ザラ Notes: 血液型別オンナが結婚する方法 Ketsuekigata Betsu Onna ga Kekkon Suru Hōhō

Title: 血液型別オンナが結婚する方法 Ketsuekigata Betsu Onna ga Kekkon Suru Hōhō
English Title:

How to Get Married for Women of Different Blood Types
Ways for Women of Different Blood Types to Get Married

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Year: 2009
Episode: 4
Cast:

加藤ローサ Kato Rosa
野久保直樹 Nokubo Naoki
山田麻衣子 Yamada Maiko
釈由美子 Shaku Yumiko
宮迫博之 Miyasako Hiroyuki
宮城健太郎 Miyagi Kentaro
宮迫博之 Miyasako Hiroyuki
宮地大介 Miyachi Daisuke
香椎由宇 Kashī Yu
陳柏霖 Chen Bo Lin (Bolin Chen)
石野真子 Ishino Mako
水川あさみ Mizukawa Asami
城島茂 Joshima Shigeru
伊藤綺夏 Ito Ayaka
小市慢太郎 Koichi Mantaro

SYNOPSIS
There are four women named Harukawa Sachie, whose first name Sachie is created from the kanji for luck and being blessed. They have different blood types, and their personalities are evaluated based on their blood types.

Blood Type A
Harukawa Sachie has blood type A. She is 23 years old, and she's currently single. She works as a general office worker, colloquially known as an 'office lady' or OL, at the accounting department of Mitsui Juki Corporation. She lives in Fukushima.

She has a crush on her colleague Watanabe, but he doesn't seem to notice her. Unfortunately, Watanabe will be transferring to the company's Osaka branch in two weeks' time, and Sachie won't be able to see him at work anymore.

Sachie overhears two female colleagues gossiping about Watanabe's ideal type, who is far from who she is as a person. She decides to change herself, and become someone she's not to attract her crush's attention.

Blood Type B
Harukawa Sachie has blood type B. She is 30 years old, and she's currently single. She lives in Yokohama, and she works as a scriptwriter.

Sachie has written the scripts for a couple of successful dramas in the past, but she's currently undergoing a slump at work.

Blood Type O
Harukawa Sachie has blood type O. She is 24 years old, and she's currently single. She lives in Saitama, and she works part-time at a furniture shop in Azabu, Tokyo.

Eddie Chen is a representative from a furniture manufacturing company in Taiwan, which supplies merchandise to Sachie's store. He speaks three languages fluently: Mandarin Chinese, English, and Japanese. Serious and a perfectionist, he is critical of Sachie's carefree lifestyle. Incidentally, Eddie has blood type A.

Blood Type AB
Harukawa Sachie has blood type AB. She is 22 years old, and she's currently single. She lives in Nara, and she's a science and engineering major in her senior year at university. She plans to pursue graduate studies.

Gondawara Jin is an associate professor in the university's science and engineering department, and he has a crush on Sachie. Jin was married but his wife died in a traffic accident when he was abroad. He has a young daughter Gondawara Mari, who is in elementary school.

REVIEW
Ketsuekigata Betsu On'na ga Kekkon Suru Hōhō is a short drama that talks about the personalities of different women based on their blood types.

I think it's interesting to find out what particular characteristics people with the same blood type have in common. I don't think the evaluation is necessarily accurate for everyone, but it's quite fun to think about it nonetheless.

Personality Based on Blood Type
Blood Type A:

perfectionist

very serious

earnest worker

stability-oriented

nice and considerate

generous

endures everything

likes to save money that she earns

excessively cautious

slow developer when it comes to romance

nitpicky; too precise

Blood Type B:

always positive

alluring

straightforward

creative

aggressive

recovers quickly from disappointments and failures

she likes to be free

she is full of vigorous curiosity

she sticks to her convictions no matter what

she doesn't listen to what other people say

she thinks being weird is a good thing

when she makes up her mind, she acts on it at that very moment

although her planning ability is excellent, the feasibility of her plans are rather poor

Blood Type O:

a little dreamer with big hopes; overflowing with dreams

when she has a goal, she charges at it wholeheartedly, sometimes to the point where they forget everything else

levelheaded

reliable

happy-go-lucky personality

very easygoing

actually overflowing with vitality

positively speaking, generous or kindhearted; negatively speaking, careless

positively speaking, lighthearted; negatively speaking, insensitive

positively speaking, big-hearted, and to say it even more positively, a daredevil

oblivious to her own feelings

spends all the money she earns

lazy (always exhausted and won't help with household chores)

messy

completely irresponsible and completely carefree, but somehow you just cannot hate her

Blood Type AB:

brimming with curiosity but being capricious, has the tendency to quickly lose interest in things

has a variety of interests, but lacks consistency

does not really excel in matters of perseverance

no matter what happens, always puts on a poker face

hates any intrusion in her privacy with a vengeance

always keeps her distance from other people

cool beauty, cuts people off with a smile

cold but with a weird tendency to be really friendly; maybe a split personality?

has perfectly planned mannerisms for different situations; as expected, a split personality

if she decides to insist on something, she won't cave in even the slightest bit

too proud

feels lonely too easily

I had fun watching Harukawa Sachie with blood type A, especially because she's trying too hard to be someone she's not to get her crush to like her. I don't think a person with blood type A would be so willing to be someone she's not, but I think a person with blood type A would work really hard to go after what she wants in life, and that was explicitly shown when Sachie tried to become someone that she thinks her crush will like.

Her best friend Reika gives Sachie a to-do list on how to become a glamorous woman and how to become popular with men, though I don't agree with some of the things in the list. However, I do agree that "a slim figure, a beautiful face, and smooth shiny skin are the fundamentals of an attractive woman", and that "eyeliner and curled eyelashes will transform even the most simple girl", and that "elegant poise and agreeable conversation are important", and not just to attract men's attention.

Anyway, the main character I liked is Harukawa Sachie with blood type O. She's someone who changed over time, her improvement indirectly caused by someone else notwithstanding, but she also essentially stayed more or less the same.

I think it's nice that she remains hopeful and optimistic. According to Sachie, "'Good fortune will come to the home of those who smile.' It means that when you smile, fortune will kind of naturally come into your life."

It's unrealistic how the four Sachie suddenly got engaged in Ketsuekigata Betsu Onna ga Kekkon Suru Hōhō though, especially considering that they got engaged to men who they are not even dating during the course of the drama.