Details
Title: 恋愛偏差値
Title (romaji): Renai Hensachi
Also Known As: Love Quotient / Ideal Love
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 12
Viewership: ratings 12.0
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2002-Jul-04 to 2002-Sep-19
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme Song: Nemurenai Yoru wa Kimi no Sei by MISIA
Synopsis
The most popular dramas recently are those that end after just one episode. But they don't seem to have the same kind of meaning behind them as weekly dramas do. So with this in mind, we've tried to create a new kind of drama. One episode doesn't seem to be enough, and more than 4 is too many. So we decided to change the main character every 4 episodes!
We needed to figure out what kind of theme would catch the attention of our viewers. So we came up with the theme of "struggles that women deal with daily" such as: work, the future, love life, marriage, independence, setbacks, and betrayal. These are the types of things that interest those of the "fairer sex."
We are living in times when being an independent woman is not a problem. Even so, the enemy of women is not men, it is those of the same sex.
Women have the freedom to work where they please and love as they please, which has caused even further struggles for them. So we thought that if we put together a drama that focuses on these kinds of things, it would attract more viewers.
At work, women have raised their potential. But is the same true for their love lives? Unfortunately not, because this isn't easy to change...
Who is your heroine? And how high is your "love quotient?" Compare your love quotient to the 4 "leading ladies" featured in our stories.
Chapter 1
Title: 燃えつきるまで
Title (romaji): Moetsukiru Made
Title (English): Until the fire has all but burned out
Episodes: 4
Viewership: ratings 12.0%
Broadcast period: 2002-Jul-04 to 2002-Jul-25
Synopsis
Reiko is a 28 year-old that works at a housing maker. She suddenly gets dumped by her boyfriend Koichiro after 5 years together.
This is where the story begins...
Without any warning, "career oriented" Reiko gets dumped. Before that, she was happy because she was able to balance both her career and love life.
After the break up, Reiko finds herself not being able to concentrate at work, and starts making mistakes that she ordinarily wouldn't. Thanks to this, she finds herself close to losing her position at work. Furthermore, she gets to the point to where she's almost anorexic, and her looks start going down hill. Right now, for Reiko, life is the pits. And to add to her misery, she finds out that Koichiro has a new girlfriend.
"Being in love is no big deal, and neither is breaking up for that matter." This is what Reiko thinks to herself after she starts feeling like she doesn't know what she's doing anymore. "There are all kinds of problems in the world today like pollution and people struggling because of economic woes. How many people are there starving at this very minute?" "I need to think a little more about the troubles of the world," she thinks to herself as she begins to feel a little ashamed that her problems are only a drop in the bucket. But for Reiko, the real problem at hand is not war or hunger; it's Koichiro.
To this point in time, Reiko has tried to make the best out of life. She's really done all she can. The reward for this has been her position at work and a stable love life. Thanks to the break-up, the string that equaled stability in life snapped in one swoop. She never paid much attention to other women around her before, but she starts doing so now. She also does the same at work.
The solution she comes up with to her problem is to fall just totally head-over-heels in love, and ride the "wave" of love as far as it will take her.
Cast
Nakatani Miki as Yamamura Reiko
Shinohara Ryoko as Tachibana Miho
Okada Junichi as Ryuji
Kikukawa Rei as Honda Emi
Nakajima Tomoko as Tashiro Kyoko
Miyazaki Yuko (宮崎優子) as Kuga Satoko
Kimura Tae as Sunakawa Makiko
Sekiguchi Tomohiro as Sawada Koichiro
Okayama Hajime as Kimijima Hideaki
Tsunku as Morikawa Ayumu, the bartender
Rikiya
Inoue Yoshiko
Oka Ayumi
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Tsuzuki Hiroshi (都築浩)
Producers: Kurihara Miwako, Iguchi Yoshikazu (井口喜一)
Directors: Sato Yuichi, Kubota Satoshi (久保田哲史)
Music: Sagisu Shiro (鷺巣詩郎)
Episode Titles & Ratings
Ep 01: Lost Love
Ep 02: Jealousy
Ep 03: Stalker with tears
Ep 04: Is it...how you think of the last inning / this ending?
Renai Hensachi
