What dramas are you currently watching?

Starting BusuKoi because of Morisanchu. Those ladies are great.
http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-2857

seems to be a mix review for this one... one person said it was "the best for this season" but rated it 6? :crazy:

Currently watching Yasuko to Kenji, Maou & 33-pun Tantei.

Want to watch Seigi no Mikata & Gonzo as well! :)

Gonzo looks promising.. and with subs! i'll be checking this out as well.

Shinigami no ballad 1.

Weird :crazy:

Anime Dad wrote:

Damn, I wanted to see that! Where did you get it from? *edit* Subbed in Chinese, no doubt :(

BTW I will send you Churasan, it's just gonna take a while to copy all the discs :sweat:

You can find the raws on ClubBox by searching with its Japanese name. Pity there are no subs. :(

I finished the summarised 4 episodes last night. Fitting 156 episodes into effectively the time of 12 episodes, a lot was cut out. Reading groink's weekly summaries, sometimes a whole week was completely cut out, most of Sakurako's work and school parts were cut too. :sweat: I thought it was going to be light-hearted and about her journey to become a professional jazz pianist, but it wasn't like that at all. Perhaps because it's condensed, there were a lot of dramatic scenes with Sakurako running from one crisis/obstacle to another, it felt quite heavy. It's mostly about Sakurako's relationships with her families, from what I saw. It certainly is a high quality drama, parts of which were quite meaningful, even though they may be a bit depressing/tearjerking. Miyazaki Aoi was great, only fault I could find was that she looked a bit too young in the later stages. Didn't get much time to see the rest of the characters, but the support casts seemed quite good too. Not many particularly interesting characters though, maybe I didn't get the time to find out about them.

Take your time with the other discs. Still a lot to go through with that first reel. And I have visitors staying over soon, so probably won't get much time to watch jdoramas for awhile.

Wynter wrote:YATTA! Finished Proposal! I'll have to watch the SP tomorrow.

Edit: Actually, I think you guys have it wrong. I think I'm one of the few people who didn't think it was all that great.

I think the last 2 episodes were very good actually. But the SP is rather ordinary, it offers a happy ending though.

Wynter wrote:YATTA! Finished Proposal! I'll have to watch the SP tomorrow.

Edit: Actually, I think you guys have it wrong. I think I'm one of the few people who didn't think it was all that great.

I didn't find it all that great either... I didn't even finish the SP... somehow my interest faded away after 30 minutes or so ^^‹

Just catching up with Nobuta Wo Produce, Gal Circle, Hotaru no Hikari (was it the correct title?) - all really good shows :applaud: Gal Circle was esp funny :woot:
Finished watching Kurosagi as well, though I find it a bit draggy at times with the predictable cases and tricks he used...
Now: My Boss My Hero, hillarious show, a bit too much sometimes but still enjoyable :mrgreen:

xploring wrote:

I think the last 2 episodes were very good actually. But the SP is rather ordinary, it offers a happy ending though.

Yesh, I was VERY satisfied with the ending of the drama. I'll give the SP a try, since I always have to finish a drama in its entirety.

Yola wrote:

I didn't find it all that great either... I didn't even finish the SP... somehow my interest faded away after 30 minutes or so ^^‹

Bummer. :sweat:

Finished ep 7 of Change It's o.k. I like it, but I'm having the same feeling I had watching Lunch no Joou. With this cast, o.k. is not good enough, this should be better. [/list:u] And does anybody know who did the casting for episode 5? The American "diplomat" and his "interpreter"??? I guess a couple of pro wrestlers were on vacation wandering thru Narita and somebody said, "Hey, there's two Americans!!! Let's use them!!!" :shakehead:

gaijinmark wrote:Finished ep 7 of Change It's o.k. I like it, but I'm having the same feeling I had watching Lunch no Joou. With this cast, o.k. is not good enough, this should be better. [/list:u] And does anybody know who did the casting for episode 5? The American "diplomat" and his "interpreter"??? I guess a couple of pro wrestlers were on vacation wandering thru Narita and somebody said, "Hey, there's two Americans!!! Let's use them!!!" :shakehead:

That's how they cast all gaikokujin....

Attempted to watch Sono Ki ni Naru made last night, but the large amount of commercials annoyed me, so I'm contemplating making this my first editing job. Or maybe I'll just deal with it and get a fast-forward trigger finger.

gaijinmark wrote: And does anybody know who did the casting for episode 5? The American "diplomat" and his "interpreter"??? I guess a couple of pro wrestlers were on vacation wandering thru Narita and somebody said, "Hey, there's two Americans!!! Let's use them!!!" :shakehead:

The US trade representative was played by Nicholas Pettas
http://www.nicholaspettas.com/html/profile_e.html

and the interpreter by Thane Camus
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Thane_Camus

Finished Oishii Gohan. My copy was a retail version, so it was a considerable task struggling with the Engrish subtitles (can anyone explain why the translators have to change the Japanese names--both characters and places--into Chinese names, especially since it's supposed to be English subs?)

Decided to watch it because there were several actors I like in it: Tetsuya Watari, Kimiko Yo, Takehiko Ono. All three had roles they could do in their sleep; it was basically a waste of their considerable talents.

You could see Norika Fujiwara trying very hard in her role as an ordinary housewife--bit of miscasting there imo. Asami Mizukawa looked absolutely bored in her role.

Also, thanks to Cori, I was able to finish Asakusa Fukumaru Ryokan 2. Had a lot of fun watching Toshiyuki Nishida again do his thing as the can't-help-but-stick-his-nose-into-other-people's-business ryokan owner Daikichi. One highlight for me was seeing Fuyumi Sakamoto, my favorite enka singer, guest star as a retired geisha.

shin2 wrote:Finished Oishii Gohan. My copy was a retail version, so it was a considerable task struggling with the Engrish subtitles (can anyone explain why the translators have to change the Japanese names--both characters and places--into Chinese names, especially since it's supposed to be English subs?)

From my understanding, the Malay retail versions translate the kanji of the names into the Chinese equivalents/pronunciations instead of using the Japanese pronunciations. Of course, I could be totally wrong. :sweat:

runpup wrote:

The US trade representative was played by Nicholas Pettas
http://www.nicholaspettas.com/html/profile_e.html

A Kickboxing and Karate champion eh? Yeah, he's REALLY appropriate to cast as a diplomat. :shakehead: [/list:u]

xploring wrote:
You can find the raws on ClubBox by searching with its Japanese name. Pity there are no subs..

Bummer. I was really interested in that one..

runpup wrote:
and the interpreter by Thane Camus

Oh! I saw him in this show where he was trying to teach Morning Musume girls to speak English. Very funny :)

shin2 wrote:
Finished Oishii Gohan. My copy was a retail version, so it was a considerable task struggling with the Engrish subtitles (can anyone explain why the translators have to change the Japanese names--both characters and places--into Chinese names, especially since it's supposed to be English subs?)

That looked interesting too...

Shinigami no ballad Ep.2.

I just realised it's only subbed up to Episode 8 :( I hope they keep going with it...

I am now watching:

Yasuko To Kenji
Ryokiteki na Kanojo
Seigi no Mikata
Code Blue

My favorites so far this season being Yasuko To Kenji and Code Blue!

episode 8 of Hero


was that waitress... Utada Hikaru??? nice cameo

just saw episode 1 of Galileo

i like it.

But that thing when Fukuyama Masaharu scribbled on the street and went into this calculus thing was really lame