Japanese title: 野ブタ。をプロデュース
Aired on NTV
From 2005 October to December
10 episodes
Main cast:
Notes:
- Ignited my crush on you-know-who
- Seriously, everyone is in this drama!
- I rewatched it some months ago so review is from memories!
Review: Fav!
Title: Apt. Tells the premise.
Boy: He's popular, has a pretty and nice girlfriend but he's unsatisfied. Actually he forces himself to be nice so that people would like him.
Girl: Other people pick on her because she's weird. She always holds her head down, her face hidden by hair and talks with difficulty to people. But she really has a heart of gold.
Other boy: He doesn't care that people don't care for him. He's as weird as Girl though in a different way.
Plot / relationships: Though romantic feelings interfere as they're bound to, the main Relationship is the unlikely frienship between these three high school students. Each episode tells a self contained story that make the frienship grow.
What I really like about this drama is that under the weirdness, the emotional beats ring true, I was often moved. Also, it isn't predictable. It's confident, smart, doesn't hold back. It doesn't resort to easy magical fixes.
Other characters: It mostly take place at school though we follow Boy at home and sometimes Other Boy.
Funny factor? Yes but that's not what I liked best.
Music: I like the ending song.
Most egregious cliché: Friendship born from giving a makeover. Dream fakeout.
What the...? So many candidates for this category so let's stop at the first episode: a bookstore only allows good-looking people to read in.
Bottom line: Superficially, every character is weird but in the most important ways they behave like real people and I cared for them and their friendship. Do not watch in public.
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