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The Ideal Man

2021 · 1 season

A quiet, talky romance drama about adults fumbling with honesty and mixed signals in work and love.

Overview
A man ten years younger, and a man of the same age appeared in front of our heroines, who had taken a break from love. A coworker, a husband, a colleague, a one night stand... etc. Because of the differences in position and age, they can't say what they want to say, but instead say what they can, can't be honest, and depend on them... But all of them are worrisome because it's hard to understand their feelings? You don't have to be with your soulmate... Is one of them the ideal man who will fill in the feeling that something's missing?

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • love
    • identity
    • work
    Places
    • big city
    • workplace
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism8
    Romance6
    Tension3
    Darkness3
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Created by
    Mamoru Yoshino, Ryo Miyawaki
    Written by
    Eriko Komatsu
    Starring
    Misako Renbutsu, Mina Fujii, Toshiki Seto, Ryosuke Mikata, Masanobu Ando, Harumi Shuhama, Kouhei Takeda, Shunya Iwakami
    Music
    Yasuyoshi Suzuki
    Length
    1 seasons, 8 episodes, 30 min each
    Network
    TV Tokyo
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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