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Yuka Misaki, whose parents run a flower shop, casually begins dating college student Akio Asami, and later falls for him. But due to some type of accident, the two lose contact with one another.

One year after the accident, the two suddenly meet again. Yuka is still working at her father Shigeo's flower shop, and Akio is a teacher at a nearby high school.

It's January 7, just right after the New Year begins. Make up classes are being held for students that aren't keeping up with their daily studies. Taking the classes are the popular Tadashi Otomo, and the leader of the delinquent students, Sho Takamatsu. And giving the lecturers is Noriko Sekiya, a teacher that has taken out all kinds of loans to pay for the popular brand items that she buys.

Yuka comes to the school to collect money from Noriko. While at the school, with thoughts of the past in the back of her mind, Yuka and Akio meet, and get into a fight. Then all of a sudden, there is a small tremor, and after it subsides..

Review

(By Wm. Penn, Daily Yomiuri, 1/17/02): Kubozuka plays a young teacher who is having a few qualms about his chosen career path, as young girls in loose socks and various states of undress keep throwing themselves in his path.

Long Love Letter

He and Yuka (Tokiwa) meet and are working their way slowly toward an actual date. It also turns out Tokiwa taught at the same school two years before, but was fired for a violent incident in which she took credit--completely implausibly--for knocking out a half dozen young tough guys. She did this to save the real culprit from expulsion. But after her selfless act, the young man quit school anyway and is now training as a sushi chef while she works in her father's flower shop.

In episode two, Kubozuka and Tokiwa cling together as the school collapses into a cavern that makes the Grand Canyon look like a wading pool. While family and friends peer carefully over the edge, those down under will spend the next 10 weeks trying to deal with the isolation of their new lost world. The school has sunk so deep even TV, radio and cell phones are useless. (Oh goodie, a whole script without a cell phone in an important supporting role! This alone makes the show required viewing for the keitai generation. Last week on Meitantei Conan, a cell phone was even used to stop a sword blow from slashing the intended victim.)

Anyhow, on the momentous day when the earth is to crumble under their toes, Yuka gets a call from the apprentice sushi chef revealing he has just been allowed to roll his first seaweed rolls. I can't remember whether it was cucumber kappa maki or kanpyo (made with dried gourd shavings). But anyway, the guy is so appreciative of his former teacher's sacrifice he wants to meet her in the park to present her with this momentous, historic, mouth-watering token of his gratitude. But before she is scheduled to meet him, an errand takes her to the school and fate provides the life-shattering jolt. That is where the script left viewers dangling at the end of episode one.

The preview for episode two showed Yuka yelling about how she had to get out of the hole in time to pick up her sushi. But it is going to take another nine episodes to recover the lost taste treat. I figure they ought to dig out in time to eat it under the cherry blossoms. Because of the unlikely scenario, lots of computer graphics are employed and much of the acting was done without a proper set, but T and K are up to all the challenges this script presents. Three stars. Quite likely to be the season's biggest hit.

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