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Aya Ueto is no award winning actress, but her performance in this drama is absolutely laughable. Someone who has been playing ingenue roles for as long as I can remember certainly was bound to fail in portraying a "punk rocker." First of all, she's trying to simultaneously ride on the popularity of Nana yet also maintaining her "i'm an adorable and wholesome idol" burikko personality. Needless to say the two don't go together very well. Other than that, the story is the same "I'm a misfit but I'm going to do my best and finally make it while also making friends and falling love on that way! YAY!" formula that Japanese dramas love beating to death. I have seen worse dramas believe it or not, hence I bumped this drama up to a 2.