The Science Club - Season 1 - Eps 1: Eight P.M. Blue Sky Classroom
Taketo dropped out of middle school due to struggles with reading and writing, leading him into a life of delinquency. At 20, he begins attending night school but still finds reading difficult after a year. Encouraged by his friend Miura to sell marijuana, Taketo considers quitting school. Meanwhile, a new science teacher, Fujitake, sees Taketo's curiosity and invites him to join an experiment.
About The Science Club

Title: The Science Club
First Air Date: 2024-10-08
Last Air Date: 2024-12-10
Status: Ended
Rating: 9/10 (from 1 votes)
Language: JA
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 10
Network: NHK G NHK BSP4K
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Lamp, NHK Enterprises, NHK
Synopsis
East Shinjuku Night High School has students with various challenges. Delinquent Taketo is trapped in a negative spiral. Filipina-Japanese Angela struggles with schoolwork, while Kasumi spends all her class hours in the infirmary. Shozo had to leave school to work in his youth. With guidance from their new science teacher, Fujitake, they work on an experiment for an academic conference.
Cast

Masataka Kubota
Kanae Fujitake

Toranosuke Kobayashi
'Gakkun' Taketo Yanagida

Aoi Ito
Kasumi Natori

Maria Theresa Gow
Angela Koshikawa

Issey Ogata
Shozo Nagamine

Aoi Nakamura
Tsutomu Aizawa

Tetsushi Tanaka
Izumi Kiuchi

Fumino Kimura
Rio Sakuma

Ayaka Konno
Mai Shoji

Reiko Takashima
Rei Ishigami