Watashi no Takaramono (2024)

For mature audience (not in a sexy way)

PSA: One thing that I really appreciate on MDL is that little thing called "tags". It helps you know what you're getting into before deciding to watch a show. Sometimes, I feel they are misused (I had a little rant about it already actually). But most often, they are used the right way. For example, for this drama, you can clearly see "extramarital affair" as a tag, this will help you know if this is catered to you or not. Take me for example, I wouldn't watch a drama with the tag "heavy torture", then give it a 1star and complain about all that torture in the show. Why? Because that would be immature, and irrational.

This show is about real people, living real situations. It's not a romcom, it's a drama, as in, heavy themes being employed here. It's really well acted, produced and written. I found the story absolutely compelling. All the characters were very 3D, and their motives made all the sense in the world. This type of story is very common place actually, even though it remains a taboo topic (illegitimate children being raised in the household). I am not a cinema buff, but even I was able to appreciate the cinematography. I also never really pay attention to the music, and this time around I was hearing it and appreciating it (the use of happy music in very bittersweet moments for example).
What I mostly care about in dramas are the acting and the story. I already gave my opinion on the story, very good.
As for the acting, all the actors did a really good job, especially the two leads. I've known Tanaka Kei from Ossan's Love, let me tell you, this guy can act. You will see a completely different character, deeper, darker and also more restrained. But Matsumoto Wakana (FL) definitely gave him a run for his money, she is great in this.

IN SUMMARY: Watch this if (1) you are a grown up who wants to see grown ups going through grown up things, (2) you know fiction is supposed to make us think of situations that may or may not have happened, so that we can walk a mile in someone else's shoes, (3) you're just a cheating cheater who cheats ;D
PS: there are worse things someone can do to their spouse than cheating. Like raping them for example. Just sayin'

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Worst story I've ever seen with the worst ending ever

I would've preferred a different ending where the characters just don't end up with each other. Frankly, hated almost everyone. The FL is stupid as hell for wanting to be with the guy that mistreated and raped her, the guy is stupid as hell for wanting to be with the FL after she cheated on him and had her lover's baby.


The only guy I didn't hate is the FL's ex lover who I felt was the only normal person in the entire story. He has his flaws, but I still kinda liked him or at least didn't hate him.

Won't recommend nor will I ever watch another show from this writer.

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Hiding the truth and lying is bad in relationship. woman was doing was destroying the relationship.

Unfortunate. You can see that they still deeply love each other. Cheating kills a relationship, because someone else loved her body. It would be hard to overcome that. The child is not at fault, but is the main reason for the destruction of this relationship. U hope they may overcome this, but sadly, it maybe used as a reason for these 2 to move on. She is the villain. I hope the husband divorces her and leaves to have a family of his own. Once a cheater, always a cheater. If she cheated once, she would do it again. Now she will have another excuse to cheat since she had a child with her lover and can choose to be with him to give a complete family. Short-term pain is better than long-term trauma. The husband should cut her out completely and sue her for infidelity and deception in marriage. But this is a Japanese drama, nothing will happen and they will reconcile.

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Great Actings But Doubtful Storyline

I like the J-drama series b/c it is short containing around 10-12 EPs. This J-drama story does not make much senese at the end. The story started that the husband had treated his wife badly before her affair started. Then she had an affair with her classmate-lover and was pregnant with his baby. She kept thinking of her lover and waiting for him until she heard a news that he passed away. The reasons that she cheated on her husband and lied to him about the baby’s father were understandable.

Then the story showed us that the husband changed his behavior and was good to the wife again. The unfaithful wife felt guilty in hurting her husband. It turned out that her lover was not dead and came back to see her. The story did NOT make much sense when she denied to be with her lover, whom she loved and he truly loved and did nothing wrong to her, BUT she wanted to stay with her husband and her baby as a family. The question was WHY she still wanted to be with her husband …. b/c she felt so much guilty in hurting him AND could completely forget the hurt that her husband had early made on her … or did she love her husband more than her school-lover which would be against with the early story portraying that she missed and was so happy when being with that man?

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Mon Précieux

Après des dizaines de dramas marqués pour le meilleur et pour le pire par sa présence, je n'ai toujours pas réussi à me faire un avis tranché sur les talents d'acteur de Tanaka Kei. Tout aussi excellent, quand il prend son air bougon et inquiétant qu'horripilant quand il prend son air niais ..., et vice-versa. Watashi no Takaramono, dont ses variations de caractère est au centre de l'intrigue de départ, va-t-il me donner un avis définitif. Le suspense est aussi intense que celui-de savoir qui est le papounet de ce cadeau inattendu.

Pour dire mon premier ressenti, l'intensité des premiers épisodes oblige notre acteur à surjouer la pourriture. Si bien que sa transformation va nous manquer cruellement de naturel. Alors que le reste du cast cherche une certaine vérité, Kitamura Kazuki à part, mais rien de surprenant connaissant ses rôles, on aurait aimé plus de retenue de Tanaka Kei. Au final, si la parentalité est le sujet principal de la série, la masculinité n'est pas moins interrogée. Et en tant qu'homme (je crois) j'ai autant aimé suivre les doutes du mari en particulier et des hommes en général, que ceux de Matsumoto Wakana qui tient son rôle de maman débordante de culpabilité à la perfection.

De manière surprenante, le jeu s'améliore avec les épisodes, comme si chacun rentrait vraiment dans le personnage, transformé par la venue de cet inestimable cadeau. Les mensonges font place à la vérité et le naturel avec. On se prend d'empathie pour chacun, se mettant clairement à la place de tous. Amoureux transi, père bafoué, personnage rongé par la culpabilité ou un code d'honneur d'un autre temps. D'un 1ᵉʳ épisode trop accès DV et maladroit, de la douceur et de la tendresse saupoudrent le reste de la série. Une mise en scène soignée et pleine de retenue accompagnée par une musique loin de la grandiloquence des productions habituelles achèvent un tableau plutôt bien réussi. Même l'ending ne sombre pas dans cette grandiloquence inhérente au genre. Bien sûr, certains trouveront à redire, et j'étais prêt à en être après les 2 premiers épisodes. Mais Tanaka Kei est tellement touchant avec ce bébé, qui faut bien le dire, est la star de la série qu'il nous offre le plus beau des cadeaux, un rôle à la hauteur de son talent.

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Another One where Cheater gets the BIG W!

As the Synopsis suggests, cheating is the main theme here. We see a messed up couple who were lovey dovey and happy before but the WORKLOAD brings in the worst out of the husband as usual, the stress, the pain and he vents it out on his wife.
They are No longer in love anymore. Its over but they don't end it and it leads to Adultery which she doesn't even regret until Months Later.
On top of that She intentionally makes him raise another man's child. The husband again is not a decent person either but he comes upfront about all of his actions and behaviours but she deceives him again and again. This is why I am always for MANDATORY PATERNITY TESTS AT BIRTH!!!

PS: He succumbs to being doormat and forgives everything.
Don't be the Doormat like the husband.
NEVER EVER BE THE DOORMAT doesn't matter if you're man or woman. Have some F------ Self respect!!

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