HIS BROTHER'S WIFE

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Feb 13, 2020 (PST) | Translate to English
  コメディータッチの棒立ちキャラが好き
  I like stick-standing characters with a comedic touch
  This review contains spoilers. ヒロインジョハンナの少女の恋は元夫ヒーローマイケル弟の横恋慕で終わった。マイケル兄弟は、なまじ仲が悪かっただけに 弟の心の吐露は兄として嬉しかったのだろうことは良く伝わった。しかし、その為に失ったお互いを想う気持ちも伝わってくるが、少々都合よすぎな展開に見えてトキメキが削がれてしまった。マイケルは譲った形で弟にジョハンナを奪われたと気付いた時には駆け落ち。間抜けな事この上ないのである。作中からは、マイケルとジョハンナの関係を弟は知っていたように読めるので、マイケルは、まんまと弟にしてやられたわけだ。その裏付けとして、弟は他に女性がいたが、離婚に同意しなかった。これは、優秀な兄に一泡吹かせたつもりが、結局ジョハンナを自分に向けさせることが出来なかった敗者を意味していて、兄を認めてはいても まざまざと兄にくれてやりたくはないというプライドだけ。で、自滅（ひょっとして?殺？かも）。そんなへなちょこ兄弟に 純粋な愛情を振り回されたジョハンナが気の毒でならない。自堕落な夫に愛想が尽きて その生活に嫌気がさして 希望の無い生活にきっと彼女はマイケルへの想いを再燃させていたのだろう。失ったものは美化されやすいから。心に秘密を抱えたままのジョハンナもそのきっかけを探し、発展が先か、種明かしが先かと 焦らされるように話は進む。ラースン夫妻を仲介役に置いて事は発展するのだが、兄弟の家族の背景が無いので、この部分は説得力に欠けていた。それでも、心に嘘はつけないというジョハンナの一大決心にハピエンを添えたエンディングは、よくやった と嬉しい感動もあったが、ありきたりで もう少しひねりが欲しかった。

  This review contains spoilers. The heroine Johanna's love for a girl ended with her former husband hero Michael's brother's love affair. The Michael brothers were really not on good terms, so it was well conveyed that the younger brother's expression of his heart was probably happy as an older brother. However, the feeling of thinking for each other that was lost because of that was also conveyed, but the excitement was cut off because it seemed a bit too convenient. Michael eloped when he realized that Johanna had been taken by his younger brother in the form of giving up. There's nothing more stupid than this. From the middle of the story, it can be read as if the younger brother knew about the relationship between Michael and Johanna, so Michael just turned him into a younger brother. As proof of this, the younger brother had other women, but they did not agree to the divorce. This means a loser whose intention was to make his excellent older brother blow a bubble, but in the end, Johanna was unable to point him at himself, and it's just pride that even though he acknowledged his older brother, he didn't want to randomly give it to his older brother. and self-destructed (maybe? kill? maybe). I feel sorry for Johanna who was swayed by such pure love by the Henachoko brothers. Having run out of love for her self-depraved husband, she was disgusted by that life, and she must have rekindled her feelings for Michael in a hopeless life. That's because lost things are easily beautified. Johanna, who still holds secrets in her heart, also searches for the trigger, and the story progresses so that she is impatient to wonder if development comes first or if the seeds are revealed first. Things developed with Mr. and Mrs. Larson as intermediaries, but since the siblings had no family background, this part lacked persuasive power. Even so, the ending, which added Happien to Johanna's big determination not to lie to her heart, was also pleasantly moved when done well, but it was commonplace and I wanted a little more twist.

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