Sometimes a series can surprise you and I can confidently say that Ikinari Kon is one of them. I didn’t know anything going into this series, like a good majority of shows I stumble across, I happen to see a video or something on social media that grabs my interest. The same thing went for this show.

But Ikinari Kon is a drama that is still currently airing as I’m writing this. It’s a story of, just like the English translation of the title, a sudden marriage between an ordinary office worker, Koshiba Mao (Saito Kyoko) and Ando Hajime (Shirota Yu), a mysterious man who happens to become her new boss at work. The episodes are only around 25 minutes long, but based off of the first episode, I think it’s a drama that’s easy to get sucked into with an interesting story to tell.

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