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Unlucky Girl! jdorama review
Unlucky Girl! is kind of different from your usual jdoramas. It is a story of 3 of the most unlucky girls in Japan whose lives become entwined by fate and become friends.Yabe Kenzo is the fortune...
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The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji jmovie review
Its been a while since I have watched a Miike Takashi movie. Laplace's Witch is one of the worst movies ever and the last third of First Love was crap. Undercover Agent Reiji is the first movie in the...
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Roppongi Class Episodes 1~4
Roppongi Class is a how to run an izakaya dorama dressed up as a revenge story. Kagawa Teruyuki is the super rich bad guy who runs Nagaya Holdings with his super spoiled son who killed Miyabe Arata's...
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Mystery to Iu Nakare jdorama review
I had no interest in watching this when I saw the poster with yet another character with super curly hair. I can't remember but there was a dorama or movie about a similar character that I did not...
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The Journalist 2019 jmovie review
Netflix's The Journalist is one of my favourite shows of 2022. The exiting show based on the Moritomo Gakuen scandal showed that the quality of Netflix jdoramas was going up with The Journalist and...
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Kyouso no Bannin Episodes 1+2
Kyoso no Bannin means guardians of the market competition. In other worse, this show is about an underdog group from the Fair Trade Commission who's job is to investigate and uncover unfair competition...
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Top League jdorama review
Top League is a 2019 jdorama that has been sitting on my HD for a long time and finally I have gotten around to watching. If the Journalist is about the important role that newspapers play in trying to...
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Old Rookie Episode 1
Old Rookie is a TBS jdorama about a really stupid but energetic former national football player who one day finds himself without a job and mountains of debt. He has difficulty finding jobs because he...
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Doctor White Episodes 1~3
 Dr White is yet another Hamabe Minami vehicle ala Alibi Kuzushi. She's too old to play high school anymore but too young to be a doctor so what is Fuji TV to do? Make her a mysterious person Byakuya...
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Cinekon e Ikou! Episodes 4~13
Cinekon e Ikou! is finished and I enjoyed this nostalgic love letter to cinemas. The underdog inaka characters have endeared themselves to me during the 13 episodes.Episode 4 us my favourite episode...
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Kyouso no Bannin Episode 11
I honestly do not remember any jdorama series where the second last episode is the climax of the main story and the last episode is just a fun epilogue and possibly the most fun episode of the series...
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Keiji 7-nin season 8 Episode 1
OK, this is very weird. I am very, very sure that I have written a review of the Keiji 7-nin series before. Its a generic police procedural except that it has slightly more budget than your regular...
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Miki Clinic de Kanpai wo Episodes 1+2
The following conversation may or may not have happened in the offices of TV Tokyo between two producers. I do not claim to have any insider knowledge of TV Tokyo or jdoramas in general. Producer A: I...
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Shin Ultraman jmovie review
Anno Hideaki, creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion set off remaking nostalgic Japanese properties into movies first with Cutie Honey and then Shin Godzilla which I remember more for Ishihara Satomi's...
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Mahou no Rinobe Episodes 1~5
I usually enjoy occupational jdoramas because they let me see the challenges and hardships that people in other jobs have to put up with and Mahou no Rinobe which means magic of renovation if about the...
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Kuuhaku wo Mitashinasai Episodes 1+2
I have always said I will accept any premise as long as it leads to a good story and Kuuhaku wo Mitashinasai has one hell of a premise. In Japan, people who died have started to resurrect and a...
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Elpis: Kibou, Aruiwa Wazawai Episodes 1+2
I think its been a long time since I've seen such a promising Nagasawa Masami show. I am usually singing the praises of WOWOW and NHK but Fuji TV is doing not bad this year with the decent Mahou no...
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Atom no Ko Episodes 1 jdorama review
I love videogames and its been a long while since the last good video game jdorama No Con Kid. I was hesitant to jump into this because I was afraid Atom no Ko would be about some stupid mobile game...
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Uzukawamura Jiken jdorama review
Uzukawamura Jiken is WOWOW's attempt at a suspense thriller set in a remote village in Nagano. Matsuda Ryuhei is a doctor who's wife has disappeared and he has come to her home village of Uzukawamura...
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Nobody to Watch over Me jmovie review
I am pretty sure I watched this long time ago but did not write about it and came across it recently and could not remember anything so decided to watch it again. Part of blogging is just to keep track...
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