(lit. "Majisuka Academy") is a Japanese television drama series about high school delinquents, starring members of idol group AKB48.
The first season aired in 2010 on TV Tokyo. A second season Majisuka Gakuen 2 was aired the following year.
The third season is set in a different continuity from the previous seasons, and was aired on July 13, 2012.
In 2015, the series moved to NTV and the fourth season, which returned to the same continuity as seasons 1 and 2, was aired on January 19, 2015. On the same year, a fifth season was announced and for the first time will be aired exclusively on internet, by the streaming site Hulu Japan, because NTV only broadcast the first two episodes on August 24 due to various scenes of violence, which did not justify full season showing on TV.
A special spin-off from the fourth and fifth seasons of the series, titled , is a prequel to season 4. It was the first to feature members of HKT48 as the main cast and was produced in collaboration with the rock band Kishidan. It was aired on November 28, 2015, on NTV at 25:05 JST and run for half an hour.
Another spinoff titled Cabasuka Gakuen aired from October 2016 to January 2017. It is set after the events of an unresolved alternate ending to the fourth season. In a departure from the fist-fighting theme of previous seasons, it saw the girls opening and running a hostess club in order to save their school from shutting down as it had gone bankrupt.
The latest iteration of the series is Majimuri Gakuen, aired in July 2018, which features an entirely new cast and continuity, and was set at a different school.
Seasons
1st Season Cast
Majisuka All-Girls High School (also known as Majijo)
Homeroom 2-C
- Transfer Students
- Atsuko Maeda as the character with the same name
- Nachu as Daruma Onizuka
- Team Hormone
- Rino Sashihara as Wota: Team Hormone Leader
- Moeno NitÃ
 as Bungee / Banjë: Team Hormone Sub-Leader
- Aki TakajÃ
 as Akicha: Team Hormone Treasurer
- Rie Kitahara as Unagi
- Mika Komori as Mukuchi
Rappappa - "Top of Majijo"
Other Students
Faculty
- Eri Fuse as Yuriko Nojima: Headmaster of Majijo, Former Rappappa Leader.
- Toru Tezuka as Kiken: Doctor at Majijo.
- Susumu Kobayashi as KÃ
«ki: Homeroom 2-C Math Teacher at Majijo.
Yabakune All-Girls High School
- Asami Hihara as School Gang Leader
- Natsu AndÃ
 as Migiude: 2nd in Command at Yabakune.
- Amina SatÃ
 as Chiharu
- Yukari SatÃ
 as Sanae
Yagi All-Girls High School
- Minami Takahashi as Minami Ono: Atsuko's best friend and Erena Ono's older sister. In a flashback from Episodes 9 and 10, she was killed by a group of yankees that were after Atsuko.
Atsuko's Parents
- Masahiro Komoto as Yoshiro Maeda: Atsuko's father.
- Sawa Suzuki as Sachiko Maeda: Atsuko's mother, ex-Yabakune Leader.
2nd Season Cast
Majisuka All-Girls High School (also known as Majijo)
Rappappa - "Top of Majijo"
- Atsuko Maeda as the character with the same name: Rappappa Sub-Leader.
- Yui Yokoyama as Otabe: Rappappa Leader.
- The Four Heavenly Queens
- Minami Minegishi as Shaku: She was the Student Council President from the 1st season.
- Rena Matsui as Amakuchi/ChÃ
«kara/Gekikara
- Kabuki Sisters (NÃ
Âã»KyÃ
Âgen Sisters)
- Tomomi Kasai as Dai Kabuki (Big Kabuki)
- Asuka Kuramochi as Ko Kabuki (Small Kabuki)
- Sae Miyazawa as YÃ
Âran: She formerly used the name "Gakuran" in the 1st season.
- Nachu as Daruma Onizuka
- Team Hormone
- Rino Sashihara as Wota: Team Hormone Leader
- Moeno NitÃ
 as Bungee / Banjë: Team Hormone Sub-Leader
- Aki TakajÃ
 as Akicha: Team Hormone Treasurer
- Rie Kitahara as Unagi
- Mika Komori as Mukuchi
Tsu no Ji RengÃ
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Other Students
2nd Year
Faculty
- Eri Fuse as Yuriko Nojima: Headmaster of Majijo, Former Rappappa Leader before Yuko Oshima.
Majijo Graduates
Yabakune All-Girls High School
Other Students (appearing only in Episode 12)
Yabakune Graduates (appearing only in Episode 12)
- Asami Hihara as the Former Yabakune Gang Leader
- Natsu AndÃ
 as Migiude: Former Yabakune Gang 2nd in Command
Sutegoro High School
Others
3rd Season Cast
Prison "HOPE"
Team Habu
Team Mongoose
Other Prisoners
Prison Staff
- Yoriko DÃ
Âguchi as Prison Head
- Yasuji Kimura as Nozomu Dedokoro: Prison Warden
- Koiku Misawa, Tomoyasu Yamamoto, Daisuke Hibari, Yuichiro Suzuki, and Kenzo Fukutsu as Jailers
Others
- Kazuki Fukuyama as Keita Yoyogi
4th Season Cast
Majisuka All-Girls High School (also known as Majijo)
Rappappa - "Top of Majijo"
Team Hinabe (2nd Year)
Kamisori & Zombie (1st Year)
Other students
3rd Year
2nd Year
- Karen Iwata as Masamune
- Chiyori Nakanishi as Busakawa
- Mizuki Tsuchiyasu as Yosakoi
- Yuiri Murayama as Dokuringo
- Nana Okada as Katabutsu
- Hikari Hashimoto as Muneatsu
- Rena Nozawa as Perapera
- Seina Fukuoka as Hidarë
- Rina Izuta as Yanzuna
- Saho Iwatate as Erinki
- Wakana Natori as OjÃ
Â
- Rina Hirata as Kurofune
- Moe Goto as UirÃ
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- Miyabi Ino as Meshiuma
- Ayano Umeta as Umeta
- Moe Aigasa as Yankee / Yankë
- Miki Nishino as Over / Ã
ÂbÃÂ
- Miori Ichikawa as Lemon / Remon
- Mitsuki Maeda as Dekakawa
- Natsuki Kojima as EikÃ
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- Manami Ichikawa as Sabasaba
- Mayu Ogasawara as Biriken
- Haruka Shimada as Shimada
Gekioko High School Nursing Department
3rd Year
2nd Year
Year Unknown (Most Likely 1st Year)
Majijo Graduates
Yabakune All-Girls High School
- Mariya Nagao as GekkÃ
Â: A Candidate for Gang Leader who appeared only in Episode 10. The real leader appeared only in Episode 8 and was played by an unknown actress.
