チャンス！

Spoilers ahead


A tanpatsu sponsered by NTT Docomo, Chance! depicts the lives of 2 ladies, Kawamura TAMAKI (Horikita Maki), a fresh grad who struggles to look for a job in the tight market and landed a post as customer service officer in a travel company; and TAMAKI Saori (Kuroki Meisa), a superstar employee in the same travel company working in the planning department.



On her 2nd day of work, Kawamura TAMAKI was shoved the task of leading a mystery tour as there was no other people around when the emergency call came in. Kawamura, reminded of her supervisor's words, that freshies do not have the choice to consider, accepted the task despite it not being in her scope of work and accompanied a tour group the whole day, making a fool out of herself on the way. To make things worse, she was reprimanded by her supervisor when she got back to office and was told not to return.



Depressed, she took the opportunity to join, under disguise, the Tokyo day-tour led by the travel company's popular tour guide, Inoue-san. The cover was blown immediately and Kawamura was roped in to assist in bringing the group around, while trying to understand what makes the sarcastic Inoue-san so popular. Inoue-san explained, at the end of the tour, that what makes the participants happy, is what makes him happy.

But as luck would have it, the participants in the previous tour group enjoyed themselves with her accompaniment and reflected to the travel company, thus giving Kawamura a transfer to the short-handed planning department.

TAMAKI Saori, having just finished a New York tour, reported back to office on her cellphone before noticing her ex, Kusaba Fumiya, who went to New York in an attempt to advance being an artist and has since lost contact, getting into a cab. Frantically, she chased behind in another cab until her cab was stopped by Kawamura's police brother, who lost his bike while booking Saori's cab driver.

Failing to confirm if that man is her ex, Saori returned to office and in the life-changing moment of fate, Kawamura TAMAKI bumped into TAMAKI Saori along the aisle and took each other's company-issued identical phones by mistake.



Almost instantly, Kawamura received a call on her cellphone from the company director requesting her to come up with a tour itinerary to an overseas company. Not realising that it was for TAMAKI Saori, Kawamura TAMAKI took to the task and met up with the client with her proposal.



TAMAKI Saori, on the other hand, was busy with her wedding when she spotted Fumiya across the street.



In her full wedding garb, she took off chasing after the cab down many streets, taking a break with Kawamura's brother along the way, and found Fumiya in the same cafe they had agreed to meet 2 yrs ago with Kawamura TAMAKI.



Fumiya took his leave and Saori continued chasing, till the hotel where the proposal presentation is supposed to be held. She was pulled to present by the travel company director without knowing what was going on, entered the room to find Fumiya there. She managed through the presentation with her cool demeanor, althou the clients were not satisfied with the usual tour package she had introduced.

Kawamura, who had earlier refused to give Fumiya her proposal as he had specified that his clients are sick of the usual touristy places, had only an hour to revise her proposal before the presentation is expected to commence. She roped in the help of her fellow customer service colleagues, Inoue-san and her acquaintance over at the personal assistance department, and rushed out a proposal within the time frame.



Kawamura hands the proposal over to Saori as Saori was the one the clients wanted and that she does not know English, but Saori declined, stating that a tour guide should follow through a tour till the end.



In all jitters, Kawamura presented her proposal, with Saori graciously offering to translate. Her tour, which was basically the tour she went with Inoue-san, was met with tremendous response from the clients, in the sincerity that was presented and the enjoyment on the faces of the participants.



After the presentation, Fumiya congratulated Saori on her wedding although he was disappointed to meet her again under those circumstances.



Kawamura had her big break with this whole misunderstanding and rose to be another of the company's superstars.

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Interesting short story that teaches one to grasp any opportunity that comes along the way.

And I was bored waiting for Majo Saiban and Maid Deka..