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There's some overacting with a few of the characters (or caricatures, I should say) to endure (one in particular that falls flat so often you wonder why they're there), but the rest of this series is funny and flows naturally, with Aya Hirayama doing a stellar job playing a nervous, awkward model with an endearing genuineness. Of course, she doesn't really want to be a model at all. (Isn't that always the way?) One clever device is Hirayama's character converting scenes she sees on TV into nightmare scenarios in her imagination that relate to what's currently going on in 'Haruka 17,' with the other stars of the show taking the place of the scene's characters. There's also plenty of drama to get into as she tries to make it in the competitive modeling world and others start trying to bring her down when they lose to her.
10/10
