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vieve_kethrun, I have been exposed to what I think may be one of my new favorite series. I know I am, as ever, the last one on the band wagon. But I can't help it!
List of things that make me love it:
One bad ass teacher-chick, check. OMG, can Kumiko Yamaguchi be any more bad ass? I think the answer is no, because my TV would EXPLODE if she were.
Silly, silly gansta thugs who cry dramatically over everything, check. I loved all of Kumiko's yakuza family. They were super funny and super loyal, two things I love in henchmen.
Stupid punk-ass kids who have grown on you immensely by the end of the series, check. The field trip episode. All I'm saying.
Touching, d'aw, inspiring crush on Kumiko by one of her students, check. I usually am really, really squicked out by teacher/student love relationships, BUT Shin's crush is portrayed as age appropriate, i.e. lonely teenage boy has crush on super awesome, younng teacher. Kumiko, if she were to ever, ever return those feelings would, just by her character's obsession with doing what is right, never do anything about them until it was appropriate, e.g. after Shin had graduated. But I get the impression that it's one of those relationships that will always be implied for the cute but never consummated because we'd all then lose interest. But I don't know because there is apparently a drama and a manga and I don't know what happens in them.
Silliness. I love silly things and this is one of the sillier I have seen, so check.
All in all, I loved it and am trying to force as many people as I can to watch it.
Thanks to
vieve_kethrun, I have been exposed to what I think may be one of my new favorite series. I know I am, as ever, the last one on the band wagon. But I can't help it!List of things that make me love it:
One bad ass teacher-chick, check. OMG, can Kumiko Yamaguchi be any more bad ass? I think the answer is no, because my TV would EXPLODE if she were.
Silly, silly gansta thugs who cry dramatically over everything, check. I loved all of Kumiko's yakuza family. They were super funny and super loyal, two things I love in henchmen.
Stupid punk-ass kids who have grown on you immensely by the end of the series, check. The field trip episode. All I'm saying.
Touching, d'aw, inspiring crush on Kumiko by one of her students, check. I usually am really, really squicked out by teacher/student love relationships, BUT Shin's crush is portrayed as age appropriate, i.e. lonely teenage boy has crush on super awesome, younng teacher. Kumiko, if she were to ever, ever return those feelings would, just by her character's obsession with doing what is right, never do anything about them until it was appropriate, e.g. after Shin had graduated. But I get the impression that it's one of those relationships that will always be implied for the cute but never consummated because we'd all then lose interest. But I don't know because there is apparently a drama and a manga and I don't know what happens in them.
Silliness. I love silly things and this is one of the sillier I have seen, so check.
All in all, I loved it and am trying to force as many people as I can to watch it.