What dramas are you currently watching?

EstherM wrote:Started to watch H2 ...
It's actually much better than I thought ...
It's the first time that I think what's his name again :doh: is kawai.

I really enjoyed H2, and I'm not even embarrassed by it. :hehe: This is the drama that made me a fan of Satomi-chan's. :D

On Topic: Episode 9 of Tokyo Love Story.

Fye_D.Flowright wrote:OT.. @bmwracer~~nice avie you got there! :thumbsup:

The best. :thumbsup:

Second episode of Hitonatsu no Proposal. Why can't they make dramas like this anymore?

gaijinmark wrote: Yes, episode 4 is where this one started to turn around for me. If you check the Atsu hime thread not everybody is happy with that. Oh well, can't please everybody. :beaten: [/list:u]

Will check it out soon. Thanks! :)

Wynter wrote:

I really enjoyed H2, and I'm not even embarrassed by it. :hehe: This is the drama that made me a fan of Satomi-chan's. :D

Was I supposed to be embarrassed? :ashamed: I didnt know. :doh:

As for Satomi........I felt if she tripped one more time Id have to slap her. :smack:

She makes one think Japanese girls are klutzes... :hehe:

Eve wrote:


As for Satomi........I felt if she tripped one more time Id have to slap her. :smack:

She makes one think Japanese girls are klutzes... :hehe:

:hehe: true
But so far so good :victory: starting episode 5 ...

EstherM wrote:

:hehe: true
But so far so good :victory: starting episode 5 ...

Now the boys are soooo cute!!! :thumbsup:

I'm sticking with Iryu 2.

It gets worse, episode by episode... But Yuki Uchida looks fabulous as the "Demon with the face of an Angel". (Sorry, that line's so hoary it just cracks me up every time I think of it.)

Everyone else in the show is of course (it's a medical drama after all) still overwrought.

Since I'm down here in the juvenile gutter, I'm also watching episodes of a Korean sit com titled, Hello Franceska. It's sort of a rip off of The Addams Family.

A family of Vampires is forced to flee Rumania. They mistakenly get on the wrong boat (they were supposed to go to Japan... where all the monsters live) and end up homeless, and penniless in Korea.

It's cheap... poorly written... not very well acted... a laugh track is absurdly inserted... and for reasons I can't explain, I've become completely addicted to it.

Low brow... slap stick... juvenile. This is my meat.

Geezer wrote:
Low brow... slap stick... juvenile. This is my meat.

All Geezer wants for Christmas is the limited edition boxed set of The 3 Stooges Meet Hercules[/list:u] And if that's not available, he'll settle for the sequel: Hercules Meets the 3 Stooges[/list:u]

Eve wrote:

Was I supposed to be embarrassed? :ashamed: I didnt know. :doh:

I dunno if YOU were, but people here certainly made me feel like I shoulda been while I was watching.

As for Satomi........I felt if she tripped one more time Id have to slap her. :smack:

She makes one think Japanese girls are klutzes... :hehe:

Satomi kawaii! :smitten:

gaijinmark wrote: All Geezer wants for Christmas is the limited edition boxed set of The 3 Stooges Meet Hercules[/list:u] And if that's not available, he'll settle for the sequel: Hercules Meets the 3 Stooges[/list:u]

MUSA! I LUFF you're siggy! Panda's are my favourite animal. :inlove:

On Topic: Episode 9 of Tokyo Love Story. I'm gonna go watch now, and hopefully I'll finish it today. I've been watching it for a month now... :sweat:

Geezer wrote:Low brow... slap stick... juvenile. This is my meat.

And yet you can't sit through Nodame... Though it's neither low brow nor juvenile, but it is slapstick. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
And yet you can't sit through Nodame... Though it's neither low brow nor juvenile, but it is slapstick. :sweat:

It makes me wonder too, Beem... :headscratch:

Eve wrote:

It makes me wonder too, Beem... :headscratch:

Honestly, I couldn't finish it. The slapstick is so far over the top it undercuts any attempt at "serious" drama. After awhile, I expected to see the old "BOP!!" or "OOF!!" across the screen like in the old Batman TV series. And that Stressman character :bleh: One of the most disgusting characters I've ever seen anywhere. After he was in a scene I had to hit pause and go take a shower. [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: Honestly, I couldn't finish it. The slapstick is so far over the top it undercuts any attempt at "serious" drama.

