im sure it was terrible but i was too distracted by nisshi and fuchi to care...
original tumblers:
yuta - seto koji (atashinchi no danshi, rinne no ame, koizora)
mizusawa - yanagishita tomo (takumi-kun, akai ito)
kaneko - tamoto soran (furuhata chugakusei)
hino - nishijima takahiro (ghost friends, delicious gakuin, ai no mukidashi)
tsuchiya - tomiura satoshi (hana yori dango, taiyo to umi no kyoshitsu)
yankee tumblers:
wataru - yamamoto yusuke (antashinchi no danshi, hana kimi, rinne no ame,)
ryosuke - miura shohei (gokusen, giragira, school, koizora)
nippori - kaku kento (samurai high school, taiyo to umi no kyoshitsu)
kiyama - daito shunsuke (hana kimi, nobuta o produce, rescue, shibatora,
futatsu no spica) [i call him fuchi so dont get confused]
others:
natsuko (wataru's mum) - otsuka nene (tokyo dogs, saigo no yakusoku)
kashiwagi sensei - akira (hana yori dango, yamagata scream)
mari-chan - okamoto azusa (moyashimon)
akabane (wide jaw skunk hair boy) - isaka tatsuya (water boys)
tashiri shigeo - sato jiro (gokusen 3, densha otoko)
ezaki sensei - kuninaka ryoko (hotaru no hikari)
the main cast is quite large so i thought id get that out the way in one go.
also, i want to point out that this is a totally biassed pointless review. most of my shots seemed to be of nisshi so i had to go and do them again. bear with me and my minor obsession and i will try and explain as much as i can around my fan girl moments.
right, its bad. its really cheesey. its like a gokusen wannabe with jumping and leotards. it completely won me over though.
i couldnt take yamamoto seriously at all doing his joey from friends acting. the way he threw is bag down all the time became funnier and funnier to me the more he did it with those permenantly flared nostrils. and sato koji didnt stop crying throughout the whole program. literally a few minutes break then he was off again. every damn episode.
tomiura satoshi's soft high voice commically lept out against the yankii's grrrrrring, shouting, and yakuza wanna be talk. but i do think he's great. dont get me wrong.
yanagishita plays another flakey gay which made me sigh: ah bless you useless takumi-kun. it was hysterically bad but he does it so well.
daito looked so stunning i squealed fuchi! everytime he came on screen.
seriously, bruises and a split lip really suit some people so much that its
almost a shame when they havent been fighting.
i was just screaming team moody ass hino! through the whole thing even though i had to wait untill the end episode 7
before nisshi cracked a smile! its just cruel. ひどいよ!
and when nishijima smiles its like the sun coming up, he cant do them small, its like his whole being is made of smile. the contrast was hysterical. (it wasnt meant to be).
absolutely adorable. big squee for nisshi right? yeah you know it.
ah i should probably tell you what its about.
it centers around a gymnastics club basically. a load of yankii sh*t heads (who are really nice guys at heart as they always are) join in and it begins to save the angry nutters one by one in gokusen abandoned warehouse stylee.
wide jaw skunk hair boy ^ wants to f*ck everything up so he does and all the guys change into better people through their own trials and their friend's dilemas.
it has some bizzare camera angles, lots of sitting on the beach at sunset, and, of course, those token abandoned warehouses have perfectly placed steel poles to beat the sh*t out of school boys with as is the way of things.
but seriously people - you get to watch nisshi prancing about on a gym mat -
do you really care what its about?
ah and also fuchi's character goes 'nanas and beats up people quite a lot with scarey eyes and major serious face - which is awesome - and slightly more believable than yamamoto :p
it was funny that lovely miura shohei basically played the same character that he played in gokusen. but with some leaping about in shiny pink clothes.
it was very funny. sometimes because it was meant to be (baka sato jiro) sometimes because i was just plain laughing at it . (the wataru and ryosuke making friends flash back. god that was bad)
i think it would have made an amazing stage show though. i'd truly love to see it onstage. it is perfect for it i think. im useless. i havnt said anything about it really have i?
its about kids finding somewhere they belong, finding their morals, understanding true friendship... yeah its basically gokusen without yankumi plus jumping with shiny clothes.
one of the things i did notice is how good their bad tumbling was. these guys are all pretty accomplished in leaping about like pros, so doing bad falls and not landing flips properly is quite a skill.
the good tumbling was stunning aswell. from all the teams you see thoughout. i would have like to see more dancing and stuff - thats kinda of why i think it would have made a good stage show. less d*cking about on the beach more shiny clothed jumping beans.
truth be told, i only watched it to see nisshi doing acrobatics and fuchi beating people up, i wasnt expecting award winning tv. so i quite happily squeed (not a real verb) all the way through.
its completely predictable, lame and cheesey. but you will have fun watching it. i did.
massive nisshi smiles all round.
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