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wintersweet wrote:
The new mystery show is a lot less interesting than I thought it would be. At least, based on tonight's. Oh well, fingers crossed.

I actually really liked that second mystery! In the first half, it occurred to me early on that the dying wife might have been trying to play match-maker for the husband. But then it got so complicated, I thought it had turned into just a whodunnit. It was touching that the wife wanted him to be angry at her so he would get over her death quickly and that she didn't care about her legacy. I think that is great story-telling!

By the way, Terajima Shinobu, the actress who played the woman hiding from her husband was in a really poignant film shown at the last IAAFF called "It's Only Talk."

Andru--yes, I got an update, thanks!

Sigh, Haruka. :|

Hooray! There's hope for Haruka yet! :woot: :dancing: :applaud: :victory: :good: :jumpie: :metaldevil:

Andru wrote:Hooray! There's hope for Haruka yet! :woot: :dancing: :applaud: :victory: :good: :jumpie: :metaldevil:

Yeah this show is getting good. Theres also hope for Haruka's dad now two women want him now. :hehe:

JackClark wrote:

Yeah this show is getting good. Theres also hope for Haruka's dad now two women want him now. :hehe:

Yeah, and I think the ex is having second thoughts too!

I still hate Masami. Maybe, maybe, we'll get a better ending than I was expecting.

It looks like the next "new" show (replacing what, I don't know, 'cause I blinked) is Tokumei! Keiji Dongame. Looks wacky. Hopefully wacky-fun, and not wacky-idiotic.
http://jdorama.com/drama_1010.htm

wintersweet wrote:I still hate Masami. Maybe, maybe, we'll get a better ending than I was expecting.

It looks like the next "new" show (replacing what, I don't know, 'cause I blinked) is Tokumei! Keiji Dongame. Looks wacky. Hopefully wacky-fun, and not wacky-idiotic.
http://jdorama.com/drama_1010.htm

I'm so happy I don't have to see Masami's face for awhile.

The new 8:30 show was made in 2006, KTSF must of gotten alot of complaints :victory:

MikeNolan wrote:

I'm so happy I don't have to see Masami's face for awhile.

The new 8:30 show was made in 2006, KTSF must of gotten alot of complaints :victory:

Well it's not replacing Kaze no Haruka, that's for sure. We still have many weeks to go (if I did my math correctly). I thought there were more Onna Mystery stories, so I hope they don't replace the IQ show. :headscratch:

Edit: I need to get my eyes checked. Mike did say it was the 8:30 timeslot. I remember when Fuji-tv began airing at 7pm.

dochira wrote:
Well it's not replacing Kaze no Haruka, that's for sure. We still have many weeks to go (if I did my math correctly). I thought there were more Onna Mystery stories, so I hope they don't replace the IQ show. :headscratch:

Edit: I need to get my eyes checked. Mike did say it was the 8:30 timeslot. I remember when Fuji-tv began airing at 7pm.

Yeah it used to be 8pm too. I hope IQ comes back this week :fingerscrossed:

By my count, we still have 33 episodes, or 17 weeks left of Kaze no Haruka to wade through.

I might be off by a bit, I usually am, but any way you look at it, Haruka ain't going anywhere any time soon.

I have my fingers crossed for the new show. It's a good solid cast, so... knock wood.

Geezer wrote:By my count, we still have 33 episodes, or 17 weeks left of Kaze no Haruka to wade through.

I might be off by a bit, I usually am, but any way you look at it, Haruka ain't going anywhere any time soon.

That's what I figure. I could at some point cross check with the raw episodes I have, but it's not really important.

Geezer wrote:By my count, we still have 33 episodes, or 17 weeks left of Kaze no Haruka to wade through.

I might be off by a bit, I usually am, but any way you look at it, Haruka ain't going anywhere any time soon.

I have my fingers crossed for the new show. It's a good solid cast, so... knock wood.

Geezer, you're episode/week count for Haruka is accurate. I'm collecting the whole series and numbering them as they correspond to the original 15-minute episodes. Numbers 115/116 just aired last Saturday; there are a total of 151 episodes. OK, so it comes out to 17.5, but close enough!

Andru wrote: Numbers 115/116 just aired last Saturday; there are a total of 151 episodes. OK, so it comes out to 17.5, but close enough!

I guess that should take us through mid-December. I wonder if we'll get another asadora after Kaze no Haruka. I heard KSCI in Los Angeles stopped airing them after Wakaba, and WYNE in New York after Churasan.

