The Guests of Room 0 – Shige’s not entirely perfect

Don't start slitting your wrists, Shige.

This week starts this month’s story of Room 0. This is going to be short, so forgive me.

Karin is a young girl with a terminal illness and Yazaki (Shige) is her doctor. With the hope of being “healed”, Karin is pretty optimistic while on the other hand Yazaki struggles with the fact that she has an illness he can’t heal and that he’s not as “perfect” as how everyone sees him to be. So after being selected to go spend a night in the infamous Room 0, Karin makes Yazaki score himself to reveal a near perfect score of 98 points. Karin then goes to take her own score which reveals….

Comapred to the last story, the pacing in this one seems to flow a lot better than the other two. Rather than simply focus on drama and conflict in the first two episodes and shove a ” This is why ” and ” Happy Ending! “, episode 1 of The Perfect Man interchanges between the past and Yazaki’s conflict seen through the eyes of his nurse and now which settles you in early rather than later.

Shige’s performance has been so far safe, but he doesn’t do much in the first episode to garner any brownie points in that department. He’s mostly smiled, say a few nice things, cry to himself, and look uncertain but nothing extraordinary. Majority of the acting is carried on by Karin and the girl who played the flute in Buzzer Beat that I totally forgot her name.

I’ve been so busy in my personal life that I totally forgot this episode aired. I’m also extremely behind on all my other dramas that I planned on watching. Room 0 seems easier to watch, only 10 minutes, compared to the others which are a full 45. Gyah.