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==Details==
 
==Details==
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*'''Title:''' 整形美人 / Seikei Bijin
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*'''Title:''' 整形美人
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*'''Also Known As:''' Artificial Beauty
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*'''Title (romaji):''' Seikei Bijin
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*'''Also known as:''' Artificial Beauty
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*'''Genre:''' Comedy
 
*'''Episodes:''' 11
 
*'''Episodes:''' 11
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*'''Genre:''' Comedy
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*'''Viewership ratings:''' 11.4
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*'''Viewership:'''
 
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*'''Air time:''' [[Hikyu|Tuesday Nights 9:00pm]]
 
 
*'''Broadcast network:''' Fuji TV
 
*'''Broadcast network:''' Fuji TV
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*'''Broadcast period:''' 2002-04-09 to ?
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*'''Broadcast period:''' 2002-Apr-09 to 2002-Jun-25
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*'''Theme Song:''' [[Unchained Melody]] by [[Suga Shikao]], [[Arcadia]] by [[Silva]]
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*'''Air time:''' [[Hikyu|Tuesday 21:00]]
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*'''Theme songs:'''
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**''Unchained Melody'' by Suga Shikao
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**''Arcadia'' by Silva
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==Synopsis==
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Honami Saotome seems to have the ideal life, working as a fashion model. Behind her perfect face is an unfortunate girl who born into a family that has a long history of "the ugly bug". Since childhood, she was bullied for being ugly, and to start a new life, she decides to have plastic surgery on her entire body. Nobody knows that behind her glamorous lifestyle, there is a girl afraid that her secret may be found out, or that her face may fall apart. Though Honami has the inner strength of never giving up, her arrogance of doing anything for her own happiness is just too much. Meanwhile, Ryusui Fujishima is the heir to a grand master of flower arrangement, whose philosophy is, "flower arrangement starts from hating flowers". He is the man who values essence more than appearance, whether it's flowers or people. He is then attracted not to Honami's looks, but to her tough and bold personality: like a wild flower growing between rocks.
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--''[http://www.fujitv.co.jp/en/program/previous_prog/d_artificialb.html Fuji TV]''
  
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==Cast & Credits==
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==User/Viewer Ratings==
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===Cast===
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==Cast==
 
*[[Yonekura Ryoko]] as Saotome Honami
 
*[[Yonekura Ryoko]] as Saotome Honami
 
*[[Shiina Kippei]] as Fujishima Ryusui
 
*[[Shiina Kippei]] as Fujishima Ryusui
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*[[Kikuchi Maiko]] as Mukai Eri
 
*[[Kikuchi Maiko]] as Mukai Eri
 
*[[Tanihara Shosuke]] as Yajima Tasahi
 
*[[Tanihara Shosuke]] as Yajima Tasahi
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*[[Abukawa Mihoko]] as Saotome Narumi
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*[[Abukawa Mihoko]] as Saotome Narumi/Saotome Honami (in flashbacks)
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*[[Uchida Kensuke]] (ep1)
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==Synopsis==
 
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A woman's life all depends on her looks. So what happens if she's born ugly? This story is about a girl, nowhere near attractive, who was born where ugliness runs in the family.
 
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This pitiful girl, who has no luck with men, thanks to her "not so pretty" looks, turned to her last resort: a face lift. She travels all the way to the Mediterranean to transform into a living beauty. Now she can finally get her hands on love and happiness. After returning to Japan, she starts a glamorous life as a fashion model: something she had always longed for.
 
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Still, day after day, she is obsessed with the feeling that her big secret may come to light. The face lift was able to change her face, but not her "ugly personality."
 
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She's an artificial beauty: vulnerable, fragile, and struggling for love. Will she manage to get the love of her life?
 
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This is the ultimate love story that portrays every woman's dream. Be ready for a hilarious, stylish, gorgeous but sad romance.
 
