Unlucky Girl! is kind of different from your usual jdoramas. It is a story of 3 of the most unlucky girls in Japan whose lives become entwined by fate and become friends.
Yabe Kenzo is the fortune teller who goes to the same cafe that the girls frequent and is fascinated but the gathering of 3 people of such bad luck and introduces the audience to some sort of fortune telling every episode.
The humour of the show is can be summed up as what can go wrong will go wrong. The humour is dry and the first few episodes were hard for me to get into. I persisted and I started to find the characters appealing and there is a certain charm to watching the 3 girls try their best when things don't go well all the time.
Things really pick up in the middle of the series when we are introduced to a lucky girl, someone who good things just happen to and the incidents that the 3 unlucky girls get involved with get funnier. I started to understand that this was a show about 3 girls who were underdogs in life whereas the lucky girl was someone who has plenty of advantages in life. That's my working class reading of what Unlucky Girl! is about.
Ultimately I think Unlucky Girl! is watchable because it is a show about friendship and trying even when the odds are against you. Definitely not for everyone but if you like dry humour and characters going from one misfortune to another, Unlucky Girl! is a watchable series. Thanks to karaihabu for subbing!
1 comment:
I loved this show!
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