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Banjō no alpha: Yakusoku no shōgi

2019 · 1 season

A quiet, earnest workplace drama about an underdog chasing a late dream, watched with patient focus.

Genres
Drama
Overview
Newspaper journalist Shunsuke Akiba is transferred to the cultural desk and put in charge of shogi. He meets Nobushige Sanada, a 33-year-old aiming to be a professional shogi player by achieving the rank of 4-dan or more. Sanada is over the age limit as he could not achieve 4-dan by the age of 26, and is now trying to take an exam for admission to 3-dan. Akiba supports Sanada's attempt to become a professional shogi player and becomes interested in the game.

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • ambition
    • work
    • identity
    • loyalty
    Places
    • workplace
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance1
    Tension4
    Darkness3
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight5

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    Genres
    drama
    Written by
    Junpei Yamaoka
    Starring
    Hiroshi Tamaki, Yusuke Kamiji, Manami Higa, Sumika Nono, Junpei Yasui, Natsuko, Yasuhito Hida, Arata Horii
    Music
    Yuki Hayashi
    Length
    1 seasons, 4 episodes, 49 min each
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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