Good news for fans of Taste of Tea director Katsuhito Ishii! Regular Twitch reader Raku has just passed along the full trailer for Ishii's web-serial Ichigo Seminar while also pointing out that the first five minute episode is available for free viewing right now. No English on this, so if there is someone out there who can offer up a translation, that'd be lovely.
The trailer we've got below but re-posting an entire episode of the thing enters into dodgy legal ground, so you'll need to follow these instructions to get to it. First, click here to go to the Lismo Drama website. Next, scroll down in the left side column until you see an image of the girl from this post. Click her. The right side will change to bring you to the Ichigo Seminar page. Click the button that says Movie. It is, happily, the only bit of English on the page. The link on the right will start the episode streaming. Enjoy!
The trailer we've got below but re-posting an entire episode of the thing enters into dodgy legal ground, so you'll need to follow these instructions to get to it. First, click here to go to the Lismo Drama website. Next, scroll down in the left side column until you see an image of the girl from this post. Click her. The right side will change to bring you to the Ichigo Seminar page. Click the button that says Movie. It is, happily, the only bit of English on the page. The link on the right will start the episode streaming. Enjoy!
OK Todd, here's some more info.
It stars Kikuchi Rinko, Minami Akina, Tsuda Kanji, Gashuin Tatsuya, Ikewaki Chizuru, Tanaka Yoji, Morishita Yoshiyuki and Nikaido Fumi.
Story:
"Ichigo (Strawberry) Seminar is a school that sells itself on its diverse faculty of experienced teachers.
All of its lessons are intense and profound, but as to whether they're actually of any use to anyone, that's a bit iffy.
Fervent lectures by the self-serving and often out-of-control teachers are confounded by their eccentric students in this habit-forming, unprecedented school drama!"
Not being a big fan of Ishii's work myself, other Lismo Drama offerings like Yamashita Nobuhiro's "Dohyogiwa no Maria" with Kuriyama Chiaki and Moriyama Mirai, Hagiuda Koda's "Koibana" with Naka Riisa and Ando Sakura, and Maeda Koji's "Konzen Tokkyu" with Yoshitaka Yuriko look far more interesting.
Oops, that should have been Hagiuda Koji, not Koda.