Stand Up!!
Four seventeen-year-old boys are shocked and horrified when they realize they are the only virgins left in their grade at school. In light of this, the four become determined to lose their virginity over their last summer break. On top of that, a girl they knew eleven years ago moves back into the neighborhood for the summer, except she's grown up
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It's surprisingly not all that perverted at all. Yes, a large part of the show is its focus on sex, sex, and, omg, sex, but I appreciate that it tackles the issue head-on, with frankness and sincerity, without frills or anything. For example, one of the things that irritated me about The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (or whatever that movie was called) was the way the blonde girl's storyline was handled (um... spoiler warning goes here, I guess). I mean, I'm pretty sure that what happened was that she lost her virginity to a counselor at soccer camp, but they glossed over it so much that it was completely unclear. It made it very confusing to sort out what the characters' feelings were about it, and whether or not the story was trying to convey a message. And it irked me how the soccer dude showed up randomly at the end, trying to sort of make things right, because it struck me as extremely fake and unrealistic.
This dorama is much more straightforward, more down-to-earth, and more willing to admit that not everything is going to end well. It feels like a very mature, adult look at adolescence - a story whose points are not "dumbed down" for the sake of quick and easy digestion, or perverted for a few cheap laughs and thrills. Also, it's not saying that sex is good or bad - because really, sex is inherently neither - it just seems to be putting forth the idea that it's not something that can or should be ignored, handled lightly, or swept under the rug for convenience.
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