There are drum rolls and eye rolls aplenty during ¡°Glass Heart,¡± Netflix¡¯s extravagantly insubstantial musical drama about a college student who gets plucked from obscurity to play drums in Japan¡¯s hottest new band.
Tenblank is the latest venture of Naoki Fujitani (Takeru Satoh), a reclusive musical genius who just can¡¯t help being brilliant and looking gorgeous all the time. He¡¯s enlisted some top-class collaborators ¡ª session guitarist Sho Takaoka (Keita Machida) and keyboardist/track maker Kazushi Sakamoto (Jun Shison) ¡ª compared to whom new recruit Akane Saijo (Yu Miyazaki) looks like an enthusiastic amateur.
However, Naoki knows she¡¯s the right person for the job: They¡¯ve already jammed together during the show¡¯s ludicrous opening sequence, in which they somehow manage to have a duet while he¡¯s playing grand piano on a rain-soaked festival stage and she¡¯s out in the car park. Don¡¯t worry, there¡¯s plenty more where that came from.
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