Offline Love Review 2025 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
Maison Margaux is the hub of activity in the reality dating series Offline Love. There, ten singles — five men and five women — are told to lock their devices away in a box in the middle of the restaurant. The goal of the show is that, during the ten days the show is shot, the ten Japanese singles, all traveling in a city that’s unknown to them, will find each other the old-fashioned way, and foster their burgeoning relationships via written notes that are dropped off at the cafe, in letter boxes adorned with each of their names.
The singles are all armed with a special guide book — think of the Lonely Planet books you might have toted around when traveling in the pre-smartphone era — which will be what they use to identify each other. On Day 1, they’re all told the rules of the game, and they wander around Nice, seeing the sights but hoping to run into someone else who is participating in the show.
Watching as the hosts and audience representatives are Takahira Kuruma, Matsui Kemuri and Kyoko Koizumi. The first two are from the comedy duo Reiwa Roman, and Koizumi brings the perspective of a Gen Xer to the mix.
Three sets of people encounter each other on Day 1, but only two of them are opposite-sex pairs. Sho and Mimi meet while on the waterfront and have dinner together. Kenaka and Kensuke meet each other in front of Maison Margaux. Kensuke, a comedian, makes Kenaka laugh by telling her he went on the show so he can eat good meals that are paid for. The two men that run into each other, Atsushi and Yudai, make a plan for where they might see women from the show the next day.
Meanwhile, Atsushi literally passes a woman named Maho with neither noticing each other’s guidebooks. The rest of the singles go to the cafe and write notes to random people to meet them the next day. And one of the ten singles shows up much later than the others.
We traveled internationally in the pre-smartphone days, and sometimes we traveled by ourselves. We were armed with a map and a Lonely Planet or Let’s Go guidebook, and we got to know fellow travelers by, you know, talking to them. If we met someone we wanted to see more of, we had to set a time and meeting place and hoped we both remembered, which didn’t always happen.
That’s essentially how the ten singles are traveling in this show, albeit with cameras following them. Yes, there’s the added stress of being able to identify the other participants, and of course, the goal is to find someone that they would want to date after the shoot for the show ends. But it seems that pretty much all of the singles treat the show for what it is, a travel adventure where you might meet a companion and maybe have a sweet, whirlwind romance.
We liked the scenery and the wonder that these travelers have wandering around a romantic European city like Nice, and the cafe that serves as the show’s center hub certainly has that romantic feel, as well. Some of them seemed to enjoy being on their own, while others seemed to be a little sad that they didn’t meet anyone on the first day. But the entire tone of the show seems to be more encouraging of the daters, with the hosts hoping they meet someone early on during the ten days they’re in Nice.
