The first season of Hanasaki Mai ga Damattenai is finished and it was pretty decent. The original 2014 series had 2 seasons and if the ratings were decent, I suspect we will get a sequel next year.
I enjoyed the cast and the feel good element of uncovering corruption and Hanasaki Mai telling people off. As I have said before, Hanasaki Mai is a less grating version of Hanzawa Naoki. Maybe I just prefer Imada Mio's anime eyes instead of the kabuki overacting in Hanzawa.
Watchable feel good show with no flaws. I definitely wanted to see the bad people get theirs and Kaname Jun is good as the bad guy but I would not say Hanasaki Mai is particularly memorable.
On a side note, I was looking up the writer Ikeido Jun. He did Hanzawa Naoki of course but he also did Soratobu Taiya, Tetsu no Hone, Nanatsu no Kaigi and Hayabusa Shobodan. That is 5 of my favourite jdoramas there with 4 of them on WOWOW. I want to try Kabuka Bouraku which is a WOWOW show with Oda Yuji. Jpsubbers unfortunately does not have the Jp subs but looking at the Jp subs list, I realised Jigoku Sensei Nube came out around the same time and I should give it a shot since I am familiar with the manga. I would definitely give it a go if they had the manga fan service!
