Sendo (Yutaka Matsushige) is a caring teacher who has been finding that recently his students have been lacking any real motivation to work hard, which frustrates him to no end.
When we first check in with him, he is at the home a hikkikomori (shut-in) student named Taguchi (Yuki Imai) who has been skipping school and spending his days obsessing over Idol Girls.
Sendo tries to understand the boy’s passion, but can’t get a grasp of the allure of these idol girl groups. Instead, he pleads with the boy to reconsider and come back to school, to which he refuses.
Back at school he comes across one particular one girl named Shiina Kiyonaga (Yumi Wakatsuki) who stands out for him because of her headstrong nature.
Back in the office, he onfides to his co-worker Miyano (Miori Takimoto), an instructor who teaches the dance classes of how stand-offish the students seem to be getting!
Back in the office, he onfides to his co-worker Miyano (Miori Takimoto), an instructor who teaches the dance classes of how stand-offish the students seem to be getting!
Miyano nods sympathetically as she takes a call. The call, it turns out, is the hospital where Sendo finds his son Katsuki has been in an accident and is in a coma.
Sendo has not seen or talked to his son in years. They have had a falling out some years ago when his wife died, and all he knows is that Katsuki had supposedly gone off to be in a rock band.
Looking over his unconscious son laying in bed, Sendo realizes that he really doesn’t know anything about him. And this point becomes glaringly obvious when, the next day, he sees his son surrounded by a trio of young, fashionable girls.
He is stunned to realize that one of the girls is his student Shiina…and even MORE stunned to find that they are an IDOL GROUP that his son has been writing songs for and producing!!!
This is huge news to absorb, and talking to the girls, finds that with his son unable to help, the girls may not be able to proceed with their dreams of making it as an idol Act.
Yumi Wakatsuki as Shiina Kiyonagi
Konatsu Kato as Hirari Atou
Haruka Imou as Reo Hashimoto
The girls put forth the idea that SENDO HIMSELF could take over the reins for his son, but the idea is too much for him...at first!
Yumi Wakatsuki as Shiina Kiyonagi
He gets to know the girls. He goes to see them performing on stage. And finally, after much thought, decides that, until his son regains consciousness, he WILL take care of the girls’ act, stepping in a their newbie producer!
Sendo has absolutely no knowledge of the Idol world, and spends his nights trying to get an idea of how to run things, reviewing videos of girl group performances....He seems truly like a fish out of water...
...but with help of people like Taguchi, a fanatical master at what a new idol group needs to succeed...
...but with help of people like Taguchi, a fanatical master at what a new idol group needs to succeed...
...counting on people like Miyano for taking care of the always-important dance choreography...
and even taking advice from his competition...
...Sendo finds that he may not only be able to help these girls achieve their dreams, but come to terms with his son and their relationship as well!
...Sendo finds that he may not only be able to help these girls achieve their dreams, but come to terms with his son and their relationship as well!
This was a cute little special that I had no idea existed til hamanosilence mentioned it. Naturally I was mostly interested in what role Miori Takimoto would be playing (as you all know of my current obsession with her!) but was soon on board to see where there girls were gonna go!
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