Saba Doru

Saba Doru
Genre	Teen drama, Slice of Life, Comedy
Created by	Yasushi Akimoto
Directed by	Dai Satō Keisuke Toyoshima Kei Hirota Tomohide Sano
Starring	Mayu Watanabe Tamae Ando Tadashi Sakata Keisuke Kaminaga Hitomi Takahashi Ryuya Wakaba Yasushi Akimoto
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12
Original release
Network	TV Tokyo
Release	January 13 (2012-01-13) – April 7, 2012 (2012-04-07)

Saba Doru (さばドル) (lit. "Saba Doll") is a Japanese television drama series broadcast on TV Tokyo starring AKB48's Mayu Watanabe. The story revolves around the 38-year-old Usa Shijimi (Watanabe), who is a high school classical literature teacher. Her students are mean to her, but they do not realize that she has another identity. Outside of school, she lies about her age to be active as the super popular 17-year-old idol Watanabe Mayu, whom the students adore. The show aired on TV Tokyo on Fridays starting from January 13, 2012 to April 7, 2012 with 12 episodes. After the show ended the series was turned into a manga drawn by Akihiro Nakamura and published in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine over three volumes in 2012.

Notes

The title is a combination of the Japanese expression sabayomi (鯖読み), which refers to lying about age, and "idol" (アイドル, aidoru).