Singapore JDrama Fans Fall In!

LCPTeck wrote:Hi Jess and Monta,

Thanks for the welcome.

Jess, you should really watch Attention Please then, ryo-chan is an airplane engineer in the series hehe...

Yeah Swing Girls was a fun move, that's why I like it.

Oh yeah my MSN is [email protected], do contact me online too, thks! ^^

Hi teck!! you're really a lance corporal?? :crazy: Lol monta isn't singaporean, he's indonesian actually but i am!

Haha.. i have watched attention please (as well as ichi ritorru no namida, ganbatte ikimasshoi)

montanaky wrote:ooOh this the first time i noticed this thread toO!

haha.. yup yup, today i was passing by TS at plaza sing.. they're having 20% discount on Kdramas n there's this group of pple practically surrounding the whole table! when the rest of the shop is quite empty.. :crazy: :crazy:

scary scene.. they look like they were snatching up the stuff.. haha.. i guess it wld take sometime for pple to start noticing jdramas, esp when the local tv channels dun even show them at all.. i tink nobuta wo produce will jus bring the storm back.. haha :dancing:

OMG that's my exact sentiments!! I have always thought how great it would be if nobuta wo produce is shown on channel 8 ^^ Quite a number of singaporeans know yamapi actually (or heard of at least) and it would be a good way to bring them back to jdramas and the j-craze haha.

i guess one of the reasons why people don't really like watching jdramas is because there isn't a voiceover like how kdramas shown here have? Pple are lazy to read subs lol.

sighh i wonder if there is any way to ask mediacorp to bring jdramas back?

Haha.. you all may not know this but believe it or not! This site was set up by a Singaporean -.- It's stated under the FAQ section.

sighh pretty sad that the web's biggest english japanese drama website was set up by someone whose fellow countrymates are almost totally ignorant of jdramas.

Try watching ichi ritoru no namida. It's so sad, it can leave you crying for weeks.

jess wrote:

OMG that's my exact sentiments!! I have always thought how great it would be if nobuta wo produce is shown on channel 8 ^^ Quite a number of singaporeans know yamapi actually (or heard of at least) and it would be a good way to bring them back to jdramas and the j-craze haha.

i guess one of the reasons why people don't really like watching jdramas is because there isn't a voiceover like how kdramas shown here have? Pple are lazy to read subs lol.

sighh i wonder if there is any way to ask mediacorp to bring jdramas back?

haha, yes!! i told a fren abt some jdramas tt i watched n i kept saying the character's names in japanese so she was like, u watch in japanese.. so i told her japanese dramas hav no sound dubbing like kdramas, n she was like... ok... :doh:

haha, n not many pple read chinese subtitles as well.. even in singapore, n i noe this cos i worked in the vcd shop in the past n almost 70% of the pple look for english subtitles drama..

hmm, seems like everyone's recommending one riterou no namida.. i shld watch tt nex.. hahaha.. =) :woot:

i tink it's quite hard for mediacorp to bring back jdrama unless there's signs of it's popularity returning cos kdramas n taiwan shows are more sought after now, n they would play wadever pple likes to watch.. :grumble:

Hi all , first post in here :sweat:

Try Nodame Cantabile for this season , quite a funny drama but the dvd and vcd are not on sale yet cause the series is still not yet finish :sweat:

ichi ritoru no namida ,Taiyo no uta , Summer Snow , Attention Please and Sekai no Chuushin de Ai wo Sakebu are also great as well
:dancing:

montanaky wrote:

haha, yes!! i told a fren abt some jdramas tt i watched n i kept saying the character's names in japanese so she was like, u watch in japanese.. so i told her japanese dramas hav no sound dubbing like kdramas, n she was like... ok... :doh:

haha, n not many pple read chinese subtitles as well.. even in singapore, n i noe this cos i worked in the vcd shop in the past n almost 70% of the pple look for english subtitles drama..

hmm, seems like everyone's recommending one riterou no namida.. i shld watch tt nex.. hahaha.. =) :woot:

i tink it's quite hard for mediacorp to bring back jdrama unless there's signs of it's popularity returning cos kdramas n taiwan shows are more sought after now, n they would play wadever pple likes to watch.. :grumble:

YES! not many pple read chinese subtitles and TRAD CHINESE subtitles especially for the younger generation. Oh gosh, i think it has become so rare that reading trad chi is becoming a talent heh :) But well.. quite easy to pick up as long as you watch jdramas often :)

are jdramas even subbed in english? So far those bought dramas i have (stand up, kisarazu's cat's eye, GTO, Kimi wa petto) are ALL subbed in traditional chinese.. JDrama sales are not doing very well over here i guess because many people choose to download them which is a faster, cheaper alternative that gives you english subs -.-

sighh i think it's a vicious cycle. mediacorp don't play jdramas, pple don't know jdramas, fewer jdrama lovers, discourages mediacorp from playing jdramas even more. I think the only way to get pple to watch is like peer to peer influence. haha personally i have influenced around 10 people to watch jdramas in the later half of this year!!

