What dramas are you currently watching?

@ Keps - I've been tempted to get Kuitan many times it does look good, so you recommend it? XDDDD

@ The Lyrics - I am sooooo jealous, my copy was supposed to arrive today by fed-ex but it hasn't wah! T_T tomorrow hopefully I'm desperate to watch that show now >_<

ScrappedShinigami wrote:@ Keps - I've been tempted to get Kuitan many times it does look good, so you recommend it? XDDDD

I recommend it, too: if you like food, comedies, and silliness/goofiness, you'll like Kuitan. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
I recommend it, too: if you like food, comedies, and silliness/goofiness, you'll like Kuitan. :victory:

Sounds good! I'm into comedies right now, ok YOSH! *Strikes a pose* so I have my next dorama... I'm so going broke!!! In a good way XDDDD

I need the fed-ex man right now I'm in need of my new dorama... so tempted to go off and watch Attention Please right now (I'm on my sescond run through, and I've owned the show less than a week...sounds like someone has a great social life, ne?)

*Shadily heads over to eBay and YesAsia*

Finished Densha Otoko deluxe ~Saigo no Seizen~

it was daymn F-U-N-N-Y !!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Looks like DenshaOtoko has become more popular than KimuTaku, he even has his own museum :hehe: . and Jinkama-san is the best!

but i guess there's gonna be another one after this, it ended up with...

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an unfinished "Kek..."

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still episode 8 of Pride...

currently watching denchi ga kireru made
and finished Densha Otoko DX~last Crusade~.....finally..... :dancing:

I've been on a run of terrific dramas lately, and I didn't want it to end, so I've gone old school again and started a drama from the mid '90's titled, "The Time of Your Life"

http://jdorama.com/drama.190.htm

This is one of the too few dramas that Shimizu Misa did. But boy did she ever have a great run in movies during the late 90's. Everything she touched turned to gold.

Anyway, this is the 4th of her dramas that I've seen, and she's amazing.

The gimmick of the series is that a group of former classmates return to their grammar school to dig up the time capsule they'd buried 15 years before. The school was being torn down so they had to go get their stuff long before they'd planned.

Many of the former students didn't show up to get their stuff, so that gives the series lead Takashima Masanobu an excuse to go around finding each of his old classmates to give them back their item. It also gives him a chance to see what's become of these people. So they get a different story every week.

Two episodes in and I'm in hog heaven. (These stories are not fluff.)

By the way... one of the classmates is a very very very young actress named Matsushima Nanako. How young? Put it this way... after seeing all of "Toshie and Matsu", and GTO, and at least 5 other series in which she starred... I still had to check the data base to make sure it was really Nanako.

Geezer wrote:I've been on a run of terrific dramas lately, and I didn't want it to end, so I've gone old school again and started a drama from the mid '90's titled, "The Time of Your Life"

http://jdorama.com/drama.190.htm

This is one of the too few dramas that Shimizu Misa did. But boy did she ever have a great run in movies during the late 90's. Everything she touched turned to gold.

Anyway, this is the 4th of her dramas that I've seen, and she's amazing.

The gimmick of the series is that a group of former classmates return to their grammar school to dig up the time capsule they'd buried 15 years before. The school was being torn down so they had to go get their stuff long before they'd planned.

Many of the former students didn't show up to get their stuff, so that gives the series lead Takashima Masanobu an excuse to go around finding each of his old classmates to give them back their item. It also gives him a chance to see what's become of these people. So they get a different story every week.

Two episodes in and I'm in hog heaven. (These stories are not fluff.)

By the way... one of the classmates is a very very very young actress named Matsushima Nanako. How young? Put it this way... after seeing all of "Toshie and Matsu", and GTO, and at least 5 other series in which she starred... I still had to check the data base to make sure it was really Nanako.

I think you've just inspired me to go back into the 90s and watch some dramas from that decade. I've heard that dramas have faultered recently in terms of quality, and that they were way better "back in the day". I think I'll check a few out! Thanks. :bow:

Currently, however, since I've finished Mat Fam, I'm now watching My Boss My Hero. Only completed epi 1, but i can already tell this drama will have me rolling on the floor laughing.

Wynter

Everything from "back in the day" is always better. Didn't you know that?

Truth to tell though... I do love getting to see the shows from the 90s. There seemed to be more solid shows, the writing was better, and the shows featured more actors than pop stars.

Of course, part of that is probably just a matter of the better shows surviving. People tend not to record and save the junk. And the shows from the 90s that I"m finding are all from video tape TV rips that fans recorded and then stashed in a bottom drawer somewhere.

I do wish I could find some of the shows from the 80s or the 70s. I'd like to see what they were doing back then.

