Love Riron / Love Theory
Love Riron as the name suggests is a dorama about love theory.Nakamura Shido is the manager of a combini claims his love theory enables any dude to have sex to race queens, models, female announcers...
View ArticleHenshin Interviewer no Yuutsu eps 1+2
Talk about a Johnny starring vehicle once again featuring a singer who should not be on the tv screen. It may have Miki Satoshi's name on it but its just a third rate Trick/Yabe Kenzo wannabe that's...
View ArticleAmachan eps 13-42 thoughts
1. Kitasanriku doesn't have any attractions besides the Amas but it took them a while to figure out they had Japan's best natural resource - schoolgirls. :)2. Aki and Yui can't be the only cute...
View ArticleNo Con Kid eps 5-7, 10-12
Episode 5 - Tetris/ColumnsI like how the episode starts with people playing Tetris at the university and Kid looking at windows imagining they were Tetris blocks. Reiji falls head over hells over his...
View ArticleTokyo Toy Box eps 1+2
THE GOOD- Story about struggling mobile game maker. Not something you see everyday and we've got stories about making deadlines, sales expectations and coming up with a design document.- Legend of...
View ArticleDokushin Kizoku eps 1-3
Dokushin Kizoku starts of presenting itself as the story of three single people, two movie producer brothers born with silver spoons in their mouths and Kitagawa Keiko who doesn't want to get married...
View ArticleTokyo Toy Box eps 3-12
Besides the overacting and the bad guy from Solidus who does not do any game related work besides scheming against G3, Tokyo Toy Box was fun to watch. Afterall, its a simple story of a group of...
View ArticleTokyo Bandwagon eps 1+2
Tokyo Bandwagon is a large family cum mystery dorama. You've got 4 generations of the Hotta family running a used bookstore and cafe while solving some neighbourhood problem every episode.THE...
View ArticleHAMSAPSUKEBE JDORAMA AWARDS 2013
I CAN'T BELIEVE AWARDS 2013- I can't believe the number of must-watch jdoramas in 2013. I think this must be the best year in jdoramas I can remember. This is also the hardest time I've ever had trying...
View ArticleDai Tokyo Toy Box eps 1-4
Imagine a dorama where this 16 year old girl who is always on ADD meds and has no experience whatsoever goes to a law firm and says they should hire her because she's watched all episodes of Law &...
View ArticleIsharyou Bengoshi eps 1-3
Isharyou Bengoshi is about this lawyer played by Tanaka Naoki (the affair dude from Limit) who specialises in getting compensation in divorce cases. Also starring Akiko Yada as his first case who...
View ArticleAshita, Mama ga Inai ep 1
Thanks to jadefrost for pointing out that Nojima Shinki is the script supervisor as can be seen above. If you've been following Japanese entertainment news, you can't escape the so called Ashita, Mama...
View ArticleSakamoto Yuji - Soredemo Ikite Yuku interview Part 3A
I haven't touched the interview since my Japan trip but I am determined to see this through to the end. Thanks to Chuks for fixing my translations and hopefully it reads better than my previous...
View ArticleWhy Fukuda Saki is not getting a push.
Was going through Majide2ch, a nice blog that translates various stuff from 2ch and came across this post about Anne and Fukuda Saki. As mentioned many times, Oscar agency's huge push of Gouriki Ayame...
View ArticleLegend of Galactic Heroes anime remake???!!!
Just saw this post at Jin115 and I couldn't believe my eyes. I'm pretty sure アニメ化 means making an anime version and there's already a classic 100+ episode series which I dearly love. I could watch it...
View ArticleS -Saigo no Keikan- ep 1
Saigo no Keikan is a tokusatsu show masquerading as a cop dorama. There is not even an ounch of realism or excitement in this show. Contrived things happen so that certain characters can do and say...
View ArticleIsharyou Bengoshi Ep 4
This is such a weird domestic violence (DV) episode. Husband gets abused by wife and what does the lawyer do? Send him back to get whacked by the wife so that they can get evidence of the abuse. I...
View ArticleJmovie review: R100
From Matsumoto Hitoshi, the writer and director of the awesome Scabbard Samurai comes the most 'WTF did I just watch' movie of the year, R100. Omori Nao (security guy from Link) is a mild mannered...
View ArticleKinkyuu Torishirabe Shitsu ep 1
I found the fact that Amami Yuki's character was angry the hostage taker was shot when clearly the hostage who had run out from the bus was in danger. Yes, she could have possibly continued to talk him...
View ArticleRewatching Shinsengumi!
I could have sworn I wrote a review for Shinsengumi! since it was the first taiga dorama that I ever completed but it didn't show up in the search box. Hhhmm, on further inspection, I didn't even...
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