Thank you HPriest for subbing this special. Your work is highly valued and appreciated!

After two joyful seasons of I Will Do Better In My Next Life, we were given this New Year's special continuing the story. The five members of Delta find themselves stuck in the office over New Year's holidays due to an unexpected late minute order. The story in itself was coherent and showed character development regarding their love life or family matters.

What ruined this special was acting: the two characters were just over the top of the highest mountain as far as overacting is concerned. Momoe was constantly grimacing, squealing, using a baby voice, moving in weird ways and making strange gestures. Hayashi, the bodybuilder was on par with Momoe: did the actors have an internal competition as to who can be worst actor?

Characters in j dramas often have this kind of manga behaviour and when I come upon it, I drop the series immediately. I stuck with this one since I saw the two previous series and wanted to see what happens next. But it was literally painful to watch these two characters moving like puppets.