so it seems to be a familiar plot to have a character die and all the other people in the drama spend the whole time finding out all about said dead guy from various weird trials and tricks left for them to over come.
i quite like the idea in general and the way it was used in atashinchi makes for a very fun (anime feeling) madcap kind of adventure but full of emotional strain and regret. its a bizzare premis but it works.
Horikita maki plays the lead - a girl on the run from her father's debt who becomes unwittingly involved in a family of boys who were thrown together in life by their own hard situations. all adopted by shinzo (kusakari masao), a rich eccentric inventor, the boys live together in the beautiful trick heart castle (also featured in yukan club) but do not see themselves as a family.
chisato (horikita) is promised by shinzo that he will clear her debt if she marry him and become a mother to all the boys knowing he will soon die of an incurable illness. (standard proceedure in these instances of course)
instead of, you know, leaving a proper will and all that, shinzo leaves a whole manner of rediculous tasks for them all to complete in order to be heir to his treasure. (not knowing what that even is)they find their way to bond as a family and learn who the real shinzo actually was, along the way. (he was a nutter who couldnt leave a simple will basically)
the six sons are played by Kaname Jun as Fuu, Okada Yoshinori as Takeru Mukai Osamu as Sho, Yamamoto Yusuke as Masaru, Seto Koji as Satoru, and Okayama Tomoki as Akira. (oldest to youngest here)
it is fairly slapstick, there are lots of weird inventions, and a deliberatey sh*t appropriately anime-stylee bad guy. horikita is great in this role, she'd have to be to give this character the believable drive to go up against all these grumpy lazy ass sh*ts who just want to bum around the castle forvever.
it has a crazy all out castle-fortress-ramraidy-type battle for its finale that comes out of nowhere.
so if only for seeing horikita and the guys go nuts with tear gas (as in crying tears, yes) stick with it and search for the clues to this unknown treasure along with the bunch.
it is pretty far fetched and very funny much of the way through and there is even an appearence by hard gay - its truly hysterical (even if you dont know who he is)
really good banter between Okada Yoshinori (who is f*cking great as always) and Mukai Osamu *waves a little fan girl flag* lots of horikita bossing boys about and generally winning every over with her constant greatness. My favourite character of her I think. Ah what more could you want?
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