Loner Saki Asamiya (Yuki Saito) is the new girl in a rich girls'
school, and she is immediately bullied because she is one of the
subsidized students. She accepts whatever is thrown at her by the school
bullies, though she could fight back because she's actually an undercover
police detective, investigating the alleged suicide of another subsidized
student who has actually done a bit of snooping around in the school's
files and discovered that the school uses its subsidized students, the
real smart girls, to do the university entrance exams for the school's
paying students, the idiot girls from rich families - and sincew this
system works quite so well, the school is successful. Since the girl's
death, the school files have gone missing, and bnesides Saki, another
girl, Hiroko, is looking for them as well to expose the school's wicked
deals - but she gets badly beaten up by her class president - who's also
the school's principal's daughter - and her girlgang. Now it's up to Saki
to go after the principal and his cronies herself, armed with a steel
yoyo, and in the end, she manages to find the missing files right in the
principal's office and to arrest all the wrongdoers, while Hiroko takes it
upon herself to expose all the girls who have been cheating at the
university entrance exam ... Pretty young girls in schoolgirl
uniforms fighting for truth and justice armed with yoyos - if that doesn't
sound Japanese, what does? Having said that, the series is nowhere near as
kinky, campy and outrageous as the mere premise makes it sound, but after
all this was a mainstream TV-series from the 1980's, so what do you
expect. Having said that though, the whole thing is still lots of fun in a
campy sort of way, provided you are willing to accept its inherent
silliness.
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