Well..... lucky you guys.


I would envy you a lot. Over here in North America, I don't get the chance to watch ANY J-dramas whatsoever. The ones I've seen, I have either only bought them in S'pore and Malaysia or just download subbed ones on the internet.


The only Japanese TV shows that I get here are old episodes of PopJapan TV and a few other older variety shows that are kind of interesting, but not nearly that recent. You have to get satellite TV around here to even think about getting stuff like NHK's popjam and other NHK programs.


It sucks living here. I hardly watch TV as it is. Actually, most of my "TV" watching comes from downloading a few odd Japanese music shows and the like from online sources.

I missed the last ep of waterboys... totally forgot about it as i was out at my friend's house...

anyone kind enough to give a brief summary of what happened?

windrider wrote:

I missed the last ep of waterboys... totally forgot about it as i was out at my friend's house... anyone kind enough to give a brief summary of what happened?

they were still looking for their fifth member.. and the president tanaka(eita) would not give them a chance to join the festival.. hanamura kyoko decided to help them out by using tanaka's attraction to her as a bait to make tanaka soften.. but tanaka found out and was really insulted.. the next day, he couldn't find the money he was keeping for the festival and immediately the student's council blamed it on the four synchro guys.. takahara(ishigaki yuma) was really angry at tanaka's attitude and went to confront him.. they found the money clipped in tanaka's book.. instead of reporting to the teachers that tanaka was setting them up, the four guys were just really happy to get the money back.. howvere, they still did not have their fifth member after yasuda, kankuro's(yamada takayuki) friend let them down.. the only thing they could do now was swim.. so they went to the sakuragi school's pool where kyoko had got the permission from the teacher to allow them to use the pool.. tanaka met them there and handed a list of people applying for the festival.. at the bottom of the list was the synchro guys..!! kankuro couldn't believe it.. and the four guys jumped about happily before realising they still had one member short.. they turned around to ask tanaka about it, and realised he had stripped down to his trunks.. saying he joined a the fifth member..

**end** ^^

doumo arigato... so regretful i didnt watch it... seems like a whole lot of things happened

wsim wrote:

Well..... lucky you guys. I would envy you a lot. Over here in North America, I don't get the chance to watch ANY J-dramas whatsoever. The ones I've seen, I have either only bought them in S'pore and Malaysia or just download subbed ones on the internet. The only Japanese TV shows that I get here are old episodes of PopJapan TV and a few other older variety shows that are kind of interesting, but not nearly that recent. You have to get satellite TV around here to even think about getting stuff like NHK's popjam and other NHK programs. It sucks living here. I hardly watch TV as it is. Actually, most of my "TV" watching comes from downloading a few odd Japanese music shows and the like from online sources.

i envy u too,cuz u get to watch Japanese Variety shows.....in Singapore, there aren't any more Japanese Variety shows. i don't know i if starhub cable have any or not....but I certianly hope variety show like Musicstation,ASAYAN, Mecha^2 Iketteru!, SMAPxSMAP, Tetsuwan! Dash, Giragameshu etc.....will be aired in Singapore.....

when will otousan start airing? on 7th feb? or it has already started airing?

randall wrote:

when will otousan start airing? on 7th feb? or it has already started airing?

most probably this saturday.. it hasn't aired yet.. ^^

Hi all, I happened by chance to get a copy of the Program Highlights catalogue 2004 which Mediacorp had produced for its corporate clients. It contained the list of J-dramas which they had acquired rights to air. Thought I share wif all of you here what to expect for the rest of the year.

Sat. slot:
Good Luck!!
The Flatterer
Style!
Freezing Point 2001
See you in Kowloon

Sun. slot
Power Office Girl - The Final Chapter
Always the 2 of us
Searching for my Polestar
Double Score
Hundred Tales of Horror.

thanks abk.. but good luck & double score hv been shown or r showing on e city.. -_-

arghh... sat 11am rite? wun be able to watch

why cant they air at night instead

No dramas with Yukie in the list.... it's gonna be a sad year...

