Drama Review : Gokusen 2

Aaahhhh...finally back on the revrews. To be honest, I should have finished of this review around 2 weeks ago. But I somehow got lazy to do so. Anyway, It's a double review meaning there's another review with this one. As you can tell, this is a direct sequel to the well known Gokusen series back then around 2004. Yukie Nakama still plays Yamaguchi senesei here as the main role. But the setting now is in another school with new casts. Only a handful of the old cast reprise their role.

As usual, Yamaguchi senseni or well known as Yankumi to here students gets herself to another delinquent class in her new school. Most of the main story might seem a bit cliche to those who have watched the 1st season, but there still are some new conflicts to follow in the series. The most notable one is her conflict with the school director trying to get her of his school with any means. While in the first season she had a conflict with the mass media and the school got related to her in the last moments, now she's got the head of the school as her adversary.

Putting aside her conflict with the school, the main story is still about her and the students. Still, 5 boys rule the class and it seems that story always revolves around them. I wonder why they didn't explore the story of other students coz this plot have already been used in the 1st season. This really does make some part of the story quite predictable. The only difference is that in the main group there's two person in chief, not one as in the 1st season.

Anyway, despite the cliches and the re-use of some of the plots, the drama does relay important message about how school, teachers and students should act in their role. School and teachers nowadays nearly always judge a student by their looks and not by their personality. It takes good guts to for a teacher to defend their pupils because they usually get scaped for their doings.And students should at least try to think of teachers as not only as teachers but also as their friend. If this is done, I'm very sure delinquents would be a matter of the past. For the ovearll score, 3 out of 5 would do.