as for the voiceover thing, i wonder which organization handles the voiceover? The TV station which produced the drama or the local organization that bought the drama?

and yeah montanaky.. watch one litre of tears!!! Maybe you will like ryo-chan then ;)

hydetetsu wrote:Hi all , first post in here :sweat:

Try Nodame Cantabile for this season , quite a funny drama but the dvd and vcd are not on sale yet cause the series is still not yet finish :sweat:

ichi ritoru no namida ,Taiyo no uta , Summer Snow , Attention Please and Sekai no Chuushin de Ai wo Sakebu are also great as well
:dancing:

hello! welcome to this thread. yay it's getting more alive here now!!

Nodame cantabile.. what's it about? I didn't try a single of this season's dramas because i didn't know which to watch.

Speaking of which, how fast does poh kim import dramas? Say.. are dramas from last season (like sapuri and My boss my hero) in stock yet? I saw all of the doramas from last season in china during my short holiday there. And they sell it for like less than $10 sing over there -.-

jess wrote:

hello! welcome to this thread. yay it's getting more alive here now!!

Nodame cantabile.. what's it about? I didn't try a single of this season's dramas because i didn't know which to watch.

Speaking of which, how fast does poh kim import dramas? Say.. are dramas from last season (like sapuri and My boss my hero) in stock yet? I saw all of the doramas from last season in china during my short holiday there. And they sell it for like less than $10 sing over there -.-

ya! this place suddenly so alive ^^ haha, actually i m new too! been watching jdramas for the past 5 mths or so.. :dancing:

i noe kurosagi, dandori, sapuri n MBMH are selling alr, for quite some time.. i go there like twice a week.. haha.. so they are quite fast..

jdramas usually no eng subs unless it's dvd.. i tink, n the vcds selling in the shops are usually from malaysia, tt's y quite fast.. n dubbing's usually by taiwan companies, i tink singapore doesn't do dubbing, so if we do not get jdramas from taiwan or china, den there's no dubbing.. yup yup.. n singaporeans are nt used to china dubbings.. sounds funny.. :bonk:

this season... tatta hitotsu no koi by kame is nice!!! one more episode to go.. =) n my fren says 14 sai no haha is nice as well..

n i cant influence any of my frens to watch jdramas! haha.. they are too engrossed in their cable n wadsoever.. :banghead:

Looks like not going to be easy to buy Japanese dramas in stores. I guess th best is to get online. Like for some really good Japanese dramas not even selling in Singapore.....have to get online or d/l. Just like the show
"Vampire gigolo" ....

montanaky wrote:

ya! this place suddenly so alive ^^ haha, actually i m new too! been watching jdramas for the past 5 mths or so.. :dancing:

i noe kurosagi, dandori, sapuri n MBMH are selling alr, for quite some time.. i go there like twice a week.. haha.. so they are quite fast..

jdramas usually no eng subs unless it's dvd.. i tink, n the vcds selling in the shops are usually from malaysia, tt's y quite fast.. n dubbing's usually by taiwan companies, i tink singapore doesn't do dubbing, so if we do not get jdramas from taiwan or china, den there's no dubbing.. yup yup.. n singaporeans are nt used to china dubbings.. sounds funny.. :bonk:

this season... tatta hitotsu no koi by kame is nice!!! one more episode to go.. =) n my fren says 14 sai no haha is nice as well..

n i cant influence any of my frens to watch jdramas! haha.. they are too engrossed in their cable n wadsoever.. :banghead:

I'm actually quite new to jdramas too! My crazy only started like this year's april when my friend introduced h2 to me. I continued with ganbatte ikimasshoi, one litre of tears and totally got hooked then.

Ahh.. that's quite fast. Sorry i'm swaku but where's poh kim?

Hmmm.. don't think any of those dramas are in dvd form right? And subbed by taiwan, that explains the trad chi..

tatta hitotsu no koi HMM ok i'll try that because someone else recommended that to me a few weeks ago too. but well.. if it's something like sapuri then i'll :banghead:

lol.. i basically nag at my friends about the jdramas i watched and basically they got tired of me, decided to watch and got hooked on from there ^^

www.crunchyroll.com is a good site to watch from!

hello! welcome to this thread. yay it's getting more alive here now!!

