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Re Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Eps 1-7
Isekai Seikatsu is yet another light novel adaptation with a long name and interesting premise that doesn't take full advantage of the concept and ends up being yet another generic moe harem anime.This...
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Kiseki no Hito Eps 1-3
Ladies and gentlemen, I have found my feel good dorama that I like more than I should in Kiseki no Hito. The last jdorama which fit this discription was Coffee-ya no Hitobito, also from NHK BS Premium....
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Yureru / Sway movie review
This has been on my to be watched list for so long and somehow I thought about watching it and did so. Odagiri Joe and Kagawa Teruyuki are brothers. Odagiri's gone to Tokyo and become a photographer...
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Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Eps 1-8
WHATÂ IS IT?Attack on Titan with zombies mixed with Snowpiercer.WHAT I LIKED+ Beautiful detailed 90s inspired artwork. I'm sick of the moe round face style used by so many light novel adaptations. The...
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5 ways Juhan Shuttai! Eps 3-7 got better
1) Kokoro the obnoxiously genki, overacting asadora main character becomes more of the main supporting character.2) The supporting character take turns being the main character instead.3) Usually in...
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Dear Doctor movie review
After watching Sway and talking to a friend about it, I was recommended Nishikawa Miwa's other movie Dear Doctor. While Sway's twist didn't work for me, she did direct Dreams for Sale/Yume uru Futari...
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Saigo no Restaurant Eps 1-6
When bframe told me that Fukuda Mayuko was in Saigo no Restaurant, I knew I had to check it out. I can't even remember the last time I saw her and now she is in a dorama with pigtails and a maid...
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Kamogawa Shokudo Eps 1-3
It seems like the jdorama trend now is to add food to any genre and in Kamogawa Shokudo's case, its the detective genre or more specifically investigating the past of people seeking to taste a dish...
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Kiseki no Hito Eps 4-8
Kiseki no Hito is just a visual delight to look at.Jdoramas are a visual and audio medium and often times, the camera seems more concerned with capturing and idoru's face rather than the beauty of the...
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Uzumasa Limelight
I effing love Uzumasa Limelight. It ticks all the right boxes of a feel good movie for me. I know every beat of the movie that is coming but its just oh, so enjoyable. Its as if the movie were made for...
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Juhan Shuttai! 8-10
The Iokibe episode is so good and I am glad that the right person got the glory of the last episode.I love the look everyone gives Iokibe after his proclaimation. Juhan Shuttai!went on a roll since...
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Ie Naki Ko Ep 1
Ie Naki Ko or Child without a Home is the 1994 jdorama that made Adachi Yumi's career and got a 37% rating for the final episode. I got interested in Ie Naki Ko by accident. I came across Nakamura...
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Contrail : Tsumi to Koi Eps 1-6
Contrail is a jdorama with a decent cast; Arata, Ishida Yuriko and Sakuraba Nanami but has horrible writing. Ishida Yuriko lost her husband when someone when amok with a knife and runs a curry shop.She...
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Why Street Fighter V sucks
The latest patch just come out with the new story mode and Ibuki and Boxer but I'm bloody fed up with Capcom. 1)SFV is a freemium game sold as at full price. Capcom promised you won't need to spend...
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Berserk (2016) Episode 1
OMFG. Sometimes when you wish for something long enough, it will come true. Last year was the Shenmue 3 announcement and this year it's the arrival of the Berserk anime and Miura finally released a...
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7/7/16 Mega jdorama round up!
KINPIKA Eps 1-3I so wanted to like this WOWOW show. Three people; a yakuza, jietai member and political secretary were betrayed and then brought together so they can help each other get revenge. The...
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Shizumanu Taiyo movie / The Unbroken (2009)
In getting ready to watch WOWOW's Shizumanu Taiyo, I decided to watch the 2009 movie on which the dorama is based on. The 3 hour plus movie starts off with Japan's biggest air disaster and then through...
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Shizumanu Taiyo Eps 1-8
By the jdorama gods, I think I just watched 8 episodes of the best jdorama this year. On a side note, if jdorama gods really existed, would they have permitted overpushed Takei Emi, Goriki, Kiritani...
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Hibana Spark
Hibana Spark is the second Japanese netflix show after the horrible Underwear. I couldn't even finish the first episode of Underwear because it smelled like a crappy prime time Japanese dorama show....
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Koekoi Eps 1+2
There are only 3 things I ask from Shoujo doramas. First, they have to be funny like Ore Monogatari, secondly eye candy for me and thirdly some sort of twist on the typical shoujo formula.The...
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