Kakugo wa Iika Soko no Joshi poster
Are You Ready? Hey You Girl! (2018)
Drama
- Genre: Romance, School, Flower Boy, Teacher Crush, Shoujo Manga
- Date Released: June 2018
- Dorama: X Episodes
Cast:
- Nakagawa Taishi as Furuya Towa
- Ito Kentaro as Niimi Ritso
- Kai Shouma as Sawada Ichiya
- Wakabayashi Jiei as Kuze Ryosei
- Karata Erika as Misono Miwa
- Teppei Koike as Takatsugo Masaki
- Yosuke Sugino as Toma Naito
- Yuri Tsunematsu as Kosame Asakura
Kakugo wa Iika Soko no Joshi
This drama is based on a shoujo Manga of 2014, written by Shiiba Nana
Furuya Towa is a handsome 15 year old boy. Despite being surrounded by adoring girls, he had never had a girlfriend himself.
With the encouragement and instigation of his core friends he confessed to Misono Miwa, a beautiful school mate. To his surprise Misono turned him down.
Surprisingly Towa, despite being turned down, Misono woke up his hunter instinct! He really wanted her.
Apparently this is also condensed in a film version.
Episode 1 (Toma)
This drama started and ended in such a kawaii way.
23.09 minutes of utter cuteness.
Towa has always been the centre of attention. Girls throw themselves at him. His three friends, Ritso, Ichiya and Ryosei help him get away from the girls in a very good-natured sort of way.
In the same school, there was another good looking guy called Toma (it is Natsume of Good Morning Call 2). He was a bit put out that despite his good looks, Towa is the one the girls congregate to.
So he thought, being good looking is not enough to become more popular than Towa. He needed to be more, be cool.
So Toma started posing like he was in deep thought. 🙂 He did look so cool and gorgeous. He also started drinking coffee – black! Cool 🙂
This change was noticed by the girls. Before you know it half of the girls in school started following him. Naughtily Toma started secretly chatting up three girls at the same time. In effect he had three girlfriends.,
Towa on the other hand was not bothered with the dwindling numbers of his schoolgirl fans.
Asakura is the female equivalent of Toma and Towa. She is actually Towa’s cousin who just came back from abroad.
Asakura was surrounded by boys when Towa called her. Ritso was entranced.
Towa was coming home from mingling with his friends one night, when he witnessed Toma being slapped by each of his girlfriends. It seems they found out they were being three-timed.
Towa went to console Toma. They got talking about being popular. Toma confessed that he’s not used to being not the centre of attention. Apparently during elementary school, he was the most popular.
Towa said that Toma was really a good man. They had such a lovely bromance., Towa said that he is handsome but Toma is too and he has such a lovely skin and his fingers are long and dainty. Toma jokingly asked Towa if he was confessing to him. Awww
Ritso again lost in Jack N poy so he had to empty the thrash. While doing his chores, some dirt got into his face, suddenly a handkerchief was scrubbing his face. He was excited to note that the owner of the handkerchief was Asakura.
Can’t wait for the next episode.
Episode 2 (Souta Majima)
It looks so cute. There seemed to be a guest character as a focal of the story every episode. First episode was Toma (Yosuke Sugino).
This time round was a boy called Souta Majima, who was copying everything Towa does. It didn’t bother Towa but the legion of girls who are into Towa were unimpressed and rather annoyed.
There was a lone girl, Tamako, who seemed to stand up for the Majima. She was rather plain with buckteeth, huge black glasses and pigtails.
She confessed to Majima but she qualified it by saying that she was not good enough for him.
Majima said, “Yeah! You are too ugly”
Apparently Majima did not really mean to say it, it just that Tamako said “I am not good enough for you”, which is apparently the number one break-up line by girls, according to internet research! The truth of the matter was that Majima has a crush on Tamako. He finds her plainness absolutely enchanting.
He went to Towa to ask advice about how to get Tamako back after telling her she’s ugly.
Tamako and Majima had a meeting at the school canteen and before you know it they were saying iskedes to one another. Lovey dovey! 🙂
Meanwhile Ritso is falling deeper and deeper for Asakura. She’s a very lively girl and very friendly.
He got to accidentally hug her at the restaurant. He saved her from tripping on a chair. His discomfiture was felt by his three friends, who teased him so much.
In this episode, a new teacher was also introduced. He’s Mr Masaki, the best looking teacher in their school.
Episode 3 (Koji Masuzawa & Akira Uyama)
This episode is even cuter that the first two. This is what I like about this drama. It is light and it does not pretend to be more than what it is. However behind the lightweight scenarios there are some things that are worth knowing and learning 🙂
The focus of the drama in this 23.59 minutes of utter kawaii are two boys, Koji Masuzawa and Akira Uyama.
Koji and Akira are so closed that some one the girls began thinking that there is more to the relationship than mere friendship. They were so much into each other.
Tawa happened to find the girls who were rather intrigued and were gathering evidence of this ultra close friendship.
Tawa with his friends, went to find Koji, who at that time was receiving a little bag of cookies from a girl.
After careful questioning, they found out that Koji is actually has a crush on a girl called Yoshimi, the girl who just gave him the cookies. He said he had a crush on her for ages. They showed them his wallet with the unused bandage carefully tucked inside the pocket. When he fell, she gave him a bandage.
When he was resting from ping-pong playing, she gave him an ice-cold bottled water. And now the bag of cookies. They convinced him that she likes him as well.
Now Tawa also happened to bump into Akira, who dropped his ID card wallet. When Tawa opened the wallet, there is also a bandage. Akira admitted that he has a crush on Yoshimi.
Koji and Akira ended up barely talking to one another. But Koji said that he will give up on Yoshimi for Akira. Akira was annoyed because he said he will give up for Koji’s sake.
With their toing and froing, Yoshimi suddenly appeared. She told them that she has a boyfriend already and the cookies she gave both Koji and Akira were trial bakes.
They opened each of their pockets and the cookies were burnt and bitter.
Ritso is falling even deeper with Asakura. He was so embarrassed because, his secret is no secret at all.
Episode 4 – Kenji
Kenji is a student who was a member of the movie club.
One day, he begged Towa to star in his production of Be…, which he had been working on fro at least a couple of years.
Towa is such a lovely friendly boy and is accommodating to everyone.
Towa starred in the movie opposite Kenji’s real girlfriend, who got upset when Towa was embracing her. She could not understand why Kenji is happy seeing his girlfriend being hugged and later on kissed by another guy.
She started thinking and asking her friends including the Towa, Ritso, Ichiya and Ryosei why in the last three months she had been with Kenji, they’ve only been for a date three times. And when she asked him to kiss her, refused. What guy refuses to kiss a girl?!!! They were all puzzling about this.
Kenji had to reshoot some scenes with Towa because as much as the camera loves Towa, he is a terrible actor.
During their walk, Kenji surprised Towa with a kiss on the cheeks. Towa was an innocent. He was not sure whether it was a kiss or something else.
Ritso came across a very disturbed Kenji who immediately confessed that he made a terrible mistake. He kissed Towa. Ritso was very understanding and related his own experience of unrequited love. He said you cannot really do anything but just to bear with it.
I have to say the Towa was so adorable being so clueless.
Episode 5 – Ritso
Ritso was falling deeper and deeper with Asukara.
But absolutely gutted to find out that she was going back to America.
His friend persuaded him to confess to Asukara. He did and Asukara was very fluttered.