Attack No. 1
Posted on: Sunday, November 04, 2007
Posted at: 11/04/2007 02:41:00 AM
wee.. went to gym and swim today sia.. rather tired.. but jus finished the last episode of "Attack No. 1" based on this popular jap manga abt this girl who aspires to be a top volleyball player..
A short summary:
The girl's (ayuhara kozue) journey started when she got selected to go for a "national team training camp" ahead of her team, fujimi's, star player, midori. Troubles build up as jealousy takes over the hearts of her fellow teammates who felt that she wasnt gd enuff for it. Tho, she became captain of the national team, by some sort of weird twist, eventually the EVIL team coach decided to send her back home (it was later revealed that he wanted her to suffer some setbacks to become more established as a person as well as a player). She went into depression and was "awoken" by tsutomu, the son of a ramen shop owner and midori's childhood best buddy (as well as someone she secretly admires). midori sees the "interactions" between the two and gets jealous. kozue rescues her "seniors" frm harassment frm a old man by pushing him awy, causing some injury. He pursues the matter to the sch authority and the jealous midori tips off the principal, causing midori to be suspended. Meanwhile, midori heads off to the national team training to substitute kozue.
This incident allowed kozue to be accepted by her fujimi teammates again. However a turn of events resulted in the captain, oonuma, to be dropped as she took the responsibility for the atk of the old man by kozue and the fujimi volleyball club facing disbanding if they fail to win the nationals. meanwhile, midori returns frm training camp but as she was too ashamed to go back, she joins another sch instead. kozue becomes the captain and leads her team all e way to the finals where they faced a battle wif midori's new team (got another national team member sia). oonuma returns thanks to the "Evil" coach's persuasions to the stupid old man and tsutomu died while travelling to watch kozue play.. A tough and close encounter led to fujimi losing but, as they performed well and showed promise, the team was allowed to stay on.
Kozue gets called back to the national squad. However she injures herself.. She was forced to drop out, but she went ahead wif reconstructive surgery and thru tough rehabilitation, she managed to get back her fitness and was finally selected as "first team" in the national team's first match against brazil. *end credits showed kozue's "improved" spiking skills, esp a "dropping missile" spike, for which the brazil team has no chance..*
some afterthought:
it was overall a nice piece of drama wif ups and downs, but personally i wud haf liked to see a prominent male lead towards the end as the role was left vacant ever since tsutomu passed awy. And also, just showing the starting of the first match in the internationals does nt do kozue justice, for she had trained long and hard.. At least can show some other ppl she beat and japan getting to some finals or something liddat..
highly recommended to watch
Labels: Attack No. 1, JDrama