Legitimately Good

Read the synopsis for Stand Up!! and you probably won't think it has a chance of being legitimately good. As I was, you will be legitimately wrong.

The series deals with teenagers and their first experiences with sex and dating. Instead of whining and using overly-clever dialogue like in Dawson's Creek, these characters attack their problems with the zeal of a dog trying to get peanut butter out of a chew toy. Yes, the main character is obiligatorily shy and a little whiny, but also pretty adorable. He also decides to grow a pair around episode three, which makes the series much easier to watch from that point on.














The supporting cast is pretty fun, and at least semi-believably quirky. The teenage boys act vaguely like real teenage boys, instead of the typical "what teenage girls want teenage boys to act like." Narimiya Hiroki was the bright spot for me, though--forcing his friends to join his "Purity Club" when he can't get a date and then whole-heartedly declaring the club defunct whenever he can get one. Also, he falls off a stage.

Overall, it's a story about friendship, about understanding and putting up with each other's differences, and maintaining the "purity" in our relationships. Sooo worth a look.