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Rescue
Year: Winter 2009
Starring: Nakamaru Yuichi, Masuda Takahisa, Yamamoto Yusuke
Genre: Action
My Rating: 1.5/10
Recommend: Only to crazy obsessed fangirls.

Being that I am going crazy today and watching three full (sorta) episodes I thought they would be worth my time. Heh heh heh. Avoid this drama. Avoid it at all costs. I could hardly stand the ten or so minutes I actually watched, between fast forwarding and stopping occasionally. I did watch the first five minutes uninterrupted...regrettably.

Rescue is all about the trials and tribs as a group of young men travel the road to becoming POWER RANGERS! Oops my mistake...I meant SUPER RANGERS! Wait that doesn't sound right! Oh no I got it right that time. Super rangers? Why? WHY? I demand to know why!!! Super rangers are an elite force of firefighters by the by.

Well it isn't actually a full bodied story. The run of the mill underdog fighting for what he wants. With some traumatic pasts shoved in. Some tough guy issues. Man, I'm better than you! Got that! I could kick your bootay if I wanted to! But your not worth my time man! Of course they have to be partially nekkid all the while, for added effect of course. They just got shirtless though (NO I am not disappointed!). Showing off...nothing much really.

This touching bromance (of the, I think, straight variety...Japan can't handle out gay MALE characters just yet) starts off with a band of merry men waltzing into a burning building. They grunt. Wiggle their eyebrows. They point, confer, discuss, call for a meeting with no lunch break and then flash the thumbs up sigh and run near strange metal railings on fire. I didn't know metal caught fire these days. You learn something new every day.

If you are a professional, with years of hard training, you are not going to jump when a building blows up. You are not going to have tearful, and prolonged, partings while in the middle of a flaming building! These pretty boys, as frail as they look, are supposed to be the best of the best. They looked like clowns...especially in their brightly colored attire. Okay their clothes are the least of my problems.

The acting...I don't wanna do it mommy! I don't even wanna think about it! The lead (Nakamaru Yuichi) is a band mate of Kame for crying out loud. I am sure they share an acting coach. Much too many pretty boy actors...who can't act. There were a few actors I liked, but they didn't hold my attention. The bad outweighed the good in this show.

Stay away from this show if you want to survive! Your brain won't be the same. Drooling, comatose fangirls are my proof. I can't be the perfect judge...since I sorta didn't, couldn't rather, watch it. It just did not hold my interest.