This review should be epic long with many screen shots but I lost the files. This is one of my all time favourite series' though so please don't take this sh*t review as it not be fabulous in every way.
Hysterical laughter was heard coming from my cabin for the few days i spent watching this drama series. The instant i started watching it i was hooked - not expecting anything in particular. miura haruma (gokusen, bloody monday) is just brilliant. i do love watching things where one person gets to play two characters as it really shows off their skill.
Samurai high school is weird and constantly funny. The main character kotaro gets possessed by his anscestor who was a courageous samurai - the polar opposite to his modern day self.
the switching between the two personalities is genuis and wow how good does haruma look with his hair up?!
the main thing that had me in stitches over and over again was the way he walks when he is in samurai mode. fighting with rulers, mops, brooms and whatever else is near to hand, samurai kotaro fights the battles school boy kotaro would never dare.
the series is very sweet with lots of the usual japanese moral stuff that doesnt get shoved down your throat in the same way american tv does it, everyone is just trying to make the best of themselves and their situations. kotaro gives some great speeches that can at times bring a few teary moments to an otherwise constantly silly program.
the music is great in this series and i especially like the end theme tune - for some reason as soon as his voice comes in at the end of every episode it would send both me and my friend into tears - i had to download the tune in the end so i could listen to it and be all nostalgic about the program.
i have to say that kishitani goro as kotaro's father made this series for me. he was a great character anyway but i do love the humour with which kishitani plays him. i especially like the samurai speech between father and son.
the whole mochizuki family were well cast i think and kotaro's group of friends gel perfectly. I especialy like shirota yu (one of the d boys lot) for being such a dork in this. usually cast in less rediculous roles (hana kimi, prince of tennis, heat island) he delivers the simpering mumbling idiot so well that my friend did not regognise him when i showed him a clip of him in another drama.
a quick note on kobayashi - could she look any more adorable?
Anne is great as she always is too. Goes without saying almost, but Im still going to say it each time.
Anne is great as she always is too. Goes without saying almost, but Im still going to say it each time.
Mimura is really funny in this - such a different role from medaka which was the only thing i had seen her in.
So in short, everyone is great, it is super funny and it is one to re-watch and re-watch forever and ever amen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjVKCWiypv4
ReplyDeletesuch a great theme tune