ScrappedShinigami wrote:@ Keps - I've been tempted to get Kuitan many times it does look good, so you recommend it? XDDDD

100% :mrgreen:

I'm going to start My Boss, My Hero tomorrow, after reading the good comments it's getting from people (sorry if you haven't got yours yet, mine arrived today!)


So...I started my Kuitan special today. Oh my gosh am I annoyed.
The picture is pin sharp, but the subtitles are WONKY. By that I mean poor English. :bleh:
I can understand them, but they are distractingly bad. I watched half an hour and then gave up before I got any more annoyed. Grrrr. :grumble:

Keps wrote:So...I started my Kuitan special today. Oh my gosh am I annoyed.
The picture is pin sharp, but the subtitles are WONKY. By that I mean poor English. :bleh:
I can understand them, but they are distractingly bad. I watched half an hour and then gave up before I got any more annoyed. Grrrr. :grumble:

Wasn't there an update to those subs that corrected those grammatical errors?

Or am I thinking of another drama? :headscratch:

I got tired of most of the recent Jdramas (except for Nodame Cantabile which I just finished recently) so I decided to check out a Kdrama called Alone in Love and I love it! Watching this drama is like reading Maison Ikkoku because the style of story-telling is somewhat similar. The pacing is good, the story is very realistic, the actings are excellent as well. This drama feels more Japanese to me at first though, but then I heard it was adapted from a Japanese novel, so yea, no wonder I kept on having this feeling of 'hey, this seems like what would happen in a Jdrama', lol XD. The next one I'm planning to watch is Kekkon Dekinai Otoko since I heard so many praises for it. I simply hope I can download the eps fast enough though :sweat: .

mikomi wrote: The next one I'm planning to watch is Kekkon Dekinai Otoko since I heard so many praises for it. I simply hope I can download the eps fast enough though :sweat: .

it's hilarious....look forward to some serious laughs.

watched for the first time the Hana Yori Dango series... never thought it is so good for a first episode... Jun Matsumoto really has a great acting skill... and Oguri Shun... looks like another favorite drama of mine... gonna continue watching this... :mrgreen: :dancing:

right now im watching Maria. d addicts drama of the week(s)

Finished Pride.

It was great. But it somehow had this feeling that the director intended to make the world revolve around KimuTaku. I thought the star was Kenji Sakaguchi, he's definitely the hero. It's so unfair to him, he was like in A Series of Unfortunate Events, but it was simply fate and not montgommery.
He got dumped, broke a leg etc. in a row.

Half way through Artificial Beauty.

It's not like there's lack of acting skills or plot. I personally get annoyed by the characters so i don't like it that much. Kurokawa no Techou and Love Revolution is much better in IMO.

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next up? I think Otouto or Shiroi Kyoto (people say it's similar to Iryu, but i bet it's not!)

Watched a little bit of "Ganbatte Ikimasshoi"..I like Nikishido Ryo^^

I'm watching "My Boss, My hero". ^^ It's very funny.

bmwracer wrote:
Wasn't there an update to those subs that corrected those grammatical errors?

Or am I thinking of another drama? :headscratch:

Dunno...all I know is that my disc was produced in Malaysia, and there are also Chinese subs available( on my disc)...don't know if they are as poor as the English ones.
The picture quality is superb, though.

Keps wrote:Dunno...all I know is that my disc was produced in Malaysia, and there are also Chinese subs available( on my disc)...don't know if they are as poor as the English ones.
The picture quality is superb, though.

Ohh...... I thought you downloaded your Special from the 'net: the D-Addict's site had updated their soft subs for the Special with corrected spelling and grammar...

Keps wrote:

100% :mrgreen:

I'm going to start My Boss, My Hero tomorrow, after reading the good comments it's getting from people (sorry if you haven't got yours yet, mine arrived today!)


So...I started my Kuitan special today. Oh my gosh am I annoyed.
The picture is pin sharp, but the subtitles are WONKY. By that I mean poor English. :bleh:
I can understand them, but they are distractingly bad. I watched half an hour and then gave up before I got any more annoyed. Grrrr. :grumble:

Wah! I am so jealous right now you got your MB, MH *sniffs* mine was supposed to arrive yesterday and it still isn't here today *silently fumes* it's been in Birmingham since 3:30am this morning... if I'da known I'd have driven there myself and picked it up (if they'd let me) it would take me about 45 minutes an hour at most to drive instead I waited all day for my parcel NOT to arrive :banghead:
Sorry to here about your Kuitan subs!!! I HATE it when that happens, my Nobuta wo Produce subs were like that... it gave me a headache *rubs head*

I'm going so off topic... right now I am watching... nothing :sweat: I finished Attention Please for the SECOND time last night... what can I say MB,MH didn't arrive and I was narked... finishing AP again calmed me down ^__^ :victory: