I almost wanted to rage/quit Rich Man, Poor Woman this week. That is how much episode 6 pissed me off royally. But then I calmed myself back down and took out my frustrations on the screenwriter rather than the drama itself which I still love. Episode 6 felt like a super long filler episode with enough story for 10 minutes stretched into 50, with emphasis on people and situations I would love to see less of. Asahina and Makoto? OMG, shoot me now. Hyuga and Yoko? My eyes rolled all the way into my forehead, and then refused to come back down. The problem isn’t that I don’t like second leads, because if done right they can easily steal my heart and the show. In RMPW I simple could care less about the Asahina siblings, the brother being a moron in trying to take down Hyuga by taking down a company that he partially owns (buh?), and the latter seems like a decent girl with solid culinary aspirations, but as a romantic rival to the heroine she’s all sorts of annoying.
The Japanese audience appears to be tuning out big time, as episode 6 hit a giant low in dropping below 10 in ratings (terrible for a Getsuku). I think this story swims with Hyuga and Makoto, and treads water with the personal file project, and sinks with the sibling machinations, the brother with Next Innovation domination and the sister with winning Hyuga’s heart. Unlike Miss Rose episode 3 which was all sorts of awesome I eschewed sleep despite being supremely jet lagged in order to recap it, episode 6 of RMPW is leaving me cold with inspiration to recap. I’ll probably end up doing it, but oy won’t the screenwriter cut a Koala a break and quit wasting my time and gimme MOAR Hyuga and Makoto? Though truth be told, what little interaction they had in episode 6 was Adorable as usual with a capital A.
Written preview for episode 7:
Next Innovation receives an order to cease operations. Asahina, Hyuga, and Yamagami stay at the office, and under the threat of bankruptcy, in the discussions of how to obtain the necessary funds even Hyuga has lost his usual arrogance. At that time, Asahina tells Hyuga that his confession of feelings for Makoto was rejected by her.
The employees who have been told to take an extended vacation return to the office. Makoto goes to Hyuga’s office , and the first words that reach her when she opens the door is “lying woman”. Makoto realizes that Hyuga is talking about her not answering the phone and she apologizes to him. But Hyuga then remembers that when Makoto returned his call, he was embracing Yoko, so he acts awkward with her.
Makoto tells Hyuga that he may have a lot of enemies, but he also has a lot of allies like herself. Even if she’s just exaggerating, she wants to reassure him at this time. Hearing this, Hyuga is comforted and he decides to sell all his shares and use the cash as compensation to the 500,000 people whose personal data was leaked.
Hyuga tells Asahina about his plans and Asahina apologizes for doubting his methods before. Hyuga has the support of Asahina and he vows to rebuild the company. At that time, Makoto receives the notice from a large pharmaceutical company that she has been offered employment. She’s ecstatic about the sudden job offer, but sad that she will need to leave Hyuga’s side. Later in the night when she is alone with Hyuga, she confesses that she wants to stay by his side and work with him. Hyuga responds……..
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Thanks for the written preview, Koala!
Yea, I'm getting a little tired of this drama now. It's lost the magic of the first 4 episodes where there was lots of Hyuga-Makato interaction.
The company stuff is just blegh, and Asahina can just go and die. I don't mind Yoko though, I just don't understand why Hyuga seems to be reciprocating her love for him? Is he just confused?
One question though: What is Makato's major in unversity? I might have missed them mentioning it, but she's always seen wearing a white lab coat. Is she a doctor/pharmacist/chem student?
lol-Asahina can just go and die-way to funny!
Idk if they mentioned it or not, but I think she's completing her undergrad degree in biology. In ep 1, there's a scene where she fell asleep typing 'plasmids preparationnnnnnnnnn' on her computer. lol
Ms. Koala,
Thank you for the preview to episode 7. Was actually just online looking for it and there you were to provide us the goods (thank you!!). I agree with you on episode 6...Arghhh and I only saw it the raw version (even though I did not understand anything, I was screaming at the my computer) My hope is that the episdoe next week will take the story back on track. Thank you for all the info and love your recaps :)
I watched Ep 6 raw and was enraged w/o understanding a word!! We have 4-5 episodes to go and ughhhh no skinship yet b/w our OTP. So depressing when I think about those two barf-worthy siblings getting more action w/ our OTP.
Hyuga responds... ughh, what a tease?! nande...
Thank you for the preview. Much appreciated esp. with you being on your vacation. <3
Thank you for your preview. Ep. 6 sounds like a debbie downer. What happened to the cute and lovable? Hoping ep 7 turns it around. Happy Vacation!
I haven't watched a single episode of RMPW, just reading recaps. I hope for each fan's sakes that the story pick up again with the next episode. Ganbatte, Koala! I'll go back to looking at the interesting episode screencaps and adorable gifs until your next RMPW post.
I blame it on the lack of Hyuga & Makoto. These 2 carry the show but so little of them together are shown in this episode ):
i didn t hate ep 6.it was necessary.i only hated the kiss part
Thanks Ms Koala for the preview. Urggh, I can't stand Hyuga with Yoko, No wonder the ratings went down for Ep6, nobody like them together but we still watch hoping for more lovey dovey scenes for our favourite OTP. Enjoy your holiday, Ms Koala.
After watching ep.6 raw, the first thought that came to me is that Mrs. Koala is going to be so pissed. The first 10 mins was a bit fun but then after that I got a hoo hum response. That show tested me, I did feel it dragged. I hope ep 7 does not do the same.
Another thought occurred to me as well after ep 6 and that is did Asahina actually sent Yoko to distract Hyuga from his backstabbing plans because the interaction appears so or is it something else. Makoto was unexpected therefore a new plan occurred.
I haven't felt inclined to pick up episode six, after watching and re- watching episodes one through four like crazy. Asahina's betrayal just left a bad taste in my mouth. It came on too fast and reckless for me and it looks Asahina does a 180 and returns to normal-you know after destroying the rep of next innovation. Still very messed up he broke his own foot. I like the personal file project in how it is bringing our characters together and allows our characters to show off their talents.