Yes, it's based on the memoir of the reporter Jake Adelstein with his reporting life in Japan, but then you can't always copy everything into drama series, not because it's not going to be authentic, but it still needs to bring certain entertainments and interesting contents for general audiences to get into the show, which it is successfully bringing that aspect.
And Ansel Elgort and other actors and actresses really brought up the game and learnt Japanese for the show, they put their efforts into the show without a doubt.
So in general, I really like how the show is going and I supposed to rate it 8/10.
HOWEVER, the thing I'm disappointing is that the show was originally promoting from the beginning that there are 10 episodes, UNTIL the episode 8 releases and THEN telling us that this is the SEASON FINALE?!?!! Are you kidding me?! This really hanged me to the throat.
And based on this episode 8 season finale, it's not JUST a cliff hanging me there because I was expecting 2 more episodes, but the storyline didn't bring any closure on anything except giving us little footage of a sub plot on Samantha best friend Polina to what happened to her...AND I'm more expecting the season finale would at least catch up to the same timeline of the opening of Episode 1 where Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe meeting up the Tozawa's #2 ranked man, but then it's not even close to that timeline in this season finale...so this season finale only left hanging with all kind of questions to almost every characters in the show to audiences.
Lastly, I feel that they could've given Tomohisa Yamashita a better character role instead of Polina's boyfriend in the Host Club...it's little bit of waste...
so yeah, with all that above, I'll take one star down to 7/10.
And Ansel Elgort and other actors and actresses really brought up the game and learnt Japanese for the show, they put their efforts into the show without a doubt.
So in general, I really like how the show is going and I supposed to rate it 8/10.
HOWEVER, the thing I'm disappointing is that the show was originally promoting from the beginning that there are 10 episodes, UNTIL the episode 8 releases and THEN telling us that this is the SEASON FINALE?!?!! Are you kidding me?! This really hanged me to the throat.
And based on this episode 8 season finale, it's not JUST a cliff hanging me there because I was expecting 2 more episodes, but the storyline didn't bring any closure on anything except giving us little footage of a sub plot on Samantha best friend Polina to what happened to her...AND I'm more expecting the season finale would at least catch up to the same timeline of the opening of Episode 1 where Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe meeting up the Tozawa's #2 ranked man, but then it's not even close to that timeline in this season finale...so this season finale only left hanging with all kind of questions to almost every characters in the show to audiences.
Lastly, I feel that they could've given Tomohisa Yamashita a better character role instead of Polina's boyfriend in the Host Club...it's little bit of waste...
so yeah, with all that above, I'll take one star down to 7/10.