Mirai e no 10 count jdorama review

 

There was once a rumour that Kimutaku's next dorama would be based on the Judge Eyes games. Sign me up for a detective action jdorama set in Kamurocho! Unfortunately, Mirai e no 10 count is based on the least interesting part of the game Lost Judgement which is the main character becoming the coach of the boxing club. 

In Lost Judgement Kimutaku actually fights as a boxer but half the game is him being the adviser to various school clubs and it seems like this was the inspiration for Mirai e no 10 count. In Mirai e no 10 count, instead of being a detective who was once a lawyer, Kimutaku is a pizza delivery driver who once ran a yakitori place and was a former champion boxer with a dead wife.

Pizaa delivery Kimutaku is recruited by his former coach to coach his old high school boxing club where no one knows anything about boxing despite being in the club for a year. In order words Mirai e no 10 count is an underdog sports dorama which is an almost failsafe genre.

Kimutaku has recruited an great cast including Mitsushima Hikari who is completed wasted in the role as the love interest cum club adviser, Uchida Yuki as the principal, Yasuda Ken as best friend and Yabe Kenzo as assistant principal.

If you have watch jdoramas, you know how it goes. Kimutaku has to produce results or he is fired and the principal and other teachers go against him while love interest cheers him and students on. I know that I said that underdog sports doramas are almost failsafe but when the sports part sucks the whole thing falls apart. I am looking at you Buzzer Beater.

The boxing in Mirai e no 10 count just sucks. Storyline wise the students are supposed to be so bad but I don't bloody buy it. I don't buy anything in this show. When they show real boxers from different schools for a few seconds you can tell the difference between actors and real boxers. Yes I know they are underdogs because this is about them getting better but you can't do a basketball story where everyone is a Hanamichi. 

I feel Mitsushima Hikari is so wasted in a role she doesn't even have to try. I really wanted to watch this to the end because I like all the other talent but I don't care about the kids and every stupid melodrama just bores me. 

I just feel like the writing while it contains a lot of the necessary jdorama tropes to make the story work, does not have the polish to pull everything together. If you want to watch a sports jdorama, watch No Side Game which actually has good rugby action or Kimutaku's Pride.

Very meh and mediocre dorama despite the actors involved which I finally decided to drop. Just wish Kimutaku had done a hard boiled detective dorama instead of this meh attempt at comfort food.