Kahogo no Kahoko

This short,10 episode series from Japan, started off, charming and cute, but by the last few episodes everything just kind of fell all over itself as the multitude of inept characters continued to flop around the story like puppets with tangled strings.

Mitsuki Takahata is so cute and lovable as Kahoko - And the series starts out strong with a chance given her by tje male lead to break out of her overprotected shell, But it just veers all over the place ad all of her loving family completely falls apart during the remaining episodes.

You could say it's not cliché, in that Kahoko does not somehow break out and become super intelligent, super competent and super brilliant at something, As she would in many other cut and paste J dramas or K dramas. She doesn't, she runs around as an incredibly lovable, sweet, clueless woman-child throughout the entire 10 episodes.

But much of the rest of the families troubles is really cliché which becomes tiresome after four or five episodes in a row, where everyone is a complete mess.

So, I give it an A for effort, but a C- for writing and execution.

I also found it weird that episode 9 had that weird soap opera-like hyperealistic camera and lighting effect that the other episodes didn't have.