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ROOKIES – The Caps In The Title Are Enough to Pull You In
I also considered making this post’s title “ROOKIES is a homerun among doramas”… but that’s just some lame crap you’d find in a newspaper. This, as we all know, is definitely not a newspaper.
As you can tell, I really like ROOKIES (based off the manga with the same name). But why, though? Me, I dont really understand myself. It’s like GTO with baseball (no, not this. Bonus point if you get why I linked there)… actually it’s pretty much like every other drama/anime/series that has to do with teaching + some extra baseball scenes.
Before I go into the show, you know what I’d like to see in a show involving a school setting? Besides romance and other fantastic shoujo-y stuff that I just cant get enough of, I’d like to see some role reversal. Ever hear of a manga that has a teacher that comes in and makes his class into a group of badass students who are scholars by day and delinquents by night? Yeah, that’d be awesome. After a long day of studying for Todai and having silly relationships… you go out and battle other gangs in fights or graffiti battles (Jet Set Radio/Air Gear style) or something totally legit like that. (If you actually do know of such a title, I’d sure as hell want to know). But I digress, let’s get to the show.
Maybe it’s this cast full of people that I know that makes it exciting for me. Whenever I watch a new dorama or movie, I always like to point out actors/actresses that I know from other dramas. I’ve seen SO many by now, it’s not really that hard anymore to watch something and go “Oh, it’s him/her”. Sure there’s the guy from Kisarazu Cat’s Eye playing a teacher after playing a delinquent himself ages ago. Sure there’s the guy from Check it Out, Yo. Sure there’s the guy who played Tezuka in the Prince of Tennis Movies and Musical. Sure there’s Masumi from Nodame…(I can go on and on).
As I said, this story is nothing new. A badass teacher comes in and tries to reform a bunch of trouble makers. You can only do this story so much. See Gokusen 3, for example. I only watched an episode because it’s just more of the same. So maybe it’s the baseball? I personally HATE baseball, it’s so boring unless you’re playing. Maybe it’s the feel-good feeling you get? I could just watch Aria if I wanted to really feel good.
I guess, in the end, it’s the slice of life feeling. There’s nothing really too unrealistic about this story. It’s just Hoosiers again, but this time, it’s baseball with a Japanese cast. Yet… I cant help but sorta care and laugh when they laugh and lamely enough, feel happy seeing them succeed. Whatever it is, I cant wait for another episode.
I bet in the final episode, they’ll LOSE. GOTCHA!
Tuesday, May 20th 2008 at 12:56 pm
No, Os. the hawt guys in that pic is enough to pull me in 😉 also OMGZZZ is that Yuu Shirota!!!! *dies*
thanks for the heads up!!!! *goes to download* +_____+
Tuesday, May 20th 2008 at 1:03 pm
Ha ha, thanks to your comment I realized I put the wrong dwiki link for Tezuka. And yes, yes that is Yuu Shirota, the REAL guy who played Tezuka in the Prince of Tennis movie and musical.
Wednesday, May 21st 2008 at 3:33 am
I was telling everyone to watch this but no one listened …
Saturday, May 24th 2008 at 1:00 pm
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Sunday, May 25th 2008 at 3:18 am
I follow the manga of this series.
Wednesday, July 30th 2008 at 1:23 pm
do u cry when they cry? >_<
Wednesday, July 30th 2008 at 6:46 pm
They’re not crying, it’s just a REALLY GAR MOMENT shared between men.
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