This Japanese series is centred on four high school students; good looking and popular Ayumi and her friends Kaga and Koshiro, and unpopular loner Zenko. One day, during a rare red moon, Ayumi receives a phone call from Zenko. Zenko tells her to look at the building behind her... she then jumps. We then see Zenko waking up; except it isn't Zenko it is Ayumi... they have switched places. Ayumi is about to learn what it is like to be the unpopular girl and Zenko is going to learn that it takes more than good looks to be popular and happy. Will Ayumi find a way to get back into her own body?
I thought this series was pretty solid. More often than not films/series where characters swap bodies it is done primarily for laughs, here it is for drama. This is clear from the start as the means of switching involves suicide. The story progresses nicely over the series' six episodes; during this time the characters develop in interesting ways. There are a few twists along the way. The cast does a fine job most notably Miu Tomita, who plays Zenko, and obviously Ayumi when she is in Zenko's body. The setting, mostly inside the school and in Zenko's home are good in a very unglamorous way. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of the body-swap genre looking for something different.
These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.
