Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom

It's comedic; it's dramatic... welcome to Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom. Our lesson for today is the dilemma of misunderstanding and miscommunication. We'll also delve deep into the hot waters with the toxic students of 3A, trying to find reason in Kageyama's suicide.

... For my review, 6 makes it good enough. The flashbacks are dumb. They don't exactly flesh out the characters OR the setting, but I guess I'll take it. The show's an interesting ride, and I would definitely re-watch it if I had the time.

Throughout the series, I happened to feel like Mr. Hiiragi was lecturing me as well. The emotions were top tiers. While solving a case, Mr. Hiiragi taught his students about the reality of life and social media. Every episode showed different problems, different struggles and different ways to cope with it or to solve it. A great way to criticise how social media influences our daily life and how much it will affect someone's life. I think that everyone should at least watch this series once in lifetime.

This is a japanese show so a lot of people will never even contemplate watch it. I can understand that. Maybe, if it become famous, hollywood will adapt it? Probably not since it critizices social media which hollywood uses to control the masses..

Maybe netflix will buy it? Again probably not.

If you want to watch it, please bear in mind that this is a japanese show not us or European so don't go expecting the same mentality. In the essential this is a show about trying to find out who the killer was. In the end, after each episode or so, you will understand that this is much more than that. It's a show about social media critique, about young teens mentality that are destroying lives. It's about people not even thinking before typing in the internet which will stay for good. It's about fake news. It's about thinking mentality and the dark side of the world wide web. It's very refresh although a bit long.

I really enjoy it - if you want something different from "white man bad"; "orange-man bad" and other forms, please do so. This is a critique without racial, ethnic or gender bias.

This is a drama that twists at every point. It starts off in an unexpected way but as you unravel the story and watch more, things start to make sense.

As it is a drama, there's a lot of drama in there ofcourse. Some parts are predictable and dragged out more than needed but as it is a fast moving thriller with so many twists, it's not a drag. The cast selection is perfect. They all play their roles except for a few who kind of overreact at times more than needed.

Overall, if you're looking to binge watch a J-Drama with a very meaningful message at its heart then this is one for you. A very satisfying one.

Mr. Hiiragi's Classroom is an extremely interesting drama full of twists and turns, but at it's heart it has poignant themes and a heartwarming message. The style of the story is somewhat silly at times and a tad over dramatic, but it doesn't take away too much from what is a solid story with incredible acting (for the most part) from an extremely large cast.

At the head is Mr. Hiiragi, who's character is intriguing, dynamic, and charismatic at different turns. Masaki Suda is so very good, you truly cannot take your eyes off of him. The cast playing the students do a great job, with some of them being just okay actors and others doing an equally good job as the ML. In particular was the best friend of Reina, who was such a natural talent.

The soundtrack has some really beautiful moments, and I enjoyed the shock value scenes and style of the show. There were definitely some oddly over-acted parts and out of place moments, but overall as a whole, the drama was extremely good. I loved the underlying message as well. This was such a fun binge watch I finished it in two days and I will definitely be re-watching it again soon. I highly recommend it!