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Gokusen japanese drama review
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Gokusen
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by KawaiiNeko94
Nov 8, 2025
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 5.0

Misses the point

Ultimately, it says nothing about practicing nonviolence and acting for good against a wicked majority because there is always a superhero teacher who will advocate to the utmost for you, and who can beat any number of armed high school students. Without her intervention, all these kids would probably get killed, expelled, etc. so what does it really say for the value in being good and honest? And she's not like Moses whose powers are given to him by God to enact good and carry out some greater purpose. She just trained a lot and was raised under a Yakuza family. Which makes it really just feel like luck that the strongest person happens to be "good" in this world where the most powerful person gets their way (as opposed to a world where people are innately good, or in which there's an underlying order that's eventually restored, or a world with supernatural intervention).

I just don't like how it celebrates force at the same time it tries to promote nonviolence.

Besides that, idk it's pretty standard crap TV. One-dimensional characters, low production value, low brow humor. Ito Misaki is in it though, so definitely check it out for her scenes.
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