Fan reviews: Attack No.1

ester_grace · 21 May 2011

Sport dorama with touching friendship, teamworks and other human relationship stories.. Ueto aya once again proves her good acting skill but I do not like nakamura shunsuke's acting here..

MonsterZero65 · 15 Aug 2010

Well I was excited to see this because of Aya Ueto and she was awesome in this drama but apart from her my interest could not last the whole series. I felt it got a little repetitive and dragged out too long without a lot happening and parts I thought should have been developed more did not develop. It could have been much better.

MonsterZero-65 · 6 Nov 2009

It was a good drama but the charachters did not develope very deeply. So much time was kind of wasted in this drama filming Volleyball whcih obviously is important but more important would be a connection to the players and why they act the way they act. I want to love this drama because Aya Ueto and the rest of the cast are all very cool but there just is not that much there...

Still it is enjoyable enough to watch and a fun but predictable story.

opospa · 7 Oct 2007

Its fun with this drama but i feel that it should be longer than just 11 episodes. All casts were doing great but yea, some of them look quite old.

kaitokura · 8 Aug 2007

I love all her drama show!

Wynter · 30 Jul 2007

Attack no. 1 is almost exactly like Ace wo Nerae. The storyline is exactly the same, there are similar plot points, and both dramas share some of the actresses. Itfs like watching Ace wo Nerae all over again except with a different sport. Because of this, I found it really hard to enjoy this drama. It was painful to watch because it was so predictable and completely forgettable.

Ifm beginning to re-evaluate my opinion of Ueto Aya. I mean, I like her and I think shefs adorable, but shefs been coming in a lot of bad dramas lately and I feel she needs to take some sort of responsibility, instead of her fans squealing about how itfs the drama, not her, thatfs making the bad impression. After all, a really good actor/actress can make a really bad drama at least bearable to some degree. She failed to do so here. I found her character really annoying and frustrating to watch. I mean, Ueto has got to be the least athletic-looking actress out there, and yet this is her SECOND sport-related drama that Ifve seen. She was a little more believable as a tennis player, but a volleyball player is totally out of her league. Donft get me wrong. Shefs done great work in Attention Please and has already proven herself as a good actress. She just really needs to pick her roles carefully.

The coach of the Fujimi team also really annoyed me. His character goes through a roller-coaster without any depth or reasoning. He was too random and really ruined the gcoachh persona. Sakai Ayana was good, as was most of the supporting cast (in terms of Volleyball players), but I still found the drama hard to enjoy. It wasnft so much that it was utterly, devastatingly horrible. It was more that there was nothing exciting about it and turned out to be a manufactured plot with no soul. Unless youfre an Aya-fan and just enjoying watching her move about the screen, I donft recommend this drama at all.

jdoramadotcom · 23 Apr 2007

You really can't go wrong with a drama about an all-girl high school volleyball team. And Aya Ueto turns on the cuteness to make many scenes much more fun than they'd ordinarily be. Add some sports action and some gorgeous vistas of Mt Fuji, and this turns out to be surprisingly watchable (even if a little emotionally frantic). With judicious use of the fast-forward, this is briskly enjoyable.

janas · 14 Apr 2007

it was ok... but nothing spectacular. Actually, I was quite disapointed.

Hiro Toyo · 6 Mar 2007

I liked Ace, and when Attack came out, I was excited. I was on both the volleyball and tennis team back in my school days, and I liked the CG on Ace, and how they made everything look so pretty and manga-like.
But then this Attack was something different. I don't mind all the other characters involved, but they did NOT look like high school students. No offense, but they could do so much more with their looks than by simply making their hair look all young with piggy tails and stuff.
Also, the plot is so daytime soap opera; first one person makes the team, then her nemisis makes it, then their friends, then somene dies, then some other person has this vendetta, and so on. I got tired of it by the middle and had to force myself to watch the rest.
One more thing, Ueto Aya looked like she can play tennis, but she doesn't look like she can play volleyball. The height thing was just too obvious, not to mention her team mates, especially that one overweight team mate; she looked like she belongs more on the sumo team.

