Air Dates: January 6th to March 10, 2019 Sundays at 10:30 pm on NTV
Average rating: 11.5%
Director: Naoko Komuro and Yuma Suzuki Writer: Shogo Muto
Also goes by the title of 'Mr Hiiragi's Homeroom'
Main Cast:
Masaki Suda as Ibuki Hiiragi.... the slightly warped homeroom teacher
The Students, thirty in all so just listing a few of them
Mei Nagano as Sakura Kayano.... homeroom class president
Moka Kamishiraishi as Reina Kageyama.... committed suicide in September
Rina Kawaei as Kaho Usumi
Haruka Fukuhara as Suzune Minakoshi
Mio Imada as Yuzuki Suwa
Ryota Katayose as Hayato Kai
Jin Suzuki as Kaito Satomi
Tsuyoshi Furukawa as Ken Sunaga
Kaito Mifune as Ren Nakao.... Hiiragi's first victim
The rest:
Kippei Shiina as Makoto Gunji.... detective who is leading the case
Yoshihiko Hosoda as Ryoichi Miyagi.... Gunji's partner
Kohei Otomo as Toru Igarashi.... superior of the two above detectives
Bengal as Koichi Ichimura.... principal of Kaio high school
Akane Hotte as Mizuki Morisaki.... teacher who had a crush on Hiiragi
Seiichi Tanabe as Yamato Takechi... annoying teacher who is also an author
Kenichi Yajima as Takahiko Sagara
Whew, this may be the biggest cast ever for a regular drama as there's twenty more students and a few other teachers. The show began on the date of March 1st and by what was told to us in the first episode the events take place until March 10th, the day the students were(are?) supposed to graduate....
Gunji didn't have much of a choice unless he wanted Hiiragi to kill another student, he agrees to the request but taking the food into the school will be his main supervisor Igarashi. That's not a real gun Hiiragi is holding above but instead a water gun(!), the pair seemed to know each other as they sat down so Igarashi's nerves could calm down. Actually seemed is the wrong word as the pair do know each other and Igarashi is somehow working in unison with Hiiragi. How is not exactly known at this time but figure that Igarashi will be doing some covering for the teacher and his students at headquarters. The get together didn't last too long but besides the food there was one other present that Iragashi left with his comrade.... a real gun!
It's now the third morning of the student's captivity, March 3rd if you're keeping track of the dates. And from what it appears most of the main storyline will revolve around the death of Reina who had jumped off the school's roof the previous October. She had been a swimming champion but she had been framed to make it seem as though she was doping before meets. A video of that had been uploaded to the internet and if you read the above recap you know that the culprit was Kaho. To date there's been a question Hiiragi has posed to the class pertaining to her death in each show, if they're wrong one student will be killed and for now one has been who was Ren in the first episode.
Oooops, forgot I was now having all of the recaps in a row so don't need to rehash what's happened to date, should make future posts a paragraph or two shorter. Another episode and another question relating to Reina's death. Can sort of figure out now what's behind Hiiragi's hostage taking, he wants to know the full details of her suicide and to him this may have been the only way.
Now the stakes have been raised, the students and police have until 8:00 pm to answer the next question or this time.... five students will be killed!!!! For the first time the police have been included in the mystery of Reina's death, the poser for them and the students is 'Who had filmed and edited the fake video of Reina doping before a swimming meet?'. Kaho had confessed to uploading the video to the internet but admitted she didn't take the video and Hiiragi believed her.
You'd think the police would be keeping all of the school's activities under wraps but somehow that hasn't been the case. The public doesn't know all of what's been happening but enough, such as one student being killed and the question that Hiiragi posed that Gunji has to solve or five more deaths may be forthcoming. The public has been all over the internet putting the police down and especially Gunji, it certainly hasn't been his fault at all but it almost seems Hiiragi has some support from the public. But there's yet one more major twist to the story and it'll turn out to be a very important one.
Those top two screenshots are of text messages sent from the school. However it wasn't Hiiragi behind the messages but a student(!), that's what the messages have claimed and that the person was able to hide an extra phone from his teacher. The student won't reveal his identity and says it's in case Hiiragi manages to intercept the messages but the person will be keeping Gunji notified of any new developments in the classroom.
