Tadashii Ouji no Tsukurikata (正しい王子のつくり方 -2008)

Starring:
Yanagi Kotaro as Shinozaki Tatsuya
Midori Yurie as Yuki Nami
Aiba Hiroki as Hata Shurinosuke
Takiguchi Yukihiro as Souma Fumizou
Takeda Kohei as Noda Hayato
Kiriyama Renn as Yoshiyuki Kirin
Matsushima Hatsune as Shinagawa Haruka
Kondo Saki (近藤彩希) as Shibata Chiaki
Toriyama Airi as Koshino Misaki
Akimoto Sayaka as Kiryu Natsuki
Arisue Mayuko (有末麻祐子) as Sano Fuyuko
Kumai Kohei as Oshikaga Ken
Yoshida Tomokazu (吉田友一) as Shibukawa Mamoru
Nakagawa Shingo as Hoshino Gaku
Rikuna Yuuka (里久鳴祐果) as Kiriyama Touko
Nishiaki Aina (西秋愛菜) as Andou Hitomi
Miyazawa Sae as Kido Koharu
Kaede (楓) as Suzuki Naomi
Sakai Erika (境絵里加) as Nishiyama Yuu
Sakurai Hijiri (桜井聖) as Koseki Shun
Kawai Ryunosuke as Yamasaki Keita
Nagayama Takashi as Nanbara Takashi
Maeda Ken (前田健) as Senkawa Shigeo
Kuraki Jyouji (倉木譲二) as Mitani Kaname

In this school comedy, a girls' high school suddenly goes co-ed, but the incoming boys are far below their expectations. As a result, some of the girls start a project to reform the boys into "princes." --Tokyograph

At first I wasn't tooooooo sure about this drama. I'm not much for the over-acting that is common in manga/anime related dramas. So it was a little over the top in the first episode. But I overlooked it because...well...it's a Japanese drama and there are a whole lotta dramas of those types.

This was the norm of a female based school that inherits a bunch of boys into their school because the following year it will change into a boy/girl school. So they decided to "test" out the effects of having boys in the school.

Of course, it's a girl-loves-boy theme with the idea of the girls trying to change them (the boys) from losers to "Princes". And, with the eye-candy involved...well, I had to watch. Two of the characters are in my favorite (so far) drama called Tokyo Ghost Trip which is slowly being released (the subbers are having trouble with keeping help). Anyway, Kiriyama Renn and Takiguchi Yukihiro are those two guys...........soooo cute especially Renn-kun.

This is definitely a highschool girl's dream type drama. I, being out of school for many years, didn't mind at all. The sweetness of the story, with the main five male characters each getting two episodes a piece, was nice. Not overly sexual or anything like that.

Yonagi Kotaro


Aiba Hiroki


Kiriyama Renn

Puzzle (パズル-2007)

Starring:
Yanagi Kotaro
Nakamura Yuichi
Takahashi Marino (高橋まりの)
Mori Ren
Yamamoto Yusuke
Katsura Asami (桂亜沙美)
Nakagawa Shingo
Nakamura Masaya
Shida Nanako (志田菜々子)
Tanaka Takuma (田中琢磨)
Kataoka Asuka (片岡明日香)
Amada Reki (天田暦)
Konno Masato (今野雅人)
Narita Shoji (成田昌児)

When an armed group seizes control of an elite high school, a group of classmates are forced to find 2,000 puzzle pieces hidden throughout the school within 48 hours.

This was a little boring. Thank Kami-sama (God) that is was only 4 episodes long. I was hoping for in-depth puzzle solving. Instead it was a police interview of what transpired in the 24-hours with them hunting for puzzle pieces and putting it together. The end was interesting. I sort of figured it out during the 3rd episode. It was kind of obvious because they kept talking about the kids who were kicked out or left. Duh!

This definitely could have been better.

Most of the male cast are from the J-pop group D-Boys. Ehh! Not enough on them to post pics. Maybe later............................