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Honami Saotome is made out of plastic. She's the artificial beauty. Honami seems to have the ideal life, working as a fashion model. Actually, behind her perfect face is a unfortunate girl, born into a family that has a long history of "the ugly bug." During her childhood, she was bullied for being ugly, and dumped tragically by the boy she liked. To bid farewell to all that and start a new life, she decides to have plastic surgery on her entire body. Thanks to her decision, she now leads the life of a princess. Nobody knows that behind her glamorous lifestyle, is a girl afraid that her secret may be found out, or that her face may fall apart. She struggles with her ugly personality that just won't wash away. Though Honami has the inner strength of never giving up, her arrogance of doing anything for her own happiness is just too much.
 
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The other leading character is Ryusui Fujishima, the heir to a grand master of flower arrangement, whose philosophy is, "flower arrangement starts from hating flowers." Within this friendly gentleman who hates formality, is a lonely heart that won't let others in. This is a man that shows no arrogance despite the position he's in. He's actually tired of high society where relationships are just superficial. Ryusui is a man who values essence more than appearance, whether it's flowers or people. Thus, he is attracted not to Honami's looks, but to her tough and bold personality: like a wild flower growing between rocks.
 
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==Review by clouds421==
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==Production Credits==
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Call it a "magical" tale or at least that's probably what the producers were thinking they made Seikei Bijin. This idea is used in the opening theme, an animated verson of something like a warped fairy tales story complete with princess, frog, prince charming, etc., which acts like a prologue to the drama.  Seikei Bijin really has everything under its hat. It manages to take a dark subject such as plastic surgery and frame it with romantic comedy that's atypical of romantic comedies.
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The heroine, wacky Honami Saotome (Yonekura Ryoko) is faintly reminscent of Minami from Long Vacation in the beginning, shameless need be, and someone who dares to seek love. Born as part of a pair of unsightly identical twins, Honami goes away as an ugly duckling and comes back a bombshell, unrecognizable even by her family--that's because she had literally reconstructed her apperance. That's right, through a complete "rehaul" by plastic surgery, she has transformed herself from someone who was invisible or the butt of all jokes to the center of attention for men, the object of every girls' envy.
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==Episode Information==
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Ep !! Subtitles !! Ratings
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| 1 || Life Reset! Now, Time For Love! || 15.2%
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| 2 || For Love, I'd Even Have Plastic Surgery on My Heart || 12.5%
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| 3 || The Cockiest Girl in Japan, Total Lost Love || 11.1%
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| 4 || Things Only a Sad Ugly Girl Can Understand || 12.1%
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| 5 || A Present That Will Cheer You Up || 10.9%
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| 6 || Frozen With Love || 11.3%
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| 7 || Busted! An Artificial Flower Never Blooms || 12.6%
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| 8 || The Love-Breaking Shocking Confession! I've Hidden It From You, But... || 11.6%
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| 9 || Tears and a Moving Beauty Coliseum... Farewell || 10.1%
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| 10 || To Get My Love Back... I'll Return To My Former Face! || 8.7%
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| 11 || Goodbye! Don't Worry, I Have a Beautiful Secret || 9.7%
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Maybe she has had a boost of confidence, no doubt her looks are hitting the hot meter now, but Honami's personality remains the same.  She meets Ryusui Fujishima in a couple of odd encounters before she pursues him as her target.  From the start, Ryusui was taken by Honami's frank, genuine personality, but he has been weighted down all his life due to being all-important heir to the prestigious Fujishima school of flower arrangment (ikebana).  He dislikes the artificiality of the very upper class he belongs to, and Honami is the only one that can crack a smile from his stone of a face.  However, love is a nonexistant concept for him, and he doesn't mind marrying someone who would help the business as arranged by his parents.
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-- ''translated by'' '''[[User:Awrittensin|awrittensin]]'''
  
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Shiina Kippei constructs the stiffness of Ryusui so well that when he actually smiles you feel like it's the 8th wonder of the world.  In addition, the natural humor in Honami's shameless antics, at her persistance of love from the oftentimes unresponsive Ryusui, and it makes you just squirm when you feel the embarassment every time she's being rejected.
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==Reviews==
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*[[Seikei_Bijin/Reviews|Clouds421's review]]
  
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No love story is complete with a triangle and in this case, there are several.  Ryusui & his fiancee's engagement were planned by his parents and both parties know this is more of a stragetic move, but his fiancee does truly love Ryusui.  Ryohei, Honami's close childhood friend had unrealizingly fallen in love with Honami since long ago.  He'd always been by her side but pretended carelessness, because he was in denial of having feelings for an ugly girl.
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Meanwhile, Ryusui's younger stepsister finds comfort with Ryusui over a forbidden love in her heart, but the person she has romantic feelings isn't who she thinks after all.  The development into the unveiling of these hidden feelings are very well done--not so cliched as to have you know the entire story before it plays out or made you feel like it came completely out of the dark.  After the climax's end, everything started getting a little sloppy with details, but nevertheless Seikei Bijin is a drama that's fun, emotional without exaggeration or ridicule.
 