Gunji and the students are working hard at looking for clues in the video. What they've all noticed is that the cameraman had been wearing a blue sweat jacket that was the same color of the school's swimming team. Gunji had also noticed what he thought was a food stain on a sleeve, for now he's trying to figure out if that could be a major clue. Meanwhile in the classroom the students are also working on the case but looking at things from an entirely different angle. Most of their suspicions have turned to Karen, she had been one of Reina's few friends but besides that was also her rival.
Her rival when it came to a boy whose name was Kakeru. He too had been on the swimming team and quietly had looked up to Reina along with having a crush on her. But at the time Kakeru had been going out with Karen off and on, she soon realized why their relationship couldn't be more serious. Karen was a bit torn on what to do, on one hand she was friends with Reina but on the other she really wanted to date Kakeru more seriously.
In this episode we learned that Reina had been very popular with the boys, even more so in the next episode. The boys knew that Kakeru had been a bit close to her and mainly because they were on the swimming team. For some odd reason which wasn't explained fully enough the group of student hooligans became very jealous of Kakeru, to make sure he was no longer a threat for Reina's attention they ambushed one day after school and severely beat him . So severely that Kakeru won't be able to be a swimmer any more which naturally depressed him to no end. Though she too was jealous Karen offered a solution to Kakeru's problem, one that may allow him to remain on the swimming team.
Through 2 1/2 episodes quite a bit happened but it wasn't confusing at all, that changed in the last twenty minutes of this show. Karen's solution from above was for Kakeru to join the swimming team as Reina's manager, seemed lame to him at first but that's what he did and it actually allowed him to grow more closer to Reina than ever. But all of that was in the past, it's now present day with the students and police fighting against time to figure out who shot the video.
Another suspect arose in the classroom, he was another male who we hadn't seen much of before this and his name was Satomi. Classroom rep Sakura had noticed him at Reina's last swimming meet, the one she had won and also the meet where the video had been taken. At the meet Satomi had been wearing a blue sweat jacket which he claimed someone from the swimming team had loaned him. Through a lot more intense pressure from his fellow students Satomi confessed to many things.
Didn't seem as though Reina was a very popular gal but she certainly was, she was also a very cute young woman. Satomi told the class he too had a crush on Reina and had confessed his love to her one afternoon after school. To his dismay Reina politely turned his advances down and Satomi was never able to recover from the shock. He was a very handsome boy who many girls had liked but his heart had been set on Reina.
Besides Kaho who had done some very vengeful things to Reina it was now Satomi's turn to take part in making her life miserable. With no real plans on what he would do with it Satomi hid in the girl's locker room to make the video. He had shot a scene showing a bottle of dope in her locker which was totally fake but as was doing so a person entered the room. Of course it was Reina and Satomi continued filming her but when it came to the point of her changing into her swimsuit Satomi erupted out of his hiding place, with Reina watching on he dashed away.
Final segment, started a rule a few months back to hold recaps at five of them but we are coming close to the end of the show anyway. Kaho had uploaded the video to the internet but had no clue who had put it in her schoolbag, Satomi did confess to taking the video but swore he had no part in giving Kaho the video. Plus Satomi insisted he had no idea on who may have edited the video to make it look as though Reina had been doping before the swimming meet, were those answers could enough to satisfy Hiiragi and prevent five deaths?
The answer to that was a big NO!, though Hiiragi believed what Satomi told the class it still didn't answer the question of who edited the video and gave it to Kaho. With the police listening in Hiiragi pronounced to his students that because of their inability to answer the question five must now perish. Hiiragi pulled out the pistol Igarashi had given him and instructed Satomi and four others to follow him to the art room where they would meet their demise.
The five were ordered to stand against a wall, as they assembled above them a bomb appeared to go off and burying the five in the ceiling's rubble. The last we saw of them they were lying covered in the rubble but were they truly dead? That's what Gunji at police headquarters thought as he stormed out of the building and scurried to the school but of course he was powerless to do do anything. With that the episode only had about twenty seconds to go as we still wondered if the students were dead. But one mystery took place in those final seconds, in the art room a young man appeared from behind a shelf, it's the figure of Ren who was the first student killed but now it's revealed he wasn't?!
Solid ending to the show and the mystery of his so-called death will be answered in the next recap which naturally is the post below this one. Won't give any spoilers away but the next show is even more intense, seems the storyline(s) have changed 180 degrees and it really made for an interesting watch. As usual a mega amount of screenshots to help you follow the story better.
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