Kuro no Onna Kyoshi: episode 2 synopsis and Nana Eikura screenshots

 Said in my first review of this series should be able to explain it more in the next post for it, well that's really not going to happen as all the unanswered questions from episode one remain unanswered, really not sure what's going on, not to say it hasn't been good so far just so much more for the viewers to know. Reminds me a bit of Uramiya Honpo with the revenge factor and having to pay for the services to exact the revenge but Uramiya Honpo was better, least so far. Nana has been fine, what a stoic character she's played as you can see by this pic, think we're going to learn more of her in the next episode, previews hinted at that.

 Looks like every episode will focus on a student or two, in this one Shimomura( Ito Ono) has been going out with one of her teachers named Oikawa( Shuji Kashiwabara) but he's been using her and the other students/staff to advance himself as he's planning on moving to a rival prep school and to marry the director's daughter putting himself in line to be his successor. It slowly came out that they were dating each other, Oikawa cleverly set things up in advance to make it look as though Shimomura was stalking him and the school officials believed him as they expelled her. Not everyone believed him but the key ones to believe her were the team of three led by Takakura(Nana) who for a fee, this time it was about $650 they would clear the student and bring the devilish teacher to shame. Well of course they did in nice fashion by shaming him in front of all the students plus setting up a camera that aired the events back to the prep school he was going to work for. Said of course because it'll always work out in this series, the teacher lost his job, new job, fiancee' and was dragged away by the police thus making our heroine team the victors plus putting a few more yen in their pockets.

 Liked it a bit better than the first episode but still can be improved upon, like all those questions about their pasts plus although the last third of the show is quite good seems like it takes too long to build up to the conclusion. So far though would recommend it, has been interesting and the preview for the next show looks quite promising so hopefully the next post on this show will have more things explained plus be a bit more positive about the drama.

Kuro No Onna Kyoushi: episode synopsis and screenshots

  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