Saba Doll (2012)

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

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.

lightheartedwhimsicalfast-pacedplayfuldramaticfunnyunderdogsecret-identity

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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