#taguchi jun

The basic storyline is that there are boys living together in a catholic school dorm near Tokyo. When the aircon breaks in their rooms, they are all pushed into the communal area and spend time together, then they discover dark things about the others and all try to help each other. 

Underneath is a summary of each character and their storyline:

Isawa Takuma ad Akiyoshi Fuuta 

Main character, 2nd year student. His father owns a hospital and he was going to inherit it until his mother died when he was 13, then he decided to become a musician instead. This is later revealed to be because his mother committed suicide in front of him and his brother and ever since then he fainted at the sight of blood. He hid the sight from his brother. After her spirit is summoned into his little brother and she apologises he finally gives up music, that he was never that interested in and goes back to medicine. There was a ongoing theme of the phone ringing and first time no one spoke, second time there was a woman crying, and third time it was revealed to be Takuma’s mother calling from beyond the grave to apologise to him. There was a joke that he kept asking the others to strip which was quite funny.  Very honest, kind but hiding his issues.

Sana Hiroki as Hori Takeru 

2nd year student. He was rumoured to have a girlfriend but that was just a rumour. He was making a broach for a woman he’d been in love with ever since primary school. He seems slightly cold at first but begins to open up and trust the others until he cousin calls and says that the woman he was in love with got married. His cousin, unbeknownst to him, reveals to the other boys that he is in love with his 60 year old primary school teacher. He then punches another boy who try to ask him about it but later apologises and helps the other boys. He and his cousin are both obsessed with a dolphin toy that has sunflowers on it 

Saeki Ryo as Wakisaka Junosuke

2nd year student. He was very funny. Typical megane character. Obsessed with studying. There was a rumour that his sister had died and the other boys were dancing around the issue until after a while he finally managed to convince them that she wasn’t dead. His storyline was built up to be sad but this storyline ended pretty quickly and really worked because otherwise it wouldn’t have felt as complete of a story.

Tanimizu Riki as Osanai Masato 

2nd year student. He is kinda the mum friend and would look after the others, clean and cook. This is revealed to be because his brother, who he lived with before he moved into the dorms, treated him like dirt and made him do all of that for him. He would often beat him, even when he came to the dorms as his brother would visit him in his room, at first he lied to cover this up but eventually confronted his brother with everyone's help. Kind and motherly

Yamagata Takumi as Miyano Kouhei

2nd year student. He was kinda annoying. Obsessed with spirits and was quite loud and pushy. Found out that his father wasn’t actually his father and his mother cheated on him. He held a seance to try and find his real father but the father raised him was summoned into Akiyoshi Kouta, Fuuta’s younger brother, and the others talked to him about Miyano. Always energetic and upbeat but there was a sadness hiding in his eyes

Taguchi Jun as Akiyoshi Kouta 

A middle school student and Fuuta’s little brother. Annoyed at his brother for deciding to go into music instead which I found a bit silly because his brother did shield their mother’s suicide from him. He didn’t do very much and wasn’t on stage often. Seemed quite rude and harsh to his brother but sweet to his friend from school. During the seance he was inhabited by Miyano’s father and for a moment at the end his mother’s spirit came into him and apologised to Fuuta, which finally made him confront his mother’s death. 

Aoki Jin as Osanai Wataru  

Riki's older brother and a salary man. Seems kind and friendly at first but it's later revealed that he tells his brother he is nothing and beats him to 'try and turn him into a useful and good person'. He is extremely evil and cruel. He tries to attack the others when they corner him and film him, throttling Kouta to make them delete the video. 

Maryuma Shun as Tachibana Rikuo  

Sports teacher. Probably my least favourite character. Seemed well meaning but overbearing and teased the boys a bit much and didn’t seem to add anything to the play and was just a bit annoying. 

Hirano Koushou as Natsui Nozomi  

Vice principal. He was kinda weird but fun. All the students kinda made fun of him but he clearly cared for them a lot. Was built up to be strong but he went down in one punch from Takeru. He was training Masato to try help him get a date which Masato originally used as an excuse for where he got all his bruises from but Natsui reveals that is not where they came from.

Mizuta Tatsuki as Sakaki Atsushi

The chairman's grandson. He seemed like an exposition character. Came to introduce other characters. Classmates with Jun. Kind and helpful and joined the others in the end to help with their problems even though he knew nothing about it

Mitsui Ryo as Kishi Naojirou

Takeru’s cousin. He was super weird. Had fluorescent clothes with pink hair and his clothes didn’t match at all. At first he had a red flowy top with red skirt and pink tights then a pink top, yellow scarf, red headband, red visor, pink waistband short skirt thing and green, black, grey and yellow leggings. His personality was pretty much exactly what you’d expect from that description. He was super weird but seemed kind and joined the others in the end to help with their problems even though he knew nothing about it. I kinda loved him.