To Heart: Koishite Shinitai

WHAT IS "TO HEART" ALL ABOUT?:  Tokieda Yuji (Tsuyoshi Domoto) will be featured in To Heart Koishite Shinitai, starting July 2 at 9 p.m. on TBS. He plays a college dropout determined to make it as a boxer. This gives real-life former boxer Yoshii Masaru (Hidekazu Akai) a chance to return to his roots playing Domoto's coach.

Domoto is enamored of his boss at the flower shop where he works part-time, an unusual sideline for a boxer, but she has only a motherly affection for him. That leaves plenty of room for his chief fan, Miura Toko (Kyoko Fukada), to show up at ringside with a bouquet for the boxer. To make it clear that this is a summer of '99 drama, Fukada is employed in a crepe shop and believes in the predictions of Nostradamus.

The meaning of the confusing title of To Heart: Koi Shite Shinitai (Fridays at 9 p.m. on TBS network) was revealed to us in the first episode. It seems the Nostradamus-believing Kyoko Fukada character wants to fall in love before the world ends and it is already July. No wonder she hurriedly picks our hero the boxing florist Tsuyoshi Domoto. [From Wm. Penn - Daily Yomiuri 7/7/99].

Miura Tohko (Fukada Kyoko),who works at a crepe shop,first meets Tokieda Yuj i(Dohmoto Tsuyoshi) at the video store renting an adult video.  She gets a very bad first impression of him. But one morning, she spots Yuji training at a park by himself. From that moment, she starts falling in love with Yuji.  A story of their relationship as it grows.

[TBS Synopsis]: Yuji is a twenty year old boxer who makes ends meet by working part-time at a flower shop. Although he works beside her everyday, he hides a deep affection for Kaori, the manager of the shop. Tohko is a sincere and active young woman that works at a local crepe shop. Her initial meeting with Yuji in a video store ends quickly with both ridiculing the other's video selections. However, Tohko notices him training in the park and falls in love with him instantly after seeing this serious and determined side of Yuji. Her persistence brings her to his debut-boxing match, but as she cheers for him she soon realizes his heart belongs to Kaori.