- Tomu MutÃ
 as Tsun
- Saya Kawamoto as Rookie / RÃ
«kë
4th Season Gaiden
Episodes
5th Season Cast
Majisuka All-Girls High School (also known as Majijo)
Rappappa - "Top of Majijo"
Team Hinabe
1st Year Students
Other students
Staff
- Toshiya Sakai as Satoru MÃ
Âri: Headmaster of Majijo. In Episode 12, he was revealed to be Salt's killer.
Gekioko High School Nursing Department
Yabakune All-Girls High School
Majijo Graduates
- Rina Kawaei as Bakamono: Former Rappappa Queen
- Minami Takahashi as the character with the same name: Owner of Casual Diner Asobina, Raised by the RyÃ
«tÃ
 Clan, Former Rappappa Queen.
- Jurina Matsui as Center / SentÃÂ: She quit being a nurse after she saw the news of Salt killed by an assassin.
Cameo appearance
- MiyÃ
« Ã
Âmori as Kaidan (ep.1), Cloud (ep.9)
- Ayana Shinozaki as Donkame (ep.1)
- Atsuko Maeda as the character with the same name (ep.2)
- YÃ
«ko Ã
Âshima as either the character with the same name or one of that character's sisters (Yuka and Yuki) (ep.2)
- Yuki Kashiwagi as Black / Burakku (ep.2)
- Haruna Kojima as Torigoya/Kojiharu (ep.2)
- Mayu Watanabe as Nezumi (ep.2)
- Miyabi Ino as Meshiuma (ep.9)
- Ayaka Okada as Okamochi (ep.9)
- Haruka Shimada as Okami (ep.9)
- Karen Iwata as Anison (ep.9)
- Rena Nozawa as Speak / Supëku (ep.9)
- Miki Nishino as Chicken / Chikin (ep.9)
- Miona Hori as Nogi Female Student (ep.10)
5th Season Gaiden
Episodes
Spin-Off Special: Kisarazu RantÃ
Âhen
Shekarashika Joshi ShÃ
ÂgyÃ
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Kisarazu Yankee Corps
- Show Ayanocozey as Show; Ageman's ex.boyfriend
- Hikaru Saotome as Mimiuchi
- Hitomi Saionji as Teigaku
- Hoshi Grandmarnier as Taigaku
- Shouchikubai Shiratori as Master
Cabasuka Gakuen (2016)
Majimuri Gakuen (2018)
The story is set at Utopia Arashigaoka, a new town created by the real estate company Gosaki Land. In the Arashigaoka Gakuen private school, the students are divided into and statuses with a strict social hierarchy, with Aran Gosaki, also known as Kaiser (Hinata Honma), at the top as the student council president. Sayuri "Lily" Shimizu (Yui Oguri), a mysterious girl with formidable fighting skills, transferred to the school and become friends with Hina Asahi (Rin Okabe), Ikumi "Bara" Kuwabara (Mion Mukaichi), and Sumire Yamamoto (Narumi Kuranoo). Calling themselves the , they fight to put an end to the school hierarchy and Kaiser's tyranny, while also facing the impending threat from the Arechi Technical School led by Manji (Yumiko Takino).
Unlike previous installments, this season features co-educational schools and brawls between female and male students. Some of the male fighters are portrayed by real-life pro wrestlers and martial artists, such as kickboxer Yasuhiro Kido, pro wrestler Yukio Sakaguchi, and former Estonian sumo wrestler Baruto Kaito.
The series was adapted into a stage play, which was performed on October 19âÂÂ28, 2018 at the Nippon Seinenkan Hall, Tokyo. The stage play returned to an all-female cast lineup, and with the exception of Yui Kojina of HKT48 and the guest stars, all the named characters were portrayed by AKB48 members. Nana Okada portrayed the main antagonist, Nero.
Majimuri Gakuen: Rai (2021)
In February 2021, it was announced that a second stage play, titled would be produced and performed in the end of March. This stage play would be part of the seventh anniversary celebration of AKB48 Team 8, of which most of the series' main cast are members, and all the regular characters would be portrayed by members of that team.
The play is set two years after the events of the first stage play, when the Hana-gumi have become senior students and gone their separate ways. While Lily is still the highly respected leader of the Hana-gumi, Hina has become the new student council president under the name "Null" and Sumire has reinvented herself as and formed her own group, the .
Majimuri Gakuen: Loudness (2021)
In July 2021, a third stage play was announced, titled , and will be presented as a combination of stage play and concert.
The play is set two years after the events of the drama, with Nero and König set to confront Null, who has become the leader of Arashigaoka Student council.
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