Recommendation:
Genre: High School Drama
Type: Japanese Dramas TV series
Air period: October 15 to December 17 2005
Number of episodes: 10
The synopsis is as follows:
Kamenashi Kazuya plays as the popular Kiritani Shuji. Very conscious about his image he makes sure that he comes off as likable to everybody. He is the kind of guy you can always count on. Dependable and lovable he can mingle with any crowd. However there is one guy he just can't stand and that is Kusano Akira (Tomohisa Yamashita), the weird and flamboyant guy that says and does funny things. Things get stranger still when new student Kotani Nobuku (Horikita Maki) is assigned to their class. She is very meek and has almost no self esteem she tolerates being pushed and shoved around by her fellow classmates . Seeing her lack of social skills Shuji and Akira are motivated by their youthfulness and agree to "produce" Nobuku and make her the most popular girl in school. The rest of the series centers around these two guys "producing" Nobuku in secrecy. So there is the popular guy, the weird guy, and the social misfit coming together not only as a team but as friends to meet their goal in making Nobuku popular. But the magic lies not in their situation but in the unlikely friendship between these three students.
What I think:
I found Nobuta wo Produce to be very entertaining. It had some deep moral issues on friendship as well as bullying. I was moved by how resilient they were in spite of set backs they faced due to an unforeseen saboteur or saboteurs every time they were able to accomplish a goal. There are a lot of good values to be learned here as well as other lessons in life that most high school students face these days. The chemistry between the three and most notably between Shuji and Akira is like that of Oreo's and milk. They just go good together. Other than epic bromance moments the story is solid and the actors involved are all well suited for their roles. Horikita Maki's role is more than adequate earning her best supporting actress for this series. A most enjoyable dorama indeed.
** Just on a personal note, I was very disappointed when I bought the Japanese DVD of this series which it wasn't even Japanese made. I ordered it from Ebay. There were subtitles and everything but the names were different! The names were changed to some Chinese names ling Xing lee and sung Xu or something. And the quality sucked. So if you are looking to buy some good quality Japanese DVD's off of Ebay then please make sure you can trust that seller,otherwise buy it from some trust worthy place you know of. XD
Till next post, kon kon
- J
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