Nobuta o Produce (野ブタ。をプロデュース, Nobuta. o Purodyūsu) est une série télévisée japonaise de 10 épisodes produite et diffusée entre le 15 octobre et 17 décembre 2005 sur NTV sur la base d´un roman homonyme de Gen Shiraiwa.
Kazuya Kamenashi : Shūji Kiritani (桐谷 修二)
Tomohisa Yamashita : Akira Kusano (草野 彰)
Maki Horikita : Nobuko Kotani (小谷 信子, Nobuta)
Erika Toda : Mariko Uehara (上原 まり子)
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Shūji Kiritani (Kazuya Kamenashi) is a very popular high school boy whose girlfriend is Mariko Uehara (Erika Toda), the most popular girl in school. Despite his popularity among other students, he is relatively alone with Akira Kusano (Tomohisa Yamashita) as the only person he hangs out with, despite constantly claiming that he can't stand the other boy. One day, a very shy girl, Nobuko Kotani (Maki Horikita) comes to school and she instantly gets picked on by a few other girls for her shyness. Shūji and Akira then decide to "produce" her, or make her popular. They nickname her "Nobuta".
Of course, producing Nobuta is not an easy task, especially when a mysterious person is trying to ruin all of Shūji and Akira's efforts. In the end, the person turns out to be Aoi, Nobuta's "friend", who later on attempts suicide in a dream shared by Aoi, Nobuta, Akira, and Shūji.
In the final episode Shūji discovers that he and his family must move out of Tokyo because of his father's job and leave Nobuta to cope by herself with Akira. However, Akira follows Shūji to his new home town and surprises him by showing up at his new school. Nobuta is left alone in Tokyo, but she is not shy anymore, and is able to smile, and she also becomes somewhat popular among the other students.
cast :
Kazuya Kamenashi - Shūji Kiritani (桐谷 修二, Kiritani Shūji?)
Tomohisa Yamashita - Akira Kusano (草野 彰, Kusano Akira?)
Maki Horikita - Nobuko Kotani (小谷 信子, Kotani Nobuko?) (aka Nobuta)
Erika Toda - Mariko Uehara (上原 まり子, Uehara Mariko?)
Takashi Ukaji - Satoru Kiritani (桐谷 悟, Kiritani Satoru?)
Yuto Nakajima - Koji Kiritani (桐谷 浩二, Kiritani Kōji?)
Yoshinori Okada - Takeshi Yokoyama (横山 武士, Yokoyama Takeshi?)
Tomoya Ishii - Yoshida (吉田 浩, Yoshida?)
Katsumi Takahashi - Ippei Hirayama (平山 一平, Hirayama Ippei?)
Mari Natsuki - Yoko Sada (Katherine) (佐田 杳子(キャサリン), Sada Youkou (Kyasarin)?)
Fumiko Mizuta - Kozue Bando (坂東 梢, Bandō Kozue?)
Shunsuke Daito - Taniguchi
Honami Tajima - Misa Inoue (井上 美咲, Inoue Misa?)
Akiko - Nami (佐伯 奈美, Nami?)
Tomu Suetaka - Kondo (近藤 利晃(ボケ担当), Kondo?)
Staff
Hitoshi Iwamoto and Norika Sakuma - directors
Hidehiro Kawano - producer
Izumi Kizara - screenwriter