After watching “I Will Be Your Bloom”, I wanted to watch another drama that Takahashi Fumiya was in and this title caught my attention - “How To Eliminate My Teacher”. This title is obtained from Netflix. Other people may know this drama as “Equation To Erase The Teacher”. It sounds crazy and potentially similar to the anime “Assassination Classroom” (but nah). Apparently, another popular actor (Tanaka Kei) was in it, so… why not?
To sum it up briefly: it’s 8 episodes of “wtf am I watching”.
The male lead starts work at a new school as a homeroom teacher for a class of elite students. There are 4 students who are especially difficult to handle and they had successfully chased away their previous teachers. The male lead is extremely persistent in attempting to guide them using his non-conventional methods.
WARNING: SPOILERS FROM HERE ON!
Based on the description above, it may seem like an ordinary school life kinda plot. Well, the show can get pretty intense and uncomfortable. You have the male lead licking the floor already in the first episode. It’s education taken to an extreme level. The male lead seemed really OP and all-knowing as he tried to “take down” the 4 “bad” students one by one. He taught them life lessons through “Math” equations. For example, “power harassment = authority x emotional abuse x weaker individuals” or “life - friends = happiness”. It’s a mix of eccentric characters, a lot of shouting and crazy looks. But I felt the most confused and lost when the male lead died and got revived around the halfway mark. Ngl, the show was so exaggerated and out of this world that it became a joke.
It’s a totally different genre from “I Will Be Your Bloom”. Takahashi Fumiya performed his version of a psychotic kid (and still managed to look handsome btw), but his performance pales in comparison to his co-star. He’s kinda crazy but not super uncontrollably crazy like the assistant teacher (Yamada Yuki acting as Yorita Asahi). It’s like all of them (victims turn perpetrators) have varying degrees of craziness based on their past experiences with the assistant teacher being the craziest and creepiest.
I was intrigued to continue watching initially because I wanted to find out the different methods the male lead was going to use for each of the 4 students and how the show was going to end. Unfortunately, it became a draggy horror zombie show after the male lead’s revival and I couldn’t sit through the last episode.
Is this a genre that I enjoy? Nope. Will I watch this again? Definitely not.
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