Nodame cantabile.. what's it about? I didn't try a single of this season's dramas because i didn't know which to watch.

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Megumi Noda, or "Nodame," is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. Although she is an extremely talented pianist who can play by ear, she can't read music. She also hates to take a bath or clean her room. For her daily meals, she usually grabs something out of her friend's lunchbox.

Nodame soon falls in love with Momogaoka's top student, Shinichi Chiaki. Born into a musical family, he plays the piano and violin brilliantly. Although his major is piano, he has secret ambitions to become a conductor.

Based on the big hit comic book by Tomoko Ninomiya, this is the romantic comedy of two completely different personalities. -- Fuji-TV

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

Overall it`s a drama full of humor like my boss my hero :hehe:

Speaking of which, how fast does poh kim import dramas? Say.. are dramas from last season (like sapuri and My boss my hero) in stock yet? I saw all of the doramas from last season in china during my short holiday there. And they sell it for like less than $10 sing over there

In chinatown there is a place which sell drama vcd at $10 , the package is the same i saw at poh kim ha ha i bought Nobuta wo Produce there

but the tilte are limited , the latest i saw were attention please , Ichi Ritoru no Namida , Gal Circle and Kurosagi :sweat:

The shop is located at the shopping center whose first floor is CK departure store which sell a lot of cloths

hydetetsu wrote:In chinatown there is a place which sell drama vcd at $10 , the package is the same i saw at poh kim ha ha i bought Nobuta wo Produce there

but the tilte are limited , the latest i saw were attention please , Ichi Ritoru no Namida , Gal Circle and Kurosagi :sweat:

The shop is located at the shopping center whose first floor is CK departure store which sell a lot of cloths

serious! i nv knew tt!! n i always shop at chinatown somemore... *feels cheated* :grumble: :banghead: i like the packaging at poh kim more than the ones in TS, urgh.. n i bought nobuta wo produce at TS.. shld hav ventured ard more... i dun like the malay subtitles above the chinese words, cos it covers quite alot of the picture.. but i cant afford dvd.. so.. haha.. will hav to bear with it.. :bonk:

shall go there n look ard the next time i visit.. hey but i know there's a poh kim branch located somewhere near there.. :crazy:

jess wrote:tatta hitotsu no koi HMM ok i'll try that because someone else recommended that to me a few weeks ago too. but well.. if it's something like sapuri then i'll :banghead:

it's nth like sapuri! haha, although i haven watch sapuri, lol :sweat: but my fren said she cannot stand sapuri at all, but this one's really gr8, although i duno y the ratings were low in japan.. it's those sad sad kind of show, but the bg music's really good n kame's acting rox! haha.. n poh kim is located all ard singapore, yellow signboard, u'll spot it if look ard, haha.. :mrgreen:

oh n the shows tt u mentioned, they are available in dvd.. hee^^ but it's ard $29.90.. i saw some ard the $21.90 also in toa payoh.. :victory:

montanaky wrote:

it's nth like sapuri! haha, although i haven watch sapuri, lol :sweat: but my fren said she cannot stand sapuri at all, but this one's really gr8, although i duno y the ratings were low in japan.. it's those sad sad kind of show, but the bg music's really good n kame's acting rox! haha.. n poh kim is located all ard singapore, yellow signboard, u'll spot it if look ard, haha.. :mrgreen:

oh n the shows tt u mentioned, they are available in dvd.. hee^^ but it's ard $29.90.. i saw some ard the $21.90 also in toa payoh.. :victory:

haha GOOD then. i watched one episode of sapuri and couldn't stand it already.. realized i haven't watched a drama that's purely a love story. Shall try that kame drama then! The only drama i've seen kame in is nobuta wo produce and he did quite a good job :applaud: Yeah.. drama ratings seem to be on the low ends nowadays in japan too.

lol looks like i better open my eyes bigger. The dvds you said that are sold in toa payoh don't happen to be sold in that cd shop at the underpass leading to the MRT station right?? If so i better :bonk: since i pass by that place every day home from school LOL.

hydetetsu wrote:

Megumi Noda, or "Nodame," is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. Although she is an extremely talented pianist who can play by ear, she can't read music. She also hates to take a bath or clean her room. For her daily meals, she usually grabs something out of her friend's lunchbox.

Nodame soon falls in love with Momogaoka's top student, Shinichi Chiaki. Born into a musical family, he plays the piano and violin brilliantly. Although his major is piano, he has secret ambitions to become a conductor.

