[Conclusion]: 14sai no haha + [Review]: Ace wo nerae
I´ve finally finished １４才の母.
(if you wonder why it´s 14才 and not 14歳: 才 = is also read as "sai" and has the meaning "years old" but it means also "genius" !!)
General information about the series: (snagged from: Drama Wiki)
- Title: １４才の母
- Title (romaji): 14 Sai no Haha
- Also known as: 14-year-old Mother / Juyon-sai no Haha
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Family
- Episodes: 11
- Viewership ratings: 18.55(Kanto), 20.38(Kansai)
- Broadcast network: NTV
- Broadcast period: 2006-Oct-11 to 2006-Dec-20
- Air time: Wednesdays 22:00
- Theme song: Shirushi by Mr. Children*
My impressions (don´t worry there are no spoilers !!):
Well, where to start ? As I already told you in my last post, I REALLY liked that series right from the start !
Miki, the girl that gets pregnant in the first episode is played by Shida Mirai. She was born in 1993, the drama was broadcasted and made in 2006. She was only 13 back then
But she´s doing such a great job, believe me !!!! (I guess her role was almost as difficult to play as the one in "1 Litre of tears" ... so I really admire that girl and have become a HUGE fan of her ! I hope I´ll see more of her in the future, too
)
<- that´s Kirino Satoshi (the one that made Miki pregnant XD) ... at first I thought he was damn cute ... (as you can read in my other entry) ... but later on there were A LOT OF moments where I just wanted to punch him right in his stupid face ! &§$§$&§"
I can´t write much about the story here, cuz that would contain spoilers and then you wouldn´t have "fun" watching that series anymore, believe me!
BUT one thing I can say: It was such a beautiful, wonderful, sad and dramatic series ! I cried a lot ... I really cried a lot ! .. not as much as in "1 litre to tears", but still some litre of tears
. The last few episodes were soooooooooooooo damn exciting that I couldn´t stop watching ... and suddenly it was late, late at night (-___-) ... *sigh*
<- during a time I was crying and couldn´t stop HE! (= Takashi Sorimachi
) suddenly appeared in the series ! (You know him probably from GTO) .... but that couldn´t stop my tears (T___T) ... but it was still good to see him ^__^
What I want to say is: You absolutely have to watch this series ! It´s without a doubt one of the BEST dramas I´ve ever seen !! I don´t have to think about it, it´s definitely one of the best ! If you ask me what other dramas I REALLY liked A LOT I would say "1 Litre of tears" and "Densha Otoko" ... these are the dramas I can name without thinking about it much ... if I would have to name more ... I need to think some time about it ^^;
<- on the left: Miki´s mother (she did a great job in that series, too) and her brother .. being bullied by neighbours .....
<- on the right: Miki´s teacher - she is always trying to convince Miki to come back to school (it´s a private school and thus it´s a scandal to have a pregnant pupil there ... so it doesn´t matter if Miki wants to give birth or not !)
I think that´s pretty harsh ... in Japan .... to kick people out of school for trivial matters (like we see in Gokusen ...) ... okay pregnancy is not a trivial matter, but in Germany there are also kids who bear children at the age of 14-16 and are allowed to go to school .... yeahyeah I know that it´s a different matter @ private schools ... but we don´t have as much private schools as in Japan ... so that´s prolly why *sigh*)
So, please watch this drama, you won´t regret it !!!!
Some days ago, I saw that a subgroup is subbing "Ace wo nerae" the anime !!!!
(if you want to download it, here´s the link)
I was soooooooooooo happy about it !!! Because like I told you before it was never broadcasted in Germany and I just wanted to see it so badly ... especially because I really liked the jdrama, too ^__^
I´ve only watched 1 episode so far, so I can´t say too much, but ....
it´s really like "Attack No.1" .. it´s veeeeeeery old (from 1973) ... but for some reason I like such old (sport)series ^^; ....
It´s a bit strange at first, because you recognize pretty fast that it´s an old series ^^ ... not only the drawing style, but the way they talk, they act and so on ! XDDDD
<- on the left: Hiromi ^^ (actress in the live action was Aya Ueto !)
<- on the right: Ochoufujin (actress in the live action was Rio Matsumoto) - do you see it ? She´s sparkling ! XDDDD ALL the charas are sparkling all the time ! It was sooo hard to make screencaps where the charas are not sparkling ! XDDDD
<- on the left: Yes, it´s the (oni)coach ! XDDD ... rather handsome, nee ? XDDDD (actor in the live action was Masaaki Uchino)
<- on the right: Toudo (r) and Ozaki (l) (actors in the live action were Yuu Yoshizawa and Yuma Ishigaki
)
Seeing a drawing style like that .. I always think "..and when are they drawing their swords ??!!"
If you´ve already watched "Prince of Tennis" you might be disappointed because of the "action" in matches, but ... well the series IS old ! ^^
Side note: And yes, yes we also have TONS of snow here !
