| Native Name: | |
| Screenplay: | Shigenori Tanabe |
| Starring: | Mone Kamishiraishi |
| Music: | Hideakira Kimura |
| Open Theme: | "Luv Bias" by Kis-My-Ft2 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Num Episodes: | 10 |
| Producer: | Akiko Matsumoto |
| Runtime: | 54min. |
| Company: | TBS Television, TBS Sparkle |
| Network: | TBS Television |
| Related: | Oh! My Tsundere! Love Is a Separate Volume |
is a Japanese romantic comedy drama that was broadcast on TBS Television from 12 January to 16 March 2021, starred Mone Kamishiraishi.[1] [2]
This drama was produced by the production staff of TBS Television (Japan)'s romantic drama An Incurable Case of Love, which was highly rated in the January 2020 season with Mone Kamishiraishi playing a rookie nurse.[3] It has no original story and is an original script by Shigenori Tanabe, who wrote the script for the An Incurable Case of Love spin-off drama.[3]
The drama, which depicts a young woman's work and love life, was well received by viewers and maintained a high average rating of over 10%, with the final episode recording the highest rating of 13.2%.[4]
Prior to the drama's broadcast, producer Akiko Matsumoto said, "Mone Kamishiraishi is leading the production with her outstanding comedienne skills. Nanao expresses a cool boss just by standing still. We asked Yuta Tamamori to play the difficult role of “a man like a puppy” this time, but he has turned out to be a puppy 120% of the time and is very cute,” she said.[5]
The “puppy-like man” appears as Nami imagines him to be, but Tamamori appears with ears and tail like a dog.[6]
Nanao, the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, spends about 1 million yen per pose each time she appears, and her outfits are chosen by a stylist. In episode 4, he even wore jewelry that cost over 10 million yen.
The sets and props in the editorial office are also carefully selected. The cover of the first issue of the magazine depicted in the first episode was done by Leslie Kee, a photographer who actually shoots fashion magazine covers. Such attention to detail is also a highlight of the drama.[7]
Immediately after the show began airing, some criticized Nami and Reiko for looking too much like Andrea “Andy” Sachs, played by Anne Hathaway, and Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, in the film The Devil Wears Prada.[8] [9]
However, also incorporated into this drama is the fact that Japan is experiencing a severe publishing slump and many magazines have been discontinued in recent years, and Reiko, the editor-in-chief, is depicted as obsessed with how to collect advertising revenue for her magazine.[10] This was something not seen in the editor-in-chief of The Devil Wears Prada.[9]
The other axis of this drama is a love story, and the portrayal of the main character, who is heartbroken by a childhood friend, who happens to meet Junnosuke, the son of a wealthy family, who loves her wholeheartedly,[11] and also has feelings for her from Nakazawa, a senior at work, is somewhat fantastical,[12] but as a result, the story won the hearts of many women. This is different from the love story between Miranda and Nate in The Devil Wears Prada.
Despite being called a drama with a sense of deja vu, it was well received and maintained high viewer ratings. The highest viewer rating was achieved in the final episode, in which the main character achieves self-realization in her editing job and her love with Junnosuke is fulfilled.[4]
Nami Suzuki (Mone Kamishiraishi) was an ordinary woman who thought that normal was the best way to do everything. She had a crush on and wanted to marry her childhood friend Kenya,[13] so she moved to Tokyo from her native Kumamoto and planned to have a job interview in the facilities management department of a publishing company.[14]
However, she met Junnosuke (Yuta Tamamori) on a bridge. The bench there had a fresh coat of paint on it, and she sat down and soiled the clothes she was wearing for the job interview.[15] She lamented that she would not be able to go to the interview. Junnosuke then bought her luxury brand clothes and gave her a luxury brand bracelet he wore as a good-luck charm.[15]
After the interview, she was appointed not to the facilities management department but to the editorial department of a fashion magazine as an assistant to the editor-in-chief, Reiko Horai (Nanao), who had just returned from Paris.[16] Beautiful and able to do her job, Reiko's assistant was fiercely busy and she grumbles. However, Reiko reprimanded Nami for not taking her job seriously.
When Nami met Junnosuke again, he asked her to met his elder sister and pretend to be his girlfriend. However, the sister was Reiko, the editor-in-chief.[17] Their father was the president of a large company and came from a wealthy family.
At first, Nami thought that normal was good for everything, that she wanted to get married and lead a normal woman's life, but her encountered with Reiko and her colleagues in the editorial department changed her way of thinking and helped her to grow as a member of society. And through her romance with Junnosuke, she grows into an adult woman.[18]
| Date | Subtitle | Directer | Rating[22] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 January 2021 | An ordinary girl becomes a scullery maid for a devil boss! | Kenta Tanaka | 11.4% | |
| 19 January 2021 | Operation Fool the Boss with a Fake Girlfriend! | 11.3% | ||
| 26 January 2021 | A big upheaval with demon bosses vs. subordinates! | Yasuharu Ishii | 11.0% | |
| 2 February 2021 | Love at the barbecue! | Takeyoshi Yamamoto | 11.6% | |
| 9 February 2021 | Are we lovers? | Kenta Tanaka | 10.8% | |
| 16 February 2021 | Graduated from being a scullery maid-like assistant? Living with a man who is like a puppy? | Yasuharu Ishii | 11.8% | |
| 23 February 2021 | A reversal of fortune! I love you more than anything in the world | Taichi Imura | 11.4% | |
| 2 March 2021 | 10 things I want to do when I get a boyfriend. | Kenta Tanaka | 11.8% | |
| 9 March 2021 | I love you... I want to be with you! | Yasuharu Ishii | 12.0% | |
| 16 March 2021 | Someday the future will be... | Kenta Tanaka | 13.2% | |
| Average rating 11.6% (ratings are from Video Research, Kanto region, households, real time). | |||||
The bridge that was an important setting for the scene where Nami and Junnosuke meet[27] and reunite is the Nakame Park Bridge over the Meguro River in Meguro, Tokyo. There are actually no benches on this bridge, and benches were brought in for the filming.[28] In 2024, Yuta Tamamori who played Junnosuke, visited this location and introduced it on his Instagram, which became internet news.[29]
Oh! My Tsundere! Love is a Separate Volume is spin-off drama of Oh! My Boss! Love is a Separate Volume. It was distributed on the Paravi distribution service after the main drama had finished. The story depicts a love affair between two contrasting characters: editorial assistant Haruka Izumi, who has the worst first impression of senior editor Ryota Nakazawa, and editor Kazumi Wada, who fell in love with Nakazawa on the first day they met, and the "Tsundere" poker-faced guy Nakazawa.[31] [32]
| Date | Subtitle | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 January 2021 | The "best" love in the world begins. | Taichi Imura |
| 19 January 2021 | I love what I love! | Naoki Kato |
| 26 January 2021 | Cycling for love is a dangerous love triangle! | Taichi Imura |
| 9 February 2021 | Valentine's Day for unrequited loves. | Naoki Kato |
| 23 February 2021 | We don't give up even if it's black and white! | |
| 9 March 2021 | If you can't push, try pulling! | |
| 16 March 2021 | Happy ending? |