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Vibes like 3 Nen A Gumi: Ima kara Mina-san wa, Hitojichi Desu
After watching 3 Nen A Gumi: Ima kara Mina-san wa, Hitojichi Desu you can really learn a lot of advice for life with this show even if you didn't watch 3 Nen A Gumi: Ima kara Mina-san wa, Hitojichi Desu I like how they show that no matter what age you are you are prone to bullying and potentially power harrasment and it really tells you the dark truth about the world and life that sometimes people are capable of doing or asking the most absurd things that should not be asked or should be done other than that the ending song Exit by Exile was a big relief from the story for those moments that make you just mad or annoyed with Maya actions or other antics but the ending is nice seeing all the actors and staff dancing to this song really made the song have a special meaning for me, it's a recommended Drama that I would recommend to others who are trying to get into Jdrama.Was this review helpful to you?
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YOU NEED TO WATCH THE SPECIAL EPISODES
Finished this a long time ago, but I'm missing this drama, so here we go.First of all, I have always been a really awful-performing student, so I can't help but hate this drama at first.
I couldn't finish the first episode and put it on hold for months. One day tho I decided to force myself to finish this drama (Motivation: Queen Amami-san + I was interested in how the production team communicated the mood of the scenes.. those cinematic aspects).
As I watched more episodes, I started to understand why Maya-sensei acted that way. However, I still can't agree to it. However, however, after I finished the two special episodes, I finally could understand.
I cry and smile a lot during the drama, it was a beautiful experience. And the ending scene.... I cry x smile at the same time.
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Frustrating in the end!
I enjoy watching everything Japanese, since their culture is so different from Europe/America but be warned, this is one of the many J-Dramas in which it's obvious the writers did everything to shock you ! This guarantees you don't forget the drama easily, but it also makes you angry and frustrated because the WRONG message it convenes, even if it has a "happy" ending.Episodes 10, 11 are especially frustrating because of the inconsistency. Everybody seems to forget the clearly horrible and even illegal things Maya has done and instead she is remembered as such a great teacher, and all the kids cry when she is [justfully] dismissed.
What is the message here? would it be OK for a Army Sergeant to train soldiers as if they were 12-year girls ? NO ? Then, why is it ok to educate 12-years girls as they were soldiers going to the most vicious war? There is a line in which one of the teachers says about Maya: "Probably she received by mistake military training instead of teacher training?". No other teachers react, but it is one of the best lines in the show !
The idea seems to be, "Maya is educating them well because she is preparing them for the harsh realities of life". I DO NOT agree for 2 reasons:
1) she clearly crosses the line, for instance when she takes away the summer break and then punishes Kanda and her friends for missing the last summer classes, and in such an unprofessional way, she removes their desks and then makes 12-year old carry heavy desks on the stairs ?!? Or, while she knows who really stole the wallet, she allows Kanda to be viciously bullied for it, including the risk of death when her classmates try to drown her in the pool, or when she falls thru broken glass and is seriously injured ?!?!? Basically the teacher contributes to bullying ! These are almost criminal acts! For these, she could go to prison, not just to the Reeducation center !
However, all these terrible things are forgotten in eps. 10, 11 and she is just remembered to being "a strict teacher". This is unbelievable and, I say again, just wrong, immoral and unethical.
2) all this Maya speeches "society is bad and cruel, and I prepare you for it, only 6% of the Japanese are happy and in this class NONE of you will be happy", I believe is a chicken-and-egg problem. Society is bad because the are bad people, people who learn from childhood to be bad, and are allowed to be bad, and are even encouraged to be bad, because of teachers like Maya who basically contribute to the bullying and do nothing, and teach an evil system of values and rewards and punishments ["be my friend, spy for me and then all bullying will stop"] and of course, in the future, colleagues like Maya, bosses like Maya and so on. It even contradicts how she criticizes her husband in the prequel episode, after she discovers he did acts of corruption at his company - it is not an excuse to do bad things just because everybody does them!
The 2 prequel episodes transmit a weak message about how and why she becomes a "demon teacher". Her inadequacy in solving her initial class problems when she was a kind and caring teacher is just that - inadequacy, lack of training, lack of support (all the school Principals and Vice Principals in Japanese movies seem to be utterly incapable, spineless and only make things worse).
It's like an engine only has two speeds, 0 and Maximum RPM. You can only be a weak, ineffective teacher who tries (and fails) to love everybody, or a Demon teacher which actively bullies and mistreats everybody. This is the message of the movie.
The only way to enjoy this movie is to try to detach from reality. I always try to think that probably all Japanese writers hold a meeting in which they say "this is the normal, expected course of action. How can we alter it so it is unexpected, shocking and utterly unbelievable, but will make everybody talk about it?". So you ditch morality for views and ratings.
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