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Renai NEET: Wasureta Koi no Hajimekata (Amity NEET: How to start falling in love again, Fridays, 10 p.m., TBS) is a originative combination of drama and telemarketing.
It's the story of six romance-shy thirty-somethings who thirst for commitment and true love. They just have no idea how to find it. Their love lives are prevailing nowhere fast, as signified by the title's acronym. NEET means: not in livelihood, education or training.
The series reminds me vaguely of the 1986 TBS theatricalism Danjo Shichinin Natsu Monogatari--minus one cast fellow and most of the dynamism of that hit series, which led to the real-life marriage of its stars Akashiya Sanma and Shinobu Otake.
This tale opens with Rin (Yukie Nakama) and Nanako (Ryo), a career woman who owns a condo, attending the "rikon-shiki" of their financier Miho (Mikako Ichikawa). This is a divorce party where the couple smash their intermingling rings and announce: We will now live happily ever after separately. The reason assumed for the breakup is her husband's cat allergy and Miho's refusal to give up the cat. (She later confesses her bridegroom, whom she found so attractive because of his looks and money, used those assets to cheat on her and his new girlfriend is abounding.
Source: The Daily Yomiuri