ROOKIES

Name: Rookies (ルーキーズ)

Status: Complete with a special and movie.

Summary:
Based on a manga with the same name, Rookies is about a new teacher (who accidentally hits a student too hard, causing the poor boy to fall out of a window) who tries to help the school's baseball team (which is composed of a bunch of delinquents with really really interesting hair) realize their dream of going to Koshien.

Commentary:
Me and sports are the last thing that could work out nicely. But seriously, they make baseball look attractive, and that is saying a lot to the girl who gets bored by the Olympics and even the World Cup. DD: This drama series is totally 熱血 (hot-blooded?) and very shounen. Besides explicit man-love, manly-friendship is something I always try to keep an eye out for and this is totally compacted with manly-friendships. I give it a rating of 4.5 out of 5 because it is full of men... and I learned that you need at least 9 players to form a team. ;DD (I feel like I am ready to join the Olympics!!)

At the beginning, I could not tell the team by name (though right now I still can't.) D: But! Thank god their hair styles are so interesting (it's hilarious.) I had to share.

Sidenotes: I am glad these people come in groups of two (haha, partners much??) otherwise, I would never be able to make out who is who. DD:

Ace player (left) with really strange eyebrows & super 'bad boy' (right) who is actually just a mushy sappy guy who loves his friends to the point where it gets a little creepy. (I mean who keeps purikara group photo with them everywhere...)

The only sort of good boy on the team who is randomly turned Captain (left.) & Mohawk who gets his face smashed through a window... =u=

The Ojisan pair. I mean what century are they from, really??

Bloody Monday's Otoya (left) comes back and he makes dreadlocks look appealing<-- wow. & the other one just goes 'nya~' a lot... -shivers-

Highschool students do not (and let me repeat) do not have mustaches like that!! & I can't get over Opened-Chestnut-head (right.)


Sidesidenotes: The first thing that I attracted me to watch this drama was this poster... and its numerous bare man chest. -beaten to a pulp by baseball bat- (I think the shame is finally getting to me...)