Crack Menagerie

Currently watching Gokusen and it's really funny, but I'd probably like it a lot more if two of the three most recent dramas I watched hadn't been GTO (Teacher uses unorthodox methods to reform a class of delinquents? Check!) and My Boss, My Hero (Yakuza member has to keep their ties hidden from the school? Check!), and if the drama I watched right before it hadn't been Nobuta wo Produce, which makes most things look worse in comparison. Yankumi's all kinds of awesome though, and Kuma's a giant sweetie pie :).

Also, how great was OP 472?

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Okay so I lied, finding out that someone on my flist knows what Nobuta wo Produce is has just shattered my resolve not to gush about it in to little bitty pieces. COMMENCE NOBUTA WO PRODUCE LOVE POST OF DOOM ♥ ♥ ♥ etc etc etc

I tried not to put spoilers in this time because I wanted people to actually be able to read this and want to watch the series so that I'd have people to squee about it with :D. Which reminds me, don’t read the Wikipedia entry about it because it spoils the ending.



( WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH NOBUTA WO PRODUCE )

On a sillier note, I eventually gathered from poking around past discussions about it that the ending song--Seishun Amigo, sung by the actors who played Shuuji and Akira--was pretty popular in Japan. However, I didn't realize exactly how popular it was until I found this clip. I guess you can legitimately be called a national craze if literally everyone and their mom and their dog and people in giant mascot suits know how to dance your gay theme song :D.