[REVIEW] Pride

Pride
Japanese Drama

Episodes: 11

Genre: Sports, Romance

Cast:

• Kimura Takuya as Satonaka Halu
• Takeuchi Yuko as Murase Aki
• Sakagucii Kenji as Hotta Yamato
• Ichikawa Somegoro as Ikegawa Tomonori
• Sato Ryuta as Shimamura Makoto
• Nakagoshi Noriko as Aizawa Yuri
• Megumi as Ishikawa Chika
• Ishida Yuriko as Yoko
• Sato Koichi as Hyodo Yuichiro
• Takizawa Saori as Sonoda Saeko
• Namioka Kazuki as Nichida Naritoshi
• Tokito Saburo as Anzai 

Synopsis:
     Halu is the captain and star player of an ice hockey team, who is greatly respected by his teammates. For him, hockey is serious business that fully occupies his mind, while he treats romance as if it were a game.

Aki is a typical OL (office lady), and is waiting for her boyfriend to return from studying architecture abroad. At this point in time however, he shows no sign of coming back. One day, Aki's friends who are determined to find her a new boyfriend, invite her to watch an ice hockey game. There she sees Halu for the first time.

After the game, Aki and her friends join the players for a party celebrating their victory. Aki, however, is not so excited to be there. When she leaves the party, she bumps into Halu, who was slightly injured from a fight. They exchange e-mail addresses and part.

The sparks of mutual attraction are ignited in a second encounter between Aki and Halu, arranged with the help of her friends shortly after a party.

Hyodo has come as a replacement for the team's coach who has been hospitalized. Halu has a lot of respect for the hospitalized coach. Unfortunately, he can't stand Hyodo's way of doing things. Bringing with him a lot of coaching experience from overseas, Hyodo criticizes the former coach's strategies. Whenever Halu and Hyodo see each other, they get into a quarrel; consequently influencing Halu's behavior during games.

Seeing that his game ended in a brawl, Aki visits Halu to comfort him. But he tells her that she is being too friendly with him.

Aki is hurt, Halu is irritated, and his teammate Hotta can't stand seeing Halu like this...

info credits: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Pride

Sukaretto says:
p.s. spoilers ahead.
     i expected too much from this drama. well, the cast... i was jumping too high when i saw Tokito Saburo (although he died in ep1) and Sato koichi as part of the cast, not to mention the Kimura Takuya and Takeuchi Yuko as lead. but it just didn't get me excited. well, KimuTaku did get me excited, giggling like mad whenever there's a cute scene between him and Yuko. and the kisses! if you want to see "real" kissing scenes, watch a KimuTaku drama. buuuuuuut, the story just didn't get me. a girl waiting for her boyfriend who didn't contact him for 2years? yeah right. 

My Ratings: i'll give this 2.5/5 :)