(lit. "Private Bakalea High School") is a 2012

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. Written by

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's producer

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, this television series featured Johnny's

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member

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, and members of then

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now known as SixTONES and

's Team 4.

Plot

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(delinquent) school, where students only know how to fight. On the other hand, Cattleya High School is an exclusive girls' school meant for the rich, where students are very refined. One day, it was announced that Bakada would merge into Cattleya to form Cattleya No.2 High School. However, students from Bakada and Cattleya were unable to accept each other, since they come from vastly different backgrounds. But over time, the two repelling groups slowly get to understand each other better.

Cast

Bakada High School

Shintaro Morimoto , is a Japanese singer and actor. He is currently a member of SixTONES. Career Morimoto was scouted by Johnny Kitagawa to join the talent agency Smile-Up (formerly known as Johnny & Associates) in 2006.「夏の特別講座ジャニーズJr. ...

as Tatsuya Sakuragi *

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as Tetsuya Asada *

as Shohei Tatsunami * Taiga Kyomoto as Maya Terakawa * Juri Tanaka as Soichi Noguchi * Jesse as Yuki Satonaka *

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as Makoto Jimbo

Cattleya No.1 High School

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as Fumie Shingyoji *

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as Saya Kokyu * Kaoru Mitsumune as Sayuri Tokimune *

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as Mana Honjo * Marina Kobayashi as Reika Zaizen *

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as An Miyata * Mariko Nakamura as Kaori Shinohara * Toshiya Miyata as Junichi Koba *

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as Haruki Minamoto

Others

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as Momoko * Ryohei Abe as Hiroi Azuma * Dai Watanabe as Saionji Ryo *

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as Ren Sakuragi *

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as Ris

Episodes

Production

''Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou'' was first announced by AKB48 producer

on 1 March 2012. This drama features members from the female idol group

and male idol group

, with this being the first time where members of AKB48 and Johnny's Jr. collaborate in a television drama. Most of the cast members featured in this show had no prior experience in acting. It was subsequently revealed that ''Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou'' would receive a movie sequel. Members of the original cast will reprise their roles in the sequel. This movie sequel was scheduled to be released in the Japanese box office in October 2012.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou Japanese drama television series Japanese high school television series 2012 Japanese television series debuts 2012 Japanese television series endings Nippon TV dramas Television series about teenagers