Boys Este (2007)
Ridiculous. I was shopping for dramas with Linda at our favourite DVD stand a few weeks ago, and she picked out Boys Este (because OMG HOT GUYZ ON THE COVER). Little did we know what she was getting us into - we were totally unprepared for how shockingly retarded and addictive it would be.
The goofy love story revolves around Shizuka, a girl who is self-conscious about having a “sandanbara” (literally “three layer flesh”, meaning rolls of fat around her midsection) and Hibiki, a boy from a poor family who is suffering from a “cock illness” (foreskin problem also known as phimosis). In addition to his, uh, problem, Hibiki has a magical gift for massage that causes his hands to glow cheesily and women he massages to lose weight - a miracle known to everyone in the show as GOD HAND, I shit you not.
Hibiki-kun the God Hand boy goes to work in an all-male staffed spa called Boys Este to make money for a foreskin operation. It is here at the spa that he meets Shizuka and tries to help her lose weight and overcome her lazy and gluttonous sandanbara complex. Obvz, they fall in love, and obvz, there are many trials along the way before a surprisingly satisfying romantic resolution. If it sounds like the worst idea for a drama ever, that’s because it IS. But the antics of the Boys Este staff (above, with Hibiki played by cutie Nakamura Aoi - BORN IN 1991 - on the right) are hilarious and the romance is legit. Also, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki (Murai from GTO, wha???) is in it and that guy’s a babe! Good times.
