マイ★ボス マイ★ヒーロー

Nagase Tomoya plays Sakaki Makio, a 27 year old Yakuza Boss-in-line who is all brawns and no brains. After blotching a multi-million negotiation just bcos he couldnt do mathematic additions, his father imposes a condition on Makio that he has to graduate from a year of high school life before he passes the Boss title to him; if not, the title goes to his mentally intelligent but physically weak younger brother, Mikio.

Thus, he goes to the high school where his father got his principal friend's help to enrol him into, and poses as a 17 year old in all his youthful attitudes during school time. He saved Sakurakoji Jun (Tegoshi Yuya, aka Yukinojo of Yamato Nadeshiko, thou he resembles 朱孝天 here) from Hoshino (Wakaba Ryuya) and gangs' bullyings and ends up being pestered by the persistant Sakurakoji (Makio calls him Sakura-nantoka i.e. Sakura-something purposely)to be his friend.

As he thinks that leading a class is similar to leading a gang, Makio volunteers earnestly to be the class president. He tries his very best to gather the class together for events, building rapport and trust, and thoroughly enjoys his school life. Makio falls for Umemura Hikari (Aragaki Yui) when she lends him her lucky pencil for his exams, though after knowing that it is a crime to be involved with under-18 teens, he tries to avoid her.


Wasnt that bad but the rhythm only catches on around the 2nd half of the series. I just find the 1st half a tad too slow-paced and kind of boring, to the point that I almost want to abort the series, since seeing the overage Nagase in school uniform was quite a turnoff, and there's not much cute guys around.

Sidenote: Tanaka Koki did a good job as Makio's underling (Kazu), being abused by Makio and all, and earning him an award for his role.


Gokusen fame continues...