Original title
天国に一番近い男
Released
1/8/1999
Origin country
JP
Genre
Drama
Production companies
TBS
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
23
Tendo Yoshimi is the farthest thing from an angel you can think of. Dressed in black from head to toe, he loves to tease and often acts rashly. He can work neither magic nor miracles. So, why should a down-on-himself pessimist like Shiro believe him when Tendo predicts he will die if he doesn’t complete the tasks set out for him? Starring Jinnai Takanori, Matsuoka Masahiro, Okina Megumi.
The protagonist, Shiro Amakasu, moved to Tokyo but, after failing his university entrance exams, gave up studying. He never found a job and drifted through life carefreely, living from day to day. Just as Shiro was about to abandon everything and return to his parents’ home, a man calling himself “Angel”, Seshinmi Tendo, appeared and warned him that he would die if he failed to complete a “proposition”. Introduced to the mail-order business MONO Company by his best friend Masato Nakatsugawa, Shiro finds employment and, with the help of Tendo and his colleagues, manages to overcome a series of propositions. This is a comedic coming-of-age story about Shiro Amakasu, depicting what it truly means to live life to the fullest. The series ran for 11 episodes with an average audience rating of 13.4%. Two special episodes were broadcast after the main series concluded.
Shiro, who has long given up all hope of ever passing the college entrance exam, has been living the life of a pessimistic wastrel. One day, he’s accosted by Tendo who claims to be an angel. If, by 1:30 PM tomorrow, Shiro doesn’t mend his ways and learn to sincerely desire to live, he will die!
Influenced by his father, the protagonist Kazuya Okinoshima once aimed to become a lawyer, but gave up along the way. With no dreams left, he ended up working as a teacher at the private high school Arisugawa Gakuen. Kazuya is what one might call a “reset man”, someone who can never see anything through, giving up the moment things get difficult. One day, a figure calling himself an angel, Yoshimi Tendo, appears before Kazuya and declares his death. At the same time, one of Kazuya’s students, Ayumi Todo, begins to show disturbing behaviour… The series ran for 12 episodes, with an average viewer rating of 13.2%. Produced in high definition. To distinguish it from the MONO Company Arc, the home video release carried the title Teacher Arc. Unlike the MONO Company Arc, this version was created with a more serious tone. While there is no direct connection to the previous work, the final episode reveals Tendo’s true identity, providing a conclusion for the entire series.
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