Dear Diary, 

I’m coming to you in a time of need; I finished my show and now I’m depressed. This happens to me often with book characters and movie franchises, but Aya from the show Tokyo Girl has completely stolen my heart. She's just a girl from Akita with big dreams of living her best life in Tokyo and what's more relatable than that? The show isn't exactly new, airing in 2018, but when I stumbled upon it, it felt timeless. 

Tokyo Girl follows Aya, a 23 year old woman from a small town who dreams of making it big in the city. When she moves to Tokyo and gets a job, she starts to wonder what type of life she wants to live. Does she want to be a career driven woman? Start a family? A mix of both? With only eleven episodes in the entire show, we get to see Aya struggle with life choices and how to find happiness when the world around you changes so fast while we, the viewer, get to struggle with less than 6 actual hours of content. One quick binge and it's all over. 

But Tokyo Girl isn't just about a 20 something figuring out life for the first time, each episode jumps in time and by the final episode Aya is 40, divorced, has moved and changed careers, and yet she still finds herself asking the same question - how do I find happiness? What's the real moral to this story? Life is a never ending drama, so find what makes you happy and take a hard left if something that once made you happy, now doesn't feel right. Life is about constantly finding yourself and the new, growing versions of you. So, take a lesson from Aya and listen to your heart. 

Enough mushy gushy stuff, let's find the next binge. 

Xoxo, 

Maria