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81Diver

2008 · 1 season

A light, earnest underdog story where tense board-game duels become a young man's path to rebuilding his life.

Created by
Naruhide Mizuta
Genres
Drama
Overview
Sugata Kentaro used to be one of the most hopeful trainee to be a professional Shogi (Japanese chess) player, but fails at the final test. Now he has become a "Shinkenshi," a gambler who plays Shogi for money, and boasts his 182 wins in a row. But he is devastated when he is beaten completely by a young woman known as "Ukeshi" who takes any challenges and never loses. As Shogi means everything to him, he decides to train himself harder to become the strongest player. Based on a popular comic, this comedy drama is about a young man's exciting journey to reorganize his life through a series of tough challenges in Shogi guided by a mysterious girl.

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Created by
Naruhide Mizuta
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • obsession
  • redemption
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Genres
drama
Created by
Naruhide Mizuta
Starring
Mikio Date, Kinoshita Yukina, Junpei Mizobata, Riisa Naka, Misako Yasuda, Takeshi Tomizawa, Tetsu Watanabe, Fumiyo Kohinata
Length
1 seasons, 11 episodes, 45 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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