How long? 10 episWhen & which tv stn? 2008/FujiTV
Who's in?
Tamaki Hiroshi ~ Ogawa Takanobu
Ayase Haruka ~ Fujiwara Michiko
Tabe Mikako ~ Hotta Ito
Kodama Kiyoshi ~ Oharida Fumiaki
What's it abt? (edited from Dramawiki)
Forced out of his research group after conflicts with his colleagues, Ogawa Takanobu takes up an offer to teach at a girls' high school in Nara. While taking roll call on the first day of school, one of his students, Hotta Ito, sneaks into class late, claiming a bogus excuse--that she got a ticket after trying to park her deer in front of the train station. He makes immediate enemies with Hotta when he tells his superiors about her tardiness and attitude. In the following days, he begins to notice something unusual about Hotta, but he can't seem to put his finger on it.
With an odd group of colleagues who live together with him, Ogawa slowly accustoms to life in the slow-paced Nara, where there seem to be as many deer as people. Walking through Nara Park one day, he begins to befriend the local deer population, feeding them rice wafers. After being confronted by a talking deer who commandeers him to prevent the destruction of Japan, he fails in his first mission and the talking deer exacts punishment--looking into the mirror the next day, he discovers he has turned into a deer from the shoulders up. Ogawa slowly begins to piece the puzzle together: the talking deer, the mysterious student, and a recent series of earthquakes that could spell doom for Japan...
Love & Hates:
Plot-I bet most of you won't be too interested in this drama after reading the synop. The 1st epi was slow paced, boring and weird. But for the sake of the 2 leads-Tamaki & Ayase, I persevered to see what this drama is really all about. Adopted from a novel, this drama is kinda unique...lots of things going on with the deer, mouse & fox's messengers. The drama's pace is not fast, and it took quite awhile to see the characters fixed the whole mystery of the case. Well, it's hard to comment if the storyline is gd or not, really gotta depend on indiv. Butta, I am quite glad that I continued to watch la...there's gd twists to the mystery. So in the end, it all turns out that the mystery deer wanna prevent Mount Fuji from erupting. Haha!
Cast-Rising hot after Nodame fame, Tamaki continued his gd performance here. He looked thinner than when he was in Nodame, need some fat to look better ne~ Haha! Ogawa can be quite a boring character, but thank goodness, Tamaki's exaggerating expressions made this character quite comical at times. Together with his 2 other "helpers"-Ayase & Tabe, they really made this drama watchable. Ayase shed her "wu gan nv" image (Hotaru no Hikari) and transformed into a pretty teacher. Her performance made Fujiwara quite an innocent character...
It's a pity that Tamaki-Ayase's chemistry was not very strong, shld have more scenes together, and I dunno why Ogawa suddenly found that he liked Fujiwara after she confessed her feelings to him...no clues at all leh. Ha! But still, I like the ending very much.
Tabe is eye-catching. Firstly, she's not pretty,but her looks is just unique..2ndly, her character Hotta is another weird fella. Well, I like the scenes when she's competing in the Kendo competition. Really stylo!
Veteran Kodama is not the gd guy this time round....a really sly fella.
OST-No themesong for this drama....instrumentals are so so...what a pity.
Worth watching?
Wld only recommend to Tamaki and Ayase's die hard fans. Though personally, I wld rec to u guys too...it's not that bad afterall.
