Long Vacation

Minami and Sena meet when Sena's apartment-mate, Asakura, jilts Minami on their wedding day. Minami learns from Sena that Asakura has left, whereabouts unknown. Sena allows Minami to move into the apartment, since she is penniless, having given all her money to Asakura, and cannot pay the rent on her apartment. This is the beginning of a romance between Sena and Minami. Minami and Sena confide in and console each other about their relationship problems and their lack of success in life. Sena has a crush on his junior, Ryoko. However, Ryoko does not feel the same, instead, she falls for Minami's little brother Shinji. Minami meets a professional photographer, Sugisaki, who proposes marriage. Although Sugisaki fits Minami's ideal, she feels unsure about her feeling. Meanwhile, Sena has a chance of winning a piano competition and going to Boston, joining the symphony orchestra. After he wins the contest, he proposes Minami to marry and go with him to Boston. ==Cast==

• Takuya Kimura as • Tomoko Yamaguchi as • Yutaka Takenouchi as • Takako Matsu as • Izumi Inamori as • Ryō as • Leo Morimoto as • Ryōko Hirosue as • Kosuke Toyohara as ==Episodes==

The theme song was La La La Love Song by Toshinobu Kubota and features Naomi Campbell. ==Media==

Long Vacation was released on DVD in Japan on 21 November 2001. At the time it was released, it had a limited edition booklet released alongside the first 5,000 DVD copies. Novel A novelization of Long Vacation was written by Eriko Kitagawa. Broadcast It was formerly broadcast in Hong Kong. In the US, it was formerly aired via KTSF TV with English subtitles. On 22 July 2020, Viu announced that they have acquired the streaming rights to broadcast Long Vacation to Southeast Asia with regional subtitles alongside Love Generation, A Sleeping Forest, The Ordinary People, Hundred Million Stars From The Sky and the Hero series. ==Reception==

When the series debuted in Japan, it was so popular with the female audience that the expression was used to highlight its fanbase. The series was popular with viewers in Hong Kong thanks to pirated VCD copies sold there before the show was legally broadcast. On 11 November 2019, Fuji TV announced that photos and props from the show were on display at Fuji TV's Headquarters in Odaiba to highlight the most popular dramas viewed through the Heisei Era in an exhibit until January 2020. According to Television, Japan and Globalization, the themes of finding happiness are embodied through Minami when she mentions of her right to seek happiness by herself instead of getting married. This view is centered on people's lives when they look for existential meaning. ==References==