'35-sai no koukousei' ~ I don't even know what to write as an epigraph

well, not all Japanese dramas are equally good. some are even bad. and some, like '35-sai' leave just no impression at all.

story and characters

before watching this drama, everyone should get prepared to see more fantastic things than in a proper fantasy work.

while the story revolves around how a 35-year old woman goes to high school, it also reveal how the Japanese society works. like, a schoolgirl in Japan is supposed to prove her innocence while it's kind of a basic right of a person not to be considered guilty until his guilt is proven in the court.

but that's not the only thing that pissed me off. at the same time, I couldn't really understand why the screenplay writers thinks of his future audience as of fools. because when a trial is going

hey guys, there are also the plaintiff, defendant and two 'lawyers', why are they also counted? did they vote???

now there's that 'survival camp' where the teacher follows everything written in the manual to the letter, not even realising the manual was changed by a student. so when the students are to eliminate one person after each meal and those eliminated go to be confined in a dark room with only scarce meals brought to them, it's like ok? and when a proposal goes like this...

 

 the teacher says

I have always been amazed how the Japanese schools provide their students with everything necessary, including quiz questions and answers for a trial that the students want to conduct

and of course, when a person with a knife suddenly stabs someone, the rest are watching it closely and only after the heart-breaking monologue of the dying is finished they rush to the person stabbed

acting

there is one solid reason to watch this drama. and that reason is Yonekura Ryoko. I mean, she is elegant, beautiful lady and an eye-candy of any show she appears in.

I mean, she is hot. and everyone notices it right away.

being serious, I would say, I was impressed by only 2 people in this show - and Yonekura isn't actually one of them. they were Yamazaki Kento, plasying Akutsu, and Suda Masaki, playing Tsuchiya.

 

conclusion

the part where the sponsor companies are announced was really beautiful