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Ashita no Yakusoku Eps 1
Ashita no Yakusoku is yet another jdorama about scary and controlling moms. Inoue Mao is the school counsellor with her own mommy problems and she hasn't even introduced her boyfriend of 3 years to...
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Yamegoku Episodes 1-4
So I somehow started watching this two year old jdorama while looking around for something to watch. I didn't give it a try the first time cause I saw Oshima Yuko's face and thought not another idoru...
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Hokuto spoiler review
Hokuto is about a tragedy about a person who never knew love as a child. Hokuto's father compensates for his perceived inadequacies by ruling his house with an iron fist.The scene where Hokuto's mom...
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7 things I like about Keiji Yugami Episodes 1-6
1) Asano Tadanobu, Kamiki Ryunosuke and Inamori Izumi have great chemistry. Asano and Kamiki are constantly trying to one up each other. Kamiki is always teasing Asano about Inamori entering the police...
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Meishi Game Episode 1
Tsustumi Shinichi is a quiz program producer who wakes up in a cage and has to guess the identities of 3 people who hold a grudge against him in order to save his daughter and himself. He was once at...
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Made in Abyss anime review
Made in Abyss is seemingly child-like anime about a girl and her robot who go on this adventure deep into the abyss. What I mean by seemingly is that while the art style and the songs makes the anime's...
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Keiji Yugami Episodes 7-10
The last two episodes were pretty good. I didn't even realise who the actor playing Yokoshima was until very late. Though the individuals stories just wasn't good enough to make this a must watch, the...
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2018 Japan New Year trip part 1: Kamakura and Enoshima
Just came back yesterday from an end of the year Japan trip and would like to share some pictures from the two week trip.Jdorama fans will be familiar with the name Kamakura. Its the beautiful seaside...
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2018 Japan New Years trip Part 2 : New Year in Yokosuka
We weren't sure what to do on New Years Day. Yokosuka was one option besides Shibuya, Tokyo Tower and Tokyo Sky Tree.In the end we decided on Yokosuka because it actually had fireworks.If the name...
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2018 Japan New Years trip Part 3 : Izu Shaboten Zoo and Teddy Bear Museum
This was actually the first time I had gone to Shizuoka prefecture. First we took a shinkansen to Atami. Some of you might recognise that name from Atami Sousakan.From Atami station we took a train to...
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2018 Japan New Years trip Part 4 : Rest of the pictures.
Lizardon and Pikachu welcoming the new year at the Pokemon Centre in Ikebukuro Sunshine City.Speaking of Lizardon, we managed to snag two UFO Catcher prizes during this trip! The first was a Pop Team...
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Kangoku no Ohimesama Episodes 1-5
Kangoku no Ohimesama is a Kudo Kankuro (Tiger & Dragon/Manhattan Love Story) dorama with a stellar cast of the best actresses in Jdoramas along with Iseya Yusuke (Ashita no Joe). The story is about...
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Kangoku no Ohimesama Episodes 6-10
Kangoku no Ohimesama greatest weakness is that it spends most of its time in unnecessary flashbacks that detail every single thing about their characters' past. However, this is Kudo Kankuro writing...
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Byplayers Episodes 1-7
I wasn't that interested in Byplayers when I first read about it despite the fact that it had some of my favourite actors. I show about 6 actors living in the same house so they bond before shooting a...
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Meishi Game episodes 2-4 spoiler review
I really enjoyed Meishi Game. Its about a life or death game show but its more about people getting chewed out from the entertainment industry; the caterer, director, gravure idoru, manager and...
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Passed my JLPT N4!
JLPT is the Japanese Language Proficiency Test which goes from N5 (easiest) to N1 (hardest). Since I started learning to read Japanese after I first went to Japan a lifetime ago, taking the JLPT has...
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Byplayers Episodes 8-12
Really fun dorama with a great ending that is unfortunately very similar to another jdorama that I recently watched. My only criticism of Byplayers is episode 9 where they visit the village filled with...
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Yocho Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha
Yocho Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha is a horror/monster movie about an alien is walks around stealing human notions (gainen) such as family and fear. Directed by the talented Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Shokuzai),...
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R.I.P. Ohsugi Ren
I just woke up to a message from bframe that one of Japan's greatest actors has passed away. I am at a lost for words. At least he went out on top with the great Byplayers and Final Fantasy Daddy of...
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Shimokita Die Hard
Shimokita Die Hard is a bunch of short stories told by Furuta Arata to Koike Eiko. Unfortunately, there are no voice overs so you only see them before the story is told and after the story. If Shinya...
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