Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Review of Koi ni Ochitara Ep 11

Ep 11: Hills ni Koishite (Falling In Love with the Hills)
O.A. 23 June 05
Ratings: 18.3%

Shimao, Takayanagi, Kaori, Kamiya, Kirino set up the new company, Suzuki Neji in order to make their comeback. They set up operations at Shimao's nail factory with Mariko and Ryuta helping them out on miscellaneous stuff. Shimao is hard at work to create a new portal site while the rest search for potential clients to use the site. In addition, Miyazawa also comes to join them after leaving Frontier.

Sakuraba is worried about Suzuki Neji posing a threat to him and tells the acting CEO, Tachibana to keep watching them. Fujii chips in with her view and is scolded by Tachibana which makes her furious.

Under the pressure of Sakuraba, nobody dares to sign any contracts with Suzuki Neji. However, a trading company, Miyakami Shoji expresses interest in the portal site but wishes to reduce the security level as it will be a burden to their server if they stick to the current format. Takayanagi expresses this to Shimao who refuses to compromise the security system for the sake of making the business deal. At the same time, Takayanagi receives a call from Sakuraba asking him to return to Frontier as the CEO.

Shimao finally finishes the creating of the portal site and celebrates with his colleagues. Mariko also proposes to Ryuta and he is delirious with joy.

The access statistics of Suzuki Neji's web portal are not encouraging but Shimao refuses to make any changes to the security for the sake of pleasing Miyakami Shoji. Takayanagi also confides in Kirino about Sakuraba's offer to go back to Frontier.

Out of a sudden, Shimao tells Takayanagi that he's willing to amend the portal site while Takayanagi is thoughtful about what he should do when he sees how engrossed Shimao is in the writing of programmes that he eats boiled eggs all the time and doesn't even realise that people are calling him.

Shimao and Takayanagi go to Miyakami Shoji to discuss the business deal. However, Takayanagi flares up at the person-in-charge who thinks that changing of programmes is so easy and blows the deal. However, Shimao is happy about Takayanagi's reaction even things are looking increasingly bleak for them.

Takayanagi goes to Sakuraba and rejects his offer to return to Frontier. As the staff mope over the operating figures, a phone call from major service provider, Bright Online proves to be their lifeline as Suzuki Neji makes its first deal from the portal it created. As a result, Suzuki Neji grows quickly and even takes over Frontier where Takayanagi returns to be the CEO. However, Shimao doesn't return to Frontier and restarts the family nail business while still carrying on with the IT business of Suzuki Neji with Kaori...

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This is the best finale I've seen this season so far from the dramas I'm watching. I watched three finales yesterday and the first two made me curse and swear at how illogical it was but this was really good. Of course, I had already guessed that Shimao and Takayanagi will become successful again but the way it was done did not seemed like a forceful twist of the plot. Besides, those two were so funny in this episode where Shimao teased Takayanagi for blowing up at their client. Although they did not show Shimao getting married to Kaori, by the looks of it, Kaori wearing casual clothes at his home seems to signify that they are already married at the end.

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