Coffee and Vanilla

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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 character. 

The male lead is a handsome CEO who has had some horrible past but improved himself and is just the perfect guy from every girl's dreams. He is possessive about his little girlfriend (or should I say, super-possessive). He looks like a character popped out from an anime.

Concern: 

It is good that this series is short, but the storyline is rather disappointing. Incidents occur straightaway with no pause. There is absolutely no development of characters or scenes or the romance between the protagonists. The characters had no chemistry between them, and whenever they take a step ahead, it looks like two people with zero knowledge are trying to force it out on each other. The second lead couple did a better job than them.

It's not just the story/characters, the OST is not great too. I would rate it a 5 out of 10. 

Verdict:

I rate this series a 5 maximum out of 10 and would not recommend this series in case you were about to watch it. But if you do wanna waste your precious time, it is available for free on Rakuten VIKI with English subtitles. 

If you are new to dramas and are confused about which one to watch, go and check out my other reviews!