Based on the big hit comic book by Tomoko Ninomiya, this is the romantic comedy of two completely different personalities. -- Fuji-TV

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

Overall it`s a drama full of humor like my boss my hero :hehe:

In chinatown there is a place which sell drama vcd at $10 , the package is the same i saw at poh kim ha ha i bought Nobuta wo Produce there

but the tilte are limited , the latest i saw were attention please , Ichi Ritoru no Namida , Gal Circle and Kurosagi :sweat:

The shop is located at the shopping center whose first floor is CK departure store which sell a lot of cloths

Hmm.. nodame cantabile sounds interesting and something that i will like! Shall try that and the kame drama after i finished dragonzakura :dancing:

Whoas. Just checked the drama tv ratings thread and apparently Nodame cantabile is probably one of the most popular drama this season? Dr Koto 2006's the most popular, anyone watches it?

Strange that a kame drama did so badly, i would have thought the mere fact that kame's acting would mean a must watch for kame and kat-tun fans-->high rating, maybe everyone was expecting a sapuri no.2 :hehe:

what?!! drama at $10 in SINGAPORE?! That's amazing. Thanks for the recommendation hydetetsu!! I must check out that place one day. Which shopping centre is that at exactly? :crazy:

jess wrote:

haha GOOD then. i watched one episode of sapuri and couldn't stand it already.. realized i haven't watched a drama that's purely a love story. Shall try that kame drama then! The only drama i've seen kame in is nobuta wo produce and he did quite a good job :applaud: Yeah.. drama ratings seem to be on the low ends nowadays in japan too.

lol looks like i better open my eyes bigger. The dvds you said that are sold in toa payoh don't happen to be sold in that cd shop at the underpass leading to the MRT station right?? If so i better :bonk: since i pass by that place every day home from school LOL.

no no.. haha, i seldom walk by there, tt one's TS if i m nt wrong.. :bonk: i jus realise TS has yellow signboard too.. hahaha..

the one i'm talking abt is the one nex to KFC in toa payoh, they hav all kinds of shows there, haha, i like tt place, always my last hope when shows elsewhere are sold out.. :mrgreen:

montanaky wrote:

no no.. haha, i seldom walk by there, tt one's TS if i m nt wrong.. :bonk: i jus realise TS has yellow signboard too.. hahaha..

the one i'm talking abt is the one nex to KFC in toa payoh, they hav all kinds of shows there, haha, i like tt place, always my last hope when shows elsewhere are sold out.. :mrgreen:

HMM KFC.. where's the kfc!! i don't remember a kfc in toa payoh. isit near the MRT station?

jess wrote:

HMM KFC.. where's the kfc!! i don't remember a kfc in toa payoh. isit near the MRT station?

haha.. do u live in toa payoh? haha, u sound like a town person.. the kfc's somewhere near the mrt station but u hav walk past ya kun, n some shops, den u'll guardian n kfc :mrgreen: heh..

btw where do u find the tv ratings? haha, can hunt for some new shows to watch :sweat:

montanaky wrote:

haha.. do u live in toa payoh? haha, u sound like a town person.. the kfc's somewhere near the mrt station but u hav walk past ya kun, n some shops, den u'll guardian n kfc :mrgreen: heh..

btw where do u find the tv ratings? haha, can hunt for some new shows to watch :sweat:

haha no lah! it will be very sad if i live in toa payoh and don't know there's a kfc there -.- but i do take bus 105 to toa payoh mrt every school day to go home :) Ermm.. isit anywhere near Macs?

you can find the tv rating list here^^: http://jdorama.com/viewtopic.5651.htm&sid=035f23592e067c4a6a1e41ee30bd9ea5

haha you're scary! are you online 24 hour a day or what :) :)

jess wrote:

haha no lah! it will be very sad if i live in toa payoh and don't know there's a kfc there -.- but i do take bus 105 to toa payoh mrt every school day to go home :) Ermm.. isit anywhere near Macs?

you can find the tv rating list here^^: http://jdorama.com/viewtopic.5651.htm&sid=035f23592e067c4a6a1e41ee30bd9ea5

haha you're scary! are you online 24 hour a day or what :) :)

it's after macs if u walk out from the mrt station.. haha..

woo, it's sad tt tatta hitotsu no koi has such a low rating, i thot it's quite a nice show.. mayb the others are nicer, haha.. :bonk: the ratings fell all the way ever since it started, but reached the highest at eps 9.. which i tink is the best eps also.. :victory: waiting for the finale!

er, my laptop is on most of the time when i m home, haha.. n lately i overspent so hav to lock myself at home to save some money for xmas :lol: n it's raining these few days, cant really go out as well, so tt's y i m hanging ard here so much nowadays, hahaha.. :sweat: