Mukai no Bazuru Kazoku (My Family Has Gone Viral)

The drama follows Akari, a café manager, who went viral on the internet for apologizing to a customer. That’s the start of the café’s exploding popularity and with that, the Akari’s secret could be endangered: she posts videos of her releasing stress wearing a demon mask. Something that’s the exact opposite of her smiling face. She forces herself to smile and her family puts on a show every time her grandpa visits them. With an indifferent family, her secret hobby and an overwhelming popularity, she has to navigate between all of this in a short amount of time. It’s a family drama with a focus on social media and its consequences on real life. It’s quite light, even if later episodes with the focus on the family (I love grandpa!) get more serious. Not only Akari but her parents and brother are exposed to the internet because of their actions not directly involved with her. It’s a good way to have different approaches to social media and how people use them, both in a positive and negative perspective. The drama did good in mixing both themes because one is about virtual social life and the other is about family relationship in real life. They somehow get intervened and there’s an interesting development for Akari’s family. Of course, she has her own growth in accepting who she is and showing her true feelings.