By the way, Kaze no Haruka got a decent 7th place on the all-time favorite asadoras chart. The top 10 are:

1. Churasan (2001)
2. Futarikko (1996)
3. Oshin (1983)
4. Aguri (1997)
5. Mio-Tsukishi (1985)
6. Teruteru Kazoku (2003)
7. Kaze no Haruka (2005)
8. Hirari (1992)
9. Haruyo, Koi (1994)
10. Watashi no Aozora (2000)

And further down the list:
17. Sakura (2002)
26. Wakaba (2004)

The complete list of the top 30.

shari wrote:... and WYNE in New York after Churasan.

WYNE? Isn't it WNYE? And I don't think that station shows any J-TV at all. In the NYC area, I believe WMBC from Newton, New Jersey is the only station showing J-TV, and I think they only show the offerings of Fujisankei Communications Inc. (which is the same as what is shown on AZN in the mornings and on Sunday evenings, i.e. no English subtitling).

Yes, that's WNYE. They aired Sakura and Churasan in 2005 and 2006 from a company called Entel that went belly up after Churasan ended its run about a year ago.

shari wrote:
By the way, Kaze no Haruka got a decent 7th place on the all-time favorite asadoras chart. The top 10 are:

1. Churasan (2001)
2. Futarikko (1996)
3. Oshin (1983)
4. Aguri (1997)
5. Mio-Tsukishi (1985)
6. Teruteru Kazoku (2003)
7. Kaze no Haruka (2005)
8. Hirari (1992)
9. Haruyo, Koi (1994)
10. Watashi no Aozora (2000)

And further down the list:
17. Sakura (2002)
26. Wakaba (2004)

The complete list of the top 30.

Of the ones I've seen, Churasan is *definitely* superior. But Sakura at #17? Yikes. I really think I wouldn't have liked even if I weren't alternately wincing and laughing hysterically at the ludicrous depiction of Japanese-Americans and Americans in general.

"Tokumei! Keiji Dongame" is off to an entertainingly oddball start. Not to mention that Kurotani Tomoka is very pleasant to look at. :love_eyes: (It's funny seeing Haruka's dad as a cranky computer nerd, though.)

wintersweet wrote:

Of the ones I've seen, Churasan is *definitely* superior. But Sakura at #17? Yikes. I really think I wouldn't have liked even if I weren't alternately wincing and laughing hysterically at the ludicrous depiction of Japanese-Americans and Americans in general.

"Tokumei! Keiji Dongame" is off to an entertainingly oddball start. Not to mention that Kurotani Tomoka is very pleasant to look at. :love_eyes: (It's funny seeing Haruka's dad as a cranky computer nerd, though.)

Yeah, I thought Sakura was quite the stinker too. Unfortunately, on KTSF we've been able to see very few of these asadora series. I did like Churasan a lot, and Futarikko was actually the first one I watched regularly, which was shown here way back in 1997, so it's a favorite of mine just for that reason. But I would have expected Ten Urara (23) and Suzuran (29) to be ranked higher than Sakura since the stories were so much better. But I guess popularity isn't necessarily related to the quality of the writing or the acting.

The jury is still out for me with the new detective series. It seemed a bit too silly for me in parts, and don't you think there were more typos in the subtitling than usual? ("mode" for "mood" for example, and frequent misuse of the articles)

Andru wrote:
The jury is still out for me with the new detective series. It seemed a bit too silly for me in parts, and don't you think there were more typos in the subtitling than usual? ("mode" for "mood" for example, and frequent misuse of the articles)

Silly is a good change of pace for me right now. :bonk:

You're probably right about the typos, but I was more distracted than usual last night. Hmmm.

I can't wait til next weeks Kaze on Haruka. Who's going to beat up Masami. My bet is either his dad or Haruka's dad :beaten:

MikeNolan wrote:I can't wait til next weeks Kaze on Haruka. Who's going to beat up Masami. My bet is either his dad or Haruka's dad :beaten:

Actually, I was imagining Haruka first slapping him a couple of times :smack: , then kicking him in the shins a few times and then the family jewels! THEN later that night both the Dad's gang up on him :beatyou: :wack: :tolerance: and hide the body somewhere on Yufudake (who is very pleased to be rid of him too). "Masami? Oh, yeah, ah, he went another long trip somewhere! Yeah, that's it! He ran away again! Didn't say where he was going...." :naughty: