What dramas are you currently watching?

in episode 7 Of Mr. Brain why is it only 8 episodes :shamefulcry:

suzzy wrote:in episode 7 Of Mr. Brain why is it only 8 episodes :shamefulcry:

I know. re-watching ep7 (this time with subs) just now and by the time you get used to everything weird in this drama, it's over.
but i see a 2nd season or SP coming after this for sure.
rida-kun kawaii :smitten:

suzzy wrote:in episode 7 Of Mr. Brain why is it only 8 episodes :shamefulcry:

Ran out of ideas, apparently.

Akimahende!

Nice drama with an Auntie Mame flair, but probably the worst lit drama I've seen. It's a shame because it gets so distracting. They made the whole Aoki family look over-fed and under-slept. In some scenes, they get some really ugly shadows on their faces, especially Uchida Yuki. And in some night interiors, Nishimura Masahiko looks like an Indian with a bad sunburn, and the reverse shot shows Uchida Yuki resembling a corpse. And the exterior scenes shot at dawn, all you see is moving silhouettes. And I didn't understand this ugly red-and-black color theme. Did someone pull a joke on the color coordinator and told her this was a remake of The Battleship Potemkin?

So I switched to Seigi no Mikata. This is one happy drama. My favorite scene so far is the one that sends Yamada Yu sliding down a handrail with a taser gun in her hand.

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No, I ain't telling why.

Just started Majo Saiban. Completely lacking in any sort of subtlety, but it's watchable in a late night jdrama sort of way. It deals with new Japanese justice system with jury-like trails, although I'm unsure about how realistically it depicts the actual practicalities of it. I do doubt the new system is as easily manlipulated as depicted in the show, however.

Mama Chari Deka ep. 1. This your Ye Olde slapstick detective comedy drama. Well, 1999 vintage, but it seems much older with the fuzzy video and distorted audio :nut: I'm not sure if I will continue with this: They seem to be trying too hard to be funny. I'll try a few more eps and see how it goes. One good thing - not a Johnny's Jr in sight :D

It is a shame that so many of the really good shows from ten years ago (or so) come to us via those old home video tapes that someone found gathering dust in a box in the back of their garage. Made worse by the fact that most of them were recorded on the SLP setting so that we could get 6 hours on one tape.

I've actually gotten to the point where the worse the video looks, the more I anticipate watching the drama... but then I'm kinda nuts.

I really liked Mama Chari Deka. Partly because the video is so degraded. Partly because I love goofy little comedies. And in a large part because the more I see of Tanaka Misako, the more devoted a fan I become.

Geezer wrote:It is a shame that so many of the really good shows from ten years ago (or so) come to us via those old home video tapes that someone found gathering dust in a box in the back of their garage. Made worse by the fact that most of them were recorded on the SLP setting so that we could get 6 hours on one tape.

I've actually gotten to the point where the worse the video looks, the more I anticipate watching the drama... but then I'm kinda nuts.

I really liked Mama Chari Deka. Partly because the video is so degraded. Partly because I love goofy little comedies. And in a large part because the more I see of Tanaka Misako, the more devoted a fan I become.

I guess I shouldn't complain, since someone/some people bothered to A) Record it in the first place, B) Transfer it to DVD, and C) Make it available to the trading public :) I was really tired last night, maybe I will like it more when i'm fully awake :)

A.D.

Here's my argument... and I'm sticking to it.

I think many of us say the shows from the 90s are better than the shows they are putting out today simply because most of the shows from the 90s aren't available to us.

For a show from the 90s (and the few that are still around from the 80s) to have survived, someone had to think highly enough of the show to record all of the episodes. And then they had to keep the tapes, because they planned on watching the series again someday. (I know I recorded over dozens of dramas, before I stumbled over the trading community.)

That's why I'm happy to see the shows were it looks like you're watching it through a fish tank. It usually means that show was good enough to make at least one person a big fan.

Anime Dad wrote:Mama Chari Deka ep. 1. This your Ye Olde slapstick detective comedy drama. Well, 1999 vintage, but it seems much older with the fuzzy video and distorted audio :nut: I'm not sure if I will continue with this: They seem to be trying too hard to be funny. I'll try a few more eps and see how it goes. One good thing - not a Johnny's Jr in sight :D

At least watch it until you get to the Sano Shiro episode! I can't remember which one that was, but I'm sure it was one of the earlier ones.

Geezer wrote:I think many of us say the shows from the 90s are better than the shows they are putting out today simply because most of the shows from the 90s aren't available to us.

I prefer shows from the 90s because a lot of the ones that I saw were more on the mature side; there were less crazy, childish, in-your-face plots; the actors/actresses who dominated were usually in their 20s instead of teenagers who were chosen because of their popularity in boybands or whatnot. Of course, there are exceptions to everything, but I'm sticking to this.

Geezer wrote:That's why I'm happy to see the shows were it looks like you're watching it through a fish tank. It usually means that show was good enough to make at least one person a big fan.

Me, it's the opposite. I like to watch a fish tank through a bad drama. It usually turns me into a big fan of its residents.

sadacori wrote:Of course, there are exceptions to everything

Yes, it's the exception that proves the rule, even though no math teacher was ever able to explain to me how.

