Friday, January 02, 2009

Winter 2009 Drama Preview: Love Shuffle

Title: Love Shuffle
Broadcast by: TBS
Timeslot: Fridays, 10pm
O.A. Start Date: 16 January 2009
Theme song: FANTASY by Ice Wind Fire
Insert song: ETERNAL FLAME by Bangles
Official website: here

Cast:

Usami Kei - Tamaki Hiroshi
Aizawa Airu - Karina
Sera Oujiro - Matsuda Shota
Oishi Yukichi - DAIGO
Hayakawa Kairi - Yoshitaka Yuriko
Kamijo Reiko - Kojima Ijiri
Kagawa Mei - Kanjiya Shihori
Kikuta Masato - Tanihara Shosuke

Reasons for watching:

1) An unique concept of partner exchange. And Nojima Shinji always has something fresh up his sleeve (most of the time). As such, I anticipate this to be a daring, outrageous and attention-grabbing drama.

2) The combination of Tamaki, Karina, Matsuda and Tanihara as the leads is quite interesting. Although I like Tamaki when he was in Nodame Cantabile, I will have to see if he does as well in this drama as a guy who appears to be doing well but in actual fact, his life is not a bed of roses. Karina is getting better in her acting but as to whether she can handle this, I am adopting a wait-and-see attitude. Matsuda has impressed me in Liar Game so I am quite confident that he can do as well.

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