Cleopatra na Onnatachi: Hurtful Ending for Hurtful Rating.

by - Thursday, August 09, 2012
It's pretty embarrassing to finish up a snap-out dorama (which is only 8 episodes long) in no shorter than 3 days whilst having so many leisure times to spend.
So, here's this one dorama I've just done watching last night, titled Cleopatra na Onnatachi (2012). I actually don't have this kind of tendency to review or spoil doramas/movies/books/songs I have been watching/reading/listening unless directly being asked to. (rather than write them down in a blog, I'd much prefer to tell them with plump!)
But I've got this urge to claptrap about the whole thing in this dorama since it has either disappointed me or left me with enough contentment (of hurtful feelings). That doesn't mean I'm going to properly review so don't expect much! :)

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Kanto's viewership rating: 0.7%
Personal rating: 3.5 out of 5

There has been A LOT of doramas with professional backgrounds brought up as a focus and most of them would pick up either detective/elite cops or medical theme.

Cleopatra na Onnatachi is actually plotted as one, it's based on a misconception of beauty & plastic surgery in laity. There was this one plastic surgery specialist in university hospital named Kishi Minetaro (Sato Ryuta) who was running in debt over his father's. Considering the salary he got in university hospital was inadequate enough to repay the bail-out every month, he decided to transfer himself to a beauty clinic hospital called BSC which definitely would give him three times of his salary in university hospital. It was really hard for Mine-sensei (Mineta's nickname in BSC) ever since the first day of his work in BSC. Surrounded by beautiful doctors (Mari-sensei/Yo Kimiko, Ichii-sensei/Inamori Izumi, Hoshida-sensei/Ashina Sei) and nurses (Ao-chan/Kitano Kii, Moe-chan, etc) who strongly believe that "faces are for lives" was tough for he needs to adapt with community that's clearly against his principle. Sad truth it is :(

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Apart from the issues and pressure Mineta had in work, he has another complication; didn't believe women. But he wasn't gay either, despite living with his gay friend, Kurosaki Yu (Ayano Go). He's all okay with it.

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Yu himself had to endure his feeling towards Mineta whom he had always been in love with since junior high. ;______; (Idk but I'm deadly into Yu's matter out of all matters in the whole episode more than the main idea itself.) I could presume that Go's presence and his perfect potrayal of Kurosaki Yu was the reason I kept watching it till the very end.
What's really disappointing me is the minor turnout of romance between Mineta and Ichii-sensei that seemed so.... forced and awkward and pitiful and somehow it got me so disgusted. And also the cruelity the director made to Yu, to leave him heartbroken and sacrificed for all his might. That's so bad ;____;

This dorama has a strong point in uncovering each person's problem (almost) to detail but not trying to mingle personal problem with the issues of work. However, it had some difficulties to manage a high (or at least average) rating of viewership since the first episode. :( If only they could hold out until the 11th episode, that'd be just fine. And I believe the ending would not be as "cheap" as having a forced romance between senior and junior. #Sarcasm

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"To love completely, means you'll hurt someone else, bend your own ideals, even throw away your future, you've got to make so many sacrifices." ~Kurosaki Yu
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