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Saikou no Rikon SP 2014
The gang is back for more hijinks one year after the series ended. Eita is the same grumbling guy as usual, Ono Machiko is having a strong awakening if her maternal instincts, Ayano Go runs into his...
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Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin DX Pack has arrived!
It was sent from Nippon Yasan inside a box and wrapped up in newspaper. I usually order from play-asia but while I was mulling over whether to get the DX pack in December, pre-orders quickly sold out...
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Sakamoto Yuji - Soredemo Ikite Yuku interview Part 3B
The original interview can be found here. Corrections and comments are most welcome. Thanks to Chuks and Satomi for translation help. Only the last 1/4 of the interview left to go, if I can tear myself...
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Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin! review
After 94 hours of playing the 11th game in the Ryu go Gotoku franchise in hard mode over the course of 11 days, I was hoping to write about how freaking brilliant this Sakuraba Nanami game was but...
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Iryu 4 eps 1-6
Team Dragon are back, surprisingly reformed in episode 1 by Asada of all people, except for nurse Miki who didn't do season 3 and is now doing some stupid chocolate dorama. I was very surprised episode...
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Neko Zamurai 1-6
Damn, how did I miss this dorama? Probably cause its a TV Kanagawa production and there . Never heard of them til now, but apparently, they are in independent tv station that does nice anime. Sounds...
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Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki review
After 135 hours including who knows how many hours of looking up archaic Japanese, I finally finished this bloody long game. This is my second Legend of Heroes game, after Zero no Kiseki Evolution. Sen...
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Looking at Winter 2014 Jdoramas
FINISHED WATCHINGNEKO ZAMURAIThe only good show so far for me this season. I would have liked more Samurai stuff but it still makes for fun laid back viewing. I have nothing bad to say about this show....
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Sukabaa! Adult Broadcast Awards 2014
Pretty late with this news as it happened at the beginning of this month. I blame all my gaming for distracting me from important news like this. Here are the winners:BEST ACTRESS: HATONO YUII...
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Soil eps 1-5
Soil is a weird small town mystery dorama with subdued slapstick humour and some dark and heavy content. The best way to describe Soil would be a cross between Atami no Sousakan and Trick. Two cops,...
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The Raid 2 Berandal
OMFG. What a trip! So nice to watch a non-cgfied, no wire-fu and utterly brutal action movie and so happy that the movie is showing in Australia. My main concerns going in were that they would try to...
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Jmovie Review: Library Wars
In an alternate reality Japan, the Japanese government passes a censorship act, the Media Betterment Act (MBA) banning all works that are harmful to society. To combat this, the freedom of libraries...
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Captain America: The Winter Solider, Project Diva F2 and the latest...
The best way to sum up Winter Soldier is that it makes me want to see Cap 3 more than I want Avengers 2 which is shooting now. Playing Cap as Jason Bourne is a great idea. This is the solo Marvel movie...
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Snowpiercer
I have been waiting for this movie for so long. Its been a long time since Bong Joon-ho's Host and Mother, two of the best Korean movies I've seen. Snowpiercer came out in South Korea last year and...
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Chi no Wadachi
Sigh, how did WOWOW get so many things wrong with Chi no Wadachi. The basic story is that Tanihara Shosuke and Harada Taizo are former best friends from the first investigation division. Harada attacks...
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Mozu: The great jdorama hope of 2014?
Two years ago, TBS and WOWOW did co-operated to make Double Face, a remake of Infernal Affairs which showed that outside of Gaiji Keisatsu/Rinjo/Gonzo, the Japanese could make a cop show that was...
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Looking at Spring 2014 jdoramas
JDORAMAS THAT SHOULD BE SUBBED--------------------------------------------------MOSAIC JAPANSAKAMOTO YUJI + WOWOW + adult videos? WTF????!!!!! I must be hallucinating!!! Never in a million years could...
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Mozu season 1 Ep 1
Ep 1 is an ok set up episode. The whole thing can be summed up into two storylines that are connected but have parts that feel disconnected. First, we have Kuraki's (Nishijima Hidetoshi) story. He's...
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Black President Ep 1
All hail Ozaki Masaya, one of the best jdorama writers out there having written KDO, Love Generation and Tadano Hitoshi! KDO is one of the greatest jdoramas ever and I never suspected that we would...
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Mozu season 1 Episode 2
torachan2006 has subbed the first episode of Mozu. You need to jump through some hoops to get the subs but I support subbers not wanting their hard work to be used to streaming sites to make money. If...
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