- Drama: No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35 (English title) / 35-Year-Old High School Student (literal title)
- Romaji: 35 sai no Kokosei
- Japanese: 35歳の高校生
- Director: Noriyoshi Sakuma, Seiichi Nagumo, Maki Nishino
- Writer: Masahiro Yamaura, Yuya Takahashi
- Network: NTV
- Episodes: 11
- Release Date: April 13 – June 22, 2013
- Runtime: Saturdays 21:00-21:54
- TV Ratings: 13.3% (weekly average)
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
During the new semester in April, a woman appears in the classroom for the 3rd year high school students. The other students wonder who she is. The woman tells the students she is a student in that class.
The woman does ordinary student things like wearing their school uniform, homework and participates in gym class, but she is different. She arrives at school in an expensive car. During break time, she smokes in the teacher’s smoking room. After club activities, the woman drinks a beer. Yet, after school, she delivers newspapers as part-time work. She is mysterious. The woman tries to solve problems like high school bullying.
Cast
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| Ryoko Yonekura | Junpei Mizobata | Nana Katase | Takeshi Masu | Toshihide Tonesaku |
| Ayako Baba | Junichi Koizumi | Akiri Nagamine | Makio Ninagawa | Takashi Endo |
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| Hiroki Aiba | Youhei Kumabe | Sho Ikushima | Megumi Yokoyama | Takaaki Enoki |
| Ryuichiro Kitajima | Wataru Iseya | Koichi Higuchi | Yuki Mayuzumi | Yoshio Noda |
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| Tetsuya Watari |
| Yukinobu Asada |
Class 3-A
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| Taikou Katoono | Shiori Kitayama | Fujiko Kojima | Yua Shinkawa | Masaki Suda |
| Ryota Otake | Yuna Izumi | Moe Kokubun | Mizuki Kudo | Masamitsu Tsuchiya |
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| Mahiro Takasugi | Yukito Nishii | Shuhei Nomura | Alice Hirose | Reiko Fujiwara |
| Ren Higashi | Teppei Saegusa | Osamu Yukawa | Rina Hasegawa | Mai Yuki |
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| Erina Mizuno | Karen Miyazaki | Aoi Morikawa | Kento Yamazaki | Masami Imai |
| Ai Yamashita | Rikako Hatori | Hitomi Eto | Ryo Akutsu | Rin Sato |
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| Haruna Onishi | Takumi Sato | Tomoya Shiba | Ataro Dojun | Kazuya Nakajima |
| Momoko Ueda | Yuta Shimizu | Hitoshi Okura | Tetsuya Jinbo | Shinichi Kashiwagi |
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| Tatsuya Nakayama | Sumire Fujishiro | Mitsutaka Horikoshi | Daiki Mihara | Izumi Yabe |
| Yuji Matsumoto | Keiko Hirakawa | Goki Murata | Yosuke Shinohara | Yui Matsushita |
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| Mari Yamachi |
| Sayuri Tachibana |
Additional Cast Members:
- Hajime Yamazaki – Rina Hasegawa’s father (ep.1)
- Yorie Yamashita – Rina Hasegawa’s mother (ep.1)
- Takashi Ukaji – Ai Yamashita’s father (ep.2)
- Takaya Sakoda – (ep.2)
- Hajime Okayama – police officer (ep.2,4,8,11)
- Hijiri Sakurai – (ep.4,11)
- Hikari Kajiwara – high school student (ep.4)
- Risako Ito – high school student (ep.4)
- Norihito Kaneko – Kenji (ep.5)
- Tatsuhito Okuda – (ep.5)
- Kimie Shingyoji – Shizue Kokubu (ep.6)
- Makoto Sakamoto – (ep.8)
- Satomi Tezuka – Yoriko Baba (ep.10-11)
- Kisuke Iida – (ep.11)
- Kasumi Suzuki – (ep.11)
- Aki Kazama – (ep.11)
- Reina Kurosaki – Ryo Akutsu’s sister (ep.11)
- Ayumu Kato – (ep.11)
Episode Ratings
| Episode | Date | Ratings (Kanto Region) |
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| 01 | 04/13/2013 | 14.7% |
| 02 | 04/20/2013 | 12.9% |
| 03 | 04/27/2013 | 15.1% |
| 04 | 05/04/2013 | 14.7% |
| 05 | 05/11/2013 | 12.9% |
| 06 | 05/18/2013 | 12.1% |
| 07 | 05/25/2013 | 11.3% |
| 08 | 06/01/2013 | 12.7% |
| 09 | 06/08/2013 | 9.9% |
| 10 | 06/15/2013 | 13.1% |
| 11 | 06/22/2013 | 14.7% |
| Average | 13.3% | |
