It’s been a while since I watched a drama that could be termed as “crack”, even though it wasn’t the best there is to offer. I wasn’t going to watch it, but the plot sounded interesting and featured wagashi, so I gave it a shot.
Hanaoka Nao (Hamabe Minami) is a wagashi maker in Kanazawa known for her skills despite her youth. At a contest involving wagashi, Nao is reunited with her childhood friend Takatsuki Tsubaki (Yokohama Ryusei) – the young master of Kougetsu-an, a famous wagashi store in Kanazawa. Fifteen years ago, Tsubaki accused Nao’s mother Yuriko (Nakamura Yuri) of murdering his father, and Nao now accepts Tsubaki’s surprise offer of marriage to get herself into the Takatsuki household in order to prove her mother’s innocence… Continue reading
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