What I admire about japanese romcoms is the way they manage to create a whole long drama without one really bad character. I find it amazing. This cute little drama is such an uplifting, nice, optimistic watch.

The story follows Soramame and Oto who keep bumping into each other until they end up living in the same boarding house. Their connection, mutual respect, sincerity and friendship set them on the right path of professional success which unfortunately pushes the private life out of the way. After success tears them apart they meet again three years later.

The main characters are sweet and cute and have great chemistry. She is always looking on the bright side of life in spite of a number of mishaps. He is fascinated by her optimism which rubs off on him a bit helping him break the creative block. There is a cast of colourful support characters: the landlady enjoying the presence of youngsters in her house, the music producer, flamboyant and king, the fashion designer who almost caves in to temptation....

Though it is a romance, this drama touched superficially upon some interesting topics: child abandonment, creativity and inspiration, cutthroat entertainment and fashion businesses.

The drama is pretty to watch, the music is nice, pulling on heartstrings, the writing is solid as is the acting. For almost 8 episode it was a fairy tale about two lost puppies trying to find their way in this big bad world. And then suddenly, they became adults and everything changed. It was not a fairy tale anymore because the real life interfered, no matter how unrealistic (all of a sudden she discovers herself having a huge talent for creating clothes and after one month is better then a seasoned fashion designer?!?!?). The main couple spent most of the series circling around each other, pining and wondering. And even though I did not mind it most of the time, it became annoying towards the ending with unnecessary misunderstandings and a three year time jump. But they fixed everything and came back to the fairy tale territory with the post credit scene of the last episode and with that everything bitter I felt, just vanished. A lovely drama