Title: Yutori desuga nani ka Junmai ginjou junjou hen / ゆとりですがなにか 純米吟醸純情編
Rating: 7 / 10
Recommended for:
Those who want to see an update in the lives of the Yutori trio and the people around them after watching the drama series
Liked:
- If you enjoyed watching the Yutori trio in the drama series, this is a must-see for the sake of seeing how their lives have changed one year after the end of the drama. The friendly banter and humour were still present in this SP although there were some issues that cropped up which ended up being largely resolved.
- The acting from the cast again was the highlight here - in fact, more so than the story itself. Keep a lookout for the cameos here which I thought were pretty surprising.
Disliked:
- Since the SP was a continuation of the drama series, not watching that beforehand or forgetting the prior storyline might make it difficult for you to remember some of the past references made in the SP. As such, there were quite a lot of flashbacks to the series in the SP. In my case, I watched the SP straight after finishing the series so the high proportion of such flashback scenes got on my nerves at times since these disrupted the flow of the SP's story to a certain extent.
- Given that the SP felt more like an update rather than a new story, it felt as if the goodness or tricks from the series were "rehashed" so the novelty factor was somewhat lacking. It made me wonder if some developments were included as fillers because there surely wasn't a need to split this SP's story into "two episodes" and could have been squeezed into a single 2-hr special or even shorter. For one, the part about Akane's pregnancy which was so obvious just seemed simply ridiculous since there were people in the Sakama household who had gone through pregnancy before and could certainly have noticed the change in her appearance way before the revelation. That hoo-ha over the brewery's survival was also too drawn out.