Hmm, the slapstick is few and far between, I thought... It's not the Three Stooges... :sweat:

BMW

And yet you can't sit through Nodame... Though it's neither low brow nor juvenile, but it is slapstick.

Give it its due... Nodame is pretty darned juvenile. But I don't think it's good slap stick. Like I said before... I didn't find the guy slapping the little retarded girl around... funny.

I love good slap stick. Bud and Lou, The Stooges, the Marx Bros., Laurel & Hardy, Olsen & Johnson... have always made me laugh.

And if you think about it, it's always the sweet innocent, the dumb guy, who's getting slapped around. Lou Costello. Curley. Stan Laurel. Ole Olsen.

Maybe it's as simple as... in Nodame it was a guy slapping a little girl around. Not funny. At least not to me.

Then again... that wasn't the only part of Nodame that I didn't like.

Oh well. No accounting for taste.

Can you imagine? Some people out there actually think Adam Sandler is funny!

Darned if I know why, but they do.

I watched the first 35 minutes of Hanazakari no Kimi e and I'm a bit confused--I thought the boys' school was supposed to have good looking guys, but why did most of them look like girls and/or ugly as hell? And was that MatsuJun or some look-alike? :bleh: Anyway, the only good looking person in the drama was Kamikawa Takaya, but maybe it's because I like my guys looking like guys, not prepubescent girls. Oh, and that female leader really looks like Amuro Namie. Drama itself seemed ok, but hopefully it gets better.

Geezer wrote:Give it its due... Nodame is pretty darned juvenile. But I don't think it's good slap stick. Like I said before... I didn't find the guy slapping the little retarded girl around... funny.

Omg, that made me laugh. :rofl: I think you're going to give someone a heartattack when he reads this. :hehe:

I've started watching Koshonin. It's a miracle I got this far, the first two eps were murder..! I hated it.. Somehow I continued though, think it was the major cliffhangers at the end of each ep. Anyway, I just have to say I'm so glad I continued.. I quite like it now! It's very intriguing and interesting! Hope the last ep will be subbed before I go to China :sweat:

gaijinmark wrote: Honestly, I couldn't finish it. The slapstick is so far over the top it undercuts any attempt at "serious" drama. After awhile, I expected to see the old "BOP!!" or "OOF!!" across the screen like in the old Batman TV series. And that Stressman character :bleh: One of the most disgusting characters I've ever seen anywhere. After he was in a scene I had to hit pause and go take a shower. [/list:u]

Well, I loved BAtman as a kid. :beaten:

I cant do the Three Stooges though. Too idiotic for me.

Yet d I cant think of a character in a drama I'd rather slap than Nodame.

(Except perhaps) for Satomi in H2 :hehe:

Eve wrote:

Well, I loved BAtman as a kid. :beaten:

I cant do the Three Stooges though. Too idiotic for me.

Yet d I cant think of a character in a drama I'd rather slap than Nodame.

(Except perhaps) for Satomi in H2 :hehe:

I loved Stressman....his mottled orange skin and fabulous caveman hair....coupled with his sweet sounding fake gaijin accented Japanese....what's not to love?

After seeing the anime....gotta say a few of the characters with their respective voice actors were much better than in the live version.

Tu_triky wrote:

I loved Stressman....his mottled orange skin and fabulous caveman hair....coupled with his sweet sounding fake gaijin accented Japanese....what's not to love?

After seeing the anime....gotta say a few of the characters with their respective voice actors were much better than in the live version.

I wish Id seen the anime first as it was hard to get into it after the live version.

Stressman was the BOMB! Loved him... :rofl:

Eve wrote:

I wish Id seen the anime first as it was hard to get into it after the live version.

Yeah I can appreciate that but I was able to overcome it....I found it much funnier than the dorama on many occasions.

Edit: the character of Harisen (the music teacher) and Masumi in particular were far funnier in the anime, as was Chiaki.

Stressman was the BOMB! Loved him... :rofl:

It's a carciature, what can I say....gotta put it in the context that it's a comedy originating from a manga aimed at a young demographic. His character is basically the "ero jiji" ~ the dirty ol' man archtype. I can understand ppl turned off by his lascivious behavior but I was no more turned off than by Densha Otoko's blubbering or the like. We all have different tastes, I guess.