Am I proactive today or what?
So, this is no so much a review as it is an essay, lying, it was actually a review made for my language 3 classes, well to practice, not that I actually presented it haha. Anyway, I'll post it here to give this dorama a sort of review/opinion, and I think it is all that it deserves, more of that in the cut.
So, this season, meaning the one with this dorama, was really not so great for Arashi's doramas. I did watch Oh-chan's one, and I remember a time in which that one actually called my attention even more than this. Now, this was more like an excuse to introduce new actors, all of the boys here are currently very active. So, if you are in search of earlier work of many of your shoujo ikemen actors, watch this. But, what I remember is that Nino's character was not well-developed and a waste at moments.
Don't remember much more, to be honest, lol. So, into my old review.
This spring dorama presents as the heart of the plot one of Japan's most popular sports, baseball. Aoshi sensei played by Ninomiya Kazunari introduces this fresh and at some point naive concept of winning despite being weak, hence the title.
The genre allows to introduce an interesting group of emerging young actors that will paint a lucid picture of a doomed baseball team, which members are more interesting in getting into a top-level university rather than dedicating themselves to the game.
Against this backdrop, we will step one foot into the struggles of this half-hearted teacher, but passionate former player, a journalist in search for gripping stories and a bunch of students with strong will. This dorama's approach is laden with the right elements and packed with fairly motivational background music. Unfortunately, the narrative lacks of the compelling and evocative elements to portrait a more resonating story.
The eccentric sensei mounts a baseball strategy as he would do it in a laboratory, based on trial and error. Slowly, his tendency gets the nod from the players, that then will quickly mirror the experiments. However, this preparation period may have overtaken spotlight diminishing more interesting aspects such as actual progress or character's interaction time.
Ten male and one female high-schoolers are the main ingredients to breath fresh life into the story line. And, even though some characters become more memorable throughout the episodes they fail to sustain the main story marrying it intermittently due to lack of continuity or a more appealing subplot. So the main weight of coherence and heavy lines lies on the rather particular coach who also gets many of the blunt and humorous phrases. However, despite being such a central character it lacks of a more solid background and ends up being pretty predictable.
Starting with solid bases but then failing at establishing the necessary hook to engage into an intriguing and refreshing story, everything culminates in a genre-expected way. The only bit of memorable finale moments are the last seconds; which spread the hope that despite we are formed to become predictable and measurable people, some core-feelings may find their way out and release those small bits of passion that summons happiness in life.
Weird name, and I laughed at its title in English, Baseball Brainiacs, actually makes sense
And that was it, now a couple of caps from internet, to illustrate the point.
First issue, he was wayyy too cute here, he could almost pass as a student!!
Now, this is the coach, it's so funny that he is the smaller one
Introducing actors
Now, random gifs
Here, Kento and Shotaro Mamiya, I actually have to confess that hated all the shoujo ikemen characters that the first portrayed, sorry!
Here, the girl, I have mixed feelings about her acting..Kasumi Arimura, and Jump-kun Yuto Nakajima
Here the two leads, and Sota Fukushi really dissapointed me with his later works, really bad
I wish I could remember a little about these two acting, lol, Yuto looks cute!
And Kanata Hongo, a very interesting character, I wish he would have had more development
Now, he surely seemed to enjoy this game I really don't get
Yeah, that hat really suits him
Neen introducing the cast's new actors
And the best about this dorama!!!!!!!!! Just because we all love Guts!
Now, my marks should a be a 3 stars, but a meh would be more explicative
Now, this is only a way to procrastinate in what I'm really trying to work at, so maybe some day, I'll post something about my current subbing work, it's sooooo slow. And my cat has abandoned me by now, but he'll return soon, I'm sure. Anyway, luckily Neen got to have more interesting works last year, and won an important prize, so his story has a happy ending. :D
best gif
So, this season, meaning the one with this dorama, was really not so great for Arashi's doramas. I did watch Oh-chan's one, and I remember a time in which that one actually called my attention even more than this. Now, this was more like an excuse to introduce new actors, all of the boys here are currently very active. So, if you are in search of earlier work of many of your shoujo ikemen actors, watch this. But, what I remember is that Nino's character was not well-developed and a waste at moments.
Don't remember much more, to be honest, lol. So, into my old review.
This spring dorama presents as the heart of the plot one of Japan's most popular sports, baseball. Aoshi sensei played by Ninomiya Kazunari introduces this fresh and at some point naive concept of winning despite being weak, hence the title.
The genre allows to introduce an interesting group of emerging young actors that will paint a lucid picture of a doomed baseball team, which members are more interesting in getting into a top-level university rather than dedicating themselves to the game.
Against this backdrop, we will step one foot into the struggles of this half-hearted teacher, but passionate former player, a journalist in search for gripping stories and a bunch of students with strong will. This dorama's approach is laden with the right elements and packed with fairly motivational background music. Unfortunately, the narrative lacks of the compelling and evocative elements to portrait a more resonating story.
The eccentric sensei mounts a baseball strategy as he would do it in a laboratory, based on trial and error. Slowly, his tendency gets the nod from the players, that then will quickly mirror the experiments. However, this preparation period may have overtaken spotlight diminishing more interesting aspects such as actual progress or character's interaction time.
Ten male and one female high-schoolers are the main ingredients to breath fresh life into the story line. And, even though some characters become more memorable throughout the episodes they fail to sustain the main story marrying it intermittently due to lack of continuity or a more appealing subplot. So the main weight of coherence and heavy lines lies on the rather particular coach who also gets many of the blunt and humorous phrases. However, despite being such a central character it lacks of a more solid background and ends up being pretty predictable.
Starting with solid bases but then failing at establishing the necessary hook to engage into an intriguing and refreshing story, everything culminates in a genre-expected way. The only bit of memorable finale moments are the last seconds; which spread the hope that despite we are formed to become predictable and measurable people, some core-feelings may find their way out and release those small bits of passion that summons happiness in life.
Weird name, and I laughed at its title in English, Baseball Brainiacs, actually makes sense
And that was it, now a couple of caps from internet, to illustrate the point.
First issue, he was wayyy too cute here, he could almost pass as a student!!
Now, this is the coach, it's so funny that he is the smaller one
Introducing actors
Now, random gifs
Here, Kento and Shotaro Mamiya, I actually have to confess that hated all the shoujo ikemen characters that the first portrayed, sorry!
Here, the girl, I have mixed feelings about her acting..Kasumi Arimura, and Jump-kun Yuto Nakajima
Here the two leads, and Sota Fukushi really dissapointed me with his later works, really bad
I wish I could remember a little about these two acting, lol, Yuto looks cute!
And Kanata Hongo, a very interesting character, I wish he would have had more development
Now, he surely seemed to enjoy this game I really don't get
Yeah, that hat really suits him
Neen introducing the cast's new actors
And the best about this dorama!!!!!!!!! Just because we all love Guts!
Now, my marks should a be a 3 stars, but a meh would be more explicative
Now, this is only a way to procrastinate in what I'm really trying to work at, so maybe some day, I'll post something about my current subbing work, it's sooooo slow. And my cat has abandoned me by now, but he'll return soon, I'm sure. Anyway, luckily Neen got to have more interesting works last year, and won an important prize, so his story has a happy ending. :D
best gif