Kamen Teacher Review

Title: Kamen Teacher

Genre: School

Episodes: 12

Broadcast period: 2013-Jul to 2013-Aug

Theme song: Luv Sick by Kis-My-Ft2

Cast: Fujigaya Taisuke, Omasa Aya, Saito Takumi, Kyomoto Taiga, Lewis Jesse, Kikuchi Fuma and Kishi Yuta.

“In the year 20xx, corporal punishment and guidance by teachers was banned. Since then, teachers lost power. Schools became lawless. In order to correct this situation, the government put an educational reform program into effect. In order to correct the delinquents, to control everything with fear through power, special teachers were dispatched throughout the whole nation. They are called: Kamen Teacher.” (Intro of drama)

Araki Gouta (Fujigaya Taisuke) is a teacher with a high spirit. At his first day at work, he is met by teachers who refuse to get involved with their students and a class full of delinquents that beat him up, but that doesn’t bring him down, since he firmly believes that his students are good deep down. He is told that in the very class they are a group called M4: ‘Money Man’ aka Bon (Kyomoto Taiga) a rich brat who uses money for popularity, ‘Mad Man’ aka Kotaro (Maeda Goki) who threatens and blows up all the time, ‘Ice Man’ aka Ryota (Yanagi Shuntaro) an expressionless guy who everyone fears and ‘Shadow Man’ aka Shishimaru (Kishi Yuta) who works behind the scenes. Besides those 4, there is the school top, Takehara Kinzo (Kikuchi Fuma).

When the students can’t be faced by teachers, Gouta secretly them on as Kamen Teacher…

Lol, I started this because I was in the mood for high school dramas, and this had delinquents in it, so I went what the hell. But that thing with the ‘Kamen Teacher’ was a bit bizarre. I liked it honestly, and I was looking forward every single week to watch it. It is short, and it is really silly to some extent, but that’s the charm I guess. It is in the same category as Sugarless, like those C rated dramas that doesn’t really have the screen play nor the decent story plot, but manages to make you happy. Or me at least.

So to sum up, I can’t really recommend it, but if you liked the manga this won’t be a waste of time :)

☆☆☆ / 3 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out 5 hearts

Misaki Number One!! Review

Title: Misaki Number One!!
Tagline: The number hostess at a Roppongi Club becomes a passionate high school teacher!
Genre: School
Episodes: 10
Broadcast period: 2011-Jan to 2011-Mar
Theme song: Nanika Hitotsu feat. JAY'ED & Wakadanna by JAMOSA
Opening song: No.1 (FIRE BEAT) by Kis-My-Ft2
Cast: Karina, Fujigaya Taisuke, Kitayama Hiromitsu, Oomasa Aya, Ichikawa Tomohiro and Ohno Takuro.

Tenonji Misaki (Karin) is known as the number one hostess in the Southern Sea Host Club, where no matter who or which kind of guest it is, she would be able to send every customer home with a smile. One day she finally gets a letter, saying that she has been accepted as a teacher at Mido High School, but when she arrives at the school she is given the position as the home room teacher of 2-Z, the yankees. She finds out that the students are outcasts, who the vice-principle has put together, so they hopefully would leave one after another. The students have lost all faith in the school (and teachers), and refuse to return to the school.
Being a ex-hostess, Misaki does not see the yankees as outcast, but as students, so she takes on the fight to help them realize their worth…

Weeh! Another Yankee class, iih! I so love these kinds of stories, heart-warming, likeable, and not to mention the huge amount of eye candy.. hmmmm~~<3 Lol, but seriously every 'bad-students-need-good-teacher' dramas have insanely good looking guys in it, and not just 1, at least a handful! swoooon...
The story was good, actually little more believable than Gokusen, but still a bit, how do I put it... absurd? Lol, then again it's all about prejudice, when we think: how can a ex-hostess be a teacher, and how can a future yakuza head be one.. not that it would ever happen---
I loved and enjoyed it, typical? YES! But not really lecturing, more... encouraging! :P Anyhow.. Recommended if you enjoy ANY school drama... And GOD, how I miss these kind of dramas... :/

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥♥ / 5 out of 5 hearts

Jenji's verdict
For another japanese drama about high school they... did a really god job! yup yup i know, all those high school dramas remind of each other but still this one managed to pull it out. I watched the first episode and thought yaaaaay! another one of those gokusen-like-dramas, but! it waaaasnt reeeeally as i expected it would be, maybe because Bunji kept saying "oh my god oh my god its go good you gotta watch it ! it might,, even,, be better than ,,, gokusen" and i thought "wooooahh, this gotta be good" you know. But again for me, somewhere in the middle lost that,, ..thang. It got better later on, but for me it wasnt like gokusen, maybe because gokusen was one of my first, and like daebak for me. So it would definitely get top grades for quality but my personal opinion,, not bad but not best! but the plus, as Bunji says, no preaching! Gokusen had too much preaching and everybody just listen,. Much better in Misaki nr 1 !

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½/ 3.5 out of 5 hearts