Puraido

A lot of things are beautifully natural in the series and I'd say most of the dialogue is well polished; unfortunately, even though it's only 11 episodes long, it suffers from the malaise of Asian series – the ending is drawn out to the point of hurting the quality of the series. All it needed was those eight and it would have been a really good romantic series. Only it wasn't, it had to be muddled, stretched out, filled with unnecessary cotton wool; so I had to lower the rating. Not to mention the ending, which is so Asian. Fortunately, a big plus was the music by Queen and the acting by Kimura Takuya – when he plays ordinary guys, he plays them so convincingly that you aren’t surprised that the heroine falls head over heels in love with him. It could have been better. And definitely don't look for hockey in this, that's just a setup, a means for the two to meet and for things to get a little messy. A beautiful 3 stars. (15/12/2015)