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[[File:Nobuta1.jpg|thumb|350px|Nobuta wo Produce]]

==Details==
*'''Title:''' 野ブタ。をプロデュース / Nobuta. Wo Produce
*'''Episodes:''' 10
*'''Genre:''' School renzoku drama
*'''Viewership:''' 16.89%
*'''Broadcast network:''' NTV
*'''Broadcast period:''' 2005-10-15 to 2005-12-17
*'''Air time:''' Saturday 21:00 to 21:54
*'''Theme song:''' ''[[Seishun Amigo]]'' by Shuji and Akira ([[Kamenashi Kazuya]] and [[Yamashita Tomohisa]])

==Synopsis==
'''Kiritani Shuji''' is the popular guy who gets along with everyone, from the jerks to the nerds to the just plain weird. He's the one that everyone can count on. However, what they don't know is that Shuji knows how predictable his classmates are and he plays off their predictability to his advantage. His day-to-day existence as "Shuji-kun" is just a facade he uses to play in the school popularity game. Truth be told, Shuji is bored.

The one person Shuji cannot stand is '''Kusano Akira'''. Unlike Shuji, Akira is just plain annoying. Akira loves his soy milk so much, he gets drunk from it. He laughs funny, he talks funny, and he acts funny. Nobody in class takes Akira seriously. Shuji can't stand the sight of Akira and it drives him nuts that Akira does whatever he wants despite Shuji's expressed dislike of him.

Shuji has a daily ritual of touching a certain willow tree for good luck. One day, he is startled to find out that his willow tree was uprooted and in its place, a freaky-looking girl telling him that some people took the tree somewhere else to be spotted. She joked that she was planning to hang herself from that tree. Scared, Shuji runs away.

Things heat up when a new student comes to school. Shuji is shocked to find out that the new student was the freaky girl he saw the day his willow tree disappeared. Her name is '''Kotani Nobuko''', a girl who has no self confidence at all and is content at being made fun of and bullied in school.

Shuji and Akira come to an accord that in order to make use of their "youth" they will "produce" Nobuko as the next popular girl. One of the conditions, however, is that nobody should find out that they are working together as a team to make this concept possible.

Of course, there can be no protagonist without an antagonist. There is a mysterious girl in school jeopardizing the duo's plan to make Nobuko popular. The mystery continues to unfold.

Unveiled here is the story of true friendship between three unlikely candidates who would not have been friends if not given the special circumstances!

==Cast==
*[[Kamenashi Kazuya]] as Kiritani Shuji (桐谷修二)
*[[Yamashita Tomohisa]] as Kusano Akira (草野章)
*[[Horikita Maki]] as Kotani Nobuko (小谷信子)
*[[Toda Erika]] as Uehara Mariko (上原真理子)
*[[Ukaji Takashi]] as Kiritani Satoru
*[[Fukaura Kanako]] as Kiritani Nobuko (桐谷信子)
*[[Nakajima Yuto]] as Kiritani Koji
*[[Okada Yoshinori]] as Yokoyama Takeshi
*[[Wakaba Ryuuya]] as Shittaka
*[[Ishii Tomoya]]
*[[Takahashi Katsumi]] as Hirayama Ippei
*[[Natsuki Mari]] as Catherine
*[[Mizuta Fumiko]] as Bando
*[[Daito Shunsuke]] as Taniguchi
*[[Tajima Hanami]] as Inoue Misa
*[[Akiko]]
*[[Suetaka Tomu]]

==Production Credits==
*'''Original writing:''' 『野ブタ。をプロデュース』 by Shiraiwa Gen ISBN 4-309-01683-9
*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Kizara Izumi]] (木皿泉)
*'''Producer:''' (河野英裕)
*'''Director:''' (岩本仁志), (佐久間紀佳)
*'''Music:''' (池頼広)

==Episode Ratings==
*Nobuta wo Produce got consistently high-ratings in Tokyo and Nationwide. The ending got a Nationwide viewership rating of 26.3%

*'''Ep01:''' 16.1%
*'''Ep02:''' 14.9%
*'''Ep03:''' 17.0%
*'''Ep04:''' 16.4%
*'''Ep05:''' 17.1%
*'''Ep06:''' 17.7%
*'''Ep07:''' 16.7%
*'''Ep08:''' 18.0%
*'''Ep09:''' 16.8%
*'''Ep10:''' 18.2%

==Awards==
*'''47th Television Acadamy Awards:''' Best Drama
*'''47th Television Acadamy Awards:''' Best Actor: [[Kamenashi Kazuya]]
*'''47th Television Acadamy Awards:''' Best Supporting Actress: [[Horikita Maki]]
*'''47th Television Acadamy Awards:''' Best Director
*'''47th Television Acadamy Awards:''' Best Script
*'''47th Television Acadamy Awards:''' Best Music

==External Links==
*[http://www.ntv.co.jp/nobuta/ Official Site]
*[http://jdorama.com/drama.961.htm JDorama.com]
*[http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=244634#244634 Discussion at D-Addicts.com]

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