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No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35

2013 · 1 season

A sincere, slow-burning school drama that balances classroom tension with warmth as an older outsider reshapes teenage lives.

Overview
The drama will center around how a 35 year old changes the school and influences her fellow classmates’ lives while dealing with the dark reality of today’s high schools, including bullying and skipping school.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
  • redemption
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Where to watch in the UK

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Noriyoshi Sakuma, Seiichi Nagumo, Maki Nishino
Written by
Masahiro Yamaura, Yuya Takahashi
Starring
Ryoko Yonekura, Junpei Mizobata, Nana Katase, Takeshi Masu, Megumi Yokoyama, Takaaki Enoki, Tetsuya Watari, Hiroki Aiba
Music
Masaru Yokoyama
Length
1 seasons, 11 episodes, 52 min each
Network
Nippon TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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