Many encouraged me to watch this very popular jdorama long before pa; however, medyo hesitant ako ‘coz from its title, obviously sad ito.

Saw a couple of eps on GMA7; thus, i decided to dramarathon na nga and see for myself what the hype is all about. *Thanks, Joey for the DVDs.

Yes, it is sad, pero maraming life-lessons makukuha. Very touching story that I sometimes do not realize umiiyak na pala ako.

Two thumbs up sa actress who played Aya Ikeuchi, Erika Sawajuri. However, when she fully smiles, her teeth kinda bothers me (*hahahaha). Was bothered too by the weird look of Ryō Nishikido as Haruto Asō. Buti na lang he somewhat warmed up to me.

Overall, a good 11-ep watch.

The series ended nung 2005; however, nagkaroon ng special 3-hour episode daw nung 2007. Anyone who has a DVD of this?

Synopsis and photo from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Litre_no_Namida_(TV_series)

1 rittoru no namida (1リットルの涙 Ichi rittoru no namida, lit. “1 Litre of Tears”; also called A Diary with Tears or A Diary of Tears) is a Japanese television drama for Fuji Television about a girl who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease at 15, but was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25.

The drama is an adaptation of the diary of a Japanese girl named Aya Kitō, who suffered from spinocerebellar ataxia. She began keeping a diary at the suggestion of her doctor, and continued to write until she could no longer hold a pen. The diary, titled 1 rittoru no namida, was published shortly before her death. Although some of the characters and situations are fictionalized in this television version, the dialogue frequently draws directly from Aya Kitô’s own words. Moreover, each episode concludes with a narrated diary excerpt, framed with photographs from various stages in Kitô’s life, before and after her diagnosis. The screenplay thus attempts to balance between faithfully working with actual text from the book, 1 rittoru no namida, while also inventing situational contexts so as to portray the struggles of the book’s characters in dramatic scenarios. The character Haruto Asô, for example, does not exist in the original diary; however, as a fictional character created for this series, he provides an important mechanism through which Aya’s inner feelings, the diary’s language on a page, can become more fully actualized as part of a day-to-day narrative.