satisfied?

"If humans strive hard, there are so many things possible." -- Tsuru

Fans were not happy with how Proposal Daisakusen ended last year so Fuji TV did a special set a year later.

The special starts from where it left off (that very scene which left viewers like me hanging and wanting to throw stuff at the screen at fade out) with Ken-zou pushing a taxi after he had left the wedding reception of Rei. Then there's a disjointed voice that calls his name. In last year's ending, I don't remember if they showed it was Rei and even if they did, I could just imagine why fans were frustrated. After all that he did, going back and forth through time to express his feelings to the girl he has loved all his life, she still ended up marrying someone else? Nevermind if she ran away from her own wedding, it was never fully established in the ending that she and Ken ended up together and you know, fans need to be spoonfed at times.
So here comes the special as a fan service for those who tore at their hair over the ending. It was shot no less than in Hawaii in what was supposed to be the wedding of Tsuru and Eri. The scene where Ken-zou runs through the beach reminds me of the opening scene of Taku's Good Luck (my life is littered with pop culture references, from reel to real). Eri mysteriously disappears from the wedding and Tsuru does not know what happened. So fairy-san appears again and helps Ken go back through time to help his friend resolve things. In the process, he also resolves his and Rei's issues about her being a 'runaway bride'. The scene where he finally visits Rei's parents and apologises to them for what happened was really tear-inducing (but well, I cry easily).
The whole cast is back, including of course Yuta who plays Mikio. He's still cute despite that perm (as Shota, playing Sojiro in Hana Yori Dango said: 'permah?") and Socrates, the all-around cast boy who played Tsuru's 'substitute bride' (that scene was really a laugh-out-loud moment). The special is a standalone itself, one need not have agonised through the 11 episodes of the series. It also comes full circle, starting with that beach scene (I thought that a bride wearing a tux over her gown looked very cool) and ending with another beach scene in Hawaii where Ken finally proposes. I'm sure everyone was able to sleep after watching the credits roll up.