The only one on the list for me is Always the 2 of us.. even though I've seen it already..
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Just curious..... as I don't live in Singapore, how long does it take a new Japanese drama to be aired in your country? I'm assuming that most are without English subtitles and are only in Chinese subtitles right? I cannot watch any Japanese dramas on TV, no station has them and the only Japanese satellite TV station only has a few odd NHK based ones. I have to pay a lot for actual Japanese programming, even if it is only really NHK stuff.


Therefore, I just stock up on new dramas from my friend, usually. He finds a lot of stuff on the internet. Or just from my cousin in Singapore, the last time I went there, which was a couple of years back, I stocked up on some nice VCDs. It would last me for at least a couple more years, lol.


To answer your previous question, as for shows like Music Station and SmapXSmap, I only get to see them through downloading them through bittorrent sources.

dramas shown in singapore are mostly with english subs.. because not only the chinese watch it.. ^^

wsim wrote:

Just curious..... as I don't live in Singapore, how long does it take a new Japanese drama to be aired in your country? I'm assuming that most are without English subtitles and are only in Chinese subtitles right? I cannot watch any Japanese dramas on TV, no station has them and the only Japanese satellite TV station only has a few odd NHK based ones. I have to pay a lot for actual Japanese programming, even if it is only really NHK stuff. Therefore, I just stock up on new dramas from my friend, usually. He finds a lot of stuff on the internet. Or just from my cousin in Singapore, the last time I went there, which was a couple of years back, I stocked up on some nice VCDs. It would last me for at least a couple more years, lol. To answer your previous question, as for shows like Music Station and SmapXSmap, I only get to see them through downloading them through bittorrent sources.

velvet_ice wrote:

It has always been this way. New doramas in Japan will be broadcast here about 1, or even 2 years later. This is because MCS supposedly has to 'order' the dorama from fujitv. Go visit the official fujitv site, then surf somewhere around 'overseas partners', then click on Singapore. You'll see a list of doramas that have been screened here.

read the above

abk wrote:

Hi all, I happened by chance to get a copy of the Program Highlights catalogue 2004 which Mediacorp had produced for its corporate clients. It contained the list of J-dramas which they had acquired rights to air. Thought I share wif all of you here what to expect for the rest of the year. Sat. slot: Good Luck!! The Flatterer Style! Freezing Point 2001 See you in Kowloon Sun. slot Power Office Girl - The Final Chapter Always the 2 of us Searching for my Polestar Double Score Hundred Tales of Horror.

wow....where do u get this info from? btw, do u have any idea if channel u will have aired any jdramas?

windrider wrote:

arghh... sat 11am rite? wun be able to watch why cant they air at night instead

not 11am, but 10.45am(i wouldn't want u to miss the early part of the drama)...ya lo...they shld aired in on sat night instead

woah.. this thread is ancient..!! >_< well, just for the record, moto kare will start tomorrow tuesday on channel 56 E City.. after good luck! ends its run today.. on at 10am and 10pm.... or is it 11pm?

Thanks Arashinokoto.. was looking for this thread but I couldn't, for the life of me, find it....

Moto Kare
Starts 2nd March Channel 56 at 11.00 pm (then every monday and tuesday at the same timeslot

101 Wedding Proposals --- Starts 3rd March Channel 56 11.00pm ( then every wed, thurs and friday )

Lieutenant Ninzaburo Furuhata 1 - Starts 31st March Channel 56 11.00pm[/b]
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DragonSpirit164 wrote:

Thanks Arashinokoto.. was looking for this thread but I couldn't, for the life of me, find it.... Moto Kare Starts 2nd March Channel 56 at 11.00 pm (then every monday and tuesday at the same timeslot 101 Wedding Proposals --- Starts 3rd March Channel 56 11.00pm ( then every wed, thurs and friday ) Lieutenant Ninzaburo Furuhata 1 - Starts 31st March Channel 56 11.00pm[/b]

Hey man. How come we don't have that kind of 'good stuff' in Hawaii???!!
The dramas we have is all old and stuff. (Except Musashi)
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