gto_girlz83 · 10 Dec 2006

I started to like Aya when watching this drama and figured out a lot of her others drama. Her never give up spirit makes me cheerful n I'm hoping there will have Attack no.1 Special drama..I really want to watch till the good ending. Aya makes me realize that her hitz song yume no chikara (ending of the episode) is a never ever bored song! Volleyball also can makes people to cheer...

monta · 17 Nov 2006

very cliche. only watched it because of Aya. the main leads get 'tortured' and then in the last episodes everything changes... so cliche...
stopped watching after episode 9 coz the ending was sooo obvious, though i have to say episode 9 was really worth watching.
has the same ending as Ace wo Nerae (Sooo obvious), the only difference is the diameter of the ball and instead of indiviuals it's a volley team... great ending song, Yume no Chikara by Aya Ueto

>anca< · 5 Sep 2006

probably coz i personally like to play vball so i favored dis tv quite alot. even my dad watched it with..lolz. in the beginning it wasnt so interesting, but then as the story went on, the climax got nearer and nearer and u could feel everything tense up.
also.. good characters

shitomaru · 26 Aug 2006

at first the story didn't attract me at all. but since the coach dumped Ayuhara from national camp, the story turned to be interesting. i like Ayuhara's spirit. Fujimi FIGHTO...!!!!!

Chrn0 · 30 Jul 2006

I watched this drama because ueto aya was in it, and i wanted to see what the hype was around her.... gotta say i went into this not expecting much but it turned out much better than i expected, at the very least... better than what i would rate some of the higher rated dramas on the top 50

K.T.Tran · 21 Jun 2006

Aya a volleyball player this time around. This one definately better then her Ace wo Nerare drama. Her character alone makes it better. Yea her character in Ace had that fighting spirit, but she lacked confidence more then half the time. This time round she got confidence, fighting spirit, and the drama showed lots of volleyball playing. If you saw Ace first, you'll notice quite a bit of similarity between the two drama.

shooqie · 5 Apr 2006

When I first read this drama sypnosis, it took me back to my childhood memory of my first ever JDorama that I've ever watched. It was a dorama about a volleyball chick like Aya, who did a cool mid air spiral turn to do a spike shot. That cool shot are still fresh in my mind. It took me a lot of options in the net just to find out what was it called... And I finally found it!! It was 1975 drama called "MOERO! ATTACK"! I remember watching it in voice translation in my country when i was about 7 years old in the year 1992. Talking about a waaaayyy back JDorama! fuuhh! XD.. Does anybody here ever remember watching that old JDorama like me too?? I wonder why JDorama.com doesn't add this really old cool-mid-air-spiral-spike-shot JDorama here?

siyinglee · 4 Apr 2006

i actually quite like the story line, even though ayuhara's lover died int he end...
i realli like the mizuno sling bag tat the volleyball players always wear...
why can i buy them??

Aya_fans · 3 Jan 2006

it is the best sport dramai ever seen.Of course aya ueto realy bring the character well.haha what a dum her boyfriend 28!!! and he' s not handsome!! hongo sensei better!! WAHAHAHAHA

aki_07 · 28 Dec 2005

Quite a typical dorama about sportsman fighting spirit but some good and touching scenes though...

JAP FREAK · 16 Dec 2005

ok. i had really high expectations for this show at first.... but then after i watched it, i was a little disappointed. because it as not as exciting as i had expected..... nonetheless, it was still a good show. i am pretty in to volleyball so whenever the matches are on, i am practically at the edge of my seat cos its so cool. yep. i have to admit i was almost in tears when kozue was thrown out of the national team. but it was good for her because after tat she became super good! oh well... this show is still not bad but i think it is lacking in the jokes department....