I should have stopped in the middle of episode 9, then I would have been perfectly happy with this drama. "Homosexuality is only a phase and you're only gay until you find a good partner of the opposite sex" is what a lot of Japanese society still believes and it unfortunately really shows at the end. In my opinion the last one and a half episodes pretty much ruined an otherwise funny and well acted drama.
I smell another "naive, pure and helpless without a man" Fukuhara Haruka drama. I hope I'll be wrong and she's playing a different rom-com character for once because I actually like her when she's playing something normal/realistic.
I really liked the first season, but the second was a bit too over the top for me when it comes to the hospital boss, which is essentially the main antagonist. I know that 98% of Japanese men in power (in dramas) are scumbags, especially to women, but an extremely corrupt, self-absorbed and useless (as a doctor) 70-ish year old head of a big, famous hospital who openly chases every nurse, secrety and woman in general to grab a feel while his wife is terrorizing the wives of all the other staff members is something I can't really stomach nor believe. I know it's, unfortunately, normal in Japan as a man (especially in power) to have 10 affairs at a time, but it's just too much for me to believe that any general public would tolerate behaviour like this from a man of standing.
I skipped through most of the season because I found most of the characters just stupid and it's basically the same procedure as season 1.
Usually I love these "school club dramas". Especially when it's about music. Omotesando Koukou Gasshoubu, Swing Girls or Linda Linda Linda for example. But I couldn't get into this one, regardless of how good the acting or how well thought out the story is. I don't even dislike stories with problem kids or Yankiis, but this one is just way too far fetched for me. They go around and randomly punch people, destroy property left and right, gamble and smoke in plain view, etc. It's supposed to be a more or less realistic drama, so even if I turn off rational thinking they should be in juvenile detention, not still at school where teachers tell them "I believe in you" and "join the brass band". I think I could've really enjoyed the drama if they would've either lessened the crime spree or if the Yankii build up would've been no more than 2 episodes.
I really like these slow paced slice of life "detective" dramas. And it has a nice twist because they don't try to find a culprit but a recipe the customer wants to remember. The main story was also pretty interesting and Kutsuna Shiori does a great job as usual, she's one of my favorite Japanese actresses (it's a shame she went to Hollywood). But I really didn't like the acting of the male lead, Hagiwara Kenichi, who plays her father. He probably acts out the character how it was designed, but always using the most polite way to speak possible combined with the excrutiating slow pace he talks at kind of made me lose interest in what he was even talking about most of the time.
Good movie. If I hadn't seen the anime I would've probably given it a better score than 7.5, but there's just no way to get this story into a 2 hour movie without skipping important plot points. If you liked the movie, you should definitely watch both anime seasons. The in my opinion best parts of the series, the character development of everyone aswell as the friendships in class and especially between the 3 girls, was almost completely cut and the movie's basically only about the romance between the two main characters.
I skipped through most of the season because I found most of the characters just stupid and it's basically the same procedure as season 1.