Aitsu ga Kamite de Shimote ga Boku de Season 1 English Subtitles
hi. do you like shows about how difficult it is wanting to succeed onstage? do you like comedy of the variety where the joke is really stupid you can't help but laugh anyway?
do you like characters whose relationships to each other can be described as not quite friend, not quite family, not quite lover, but in fact none other than Commitment to the Bit?
if you answered yes to any or all of these questions, i'd like to offer you my personal favourite drama for the past five years, aitsu ga kamite de shimote ga boku de (he's on stage left and on stage right it's me) (or if you check the few official english sources, two peas in a pod???)
the show follows a comedian, tokiura (aramaki yoshihiko), as he gets sent off to a theatre known for housing only the worst performers. there he meets shima (wada masanari), who asks to be his manzai partner after seeing him onstage only once. alongside the rest of the cast--shima's previous partner narimiya (sakiyama tsubasa) now working with hebiya (torigoe yuki), childhood friends wanno (hashimoto shohei) and inukai (tanaka ryousei) trying to break from their cutesy image, and genda (jinnai sho) in a temporary partnership with amano (umetsu mizuki)-- --this theatre kind of sucks. and everyone is bad at their job. but god if they aren't going to try to make it big anyways.
links and more miscellaneous yapping under the cut!
