What dramas are you currently watching?

Geezer wrote:By ep 5 of gChangeh I was hitting the FF button pretty hard.

Has the lettering disappeared? :beaten:

Long since.

Geezer wrote:
By ep 5 of gChangeh I was hitting the FF button pretty hard.

I'm only up to ep 3, I know Kimura's not Jimmy Stewart, but I'm kind of hoping Akira Terao will be Claude Rains. [/list:u]

xploring wrote:

Finished Nanisama! the other night. It was enjoyable, but can't be taken too seriously.

Wow, you got thru that quickly :bow:

OT: Atsu-hime Ep.12

Mark

In a cast full of absolute favorites... Akira Terao's character provided the one real reason to watch.

I'm not saying the show was awful, or even bad. It was just, for the most part, pretty danged shallow.

Thing is... of the three shows -- which are pretty much carbon copies of each other -- "Farewell Mr. Premier" was funnier, and "Top Lady" had Miki Nakatani.

Watching Muri na Renai. Thanks so much to cori for downloading it for me. I've seen 7 eps in the last two days! It's so good and funny. Natsukawa Yui is brilliant again. Totally different from her role in Kekkon Dekinai Otoko, my all-time favorite drama. This might just go into my list of favorites...

marspeach wrote:Watching Muri na Renai. Thanks so much to cori for downloading it for me. I've seen 7 eps in the last two days! It's so good and funny. Natsukawa Yui is brilliant again. Totally different from her role in Kekkon Dekinai Otoko, my all-time favorite drama. This might just go into my list of favorites...

^Damn, another one I want to watch. I don't know how i'm going to find the time :(

Anime Dad wrote:

^Damn, another one I want to watch. I don't know how i'm going to find the time :(

Ditto that. Still, thank goodness I authored it to DVD already just in case I finish the stuff on my queue some time this month. Yeah right.

cori wrote:

thank goodness I authored it to DVD already

I have too. But I have to finish Churasan and Atsu-hime (the eps I have already) first :(

Re: Muri na Renai it's a nice little drama. Nothing real special, but as always Yui Natsukawa dazzles. :applaud:

gaijinmark wrote:Re: Muri na Renai it's a nice little drama. Nothing real special, but as always Yui Natsukawa dazzles. :applaud:

Hmm, I'll have to check that out as well: Natsukawa Yui really impressed me in Kekkon Dekinai Otoko. :victory:

EDIT: Maybe I'll check out Top Sales as well... Anyone seen that?

bmwracer wrote:
Hmm, I'll have to check that out as well: Natsukawa Yui really impressed me in Kekkon Dekinai Otoko. :victory:

EDIT: Maybe I'll check out Top Sales as well... Anyone seen that?

Didn't see Top Sales as it wasn't subbed.

Watching 33pun Tantei ep 1. Really dumb but I'm laughing so I guess it's doing its job.

bmwracer wrote:
Hmm, I'll have to check that out as well: Natsukawa Yui really impressed me in Kekkon Dekinai Otoko. :victory:

EDIT: Maybe I'll check out Top Sales as well... Anyone seen that?

Yeah, no subs...
the extra pity is that Top Sales also marked the return of Ishida Hikari to terebi as a regular cast member, instead of a guest star (last seen in Haken no Hinkaku, ep 9)...oh, well, subbers and their priorities...

Just a little bit of Japanese trivia associated with Muri na Renai. There's a little bar called "Graceland" where Shogo goes almost every episode. There's a long haired guy behind the bar called Ken-chan. The person playing Ken-chan is a guy called Monsieur Kamayatsu. This guy was HUGE in the Japanese rock and roll scene in the '60s. It would be kind of like an American TV show having Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys in some small supporting role.

runpup wrote:

Yeah, no subs...
the extra pity is that Top Sales also marked the return of Ishida Hikari to terebi as a regular cast member, instead of a guest star (last seen in Haken no Hinkaku, ep 9)...oh, well, subbers and their priorities...

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No surprises there, no fanboy/fangirl favorites to be seen...

Anime Dad wrote:–checks*
No surprises there, no fanboy/fangirl favorites to be seen...

Guess that's why someone over at D-Addicts said it was one of the worst dramas ever... :rolleyes:

But Muri na Renai did get subbed somehow... :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:
Guess that's why someone over at D-Addicts said it was one of the worst dramas ever... :rolleyes:

But Muri na Renai did get subbed somehow... :headscratch:

Go figure :)

gaijinmark wrote:Just a little bit of Japanese trivia associated with Muri na Renai. There's a little bar called "Graceland" where Shogo goes almost every episode. There's a long haired guy behind the bar called Ken-chan. The person playing Ken-chan is a guy called Monsieur Kamayatsu. This guy was HUGE in the Japanese rock and roll scene in the '60s. It would be kind of like an American TV show having Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys in some small supporting role.

Just curious...the opening credits shows B&W photos of Sakai Masaaki (the male lead of Muri na Renai) and Monsieur Kamayatsu together back in the sixties...were they a duo or part of a group in reality...or it just photoshop...

I loved the scenes in the bar...especially that exotic bartendress who seemed so absorbed in her book, but always knew what was going on...a clever and well done detail...

meh

Anime Dad wrote:

Wow, you got thru that quickly :bow:

It's nothing to be proud of really. I am just putting off other things I should be doing. :ashamed: One thing I have noticed is that quite a bit of the dialogue wasn't translated in the english subtitles, even though it was professionally done. More incentive to learn Japanese I guess.

Watching Junjo Kirari now, the asodora with which Miyazaki Aoi won a best actress award.

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Junjo_Kirari

Aoi looks so young and kawaii in this. The version I am watching is the summary version (4x45 minutes, only subbed version I could find). Plot events flew by so quickly. First 10 minutes probably covered 20+ episodes. :nut: Not sure if it's because it's condensed, I really like it so far. If they are all like this, I will have to find more asadoras. ^^