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Tokumei Tantei Season 2 Eps 1-4
In season 2 of Tokumei Tantei, the fanservice element has really been stripped down to the point that it feels a lot more like any other generic detective series instead of a hard boiled detective...
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Mozu season 2: Maboroshi no Tsubasa
It took me up to season two to realise two things about Mozu. Firstly, its set in an alternate reality Japan despite no real signs in the first season that this is not our reality. The second is that...
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Wakamonotachi 2014 Eps 1-5
Wakamonotachi 2014 is basically Under the Same Roof 2014. An old school huge family without parents dorama. I'm guessing Under the Same Roof / Hitotsu Yane no Shita is probably a copy of the original...
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Kazokugari Episodes 1-6
Kazokugari or family hunting is a whodunnit show where a bunch of murder suicides have been happening. Children have been killing their parents and then committing suicide afterwards. Endo Kenichi...
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Oyaji no Senaka Eps 1-4
Oyaji no Senaka is what happens when you put Japan's best scriptwriters together with the best actors. Its not rocket science but its something that does not happen a lot in the world of jdoramas....
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Last Doctor Eps 1-5
The fourth show in the summer of Ozaki Masaya, we have Last Doctor a medical examiner show. There's three nice things about this show. First is no one wears that stupid see through plastic thing that...
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Hakugin Jack jdorama special
Yet another jdorama based on a Higashino Keigo novel, Hakugin Jack is a disappointment from the beginning. The start of the dorama special is Watanabe Ken's character on skis chasing after a...
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The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki Evolution
I finally finished my third The Legend of Heroes game. In this age of where many RPGs play more like action games, there are not many old school style rpgs besides this and the Bravely series, both of...
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Oyaji no Senaka Eps 5-7
Episode 5: DobukoAs much as I dislike Horikita Maki (when has she ever shown she could act?), this is a very funny story with Endo Kenichi playing the father who specialises in playing bad guys who die...
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Summer 2014 jdoramas at a glance
KAKOZUGARI Eps 8+9Wow. What a great two episodes! This is turning out to be a must watch show despite my dislike for Densha's acting. I cannot bloody wait for episode 10. I'll save my words for why...
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Seijo Eps 1+2
Seijo is a story where 10 years ago, a college student/home tutor, Ozawa Maria (Hirosue Ryoyo) statutorily rapes this lucky high school played by Mr Riichi from Mosaic Japan. High school kid falls head...
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Kazokugari Ep 10
Wow. Kazokugari has turned out to be the surprise good show of this season for me. There were moments in the middle where I thought it was trying to hard to be something else but it all comes together...
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Sword Art Online Season 1
I was happy to read that dgundam tried out LoGH and loved it. I was going to reply that in this age of Sword Art Online, epic non harem anime like LoGH can never be made. They tried with Guin Saga and...
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Why Petero no Souretsu is a must watch jdorama
1. Its a mystery dorama that's more concerned with making sense than creating too many swerves.2. Very even keel in terms of pacing. Every episode leaves me wanting the see what happens next and I...
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Jmovie review: The Snow White Murder Case / Shiroyukihime Satsujin Jiken
Wow. It is not often that jmovies come up with a gem like this; a tight murder mystery movie with social commentary and great acting. This girl from a cosmetics company is killed and is dubbed Snow...
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Gokuaku Ganbo
I started watching this a long time ago and have only recently completed the series. Ono Machiko gets into debt trouble because of her deadbeat boyfriend and ends up owing Koshimizu Management...
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Risou no Joushi
Risou no Joushi, as the title suggests, is about Nagatsuka Kyozo (Petero no Souretsu) who plays the perfect middle management boss, Sakamoto in a travel agency. Sakamoto has just been transferred back...
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Yamikin Ushijima-kun the movie
I liked the first season, the second season was boring and this is the movie that bridges the two seasons. Ushijima the series was never really about the main character, who is more a force of nature....
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Nakuna Hara-chan
Nakuna Hara-chan is an interesting dorama by Okada Yoshikazu (Saigo Kara Nibanme no Koi). Echizen-san (Aso Kumiko) draws manga as a hobby and one day Hara-chan, one of the characters in her manga...
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The End of Summer / Natsu no Owari
A year ago, I had to chose between The Apology King and Natsu no Owari during the Japanese Film Festival and I regretted choosing The Apology King. After a long wait, I finally got to watch this...
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