Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestShimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. But Teppei’s father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known delinquent in the area. Under the influence of his childhood friend, Yuichi, Teppei chose to become a policeman after graduating from high school. He miraculously passed the recruitment exam and entered the police academy. However, he has been assigned to a “class of reserves” (Goriki Ayame, Koyanagi Yu, Okamoto Azusa, Mizusawa Erina, Ishii Tomoya, Mori Ren) which is a gathering of odds and ends. There are eight of them and each day they are only instructed by the assistant teacher, Ryuzaki Misaki, to sweep the academy grounds … …
Acting
Fujigaya's puppy-dog eyes hiding genuine wounded pride.
Writing
Makes mop-washing feel like character development.
Direction
Nakamae finds poetry in the academy’s fluorescent mundanity.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fujigaya and Kitayama were both Kis-My-Ft2 idols; casting leaned hard on their real decade-long friendship.
The 'reserve class' reflects Japan’s actual koumuin exam hierarchy, where failed candidates often repeat indefinitely—a rarely depicted systemic cruelty.
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