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16 March 2015

学校のカイダン Gakkō no Kaidan Quotes


Title 学校のカイダン Gakkō no Kaidan
English Title: Stairs of the School




Episode 01:



Episode 02: Organising the rebels

Isezaki Tōru, also known as Shizukui Kei: It can't be helped, it can't be helped... Are you a guru teaching helplessness?

Isezaki Tōru, also known as Shizukui Kei: Originally, there were no paths on the ground. If enough humans walk along, a path is formed.

Haruna Tsubame: 'Why did they do that?,' I wondered. And I learned you've all been doing your utmost; you're all working desperately to protect what's precious to you.

Haruna Tsubame: Protecting someone's freedom doesn't mean you have to lose your own!


Episode 03: Protecting the fort against enemy attack

Haruna Tsubame: 'Seriously trying is uncool'; that's an excuse we make when we do badly.
Haruna Tsubame: 'If we really try our best, what will happen if it goes badly?'; thinking like that is a way of protecting ourselves.

Haruna Tsubame: What's wrong with losing? Is it really better to only try if you're sure you can win?


Episode 04: Kicking out the rotten teacher

Tsuboi Toma: If you want to become an adult quickly, you have to live more carefully.

Haruna Tsubame: Please teach us! Even if we can't be successful, teach us how to live right! What's the best way for clumsy children like us to live?


Episode 05: Turn around the squirming, cowardly class



Episode 06: Invade the enemies' territory and defeat the Platinum Federation!

Isezaki Tōru, also known as Shizukui Kei: Yesterday's enemy is tomorrow's ally. A true tactician knows how to change their strategy to suit the tactical situation.

Sudō Natsuki: This world we live in is made up of 'haves' and 'have nots'. That disparity won't go away.

Haruna Tsubame: When you see thorns on your child's path, you carefully pick them up one by one and say, 'it's fine now'. You give them so many things, and you are glad that they can walk with freedom. Why don't you realize? To the children, what you're telling them every day is, 'you can't do anything'.


Episode 07: Fall down the stairs!

Haruna Tsubame: You have to want to be yourself. The way you are now, do you like yourself?

Isezaki Tōru, also known as Shizukui Kei: You told me before that men just want to be popular, right? Women are much more greedy. They want to be more loved than anyone else.

Haruna Tsubame: People who don't love themselves won't be loved by anyone else!


Episode 08: Clobber the teacher who lack conviction!

Isezaki Tōru, also known as Shizukui Kei: When we're children, teachers ask us what we want to be and tell us to dream. But when we reach high school and approach adulthood, they say we shouldn't daydream and we should face reality.

Kintoki Hirao: The moment you become an adult, you learn to give up. That's what you learn so you can be an adult.

Haruna Tsubame: 'It's impossible anyway' is all you ever say to us and all we ever learn. Well then, instead of telling us it's impossible, we want you to teach us how to make it possible.

Kintoki Hirao: Passion and dreams give us the power to live.


Episode 09: Use your army to crush the dictator oppressing the school!

Isezaki Tōru, also known as Shizukui Kei: What are you saying? Who in the world would be satisfied with that?
Isezaki Tōru, also known as Shizukui Kei: You may not remember the people you've stepped on, but the ones you stepped on never forget!


Episode 10: Final battle


学校のカイダン Gakkō no Kaidan


Title: 学校のカイダン Gakkō no Kaidan
English Title: Stairs of the School
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Year: 2015
Episode: 10
Cast:
  • 広瀬すず Hirose Suzu
  • 神木隆之介 Kamiki Ryunosuke
  • 間宮祥太朗 Mamiya Shotaro
  • 石橋杏奈 Ishibashi Anna
  • 吉倉あおい Yoshikura Aoi
  • 杉咲花 Sugisaki Hana
  • 飯豊まりえ Iitoyo Marie
  • 白洲迅 Hinata Takuto
  • 白洲迅 Shirasu Jin
  • 須賀健太 Suga Kenta
  • 清水くるみ Shimizu Kurumi
  • 浅野温子 Asano Atsuko
  • 生瀬勝久 Namase Katsuhisa
  • 野波麻帆 Nonami Maho
  • 金子ノブアキ Kaneko Nobuaki
  • 金山一彦 Kanayama Kazuhiko
  • 泉谷しげる Izumiya Shigeru



SYNOPSIS
Haruna Tsubame's old high school closed down, and she got in through special admissions to the prestigious Meidan Academy.

Meidan Academy is informally ruled by the Platinum Group composed of four male students and four female students from illustrious families that make huge donations to the school.

The Platinum Group has lobbied to make Tsubame the new student council president, an empty post that is given to the student with the lowest standing in the whole school in terms of power.

Unwilling to continue dealing with the unfairness she sees at her high school, Tsubame is encouraged to take a stand by someone who calls himself Shizukui Kei, a stranger who volunteered to help her change the status quo through the powers of words and speech.



REVIEW
Gakkō no Kaidan is an entertaining drama about the lowest of the lowest of the low Haruna Tsubame climbing her way to the top of the prestigious Meiran Academy one step at a time. It is about a timid person becoming the student council president, and learning to use the power of words and speech to change the people around her.

This is essentially a one-woman show, with Tsubame being extensively helped by a stranger who introduced himself as Shizukui Kei but who is actually Isezaki Tōru, a former student at Meiran Academy and also a former student council president.

Gakkō no Kaidan could have been an interesting school drama, except it forgot one very important component, and that is friendship and camaraderie among the youth. The characters are said to be friends but that seems to be only at face value, and there isn't really a lot of bonding moments to support that premise.




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学校のカイダン Gakkō no Kaidan