Ok I know I'm being a bit harsh on Sakura Nanase. She didn't technically stalk Tendon, she only obsessed over him for 5 years, then went to work at the same hospital as he does, lived (accidentally) right next to him, etc. Cute, right? Yes!...mostly :)

Sakura is an interesting character. I don't mean she's interesting as a person, I mean she's frustratingly incompetent and incomprehensibly simple, but Mone the actress is so likeable, she somehow sold this character for me. With her charm, I can kind of see why Tendou fell for her. But if she was a real person, she's exactly that annoyingly bubbly incessantly lively coworker who is liked by everyone and fails at everything and needs help every time and you even feel bad for getting mad at her even though it would be justified to be mad at her. I don't know about you, but this kind of coworker gives me stress.

But there's always someone for everyone, and Sakura has 3 suitors pining for her, including our ML, handsome tsundere doctor Tendou. Now he is an interesting character, and by interesting I mean I don't understand him. He's nice and gentle to his patients, but curt and sometimes outright rude to everyone else, and especially to our FL Sakura. It does help to highlight how good of a doctor he is, but it wasn't until episode 10 (the last ep) that I believed he felt anything genuine for Sakura. Usually tsundere characters are swoony because we get to see the soft side that they hide from the world, but we very rarely get to see things from Tendou's perspective, so he's more or less a mystery, a walking fanservice, till the end (that face! Those kisses!)

Speaking of kisses, I wish the director helped Mone with her dead fish/Park Shin Hye syndrome, because it felt like Sato was kissing her all by himself without any reciprocation...

This drama is the first jdrama that feels like a kdrama to me, in the sense that they learned all the good and all the bad from kdrama about romance. Self sacrificing second male lead? Check. Shameless second female lead? Check. (Thankfully both arcs were brief). Noble idiocy? Check. Truck of doom? Check. Random "one year abroad" separation? Check. But all the great push and pull typical of kdrama is there as well, so maybe I shouldn't complain too much.

In short, I don't regret watching this drama, but I also don't know why or how I finished it. That's actually how I would describe the drama core story/relationship as well: neither of them probably knows why or how they end up together, but they probably also won't regret it.