Boku, Unmei no Hito desu

So I don’t actually think this drama is completely perfect even though I’ve given it a ten across the board, but the way this drama made me love it makes it Feel like a ten to me, so a ten it’s getting. I might come back to this review later and change the scoring, but for now, I’m on a finished-drama-high, and who am I to say no to the impulses you get when that happens?

So yeah, there’s one main flaw to this story, and if you’ve done any looking at the comments on MyDramaList, you probably already know what it is.

The drama doesn’t provide any compelling reasons, outside of destiny and saving the world, for the leads to end up together.

Granted, I think it does a pretty good job of showing their compatibility when they interact with each other, but still. You do expect a romance to do a little bit of work convincing it’s audience that these two are right for each other. Similar hobbies, compatible personalities, the same moral code, something that shows that there’s more to their relationship than just ‘Fate demands it.’ Of course, I’m sure there are many drama lovers out there who find destiny and saving the world compelling enough reasons on their own, and I don’t fault them for that. While I’m not really a fan of the ‘do it to save the world’ angle (that’s a very different kind of story, in my eyes), I don’t dislike the use of destiny in romance stories. And despite it being the only real foundation for their relationship throughout most of the drama, the leads did always feel Right for each other to me. I don’t know if it was the acting chemistry between the actors or the subtext of their interactions with each other or how they always somehow just Fit or what, but I always wanted them to end up together. And by the end, I honestly wasn’t all that bothered anymore by their relationship being built almost solely on destiny, which I guess means the writers did a good job of selling me their story.

At the core, this is a drama about two kind people who’ve experienced some heavy romantic disappointments in life being guided (or pushed, lol) towards each other and ultimately finding themselves the better for it. And I don’t know about you, but that’s a good story to me.

(On a side note, I have to say that the most emotional part of the drama was when our resident ‘God’s’ job was done and he went about making his goodbyes. Uggggghhhhhh, that was a gut punch. I definitely got a little misty-eyed over it.)