KSCI-18/KXLA-44 (SoCal) JDramas

gaijinmark wrote:This will be starting on 1/1/12 in the 7pm slot: http://www.wiki.d-addicts.com/Ikemen_desu_ne

Looks like they're trying to appeal to fanboys and fangirls all at the same time. I am decidely underwhelmed.

If you want some ikemen in your life, go here instead:

http://www.ikemenhollywood.com/

Tu_triky wrote:If you want some ikemen in your life, go here instead:

http://www.ikemenhollywood.com/

Nice... As long as there are no kooks randomly shooting at people in their cars. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Nice... As long as there are no kooks randomly shooting at people in their cars. :sweat:

Seriously. Fortunately the location is not on Sunset & Vine.

Just a heads up, because the 31st is New Year's Eve, episode 44 of Gou is being aired at 6pm on Saturday night. It's moved up because the Kohauku starts at 7pm.

gaijinmark wrote:Just a heads up, because the 31st is New Year's Eve, episode 44 of Gou is being aired at 6pm on Saturday night. It's moved up because the Kohauku starts at 7pm.

Yup, I saw the announcement during last week's episode. :victory:

On Sunday nights KXLA used to show the game show "Nep League" followed by an unsubbed drama. Since the first of the year those are gone replaced by infomercials. :puppydog:

Here's a clip of Nep League, it was a really goofy word game based game show:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyGhbV6onOY

They showed this drama over the course of the last 3 years in Japan at the end of each taiga: http://jdorama.com/drama.1474.htm

18.2 will be showing it all at once for 13 weeks starting on April 1st. 8:30 pm.

gaijinmark wrote:They showed this drama over the course of the last 3 years in Japan at the end of each taiga: http://jdorama.com/drama.1474.htm

18.2 will be showing it all at once for 13 weeks starting on April 1st. 8:30 pm.

Wow, star-studded cast... A mini-Taiga, sort of.

Starting July 1st in the 9 pm time slot Hanawake no Yon Shimai: http://jdorama.com/drama.1656.htm

Soredemo, Ikite, , ,:http://jdorama.com/drama.1646.htm

Starts on Sept. 30th. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it. I usually don't watch stuff on KSCI that I've already seen, but I might watch this one again.

Just in case anybody's missed it, 18.2 will be airing the 'Kohaku Uta Gassenf on New Year's Eve starting at 7 pm and re-running it at 2 pm on New Year's Day. :woot:

They'll also be showing a "Dotch Cooking" special at 10:45 a.m. and 8:15 p.m. on New Year's Day. :dancing:

And a new season of "Onigiri" starts on Dec. 22nd!! :woot: :dancing:

Looks like somebody at 18.2 is a Ryo Nishikido fan, the next two dramas are going to be

"Joker": http://jdorama.com/drama.1533.htm
starting December 24th

and

"Zenkai Girl": http://jdorama.com/drama.1634.htm
starting December 23rd.

Haven't seen either one, but of the two, "Joker" looks more promising.

January 2nd at 8 pm they're showing Ikon Ari: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Ikon_Ari

Not only does it have Naho Toda and Nao Matsushita, but Sei Hiraizumi is in it so it's got to be good!! :woot:

They'll be showing it again at 10:15 am and 6:!5 pm on the 3rd.

"FCI Morning Eye" which airs from 12pm to 1pm weekdays will be ending on Dec. 31st.

All it says on their website is "Due to a programming change". I wonder what will go in its place? :headscratch:

gaijinmark wrote:"FCI Morning Eye" which airs from 12pm to 1pm weekdays will be ending on Dec. 31st.

All it says on their website is "Due to a programming change". I wonder what will go in its place? :headscratch:

Pretty much nothing but infomercials. :bleh: Although now I know what the lovely and talented Saki Miata is doing since JATV news stopped because she's in one of them.

On the bright side, "Aibou 10" starts on Feb. 7th. :woot:

Once 'Taira no Krapomori' ends this Saturday, they'll be showing "Hi no Sakana" (they're translating the title as 'Goldfish' but it really means 'Fish of Fire'): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_no_Sakana

Then on the 23rd 'Yae no Sakura' starts.

gaijinmark wrote:Once 'Taira no Krapomori' ends this Saturday, they'll be showing "Hi no Sakana" (they're translating the title as 'Goldfish' but it really means 'Fish of Fire'): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_no_Sakana

Did anybody else see it? It was pretty good!

I'm going to have to keep an eye on Machiko Ono. First, she was a total b-i-a-t-c-h in 'Mother', right now in 'Saikou no Rikon' she's goofy and funny, and in 'Hi no Sakana' she was completely different from either one of those characters. If you can hold your own with Yoshio Harada, you've got to be good!! :applaud:

^ I recorded it to post up on D-Addicts. :victory:

EDIT: Here's the link: http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_129598.htm

bmwracer wrote:For some reason all of 18.2's video is in 4:3 SD format instead of 16:9 HD... Any idea why? :headscratch:

They're in 16:9 now!! :woot:

I guess they just switched over today. I don't think they were 16:9 last night, but honestly, I wasn't really paying attention. :bonk:

Edit: Now (2/20/13) looks like they've switched back to 4:3. :headscratch:

gaijinmark wrote:They're in 16:9 now!! :woot:

I guess they just switched over today. I don't think they were 16:9 last night, but honestly, I wasn't really paying attention. :bonk:

Edit: Now (2/20/13) looks like they've switched back to 4:3. :headscratch:

Ehh? :nut: