User:Michael Drüing/Stand Up!!

Stand Up!! (スタンドアップ！！, Sutando Appu!!) is a Japanese television drama which ran weekly for three months in 2003. The drama, which stars Tomohisa Yamashita of NewS and Kazunari Ninomiya of Arashi, centers around the lives of the last four virgins left in their highschool as they struggle to lose their virginity over their final high school summer vacation. A 6-DVD Box Set featuring all eleven episodes, as well as six individual volumes were released in Japan on December 18, 2003.

Plot
Four schoolboys find themselves the last virgins left at school. During the summer holidays, a girl they knew as children 11 years ago, shows up again in the neighborhood. Despite their childhood attraction to her, they realize she is a mere shadow of the "princess" they all thought they knew. This story of summer - love, friendship, school, family, the hypocrisy of adults, complications of life, experience and failure is set in an everyday shopping district and shows the clumsiness of children who have developed a little later than their peers. It's a bright romantic comedy that both young and old can appreciate.

Setting
The story takes place in the Shinagawa ward of Tokyo. (Although at least one location, namely the school, is actually in Yokohama).

Shohei Asai

 * Shohei Asai (浅井正平, Asai Shōhei) - Kazunari Ninomiya

Kengo Iwasaki

 * Kengo Iwasaki (岩崎健吾, Iwasaki Kengo) - Tomohisa Yamashita

Hayato Udagawa

 * Hayato Udagawa (宇田川隼人, Udagawa Hayato) - Hiroki Narimiya

Koji Enami

 * Koji Enami (江波功司, Enami Kōji) - Shun Oguri

Chie Owada

 * Chie Owada (大和田千絵, Ōwada Chie) - Anne Suzuki

Minor Characters

 * Isuzu Mochizuki (望月いすず, Mochizuki Isuzu) - Yumiko Shaku
 * Mitsuhiko Kimura (木村光彦, Kimura Mitsuhiko) - Koji Matoba
 * Rumiko Sasaki (佐々木留美子, Sasaki Rumiko) - Takako Kato
 * Shiho Tominaga (富永志保, Tominaga Shiho) - Rio Matsumoto
 * Naoya Kume (久米直哉, Kume Naoya) - Takashi Tsukamoto
 * Ellen Kaga (加賀エレン, Kaga Eren) - Becky

Episode List

 * 01 - The Sex Situation of Seventeen Year-Olds (17歳の性事情, Jūnana sai no sei jijō)
 * 02 - (Secret) Stay-Over Plan! (㊙お泊まり計画！, (Hi) Otomari keikaku!)
 * 03 - A Night Without Parents! (親達のいない夜！, Oyatachi no inai yoru!)
 * 04 - An Anxious First Time (緊張の初体験！, Kinchō no shotaiken!)
 * 05 - Finally, Graduation Number One (ついに卒業第一号, Tsui ni sotsugyō dai ichi gō)
 * 06 - Love That Will Likely Be Burned! (火傷しそうな恋！, Kashō shi sō na koi!)
 * 07 - Purity VS Love Celeb (純潔 VS 恋愛セレブ, Junketsu VS ren'ai serebu)
 * 08 - Pregnancy Problems of a High School Student (高校生の妊娠問題, Kōkōsei no ninshin mondai)
 * 09 - Love Taken by a Best Friend (親友に奪われた恋, Oyayū ni obawareta koi)
 * 10 - First Time Fulled with Holes (傷だらけの初体験, Shō darake no shotaiken)
 * 11 - Dawn of the Virgins! (童貞の夜明け！, Dōtei no yoake!)

Subtitles
As of 2007, Stand Up!! has only been released in Japan. However, there is at least one fansub group, NyaFansubs, currently translating the show.