Japanese Drama - Absolute Boyfriend (Zettai Kareshi)

Absolute Boyfriend - Zettai Kareshi

Rating: 9.4/10

The Cast:

Hayami Mokomichi as Tenjo Night
Mizushima Hiro as Asamoto Soshi
Aibu Saki as Izawa Riiko
Sasai Eisuke as Shirasagi Yuki
Ueno Natsuhi as Ito Mika
Satoi Kenta as Hirata Hajime
Nekoze Tsubaki as Adachi Kyoko
Komoto Maki as Sato Nozomi
Kaji Masaki as Tanaka Yoichiro
Yamada Meikyo as Asamoto Shiro
Minemura Rie (峯村リエ) as Yoshioka Tetsuko
Erena as Ono Chiho
Sakuragi Ryosuke (桜木涼介) as Morikawa Yasushi
Watanuki Shoichi (綿貫正市) as Dei Takeru
Irie Jingi as Hayashi Kota
Yamamoto Kei as Asamoto Kazushi
Nakamura Shunsuke as Asamoto Masashi
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Namikiri Gaku
Maya Miki as Wakabayashi Fujiko

About the Drama:

Riiko Izawa is a simple temp worker, who has never had a boyfriend and she has been rejected by every boy she has ever had a crush on. When she returns a lost cell phone to an oddly dressed salesman, she mentions wanting a boyfriend so to thank her, he directs her to his company's website. When she visits the site, Riiko finds it's a site to create your own lover. Thinking its a game, she customizes and accidentally orders one.

Little did Riiko know that the odd salesman is actually Kronos Heaven, a Robot developer, he had finally developed "Night Tenjo", the perfect male humanoid programmed to be devoted and completely loyal to his lover and is programmed to be the perfect boyfriend

The next day, Riiko's new lover arrives. Following the instruction manual, she kisses him to wake him up and configure him to be in love with only her. She names him "Night."

Three days later, she is shocked to learn that she only had him for a free trial. The salesman, Gaku Namikiri, tells her that she must now pay 100,000,000 yen for Night, or they will waive the fee if she helps them to collect data about how women think and feel to help perfect future models.

Riiko must keep Night's true nature of not being human a secret from everyone around her. She also finds herself in a love triangle between Night and a distinguished young executive at her company Soshi, who declares his love for her out of fear that he will lose her.

At first, Riko only sees Night as a household appliance. At the mean time, Night begins to develop real human emotions, which enables him to truely love Riiko, but this also caused him to develop system malfunctions. When Riiko almost loses Night due to the malfunctions, she realizes that had fallen in love with him. She apologizes to Soshi and rejected him.

Night begins to grow weaker and weaker. The problem is caused by exceeding usage of his abilities and eventually it caused his machinery to stop working, resulting in his "death".

Before he died, he wrote a letter directed to Soshi telling him what was happening and asking him to take care of Riiko. Gaku Namikiri then sent the letter to Soshi, which brings him back to Japan to be at Riiko's side again after giving her some time to grieve over Night's "death".

Comments:

Frankly speaking I will still choose a real guy compared to a robot that is made for me. In fact an absolute boyfriend is something too good to be true =)

Hayami Mokomichi, is extremely charming in the drama, I can not imagine how can a person look so perfect, especially without clothes LOL...perfect body....He looks perfectly like a robot. An extremely handsome robot. I saw the Taiwanese version of Absolute boyfriend, which is also known as "Absolute Darling" or "Jue Dui Darling" (絕對達令) but the "robot" there can not compare to the "robot" in the Japanese version.

I heard that there is a special episode of the drama, and since my friend told me it's best to leave the show as it is and not watch the special episode I did not dare to watch it and spoil the beautiful show.....sad....but beautiful...