What dramas are you currently watching?

Geezer wrote:BMW

The Mother-in-law vs. daughter-in-law isn't really just a plot line on Japanese TV anymore. It's a genre. Every bit as much as a cop show, or a lawyer show, or a doctor show.

There's a M-in-law vs. D-in-law show every year. Same as there's a high school show, and a doctor show. These are just standards.

I don't doubt it one bit...

But what can they possibly do to make it fresh, aside from perpetually rearranging the cast with new stars (Jodan Ja Nai comes to mind)?

bmwracer wrote:But what can they possibly do to make it fresh

Just about anything.
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Waterboys II episode 5... second try. i hope i can get through it. i have nothing else to watch. rather than trying to finish SOS

just finished erai tokoro ni totsuide shimatta
@geezer >>> i hope you enjoy it.....:thumbsup:
now, watching kinpachi sensei season 6 ep 21-end

Yamada Taro Monogatari SP [TV Navi] (subbed by Stormy Team)
will watch Episode 1 soon.

Currently watching IWGP together with most of this season's drama. So far for me, the most appealing drama this season would be Hana Kimi and Papa to musume.

HanaKimi & Papa to Musume no Nanokakan -Episode 1

enjoying it! :thumbsup:

Waterboys II episode 8


getting lame...

monta wrote:Waterboys II episode 8


getting lame...

finally, you've made it.. :hehe:

monta wrote:

getting lame...

I'm confused. "getting lame" would imply that at some point it wasn't. Which I find hard to believe. :shakehead: [/list:u] On topic: Starting Kira Kira later today. The way I look at it, if Boku dake,,, didn't sink her career, nothing will![/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: I'm confused. "getting lame" would imply that at some point it wasn't. Which I find hard to believe. [/list:u]

Maybe monta meant "getting lame-r...." :hehe:

On topic: Starting Kira Kira later today. The way I look at it, if Boku dake,,, didn't sink her career, nothing will![/list:u]

Manami-chan is apparently bulletproof... And watertight. ;)

oh yeah, that's what i meant. :hehe:

episode 10. it was okay...

at least this stuff is better than WaterBoys I . the Yamada :bleh: Takayuki factor has a big part. but WB II story isn't as stupid as the 1st one

monta wrote:the Yamada :bleh: Takayuki factor has a big part. but WB II story isn't as stupid as the 1st one

So they balance out... :beaten:

Re: Boku Dake no Madona. Shoot spit balls at me if you want, but I didn't hate this show.

It wasn't great, and Taki can't act. But I thought Kyoko Hasegawa put in a very memorable performance. She kept me coming back episode after episode.

It also introduced me to Hitomi Shimatani, and for that I'll always be grateful. She's just stunning.

As for Manami Konishi in that show... she was, as usual, a non factor. I hardly noticed her, and I think her part could have been played as well or better by thousands of other actresses.

I don't dislike Manami... it's just that I almost never notice her. I watched the original "Churasan for over a year, and was surprised, when I saw "Churasan 3", that she was in it. I had to go back through the database to confirm that yeah, she had been in the original. I'd simply forgotten about her. I remembered everyone else clearly. But not Manami.

As for "Kirakira...", she gets a pass on this one from me. I didn't like the show, but then I wasn't the audience the show was directed at.

Imagine trying to sit through 9 episodes of a show you loved when you were 10 years old.

I'm aching to watch epi 3 of Anego, but I have no time. :shamefulcry:

Geezer wrote:Re: Boku Dake no Madona. Shoot spit balls at me if you want, but I didn't hate this show.

I would never do that, it's so unsanitary. All the time I was watching Boku Dake,, I just kept thinking, 'Why do I care about this guy?" The 2 guys down the hall, Leo Morimoto and the woman that runs that bar, they're most interesting than Taky. But, yes, Hitomi Shimatani is quite gorgeous. I wonder why she hasn't done more work? [/list:u] Re: Kira Kira, I knew after Shomuni 3 anything else would suffer, so I figured get it out of the way. Epi 2 was better than epi 1, but I attribute that mostly to the fact that Katushisa Namase has appeared on the scene. I'm already lining up Yasashii Jikan once I plow thru Kira Kira[/list:u]

finished kinpachi sensei season 6
now watching damens walker.....

gaijinmark wrote:I'm already lining up Yasashii Jikan once I plow thru Kira Kira[/list:u]

Hope you have a snow plow.... And it better be a big one. :sweat:

I just got finished with Haikei, Chichiuesama and it was a really wonderful drama that I had to give it a 9/10. I can't stop praising this drama enough and everyone did a good job in it. Nino was especially noteworthy. I am now determined to watch as many dramas of his as I can find.

But for now, I am going to watch Honmamon later on today. :)

bmwracer wrote:
Hope you have a snow plow.... And it better be a big one. :sweat:

Finished epi 3 of Kira Kira and the most aggravating thing is that there's actually a half-way decent drama in there if they hadn't decided that the median age of their audience was 11 years old!!! :banghead: [/list:u]