that Nanao managed to pull off. Interesting characters who weren’t just to drive the count included the boss's boss and the heroine's colleague played by Mamiya Shotaro. Both characters were likable, their characters were a bit more fleshed out than the rest of the supporting characters, and there was nothing bad to be said about the acting. The rest of the editorial staff and the family members of either the hero or heroine were more or less just placeholders, flat rather than complex; they just sort of existed. The series suffered quite a bit from this and from its lackluster ending. Otherwise, it's a nice show and I'll certainly be glad to see more series of a similar standard being made in Japan. (18.03.2021)