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The second season of Hinabingo, starring Hinatazaka46 and host, Koyabu Kazutoyo.

Donzumari Benki opens in a high school storage room reminiscent of If… a secret places where a personal rebellion unfolds. Narumi-chan’s with a boy. She pulls her panties up as he begins the patter of how good it was for him. She’s nonplussed. As a cicada begins its electric buzz she asks for 300 yen. Not much to charge for sex, but for Narumi, we will learn, this small fee exacted from the boys in her life represents taking some control. As he starts to fuck her again in voiceover, we hear her dispassionate voice: “I shaved my legs first when I was in the 5th grade and in 7th grade my armpits. My menstruation stated in the 8th grade and I had my first sex in the 11th grade. I was a woman.” We then see her with her teacher, Shimada (Shohei Uno) in a lab examining sperm samples, talking about mechanics and miracles – the chance of a sperm reaching an egg, the chance of love. She blithely adds her noncommittal rejoinders while stealing a vial of Shimada’s sperm. She later attempts to self-impregnate herself with said sperm. Sex itself is a means to something she can’t find – and in her own personal tragedy, will never find. She’s too self-centered, infantile and mixed up. But like a train that can’t stop, she powers on to her own wreck, taking whomever she can with her. Director Haruhi Oguri takes the whole sticky mess and twists it around into a perverse tale worthy of Bunuel, but with a decidedly post-feminist take that slyly lauds Narumi’s destructive energy. Actress Nahana informs the role of Narumi with a feral intensity. As an up and coming character actor, she risks being typecast as your basic girl punk. She got a mix of boyishness, electric energy and nihilism that was showcased magnificently in Takahisa Zeze’s Heaven’s Story. In that film, Zeze tamed her character with motherhood. In Donzumari benki, she’s allowed to go to full force into the abyss.

The rude and narcissistic boss Bai Zhen Xiang is constantly dying because of the resentment of his employees. Every time he dies, the time is reset to the same day, which causes his employee Li Lu Duo to be trapped in a time loop. In order to break out of the time loop, Lu Duo had to come into contact with Zhen Xiang that drives her crazy, try her best to change him, save him, until she eventually falls in love with him.

Jin Qian has constantly failed her examinations to become a civil employee. Feeling frustrated, she wants to use the broken time machine her friend made to cheat. However, the machine malfunctioned and sends her back to the Northern Song Dynasty. She disguised as a man and becomes a constable at Kai Feng Manor, and comes under the lead of the renowned Bao Qingtian. Thus begins her career as civil employee in the Northern Song Dynasty, where she meets many famed historical figures, and also the final boss Prince Xiang Yang...