Underplayed Gems

Saba Doll (2012)

Saba Doll poster
Original title
さばドル
Cast
Watanabe Mayu, Ando Tamae, Sakata Tadashi, Kaminaga Keisuke, Takahashi Hitomi, Akimoto Yasushi
Genre
drama television series
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 12 episodes
Rated
10
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A 38 year old high school teacher secretly works as a popular teenage idol. Her students bully her at school but adore her idol persona without knowing the truth.

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What happens

Saba Doru (さばドル) (lit. "Saba Doll") is a Japanese television drama series broadcast on TV Tokyo starring AKB48's Mayu Watanabe. The story revolves around the 38-year-old Usa Shijimi (Watanabe), who is a high school classical literature teacher. Her students are mean to her, but they do not realize that she has another identity. Outside of school, she lies about her age to be active as the super popular 17-year-old idol Watanabe Mayu, whom the students adore. The show aired on TV Tokyo on Fridays starting from January 13, 2012, to April 6, 2012, with 12 episodes. After the show ended the series was turned into a manga drawn by Akihiro Nakamura and published in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine over three volumes in 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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