Drama 10 'Classroom of the Universe' Finale | A Story That Slowly Permeates the Heart

It was gentle, yet passionate. It was a drama that soaked into the heart as if dissolving into the distant night sky.

The protagonist teacher is not hot-blooded,
not a former delinquent,
and doesn't give passionate speeches to the students in every episode.

The final episode of 'Classroom of the Universe,' a new type of school drama centered on Masataka Kubota as a quiet, part-time high school teacher who watches over his students from a step back, and the students of the science club, has arrived.

The science club meets at night, just like during class hours.
The classroom, which the sun never reaches, was always dark, and it felt like it was filled with the pain of students carrying various circumstances, so at first, there were times when it was painful even for me to watch.
However, once everyone in the science club decided to aim for a conference presentation with the desire to 'create Mars,' that dim classroom began to overflow with hope.

On the day of the conference presentation, seeing everyone in the science club arrive in their usual clothes, I thought, 'Ah, these kids won't be shaken anymore.'
Previously, when they visited another presentation, they attracted attention from those around them for wearing casual clothes and being of different ages, and they felt uncomfortable.
Even so, on the day of the conference presentation, they participated in their casual clothes, being their usual selves. They laughed as always, saying, 'Isn't it fine to just be ourselves?' and they were no longer the same people who had looked so out of place before.

Having succeeded in 'creating Mars' in the classroom through repeated experiments, I think they gained confidence in their experiments and in themselves as well.

The presentation, which serves as the climax of the story.
The presentation, which instantly captured the interest of the venue with the impactful opening line from Toranosuke Kobayashi, 'We have succeeded in creating Mars in our classroom,' was magnificent.
And above all, the speech answering the questions was wonderful.

Toranosuke: 'It was the club advisor who brought me, someone who had nothing to do with the world of science, to the front of the physics prep room door. I was invited by the teacher and opened that door. I never imagined it would lead to a place like this.'

...I burst into tears.

Yes, Kubota-kun creating the science club was the beginning of everything.
Because they had the courage to open that door, the science club members are here now.
However, I also thought that perhaps it had actually started even earlier.

Students attending part-time high school have various reasons.

It wasn't an era where they could go to high school.
They had been working since they were 16, giving up their dream of becoming a teacher to support their family's finances.
It was difficult for them to even go to the classroom due to poor health.
They couldn't read and had been made fun of for a long time.

Even so, they came to part-time high school.

That is why I want to tell Toranosuke and everyone in the science club this:

The reason you were able to open the door to the science club when invited by the teacher is because you were attending part-time high school with a pure desire to 'study' and 'learn.' Everything started from the fact that you decided to attend, even when you were busy or anxious.
Your desire to 'learn' and 'study' is what started everything.

They were the ones who repeated experiments every day in that small, dim classroom.
The days they spent experimenting until late after working, after going to literacy classes, after preparing food for shops, and after attending classes. The time they felt was fun, even when they cut back on sleep and their bodies were tired.

I burst into tears at Toranosuke's words: 'I realized that our experiments, which we had been doing through trial and error in a small classroom every night, had become everyone's experiments today.'
This guy, what a wonderful thing to say!!!!

The development where JAXA becomes interested in their presentation and asks them to participate in their research is truly like a drama!
You guys are amazing, science club!!!

But the reason you don't think, 'Well, this is just a drama,' is because this is based on a true story.
It is because there is a true story where a part-time high school science club won an excellence award at a science research presentation and ended up participating in the basic experiments for 'Hayabusa2' as a science club.

Even if this weren't based on a true story, I think it would still be moving, but the fact that it is based on real events makes the drama even more powerful.

There were times when it was painful, difficult, lonely, and I wanted to run away, but
once I opened that door, the time I spent feeling excited, having fun, and being absorbed in something began to increase.
Even I, who had nothing, became able to dream.

It was calm and passionate,
quiet and powerful,
and endlessly kind.
It was a drama that had the power to encourage someone.

Honestly, when I watched the first episode, I didn't think it was particularly special, and I didn't think the theme song was that great either.
But as the episodes went on, and as I got to know the teacher and the students at the night high school, I grew to love it more and more, and both the drama and the theme song slowly permeated my heart.

When I think of 'Sora Wataru Kyoshitsu,' I somehow imagine stars flickering and shining faintly in the night sky.

Mr. Fujitake, Yanagida-kun,
Angela-san, Kasumi-chan, Nagamine-san, Kaname-kun, and Mai-chan,
I can believe that everyone is still doing their best right now.

It was a 'Sora Wataru Kyoshitsu' that gave me both the sadness of not being able to see the science club members anymore,
and the feeling that I should do my best from tomorrow on, just like them.

The end.

Aoi Ito, who played Kasumi Natori, was an incredibly good actor, wasn't she?!
She was so natural that I almost thought she was really like that, and I could only see her as Kasumi. If she ever plays a delinquent in another drama, I might collapse from the shock.
Having said that, I look forward to seeing her in another drama again!