Not going to give a big review for this first episode because after watching it there are just so many questions.... who is Takakura and her team of teachers? Why are they fighting criminals? How did they get started and where have they learned all these methods of crime fighting? Why do they charge such a high fee for their services?
Just so many questions to be answered, while it was an okay first episode think once these get answered plus a few other unknown things it'll turn out to be a fine series.
Short synopsis from d-addicts: Rookie teacher Aoyagi Haruka arrives at the prestigious Kokubun-kan High School full of hopes and aspirations of being of help to her students. But she soon finds that life is far more complicated for her young charges than she first thought. When one of her students threatens to follow a path into drugs, Haruka turns to the mysterious Biology teacher, Takakura Yuko, and her fellow women teachers for help just to find out they will only conduct "extracurricular classes" for the students... at a price. Now Haruka may have to think twice about turning to these dark women teachers for help...
And that's what the episode was for the most part like, the price ended up being Haruka's first pay check as a teacher as Takakura and two fellow teachers ended up saving her a student from a ruthless drug pusher with the help of a police officer they employ, that was another thing not explained in the show.
All in all it was a fine show which should get better once we start learning more about the characters, yes they're mysterious but why? Nana looked fine and played such a stern, robotic teacher, not someone you'd want to mess with. Rest of the cast seemed fine too though most didn't get much screen time except for the rookie teacher and one of the students, this could be like many other school dramas where each episode focuses on one student and their problems. Next review or two will be longer with hopefully a lot more details, has the potential to be quite good, only one episode but would recommend it so far.
Cast:
Nana Eikura as Yuko Takakura
Mikako Ichikawa as Sumre Uchita, one of Yuko's team
Satomi Kobayashi as Aya Fujii, the other member of the team
Fumina Kimura as Haruka Aoyagi, the rookie teacher
Reuna Trendl as Fukuko Ochinai
Taro Suguga as Officer Noguchi
Seika Taketomi as Rio Yamagishi, student in trouble this episode
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