Yankee-kun to Megane-chan

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Title: ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん
Title (romaji): Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
Also known as: Flunk Punk Rumble / Yanmega
Episodes: 10
Theme song: Loose Leaf by Hilcrhyme




Synopsis
Shinagawa Daichi used to be a good student who has now become a delinquent, while class president Adachi Hana was a delinquent who is now trying to move on. Her secret is discovered by Shinagawa, but she involves herself trying to correct his ways.

Main Cast
Narimiya Hiroki as Shinagawa Daichi
Naka Riisa as Adachi Hana
Hongo Kanata as Izumi Gaku
Koyanagi Yu as Chiba Seiya
Kawaguchi Haruna as Himeji Rinka
Suzuki Ryohei as Nerima Seiun
Minagawa Sarutoki as Sakai (homeroom teacher)
Furuta Arata as Shinagawa Chuta
Hori Chiemi as Shinagawa Kiyo
Owada Miho as Shinagawa Kairi
Ito Shiro as Adachi Tatsuo
Above info extracted from dramawiki.

My Review (Spoilers ahead)
Set in the classroom environment, it is a slight change of the usual Gokusen/GTO characters.
Here, you don't get to see teachers with good fighting skills. You get to see many students. One is the former yankee, Hana-san (our female lead), a current yankee Daichi-san(main lead), an elite student (who has another unknown secret) and their sidekicks.

Hana-san character reminds me of Gokusen's Yankumi in the first episode because of how persistence she is in trying to get all the students (in her class) to come to school. But a little surprise is how the show creator makes Hana-san's character to influence Daichi (as in trying to make him focus on changing his yankee style).

And also, it's very confusing when I initially thought it's difficult to get into the school. However, Rinka (whom I have an impression is not one with good grade) can suddenly transfer to the school and also, in the later episode, it turns out that Hana-san grade is at the last of the list (of the school and with a very low score for their exams), I am confused by how they can get entry in the first place. (If anyone can explain to me how the school admission works?)

Anyway, all in all, it's an enjoyable storyline with many laughs and easy storyline that does not put much stress to the heart. The pace is alright and the settings is just fine (as compared to the environment where you take one look and you will know it's studio set).

Side track
Saw some comments that Naka Riisa looks like Eriko Toda but based on this picture , I took she looks more like Nagasawa Masami.

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