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13 (Thirteen) Jdorama review
Need more Sakuraba Nanami jdoramas but she doesn't seem the be in many shows. Last show I saw her in was the meh Dream Team. 13 is a remake of a BBC show about a girl who was kidnapped and then turns...
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Mikkoku wa Utau jdorama review
The first episode is very confusing. I know its a police show but there is a lot of standing around and stalking people and conversations that I was not sure about. Matsuoka Masahiro's acting also...
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Iribito jdorama review
Iribito is the most beautiful jdorama I can remember the last few years, probably since Kenja no Ai. Watching Iribito I am impressed by how much effort has gone into the stunning visuals. I must be sad...
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Shimobee Episodes 1~4
Shimobee is what happens when you turn Doraemon into Yasuda Ken and Nobita into Shiraishi Sei.If you are not familiar with Doraemon, its an anime about a magic cat from the future who gives young lad...
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Soredemo Ai wo Chikaimasu ka? Episodes 6~10.
I really wanted to like Soredemo Ai wo Chikaimasu ka? very much because of the cast. The story had some interesting elements but it was neither funny nor exciting and the half arse no ending just...
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Harekon episodes 1~4
Harems are the staple of Japanese anime. What if the main character of a harem is not the generic guy but the third wife?That is the story of Harekon about a town where polygamy is allowed. Shimazaki...
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Dakara Korosenakatta jdorama review
WOWOW has done it again with the exciting 5 episode series Dakara Korosenakatta (Therefore I could not kill). Tamaki Hiroshi stars as the newspaper journalist Ippongi who one day write an article about...
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DCU jdorama review
The good news about DCU: Deep Crime Unit is that Abe Hiroshi and Nakamura Anne in a in big budget coast guard show. The bad news is its on TBS so the best we can hope for is Japan Sinks level which is...
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Lover or Not season 2 jdorama review
The first seasons of Love or Not was an entertaining rom com because of its brevity and despite being cliched.The second season continues after the happy ending of the first season and Motokariya Yuika...
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Mukou no Hate jdorama review
First off, big thanks to Anonymous who commented in Soredemo Ai wo Chikaimasu ka? post about Mukou no Hate. I didn't know Mukou no Hate existed because I don't visit Jdrama Weblog much anymore and rely...
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Shimobee Episodes 4~8
Shimobee turned out to be more enjoyable than I had expected. I was a bit worried about the Shimobee's true identity and how they would make it work.I think the show did a great thing by not trying to...
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Hamsapsukebe jdorama awards 2021
Ladies and gentlemen, sorry to keep you waiting as once again we celebrate jdorama excellence from 2021. I meant to do this way earlier but this game called Elden Ring came out and has destroyed...
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Nihon Boro Yado Kiko
Nihon Boro Yado Kiko is about two things. First, it is about a one hit wonder singer trying to make a living travelling around the Japanese countryside with his with his manager.Instantly you are...
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Izakaya Shinkansen Episodes 1~5
Izakaya Shinkansen combines two of my favourite things about Japan, food and bullet trains! It is about a salaryman Takamiya who travels on shinkansens a lot and takes the time to gather the local...
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Jashin no Tenbin jdorama review
Jashin no Tenbin is the latest in WOWOW's Ishi no Mayu series except this time Kimura Fumino is not in it and the Aoki Menutaka plays the main character Takano. The Ishi no Mayu series has always been...
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Teteiteki ni Ai wa Episodes 1~4
Even watching bad jdoramas you can understand why the show became the way it did and once in a while you come across a really bad jdorama like Teteiteki no Ai wa that left me scratching my head...
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Touboui F
Touboui F is another fugitive jdorama. Innocent man gets accused of killing his girlfriend and goes on the run helping someone every episode while slowly inching closer to whoever framed him.The...
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Oi Handsome!! jdorama review
Once upon a time there was a jdorama called Oyaji starring the late Masakazu Tamura and it was the perfect dad jdorama. They then tried to capture lightning in a bottle a second time with Otousan and...
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Juken no Cinderella jmovie review
Juken no Cinderella was a really fun 2016 jdorama starring Koizumi Kotaro and Kawaguchi Haruna. I always always intrigued by the Toyohara Kosuke 2008 movie and finally got my hands on it by buying the...
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Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru jdorama review
Once upon a time, there was a jmovie called Himitsu and it was good. It was about a husband who's wife swapped bodies with the daughter and was basically a wife became a high schooler story. They...
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