Tomorrow, Mom Won't Be Here

The child actors here are not awful, on the contrary, it really shows that they went to the trouble of selecting the "best" for us. In the end, the story wasn't even as horrendous as all those reports from Japan and the lawsuit from the orphanage are trying to present it, claiming that this isn't the way things work and that it only undermines their authority (in short), when in the end it seems to me quite the opposite. It's an ordinary story, dramatized with not-so-original elements, but it doesn't come across as clichéd. It manages to move, even to make you laugh; it's not long, so it's a kind of a rainy day series. If you want to see a dramatic version of how kids get sent to an orphanage and from there back to a foster family (or back to their real parents), this will do it for you. Plus, it's one of the most searched series on the Japanese internet from 2014, so maybe someone might want to see it for that reason alone. (12/22/2014)