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Coffee and Vanilla

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ⒸBrush n Pen Designs Drama Name:    コーヒー&バニラ    [Café Vanilla ] - 10  EPISODES Cast:   Dori Sakurada as Hiroto Fukami, Haruka Fukuhara as Risa Shiroki Language:  Japanese What if a cute and handsome guy saves you from embarrassing yourself in public? Oh, you would definitely remember that face later but first, you would thank him and leave. Okay, let us have the liberty to fantasize cause we are drama fans. Let's say you thank him, offer him a coffee and leave. But would you go and sleep with him?? Hmm naughty (*smirk). Characters:  The female lead, Risa, comes to Tokyo from the countryside. She is cute, pretty, but shy and super awkward with any stranger (irrespective of their gender). As rightly said by an anonymous, she has a backbone of a jellyfish. To top that, she is so gullible that she falls into traps and gets tricked by men easily. In short, she is a damsel in distress who has to be saved by her man. The cast is new to me but, honestly, it is quite difficult to watch her

My Girlfriend is an Alien

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ⒸBrush n Pen Designs Drama name:   外星女生柴小七  ( Wài xīng nǚshēng chái xiǎo qī) - 28 EPISODES Cast: Bie Thassapak Hsu as Fang Leng, Wan Peng as Chai Xiao Qi, Wang You Jun as Fang Lie Language: Simplified Chinese/Mandarin Story Line:   An alien girl reaches Earth in search of other life forms. She loses signal and hence stays till she finds her way back. During this time she crosses paths with an overbearing boss and they eventually fall in love. It is a hilarious yet emotional cross-star love story. But will their story end happily? Would the ali en be able to live on Earth with her lover?  Characters: The female lead, Xiao Qi has a fun-loving and carefree character. Unknown to what Earth is and how Earthlings are, she discovers various aspects of the human race. Played by Wan Peng, Xiao Qi is more than just an alien. She looks more like the girl from your neighborhood with uneven teeth, which makes her cute and adorable. It is this look that makes her authentic and pure.  What makes th