I was watching TV on a sad rainy day, and guess what? A TV show advertisement caught my eye. GMA-7 will be launching One Liter of Tears (Ichi Rittoru no Namida) this May. As the speaker tells the plot of the story, I was hypnotized. The plot caught me by heart. (Note: This is based on a true-to-life story.)

Since I can't wait for its launch, I watched some of its episodes in YouTube. All I can say about the first episode, it was pretty shocking. Aya (the main character) gets tripped every time. Imagine a very clumsy HS student. But, as the story progresses, I eventually knew the cause of this. Its because of Aya-san's disease, Spinocerebellar Atrophy. It's an illness wherein the person cannot speak when he wants it, cannot walk when he wants it, cannot move when he wants it. In short, he cannot control his body because the neuron cells in the cerebrum/cerebellum are constantly "being destroyed". 

In the ending song of the show, it showed pictures of Aya when she was little. Guess what? I found myself crying!!! I don't know how, but one thing's for sure: This J-Dorama is really sad.

Watch this JDorama, and you'll find yourself crying a one liter of tears. You'll never regret every tear you'll shed.

Aya Kitou (July 19, 1962-May 23, 1988)