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What do you do when you feel like all doors have been closed to you?  How could a hopeless romantic like Honami experience the sweeping love tales she reads in romance novels with her old self.  More than that, how can Honami find someone to love the old her?  She has been repeatedly hurt by men with one experience being abandoned that is repeated through flashbacks everytime you see her failing to win Fujishima.  In fact, the last man she dated wouldn't even make love to her with the lights on, because he didn't want to see her face.  Plastic surgery was her answer.
 
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Seikei Bijin casts a different light on the common social sentiments regarding plastic surgery.  Ryusui had liked Honami for her audacious personality, one which said and did things as she liked, but in the end, her overall appearance turns out to be fake; is this all there is to a person?  Seikei Bijin does have an interesting argument, but it treats plastic surgery as easy as play-do where you can mold and remold your body.  To be fair, it made it reasonably clear not to take it seriously, but the ideas here may be floating on thin ice.
 
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==Other resources==
 
 
*[http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9446 Discussion @ D-Addicts.com]
 
*[http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9446 Discussion @ D-Addicts.com]
 
*[http://jdorama.com/drama.684.htm JDorama.com]
 
*[http://jdorama.com/drama.684.htm JDorama.com]
  
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Latest revision as of 14:22, 7 August 2019

Seikei Bijin DVD Cover

Details

  • Title: 整形美人
  • Title (romaji): Seikei Bijin
  • Also known as: Artificial Beauty
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Episodes: 11
  • Viewership ratings: 11.4
  • Broadcast network: Fuji TV
  • Broadcast period: 2002-Apr-09 to 2002-Jun-25
  • Air time: Tuesday 21:00
  • Theme songs:
    • Unchained Melody by Suga Shikao
    • Arcadia by Silva

Synopsis

Honami Saotome seems to have the ideal life, working as a fashion model. Behind her perfect face is an unfortunate girl who born into a family that has a long history of "the ugly bug". Since childhood, she was bullied for being ugly, and to start a new life, she decides to have plastic surgery on her entire body. Nobody knows that behind her glamorous lifestyle, there is a girl afraid that her secret may be found out, or that her face may fall apart. Though Honami has the inner strength of never giving up, her arrogance of doing anything for her own happiness is just too much. Meanwhile, Ryusui Fujishima is the heir to a grand master of flower arrangement, whose philosophy is, "flower arrangement starts from hating flowers". He is the man who values essence more than appearance, whether it's flowers or people. He is then attracted not to Honami's looks, but to her tough and bold personality: like a wild flower growing between rocks. --Fuji TV

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Episode Information

Ep Subtitles Ratings
1 Life Reset! Now, Time For Love! 15.2%
2 For Love, I'd Even Have Plastic Surgery on My Heart 12.5%
3 The Cockiest Girl in Japan, Total Lost Love 11.1%
4 Things Only a Sad Ugly Girl Can Understand 12.1%
5 A Present That Will Cheer You Up 10.9%
6 Frozen With Love 11.3%
7 Busted! An Artificial Flower Never Blooms 12.6%
8 The Love-Breaking Shocking Confession! I've Hidden It From You, But... 11.6%
9 Tears and a Moving Beauty Coliseum... Farewell 10.1%
10 To Get My Love Back... I'll Return To My Former Face! 8.7%
11 Goodbye! Don't Worry, I Have a Beautiful Secret 9.7%

-- translated by awrittensin

Reviews

External Links



Winter 2002
Fuji TV
Summer 2002
Hatsu Taiken
Tuesday 21:00
Nurse no Oshigoto 4
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