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Chastity High

Chastity High

TV-MA

netflix

A tonally dissonant teen romance drama highlighting conservative values

6.5

TV Show

Japan
Japanese
Drama
2024
RYŌ ŌTA, SOUSHI MATSUMOTO
Ai Mikami, Honda Kyoya, Rintaro Mizusawa

TLDR

Ahh, young love, the illusion of thrill that you never wanted in the first place...

What it's about

A strict high school enforces a “no romance” rule—a rule that students work around, and others gravely take advantage of.

The take

Chastity High is a lovely concept to begin with, from its basic premise to its episode titles being so unapologetically saccharine. Once you do see an episode and get a feel for characters that are childlike/childish in presentation mixing it up in these adult scenes, it can be tonally confusing who the show’s audience is. Those two extremes aside, the show does present a good mix of money drama and teen drama on the journey back to the flash forward prologue, and overall feels like a light, easy watch with enough storylines to potentially keep you hooked for multiple episodes.

What stands out

“You're ignoring your students' human rights!"

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