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First Class

2014 · 2 seasons

A high-stakes, catty workplace drama where every small victory feels hard-won and the pressure never lets up.

Overview
Chinami works at a fabric shop, dreaming of one day working in the fashion industry. By accident, she begins work in the editing section for a fashion magazine. Chinami believes her new job may open doors for her to new opportunities, but it turns out her new job is like working in a war zone with daily fights and competitiveness between the women who work there. Can Chinami survive in such a cutthroat environment?

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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • work
  • class
  • power
  • identity
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
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
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Chiho Watanabe
Written by
Chiho Watanabe, Oikawa Hironori
Starring
Erika Sawajiri, Nanao, Nozomi Sasaki, Rieko Miura, Yuka Itaya, Yuichi Nakamaru, Tomoko Tabata, Yoshino Kimura
Music
Akio Izutsu, Ryota Nozaki
Length
2 seasons, 20 episodes
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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