Majisuka Gakuen

Majisuka Gakuen
Majisuka Gakuen 4 Promotion
Also known asMajisuka Academy
Kanjiマジすか学園
GenreTeen drama
Action
Comedy
Created byYasushi Akimoto
AKB48
Directed byFutoshi Sato
Keisuke Toyoshima
Yoichi Matsunaga
StarringAKB48
Theme music composerYasushi Akimoto
Opening theme"Majisuka Rock N' Roll" (Season 1)
"Yankee Soul" (Season 2)
"Ponkotsu Blues" (Season 3)
"Majisuka Fight" (Season 4)
"Yankee Machinegun" (Season 5)
"Yuri wo Sakaseru ka? (Season 7)
Ending theme"Sakura no Shiori" (Season 1)
"Seishun to Kizukanai Mama" (Season 2)
"Douki" (Season 3)
"Yankee Rock" (Season 4)
"Gunzou"(Season 5)
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
No. of seasons8
No. of episodes58
Production
ProducersJunpei Nakagawa
Shinji Okabe
Kazuhiko Abiru
Yuji Ishida
Saya Hidemi
Running time30 Minutes
Production companiesTV Tokyo (Seasons 1-3)
Dentsu
AKS
Original release
NetworkTV Tokyo Seasons 1-3
Nippon TV Season 4 & part of Season 5
Hulu Japan Season 5
ReleaseJanuary 9, 2010 (2010-01-09) –
October 26, 2015 (2015-10-26)
Related
AKBingo!
AKB48 Show!
Innocent Lilies
Cabasuka Gakuen
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Majisuka Gakuen (マジすか学園) (lit. "Majisuka Academy") is a Japanese television drama series about high school delinquents, starring members of idol group AKB48.

The first season aired in 2010 on TV Tokyo.[1] A second season Majisuka Gakuen 2 was aired the following year.

The third season is set in a different continuity from the previous seasons, and was aired on July 13, 2012.

In 2015, the series moved to NTV and the fourth season, which returned to the same continuity as seasons 1 and 2, was aired on January 19, 2015. On the same year, a fifth season was announced and for the first time will be aired exclusively on internet, by the streaming site Hulu Japan, because NTV only broadcast the first two episodes on August 24 due to various scenes of violence, which did not justify full season showing on TV.[2]

A special spin-off from the fourth and fifth seasons of the series, titled Majisuka Gakuen 0: Kisarazu Rantōhen (マジすか学園0 木更津乱闘編, Majisuka Academy 0: The story of the Brawl at Kisarazu), is a prequel to season 4. It was the first to feature members of HKT48 as the main cast and was produced in collaboration with the rock band Kishidan. It was aired on November 28, 2015, on NTV at 25:05 JST and run for half an hour.[3]

Another spinoff titled Cabasuka Gakuen aired from October 2016 to January 2017. It is set after the events of an unresolved alternate ending to the fourth season. In a departure from the fist-fighting theme of previous seasons, it saw the girls opening and running a hostess club in order to save their school from shutting down as it had gone bankrupt.

The latest iteration of the series is Majimuri Gakuen, aired in July 2018, which features an entirely new cast and continuity, and was set at a different school.[4]

  1. ^ マジすか学園 (2010) (in Japanese). Allcinema.net. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
  2. ^ "島崎遥香が単独主演『マジすか学園5』過激すぎて地上波は無理!?全話はHulu独占配信". plus.tver.jp (in Japanese). July 17, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
  3. ^ マジすか学園0 (2015) (in Japanese). Oricon.co.jp. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  4. ^ ザテレビジョン. "AKB48小栗有以、「マジムリ学園」撮影現場で見せた"超真面目&努力家"の素顔 (1/5) | テレビ・芸能ニュースならザテレビジョン". ザテレビジョン (in Japanese). Retrieved August 2, 2018.