『野ブタ。をプロデュース』
This is probably the only Jdorama that hit me hard. It wasn’t a romantic story, just drama and some comedy. I really couldn’t describe it but I love this Jdorama. Each episode made me cry (I’m such a baby, aren’t I?).
Kitano Shuji [Kamenashi Kazuya] a popular guy that gets along with every student in his school, whether they are the cool crowd, nerds, jerks or just plain weird, but there is one guy that annoys him the most, Kusano Akira [Yamashita Tomohisa aka Yamapi]. Akira is a carefree guy who laughs, talks, and acts weird. His world changes when a new girl came to class. Kotani Nobuko [Horikita Maki], a shy girl who doesn’t seem to have any confidence and as a result she’s instantly bullied.
After Nobuko was bullied and saved by Akira and Shuji, they decided to “produce” Nobuko to make use of their “youth”. To be able to this they made a rule, nobody must know that they are going to make Nobuko popular and decided to gave Nobuko the nickname, Nobuta coming from the word ‘buta’ which means pig. Nobuko chose that name because when Shuji returned her necktie a small pig patch is sewed in.
As the story progress their unlikely friendship grows stronger as they faced different challenges that, without their knowledge, one of their classmates was sabotaging them.
The other characters I would say is pretty interesting, especially Catherine, the crow woman martial arts doing vice-principal (she goes over the fence and flips down cause she doesn’t want to go around to the gate, perfect example of a vice principal right? hehehe) and Delphine the over pricing bookstore dude that keeps ugly people and bad girls off his bookstore (can you believe it, he sells his own written book ten million dollars?!). They like have supernatural powers or something, they seems to know everything and suddenly pops out when they guys are contemplating. Creepy but cool, anyway some adults I’ve known are like that… *thinks* yeah… *shivers*
~ Other Info:
The theme song “Seishun Amigo” is sang by both Kame and Yamapi. Seishun means youth in Japanese and Amigo Spanish for friend. Both singer-actors belonged to different groups. Yamapi came from the group NEWS and Kazuya came from KAT-TUN (together with Gokusen 2 co-star Akanishi Jin). Kazuya and Yamapi formed the temporary group Shuji to Akira under their talent agency Johnny’s Entertainment to promote the drama.
Also starring is Erika Toda as Uehara Mariko, Shuji’s “girlfriend”. Other notable roles she played is Misa in Death Note Movie and Nakashima Umi in Hana Yori Dango 2, you know the girl the tried to take Doumyoji from Makino. Err… just want to include that cause I like her so much in Death Note.
~ Quotable quotes:
“bye-bye-cycle” – Shuji
“kon-kon!” – Akira
“akira shock” – Akira
“Nobuta power, Chuyu! (nobuta power, enter!)” – Nobuko
(me: not sure about “chuyu” really, I listened so many times and get chuyu. I can’t see it in my dictionary, is it really “chuyu”?)
“Korete Destiny (this is destiny)” – comedy duo that call themselves Destiny
(me: don’t know the names *sweat drop* gomen ne?)
originally posted: August 31, 2007
