Kimi no Hana ni Naru

Spoiler alert! The story begins with the dynamic of a teacher-student duo. Asuka Nakamachi is an aspiring teacher who helped one of her students to walk through the path of their dream. However, then we see Asuka losing herself due to an uncanny incident that we got addressed later in the story. It's a sweet romance with an intriguing plot. If you are familiar with K-pop and are interested in the K-culture, I bet this drama is just for you though it is Japanese. The similarities between the two cultures make it easy to consume and it will often give you the chills, tension, and excitement along with the blooming (no pun intended) romance between a former teacher and a student. At this point, the drama is enjoyable and undoubtedly worth watching. However, there's a certain point that I found problematic, and I think the writer was too busy digging into the romance to take the issues of a teacher-student relationship into consideration. Nothing's wrong with the sweetness of the drama. But what bothered me while watching it is that they didn't properly bring up the topic of Asuka's age and her being a teacher and meeting Dan at an age when he was probably minor. What kind of teacher romantically sees a guy when she met him as a minor? It's disturbing if you see a perfectly adult woman getting butterflies over a kid literally. Dan may be an adult later when Asuka became their matron. However, the boys were too young for her age. Shouldn't she have felt a tiny bit of concern about the fact that she used to be Dan's teacher before considering the less important issues like they were stars and she was just a matron? Asuka's profession and age should be the bigger concern here. Let's see, if we reverse this scenario how troublesome it would look? A thirty-year-old male sharing a dorm with young girls and now feeling butterflies for one of his former underaged students. Not to mention he is not bothered about the fact that he used to be the teacher of one of them in the past. Does this look alright? I don't think the scriptwriter put much thought into that aspect. Overall, it was good. But there were places to improve and I almost lose the hype since they achieved their goal without many obstacles. I guess the pop culture in East Asian countries is much more crude than it was portrayed. It definitely had places to spice things up in a good way.