Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light
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estiroseNot a game - it's a jdrama about this young man who wants to reconnect with his father, who won't tell him why he suddenly retired from work. So he presents his father with a PS 4 and a copy of Final Fantasy XIV, which is a MMO, and hides the fact that he's also playing so that they can have adventures without his dad knowing. Netflix brought it over to the U.S. and it's rather fun.
And Tokusatsu fans probably know this, but I've spotted Swan from Dekaranger as the mother, Alata from Goseiger (who was also Huni in the live action Ouran High School Host Club) as the main character Mitsuko, and Medic from Kamen Rider Drive as Yuko, one of his coworkers. This is the second time I've seen the actress for Swan playing a mother - the first time was in the Japanese adaptation of Hana Yori Dango.
So, after his father retires from work, Mitsuko brainstorms with his guildmates about what he's going to do to find out what happened. He ends up buying a PS4 and a copy of Final Fantasy XIV so that his father can play. He then helps his father out with character creation, and then rushes upstairs so that he and his guildmates can watch over his dad while he learns the game. In flashbacks, his father buys Mitsuko a video game console and the original Final Fantasy game (though I swear that those are the cleaned-up graphics and not the very original ones), and one night Mitsuko catches his dad playing the game. Occasionally his dad interrupts and Mitsuko has to rapidly turn off his monitor before his dad sees and then help his dad with the game.
ETA: Apparently that's the original Final Fantasy III? It looked like 1 to me. That could explain the graphics.
In the second episode, women keep quitting the company Mitsuko works for, so he's assigned to figure out why. He tries to find out the reason from the star newcomer Yoko, but she refuses. In the meantime, his father isn't playing, which fouls up his plans. His father is embarrassed because he managed to show up in an ice region in short sleeves. Eventually his father figures out how to change outfits, which solves his problem, and he's good to go. In the meantime, Yoko tells Mitsuko the reason that the women are quitting - the women consider their work outfits to be ugly.
For episode 3, Mitsuko makes a mistake and sells the client the wrong toner. In the meantime, his father is eager to take down a boss and Mitsuko, for once, is not in the mood. But once his father asks once more, Mitsuko helps him fight the boss monster and they finally win. Mitsuko uses that as a lesson, makes up with the client who accepts him a sales representative once more.
I'm still doing episode 4, which has tension so far in two places: at work (I don't know why yet) and at home (where his mother is sick of his father playing during her tv time). We'll see how this goes.
Overall, it's a storyline I'm really enjoying. I think the secret is that the father is terminally ill, and that's why he retired and at first didn't want to do an around-the-world cruise with the mother (end of episode 3). The only moment that really had me scratching my head was why the uniforms in episode 2 were considered "ugly" and why the new pink gingham uniforms were more acceptable. I mean, Yoko admitted this was a trivial problem, but it's still kind of headscratchy.
And Tokusatsu fans probably know this, but I've spotted Swan from Dekaranger as the mother, Alata from Goseiger (who was also Huni in the live action Ouran High School Host Club) as the main character Mitsuko, and Medic from Kamen Rider Drive as Yuko, one of his coworkers. This is the second time I've seen the actress for Swan playing a mother - the first time was in the Japanese adaptation of Hana Yori Dango.
So, after his father retires from work, Mitsuko brainstorms with his guildmates about what he's going to do to find out what happened. He ends up buying a PS4 and a copy of Final Fantasy XIV so that his father can play. He then helps his father out with character creation, and then rushes upstairs so that he and his guildmates can watch over his dad while he learns the game. In flashbacks, his father buys Mitsuko a video game console and the original Final Fantasy game (though I swear that those are the cleaned-up graphics and not the very original ones), and one night Mitsuko catches his dad playing the game. Occasionally his dad interrupts and Mitsuko has to rapidly turn off his monitor before his dad sees and then help his dad with the game.
ETA: Apparently that's the original Final Fantasy III? It looked like 1 to me. That could explain the graphics.
In the second episode, women keep quitting the company Mitsuko works for, so he's assigned to figure out why. He tries to find out the reason from the star newcomer Yoko, but she refuses. In the meantime, his father isn't playing, which fouls up his plans. His father is embarrassed because he managed to show up in an ice region in short sleeves. Eventually his father figures out how to change outfits, which solves his problem, and he's good to go. In the meantime, Yoko tells Mitsuko the reason that the women are quitting - the women consider their work outfits to be ugly.
For episode 3, Mitsuko makes a mistake and sells the client the wrong toner. In the meantime, his father is eager to take down a boss and Mitsuko, for once, is not in the mood. But once his father asks once more, Mitsuko helps him fight the boss monster and they finally win. Mitsuko uses that as a lesson, makes up with the client who accepts him a sales representative once more.
I'm still doing episode 4, which has tension so far in two places: at work (I don't know why yet) and at home (where his mother is sick of his father playing during her tv time). We'll see how this goes.
Overall, it's a storyline I'm really enjoying. I think the secret is that the father is terminally ill, and that's why he retired and at first didn't want to do an around-the-world cruise with the mother (end of episode 3). The only moment that really had me scratching my head was why the uniforms in episode 2 were considered "ugly" and why the new pink gingham uniforms were more acceptable. I mean, Yoko admitted this was a trivial problem, but it's still kind of headscratchy.
