What dramas are you currently watching?

Finished Juui Dolittle. I enjoyed it. It is probably quite standard and cliche at times, but most of the human stories were engaging. Inoue Mao was really good in this even though her character didn't have much story.

I've been watching a korean drama "My Fair Lady" aka "Take care of the young lady" - quite enjoyable so far.

Alrighty, after our binge on Korean dramas, my sister and I have started with Japanese. So far we've seen:

- Trick
- Trick 2
- Trick 3
- Both Trick movies and specials
- Shomuni
- Shomuni 2
- Shomuni 3
- Shomuni SP
- Kuitan
- Kuitan SP

And we're not on the fourth episode of Kuitan 4. Of course, I've seen all of the above already, but my sister's watching them for the first time. She really enjoyed Trick and absolutely loved Shomuni. She likes Kuitan... but I think she's looking forward to rewatching Last Christmas more, which we're watching next.

Korean drama:
Secret Garden, now on episode 11, i can't wait to see it.

Not a real drama, but a classic Sentai series from 1973-74, up to episode 5 of Super Robot Red Baron. :woot:

^ Don't you mean Hentai series? :beaten: :rofl:

bmwracer wrote:^ Don't you mean Hentai series? :beaten: :rofl:

You tell him that! :hehe:
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PS- What hentai series is recommended? :ashamed:

^ That's one odd looking robot... Looks like a Giant Robo washout.

just watched kimi wa petto and loved it ;)

bmwracer wrote:^ That's one odd looking robot... Looks like a Giant Robo washout.

Technology certainly wasn't as great back then but have to love the guys in the rubber suits, :victory: the other robots actually were more normal looking. :crazy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMLU4IBNJj4

bmwracer wrote:^ Don't you mean Hentai series? :beaten: :rofl:

LOL, i am sure that'll get the ratings up...lol :bonk:

Ojiichan wa 25-sai with Japanese flavour. :applaud:

Just finished Juui Doolittle.....animal version of Iryu where patients miraculously don't die.

Finished up Guilty.

Pretty good, but predictable throughout most of the drama. Solid performances by Kanno and Tamaki.... :applaud:

Starting Nagareboshi. I think I like it.

Hitotsu yane no shita, episode 6, now this is what more dramas should be like, it is fabulous. :victory: Funny, sad, mega storylines, great acting, old Jpop, it's got it all. :woot: Only half thru it but I can easily see this ending up in my top 5, it really is that good. :applaud: Oldest drama I've seen, from 1993, gonna take a few more chances on some older ones, just downloaded Homework and about to grab Double Kitchen. :mrgreen:

hitomi #1 wrote: about to grab Double Kitchen. :mrgreen:

Just a heads up, if you've never seen Tomoko Yamaguchi before, prepare to be knocked off your feet! You'll probably want to see Long Vacation after that:http://jdorama.com/drama.239.htm

gaijinmark wrote:

Just a heads up, if you've never seen Tomoko Yamaguchi before, prepare to be knocked off your feet! You'll probably want to see Long Vacation after that:http://jdorama.com/drama.239.htm

I've never seen her in anything though often see her face on the home page. Looks like she for the most part retired after Long Vacation, only one drama after that. :puppydog: Looks like a few of her dramas are interesting, also after checking out Long Vacation that'll be put on the list. :applaud:

hitomi #1 wrote:
I've never seen her in anything though often see her face on the home page. Looks like she for the most part retired after Long Vacation, only one drama after that. :puppydog: Looks like a few of her dramas are interesting, also after checking out Long Vacation that'll be put on the list. :applaud:

Ohsama no Resutoran and Sweet Home--both superior dorama.

^^ Better than Long Vacation? Sigh, it's gonna take all of next year to go thru my have to watch list now. :hehe:

Finished Hitotsu yane no shita, hard to describe it but it certainly moved into my top 5, :woot: perhaps after a few rewatches it'll move up a few notches. Thought Heaven's Coins had mega subplots, but wow you needed to have a scorecard to keep track of these, :nut: but it was never confusing though...highly recommend this.
Next few will be from the same era, after the new year will be starting on Homework, Double Kitchen and the few that were recommended above. :applaud:

hitomi #1 wrote:^^ Better than Long Vacation?

Imo Ohsama no Resutoran and Sweet Home are much much better than LV (but then I am probably the only one who holds this opinion, at least on this site). To me Ohsama no Resutoran is the best written (by Mitani Koki), best acted (with the best ensemble cast) comedy dorama I have seen. Sweet Home would be a close second. And Yamaguchi Tomoko shows why she was so great back in the 90's.

You mentioned that Hitotsu Yane no Shita was the oldest dorama you have seen. If you like dorama that focuses on family, you might want to watch an even older series, Kita no Kuni Kara from 1981. A very special series. Oyaji (2000) and the similar Otousan (2003) are two other family-centric comedy-leaning dorama that are pretty decent imo (Oyaji is the better of the two).