Hi! I’ve been using Migaku for over a year and love it. Recently I’ve been wanting to have notifications for it so that I don’t forget to use it, but Android won’t let me turn notifications on. Does Migaku just not have notifications? Or am I doing something wrong?
I expect to get downvoted, but I need to get this out. I’m struggling to see why seemingly everyone loves this show.
I’ll start by saying it’s not all bad. It’s visually appealing, has some good lines/scenes, has a good cast, and has great music (my favorite part of the show is the score). I even liked how Riko was written in the first half of the show; I felt her pain and understood how it feels to hype things up in your head while also being a bad communicator. It had potential to be really good.
But this incredibly repetitive plot is insufferable. By episode 6 or 7 I felt pretty done with it and watching became a chore. When I learned the finale was 90 minutes long I just sighed. And now watching the finale, I’m surprisingly more relieved to watch Soichiro and Sanae’s subplot (which I had really disliked up till this point) compared to Teppei and Riko. Riko even says herself that if she and Teppei get together they’ll still have the same problems. I was stunned in the last episode that they pulled another “Riko sees Teppei with another woman again and flips out” — come on man!
And Teppei isn’t great either. Couldn’t believe the scene where Riko tests his fidelity through that one female friend tempting him in his bed… and instead of telling her to leave he looks under the blanket to see if she has clothes on. And no repercussions for him in that moment aside from Riko putting purikura couple photos on his phone. I get that there might be cultural differences around cheating, but this felt odd, especially considering Riko’s reactions to other situations that weren’t as bad.
I like imperfect characters, but this was just ridiculous. Kind of reminded me of the problems I had with this year’s “Gimbap and Onigiri,”but like 5x worse. And that “True love never runs smooth” ad showing up every five minutes was overkill. Like that was the only theme of this show. Ugh.
For a show that gets mentioned a lot alongside “Long Vacation,” which I adored, I’m pretty disappointed. Anyone else feel similarly? And to those who did enjoy the show, why? Maybe I set myself up for disappointment by watching LG right after LV😅