Image Copyright Tokyo Broadcasting SystemTitle: Papa to Musume no Nanokakan
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 7
Broadcast network: TBS
Completed Airing?: Yes
Kawahara Kyoichiro (Tachi Hiroshi) is your average salaryman, going to work in a large company, coming home, going to work, coming home. The light of his life is his daughter, Koume (Aragaki Yui). Every evening he sits and watches videotapes of his adorable daughter playing on the beach and saying that she loves him. In reality, however, his teenage daughter no longer speaks to him beyond what is absolutely necessary, and Kyoichiro does not know how to approach her. He can only watch the tapes over and over and over. This changes suddenly one day, when, after a trip to visit Koume's grandmother, there is a terrible train accident and father and daughter cling together. They awaken in the hospital, very alive but also in the wrong bodies! Father has become daughter and daughter has become father. Keeping it from Mama is the least of their worries, not when Kyoichiro faces getting fired at work if his project fails and Koume has tests and love at school to worry about!
I will tell you right now that I'm slightly biased about this drama, as I am one of the people translating it. I originally started watching it thinking that it would be nothing more than amusing, but I found it quite charming, actually, and volunteered my translating services since I developed a soft spot for the drama.
If you hadn't guessed from the summary, this is indeed a Japanese drama version of Freaky Friday. The storyline is pretty predictable, and it's certainly not something that we've never seen before. However, I really liked that it was a father and daughter that made the switch, not the overdone mother and daughter. The main attraction of the drama was watching the two as the opposite sex. What is Koume to do when Mama wants some action and thinks she's curling up to her husband? What is Papa to do when Kenta-senpai ("senpai" is the term for "upperclassman") wants to go on a date with "Koume?"
Watching Aragaki Yui walk and talk like a middle-aged man is amusing enough, but it is Tachi Hiroshi who steals the show. There's something that will never fail to be amusing about an old man texting on a pink, blinged-out cell phone and bouncing around the room squealing like a thirteen year-old, only to have to pause in mid-bounce as Mama enters the room.
Admittedly, some parts of this get boring. There is the requisite Moral Lesson every so often, and the parts at Papa's company aren't the most interesting. The whole part about the affair is also pretty serious, and I would have liked to see a lot more comedy. The ratings for this show were average, nothing spectacular, and a lot of people said that they weren't going to bother watching it. But it's cute, it's short, and you could be watching a lot worse dramas.
Papa to Musume no Nanokakan Official Site
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 7
Broadcast network: TBS
Completed Airing?: Yes
Kawahara Kyoichiro (Tachi Hiroshi) is your average salaryman, going to work in a large company, coming home, going to work, coming home. The light of his life is his daughter, Koume (Aragaki Yui). Every evening he sits and watches videotapes of his adorable daughter playing on the beach and saying that she loves him. In reality, however, his teenage daughter no longer speaks to him beyond what is absolutely necessary, and Kyoichiro does not know how to approach her. He can only watch the tapes over and over and over. This changes suddenly one day, when, after a trip to visit Koume's grandmother, there is a terrible train accident and father and daughter cling together. They awaken in the hospital, very alive but also in the wrong bodies! Father has become daughter and daughter has become father. Keeping it from Mama is the least of their worries, not when Kyoichiro faces getting fired at work if his project fails and Koume has tests and love at school to worry about!
I will tell you right now that I'm slightly biased about this drama, as I am one of the people translating it. I originally started watching it thinking that it would be nothing more than amusing, but I found it quite charming, actually, and volunteered my translating services since I developed a soft spot for the drama.If you hadn't guessed from the summary, this is indeed a Japanese drama version of Freaky Friday. The storyline is pretty predictable, and it's certainly not something that we've never seen before. However, I really liked that it was a father and daughter that made the switch, not the overdone mother and daughter. The main attraction of the drama was watching the two as the opposite sex. What is Koume to do when Mama wants some action and thinks she's curling up to her husband? What is Papa to do when Kenta-senpai ("senpai" is the term for "upperclassman") wants to go on a date with "Koume?"
Watching Aragaki Yui walk and talk like a middle-aged man is amusing enough, but it is Tachi Hiroshi who steals the show. There's something that will never fail to be amusing about an old man texting on a pink, blinged-out cell phone and bouncing around the room squealing like a thirteen year-old, only to have to pause in mid-bounce as Mama enters the room.Admittedly, some parts of this get boring. There is the requisite Moral Lesson every so often, and the parts at Papa's company aren't the most interesting. The whole part about the affair is also pretty serious, and I would have liked to see a lot more comedy. The ratings for this show were average, nothing spectacular, and a lot of people said that they weren't going to bother watching it. But it's cute, it's short, and you could be watching a lot worse dramas.
Papa to Musume no Nanokakan Official Site
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