Watched 8 episodes straight of Virgin Road with my sister. We're both enjoying it.

Gonna watch epi 3 of Aoi Tori (Yui-san kawaii :smitten: ) tonight if my cold allows.

issy wrote:

I know. re-watching ep7 (this time with subs) just now and by the time you get used to everything weird in this drama, it's over.
but i see a 2nd season or SP coming after this for sure.
rida-kun kawaii :smitten:

oh man really that will be awsome :dancing:

HOTARU NO HIKARI: Done! :victory:

To paraphrase ScrappedShingami: Buchou--ZOMG I want one!!!! Lollll :drink:

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This is one of those dramas that leave you wishing and hoping they had also made an SP and Movie and Broadway play and spin-off show and Disneyland theme ride and PC game and all those things. :fingerscrossed: Can't. Get. Enough. Of It!!!!!

Eve wrote:
Hope youve seen Slow Dance then. :smitten:

I think he is all his best in that series.
:victory:

Oh! Thanks! Didn't know Fujiki was in that. I was meaning to get that drama for Tsumabuki Satoshi after finishing LUNCH QUEEN, but my recent YamaPi+Kame drama/movie/concert (hahaha) acquiring spree got in the way. :bonk: (I like pretteh boyz, so sue mehhh! :hehe:) But, thanks for giving me another reason to watch SLOW DANCE! :naughty: Which brings me to the only other Fujiki Naohito drama I currently have, and which I'm (obviously) watching right now:

LOVE REVOLUTION Episode 5: Why am I even wasting my time on this grotty little thing? (Because Fujiki's innit, doofus.) But--his character here is such a douche bag! (Touché... or should that be, "douché," hahaha.) He's still terribly cute and stuff, but I feel nothing for him, nothing at all. (Buchou, hold me... :pout:) Negative chemistry between the leads, the acting is atrocious, the writing even worse--all those heavy-handed metaphors for love and whatnot, overanalyzed by the heroine in the 1 million voiceovers. :rolleyes: What "revolution"? More like a "devolution" in the biological sense, as I can feel my brain shrinking by the minute. :banghead: And I'm annoyed no end by those two buffoons who are meant to temper the main characters' relationship woes with some "humor," but fail in every way. Can't stand that other guy, the one trying so hard to play the token Swarthy Little Comic. Sorry, but there can be only one Takenaka Naoto!!! :metaldevil:

Abandon ship! Abandon ship! *goes off scrounging for SLOW DANCE* :sweat:

Ender's Girl wrote:HOTARU NO HIKARI: Done! :victory:

To paraphrase ScrappedShingami: Buchou--ZOMG I want one!!!! Lollll :drink:

Also one of my favorite dramas. Of course it doesn't hurt to have Kuninaka Ryoko who is an irresistible magnet for me dressed to the nines in glamor. Ayase Haruka who became another one of my favorites since Crying Out Love in the Center Of the World completely overwhelmed me.... How could Hotaru No Hikari be anything but a smash. Let's petition for a sequel.... :woot:

So looks like this drama satisfies the guys and the girls with equal fervor. :victory:

Ender's Girl wrote:LOVE REVOLUTION Episode 5: Why am I even wasting my time on this grotty little thing? (Because Fujiki's innit, doofus.) But--his character here is such a douche bag! (Touché... or should that be, "douché," hahaha.) He's still terribly cute and stuff, but I feel nothing for him, nothing at all. (Buchou, hold me... :pout:) Negative chemistry between the leads, the acting is atrocious, the writing even worse--all those heavy-handed metaphors for love and whatnot, overanalyzed by the heroine in the 1 million voiceovers. :rolleyes: What "revolution"? More like a "devolution" in the biological sense, as I can feel my brain shrinking by the minute. :banghead: And I'm annoyed no end by those two buffoons who are meant to temper the main characters' relationship woes with some "humor," but fail in every way. Can't stand that other guy, the one trying so hard to play the token Swarthy Little Comic. Sorry, but there can be only one Takenaka Naoto!!! :metaldevil:

Abandon ship! Abandon ship! *goes off scrounging for SLOW DANCE* :sweat:

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Yeah, I waited FOREVER for this drama to have English subs so I could see what all the fuss was about and to see Yonekura Ryoko-chan... But what a bunch of unlikeable, self-involved people they are... :bleh:

Another priceless commentary from EG... Looks like Ender's Girl is ENDEARing herself to the members here... :mrgreen:

Just watched episode 3 of Teioh and episodes 1 and 2 of Walkin' Butterfly, oh my gosh I'm loving Walkin' Butterfly, I cannot WAIT to watch more ^0^

Bumpity-bump.

Sis and I finished Virgin Road in 1.5 days. :sweat:

Managed to get an epi of Aoi Tori in, so I'm on 4 now.

Wynter wrote:Sis and I finished Virgin Road in 1.5 days. :sweat:

Managed to get an epi of Aoi Tori in, so I'm on 4 now.

Wow, you got well really quick. :mrgreen:

Dandy Daddy episode 3

There are better dramas of course, but it's not too bad.