This is probably the most underrated and most original school dramas. What? Another story of kids with problems not saved miraculous methods of a teacher crazy and / or adolescent flirtations? Missed! But I must admit having laid a trap by talking about "school dramas." If part of the action takes place well in a school environment, Medaka much more akin to the social chronicle of another Japan, much less put under the spotlight: the humble, failures, marginalized, the excluded ...
Lack of anything better, the young Takako Meguro (Mimura), called "Medaka" fails a teaching job in evening classes. In its small class, half the students are older and live it odd jobs. Just like their young teacher, themselves do not know what they are doing there. They just put some confused little hope that these courses can help them overcome the handicaps that life has given them. The framing of this night school itself demonstrated a relative motivation towards his strange students. In this gloom, Medaka, timid and hesitant, does not seem the most likely to swing the tide. However, by engaging in more or less unexpected in the lives of his students and never give miraculous solutions, it will bring them to remember their motivation to attend these evening classes ... and thereby discover viewers the back of a Japan in a cramped office that sometimes seems very restrictive.
Thus, each episode is an opportunity to discover one of these students, played by a talented supporting cast molded. Since become a star confirmed Eita found pleasure in the role of Sakuragi Taku, a young laborer, forced to sacrifice his studies for his income. At his side, we follow the fates of empathy with Kawahara (Sudo Kira), waitress cabaret raising her child alone, Takasugi (Yuta Hiraoka), brilliant student but recently suffering from hikikomori, Yoshizumi (Kuroki Meisa - watch the eyes!)
, breaking the school, Kariya (Izumiya Shigeru), modest craftsman frustrated and brawler, Oyamada (Yamazaki Shigenori), pseudo-offender with a big heart, or Taneda (Fumiyo Kohinata), working poor and despised by erased all. If this list characters may seem tedious, it is not so far neither exhaustive nor superfluous because they are really secondary characters that make a series of Medaka a great authenticity.
course, one is no exception to the recurrence of scenes a little easier, even cliches, and the smile beta mare Mimura may awaken the viewer some nights shivering, but all are read with pleasure and interest. By lifting the veil on the difficulty of some Japanese to be part of a social model that structures intensely Japanese society, this series brings a breath of fresh air on schools dramas often a heartbreaking classic.
I would also be incomplete if I did not invite to listen to the excellent series of generic,
Masayume Spitzer.
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7 / 10: At least worth checking out.
Quite simply, why not entrust to the most talented actresses drama of the foster care of (very) potential visitors? D'Orange Days in Last Friends, through the extraordinary Engine and Nodame Cantabile, Ueno Juri has continued to amaze with his ability to interpret brilliantly demanding roles. No doubt one of hostess does not ask him any problems, except by his modesty. 
, breaking the school, Kariya (Izumiya Shigeru), modest craftsman frustrated and brawler, Oyamada (Yamazaki Shigenori), pseudo-offender with a big heart, or Taneda (Fumiyo Kohinata), working poor and despised by erased all. If this list characters may seem tedious, it is not so far neither exhaustive nor superfluous because they are really secondary characters that make a series of Medaka a great authenticity. 
