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Shimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. But Teppei’s father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known delinquent in the area. Under the influence of his childhood friend, Yuichi, Teppei chose to become a policeman after graduating from high school. He miraculously passed the recruitment exam and entered the police academy. However, he has been assigned to a “class of reserves” (Goriki Ayame, Koyanagi Yu, Okamoto Azusa, Mizusawa Erina, Ishii Tomoya, Mori Ren) which is a gathering of odds and ends. There are eight of them and each day they are only instructed by the assistant teacher, Ryuzaki Misaki, to sweep the academy grounds … …

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  • Nov 10, 2012 10 of 10 episodes seen
    yankumicho
    9 of 9 people found this review helpful
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    • Overall  8
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    • Acting/Cast  7
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    • Rewatch Value  7
    What do you get when you mix Police Academy and Fujigaya Taisuke? The fun that is Beginners!, that's for certain.

    Although this drama was on my watch list long before it premiered, I wasn't expecting much. I thought it would be okay and possibly pretty funny. It was both of those things, yet it was much more.

    Beginners!, for me, dove deeper than your typical do-your-best, slice-of-life type drama. It included each and every characters quirks and fears; in other words, it gives us the motivations and objectives of each character in full view (even if that reveal is step by step, episode by episode).

    Storywise, it was fairly general, but the acting made up for that in my opinion. My favorites in the drama (not
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  • Oct 9, 2012 10 of 10 episodes seen
    superpasta
    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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    • Overall  7
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    This drama's story was about the substitute police officers trying hard to be considered as normal police officers. they all want to achieve their goal and become close through the influence of one man. Like always, I think this is the classic turn of events. One main man who is always a bit of a pervy and all happy go lucky with some special skill, in this case running, unites a group of different people and makes them appreciate him and like him. This kind of thing is very common in anime and manga. This time it was also no different plus we also have the classic and mild love triangle forming which was predictable from the moment the drama started.

    The unpredicted part of this
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  • Both are about the lives of people in a Police Academy.
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  • Both dramas are really similar in the way how they has a special class of "drop outs" dreaming to become something. Both dramas also have very similar feeling in them and similar friendship and slight romance mixed in.
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Beginners!

Beginners!

Title

  • Main Title: Beginners!
  • Native title: ビギナーズ! ‏

General Details

  • CountryJapan
    TypeDrama
    NetworkTBS
  • Aired: July 12, 2012 to September 20, 2012
  • Airs On: Thursday
  • # of Episodes 10
    Average Duration 45 min. per episode
  • Genres: Comedy, Friendship, Romance, School, Youth

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  • Score: 7.60 (scored by 294 users)
  • Ranked: #374
  • Popularity: #407
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3.8 stars - based on 294 votes

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