Air Dates: March 29 to July 19, 2013.... Fridays at midnight on Fuji TV TWO
Main Cast:
Miki Honoka as Kotoko Aihara
Yuki Furukawa as Naoki Irie
Yuki Yamada as Kinnosuke Ikezawa
Nanami Fujimoto as Jinko Komori
Kasumi Yamaya as Satomi Ishikawa
Yoji Tanaka as Shigeki Aihara
Tomomi Nishimura as Noriko Irie
Kakaricho Imoaraizaka as Shigeo Irie
Yuga Aizawa as Yuki Irie
Satoshi Tanaka as Odawara
Once again I'll try to keep this recap short so I don't bore everyone, writing is not one my stronger talents. Though it's a bit of a fluffy show a lot does happen and often it's serious yet done in a lighthearted way. The main story this time was about the final high school exams coming up, Kotoko is determined to make on the list of 100 scorers on the test even though it's never happened in the history of Class F. Naoki has no worries, he's the top student in school and hardly needs to study, he says once he sees or hears anything he remembers it so he doesn't need to study.
Kotoko appears to be a lost cause though, there really is no hope for her to make into the top 100 as she doesn't know how to study and tends to give up too easy. But luckily for her a trump card gets dealt to her and that card is an old photo of Naoki given to Kotoko by his mother. When he was born his mother felt as she was going to have a girl and just bought female clothes so when he was born the family was poor so for his first few years he wore girl's clothes. Kotoko threatens to show other students the photo unless he tutors her for the next week, caught in a corner like that Naoki agrees to help her study for the final exams.
He doesn't show it on the outside but it seems Naoki is starting to grow a bit fond of Kotoko, he wants her to do well as it will also make him look good though they keep it a secret from all the students at school. Forgot about until now but no one at the school knows about Kotoko and her father moving in with Naoki's family, she's been hush-hush about where she's living but that secret comes out in the next episode.
Naoki proves to be an excellent tutor and really works Kotoko hard but it begins to pay off as she's really learning and at a rapid pace too as there was only a week until the exams. Finally the exam period arrives and on the test she seems very confident but will they translate into a good score, not just a good one but a top 100 score? Of course Naoki does terrific as he ends up being #1 again in the school, that's always expected of him, I don't know how many students are at the school, it's never been mentioned yet so don't know if Kotoko getting in the top 100 is really an achievement or not, regard;ess on the amount of students no one from Class F had ever made the top 100.
Of course being this kind of drama Kotoko had to make the top 100 and she did with no room to spare as she ended up being #100 on all the test takers in the school. Her jubilation was short lived as unknown to her and Naoki his mother had secretly taken some pictures of them when they were studying, at the time they were both dozing off. Naoki's mother had put them in an envelope for Kotoko and told her to open it after her exams. Well Kotoko forgot all about the envelope, she had no idea what was in it, but it happened to fall out of her school bag and was opened by one of her friends. Those pics caused quite an uproar between everyone but were sworn to secrecy by Kotoko to never tell anyone about them.
That secret lasted all of 5 minutes as her friends made copies of the pics and put them on the main bulletin board, now everyone in school thinks they may have something going on between them, the whole school already knew about Kotoko's crush on Naoki. He was furious when he saw the pics and told Kotoko to leave him alone for ever, Kotoko is just devastated by the turn of events as they went from her best moment ever with making the top 100 list to having Naoki wanting to reject her forever.
That brings us to the end of the episode, few more things happened but those are the major details, really haven't been discussing their friends or families too much yet but will start doing that in the upcoming recaps. Will be looking at two episodes at a time and will have the next batch ready in another day or so, have jsut watched the third episode which was another solid view. Do have to admit I wasn't expecting much from this drama, don't know if it will remain a enjoyable watch but through 3 episodes I'm pleasantly surprised at how good this show is. Next recaps may be a bit longer as more things happen, really this show was only about the exams plus I was a bit short on time but really wanted to get these first two episodes reviewed and posted. Next post as usual has a huge amount of screenshots from this episode, so many it may be easier to view them instead of reading through this mini recap.
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