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The Great War of Archimedes jmovie review
In the 1930s after WW1, there are two camps among the commanding Japanese naval officer. One camp wants Japan to build a the largest and greatest battleship in the world aka Yamato and the second camp...
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Double Cheat: Itsuwari no Keikan season 2
It has been a while since I watched the first season of Double Cheat. A reskinned version of Kurosagi for an older audience about a police officer who scams the scammers. I had forgotten a lot of the...
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Dareka ga Kono Machi de jdorama review
WOWOW has done it again! Dareka ga Kono Machi de is small town crime thriller about a little boy who was murdered in Yokuna town 23 years ago and the disappearance of a family. Eguchi Yusuke is an...
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Oshi no Ko Episodes 1~7
Finally got around to watching Oshi no Ko on Prime, the live action adaptation of the super popular manga. I knew nothing of Oshi no Ko except having seen the main character Hoshino Ai everywhere and...
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Game no na wa Yuukai Episodes 2~4
One thing that happens a lot in jdoramas is a very good first episode introducing the characters and the plot of the story because the possibilities are limitless and I salivating at another must watch...
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Respect the source material: Adaptations in jdorama and jmovies
There is a story in Oshi no Ko about the mangaka played by Shida Mirai who was not happy with the script of her the dorama adaptation of her work got me thinking about adaptations in general. Shida...
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Your Eyes Tell / Kimi no me ga Toikakateiru jmovie review
I have had this 2020 Yoshitaka Yuriko movie in my hdd for a very long time. She plays Akari, a blind woman who likes to watch this dorama with an old man working working at a car park because he could...
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Shoujiki Fudousan Season 2
Shoujiki Fudousan was a surprisingly watchable jdorama. It was the first Yamapi lead role jdorama which I did not dislike and that is a miracle in itself. It was an educational and fun story about a...
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Informa - Yami wo Ikiru Kemonotachi
The first season of Informa was an ambitious but flawed yakuza action jdorama that had a really good parts and action scenes you don't normally see in jdoramas. As Kaname Jun said in Oshi no Ko,...
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Hagetaka 2018 jdorama review
The 2009 NHK jdorama Hagetaka is one of my favourite jdoramas ever. Who would have thought that a story about foreign funds buying up Japanese companies after the collapse of the bubble would be so...
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Golden Kamuy live action review
Once upon a time, the idea of a live action remake of manga/anime shows would send a shudder down my spine. Sure we had shows like H2 which are easy to adapt but we had crap like Ranma 1/2 and Shingeki...
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OKURA ~ Meikyuu Iri Jiken Sousa ~ Episodes 1~6
Okura starts off as a police department that solves cold cases. They have a quota of cold cases to digitise everyday and they have cases to solve. I wanted to give Okura a try because of Sorimachi and...
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Gannibal season 1 jdorama review
Faiz Ikari recommended me the first season of Gannibal some time ago. I had it sitting on my HD for a long time because I wasn't in a mood for a cannibal jdorama. I was pessimistic that someone else...
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Private Banker Episodes 1~3
When I saw the name Private Banker I thought it was going to be a show about money lenders for the rich, a sort of Yamikin Ushijima-kun for rich people. However, while this private banker played...
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Jiken jdorama 2023 review
I was looking through the jdrama fansub map thinking what other 2023 shows I should watch when I noticed this WOWOW show Jiken. I had downloaded the first 2 episodes from dramahd before it closed and...
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Lies of P : Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Once upon a time, a genius by the name of Miyazaki Hidetaka made the Souls series of games starting from Demons Souls to Dark Souls 1~3. They started out not being mainstream popular but had a...
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Apollo no Uta Eps 1~3
Apollo no Uta is about a guy called Shogo who becomes becomes a gigolo because of his childhood trauma seeing his mother sleep with many different men. He goes through life without care except for his...
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64 / Rokuyon jdorama review
64 is an 2015 NHK show about an unsolved case where a little girl was kidnapped for ransom and was found dead after the money was delivered. The 64 in the title refers to the year when the crime...
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Gannibal S2 Episodes 1+2
Season 2 of Gannibal is here! The first season ended at a very exciting cliffhanger when I thought the show was close to finishing. Our main character Agawa had discovered the secret and was close to...
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Stepfather Step Episodes 1~5
When I found out that jptv.club was closing, I went on a crazy download spree. No need to keep a good ratio anymore, it was time to leech like crazy and get some shows I had never seen before. I was...
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Tsugunai The Unforgiven Blu Ray
Tsugunai is near the top of my list for jdoramas that I like a lot more than I should. I love the cast with Tanihara Shosuke who now does morning tv, Kimura Tae and the late Ashina Sei. The story of...
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Shiroi Kyoto 2019 jdorama review
I wrote about the first episode of the 2019 remake a long time ago. I think I might have watched episode 2 but I never finished the series for some reason. Recently I have been thinking I need to...
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House of the Owl Episodes 1+2
Disney Plus' House of the Owl has a lot in common with Netflix House of Ninjas. Instead of a family of Ninjas, the head of the house is the fixer of Japan played known as the Owl by Tanaka Min. The...
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Watashi no Takaramono Eps 1+2
Watashi no Takaramono starts with wife played by Matsumoto Wakana busy preparing the apartment for husband played by Tanaka Kei to host his colleagues. She gets the name of one of his colleagues wrong...
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SandLand anime review
When I first saw the visuals for Toriyama Akira's SandLand, I just thought it was Go! Go! Ackman set in the desert which Sandland is. I had no interest in watching SandLand, even with the Toriyama...
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