What dramas are you currently watching?

Watching Toshiro Yanagiba's Hanayome no Chichi . Short and sweet. I wonder if Shinichi Tsutsumi's Tonbi comes close to this......

Episode 8 of Saigo kara, , ,. Not too long ago I ranted somewhere (Ender's Girl blog I think) about how we always have to have the obligatory gay character. Looks like we've reached that point with this one. Usually not a good sign, most of the time it means the writers have run out of ideas.

The drama is still okay though. I'm liking it more when Iijima's character is around, less so, Koizumi.

I just finished Hotaru no Hikari which was sweet and enjoyable but didn't totally fulfilled my expectations. I'm gonna start today Liar Game.

gaijinmark wrote:Episode 8 of Saigo kara, , ,. Not too long ago I ranted somewhere (Ender's Girl blog I think) about how we always have to have the obligatory gay character. Looks like we've reached that point with this one. Usually not a good sign, most of the time it means the writers have run out of ideas.

The drama is still okay though. I'm liking it more when Iijima's character is around, less so, Koizumi.

Wait who's gay?! I haven't gotten that far! I hope they treat the story line well most japanese dramas seems to just use gay characters as comical


and just finished ep 05 of namae o nakushita megami this ep made me cry :( and angry some of the characters are so ruthless!

Attempting to watch "Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi" aka fantastic deer man.

I didn't watch beyond 20mins of Ep1 in 2008 when i saw a scene of a student telling her teacher she was late because she rode her deer to school and was fined for parking the deer wrongly???

Eyeyore wrote:Attempting to watch "Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi" aka fantastic deer man.

That takes some getting used to, but I liked it!

@ Taira-Panku, that would be telling. You'll have to keep watching to find out. :mrgreen:

Episode 3 of Koi no Chikara, bit of an older one but really enjoying it, Eri has been quite good in this. :mrgreen:
Also episode 2 of Romes, was a 2-parter to start off, seems a bit predictable but think it'll be okay. :fingerscrossed:

Epsiode 9 of [/i]Stepfather Step. It hasn't gotten any better, but Sei Hiraizumi showed up. I think it's a rule that you can't have a drama without Sei Hiraizumi in at least on episode.

Episode 8 of Unmei no Hito. It's not nice to piss off Yoko Maki!! :sweat:

Episode 9 of Saigo kara, , , probably the best episode so far.

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But is Uchida really a lesbian, or is her loving Koizumi just part of her weirdness??

niknik wrote: Hungry! ok, the food does look great.

While waiting on the other stuff I've been watching decided to check it out. It's got Ryoko Kuninaka and is getting decent ratings. After two episodes I can see the reason for the ratings - fangirls!

It's not really bad, like you said, the food looks great, but it's not anything special either.

gaijinmark wrote:

While waiting on the other stuff I've been watching decided to check it out. It's got Ryoko Kuninaka and is getting decent ratings. After two episodes I can see the reason for the ratings - fangirls!

It's not really bad, like you said, the food looks great, but it's not anything special either.

I kind of dropped it, liked the first episodes but then lost interest. Maybe the ratings are good because it follows Strawberry Night?
I am still watching Strawberry Night. I think the scriptwriters put a lot of effort in honing the characters of the police force (plus they are quite well acted out) but the cases are weird or just plain boring. But maybe it's me.

Finished Romes which turned out to be an okay watch, nothing really great about it but good stories/cases and the pace was really fast, worth a watch if you're wondering about it.
Up to episode 8 of Koi no Chikari, been solid but not as good as the reviews said it would be, many sub-plots but there's no main storyline to it.
Also the first 2 episodes of Atami no Sousakan, don't know why it took so long to get around to it but seems like it's going to be a real winner.

Stepfather Step episode 10. I wonder if this was written by the same person that wrote BOSS? I had to wade thru 9 episodes of crap to finally get to an episode that was real good. :bonk:

gaijinmark wrote:Stepfather Step episode 10. I wonder if this was written by the same person that wrote BOSS? I had to wade thru 9 episodes of crap to finally get to an episode that was real good. :bonk:

A pearl in the oyster?

gaijinmark wrote:I think it's a rule that you can't have a drama without Sei Hiraizumi in at least one episode.

Finished episode 9 of Unmei no Hito and sure enough, in the previews for episode 10, there's Sei Hiraizumi!! :applaud:

I'm currently watching Attention Please, Nodame Cantabile, Kochi Kame, Kuitan.

Episode 10 of Hungry. Akiko Yada shows up so I guess thats some reward for perserving thru the previous nine episodes.

Navigator84 wrote:I'm currently watching Attention Please, Nodame Cantabile, Kochi Kame, Kuitan.

Hopefully not all simultaneously. :mrgreen:

I watched the first episode of Densha Otoko which barely kept me interested, so I took a break from it and I'll start probably very soon Long vacation. Anyway I'm not giving up on "Densha" I have the feeling that it gets better.