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Fishbowl Wives Episodes 1~5
 The best thing about Netflix's fishbowl wives is that there is a lot of sex and nudity. Jdoramas are always very chaste. A lot of love stories barely have any lust in them. Part of the appeal of...
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The Travel Nurse Episodes 1~7
I went into The Travel Nurse fully expecting to drop it within 2 episodes at most. Who wants to see a jdorama about not just one but two male nurses with female names? I was expecting a lot of why is a...
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Get Ready! Episode 1 jdorama review
I saw the poster of Get Ready! and thought I would not mind watching a show with Tsumabuki Satoshi, FujiTatsu and Matsushita Nao. Unfortunately not only is Get Ready! another high concept TBS show it...
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Thoughts on Silent Episode 1
 Disability jdoramas used to be all the rage back in the day but are not so common anymore. I have a soft spot for Kawaguchi Haruna ever since Juken no Cinderella. I am so glad we are no longer in the...
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Silent Episodes 2~11
All renai jdoramas are about keeping the couple apart until they can profess their love in the end of the series or in the case of Silent, show how they got together in the beginning and separated on...
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Shoutai jdorama review
In all my years of watching jdoramas, I never thought one day I would type the words: Kamenashi Kazuya did a decent acting job in Shoutai! Every since Kame came on the jdorama scene long time ago, his...
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Hiru season 1 jdorama review
Hiru has a very interesting premise. We all know Japanese work very long hours and have to go drinking after work etc so are hardly at home. What if there were a underclass of people with no identities...
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Konya wa Konoji de season 2
I finally finished retiming the Japanese subs for the second season of Konya wa Konoji de. I had forgotten that season 1 was only subbed until episode 2. I regret not downloading the Jp subs from...
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Scams 2019 Netflix jdorama review
 Forgot about to write about Scams when I saw some time ago and I ended up rewatching it when I reactivated Netflix for Alice in Borderland. Scams is a prime example of how lack of budget does not...
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Tantei ga Hayasugiru Season 2 review
I enjoyed season 1 of Tantei ga Hayasugiru. It was the story about this detective Chikumagawa (Takito Kenichi) hired to protect Hirose Alice from her relatives who want her inheritance. Instead of...
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Wana no Sensou Episodes 1~4
Once upon a time Kusanagi Tsuyoshi did the Boku trilogy; Boku no Ikiru Michi, Boku no Aruku Michi and Boku to Kanojo to Kanoko no Ikiru Michi and they were good. Actually I only watched the first two...
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Uso no Sensou jdorama review
After watching the first 4 episodes of Wana no Sensou I decided to try Kusanagi Tsuyoshi's Uso no Sensou. Kusanagi plays Ichinose Koichi, a swindler living in Thailand taking advantage of other...
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Informa Episodes 1~6
 WHAT IS IT?Informa is about a tabloid magazine reporter who is one day assigned by his boss MEGUMI to follow this Informa, a former yakuza played by Kiritani Kenta who is this legendary figure who...
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Youtuber wo Musume ni Yaran episodes 1+2
I will not give my daughter to a youtuber! has an interesting premise. Sasaki Nozomi is left at the alter by her fiancé and is left in a pinch. Lucky for her, there is a famous youtuber at her wedding...
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Raise de wa Chantou Shimasu Season 3 Episodes 1~9
Raise de wa Chantou Shimasu or I will do better in my next life was the surprise feel good sex comedy of 2020. It was refreshing to have a sex comedy that was not about the main character losing his...
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Hamsapsukebe jdorama awards 2022
 Ladies and gentlemen, it is time once again to celebrate the best jdoramas had to offer in 2022! To get the elephant in the room out of the way, 2022 belonged to three amazing shows, The Journalist,...
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Hatsukoi no Akuma Episode 1
Thanks to Faiz Ikari for alerting me to the existence of this Sakamoto Yuji dorama. I used to go through jadefrost's jdrama weblog every season to look through all the coming shows and sometimes even...
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Hatsukoi no Akuma Episodes 2~10
 Thanks to Robert for pointing out the English subs for ep 1~5 were also out at drama-otaku. I finished the series in 2 days and I have a lot of things to say because Hatsukoi no Akuma is a show that I...
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Gokenin Zankuro season 1 review
Gokenin Zankura is a 1995 jidaigeki starring Watanabe Ken and Wakamura Mayumi. Like all jidaigeki, Zankura is low ranking and poor samurai. As Zakuro is poor he has to take on various side jobs to make...
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Gokenin Zankuro Season 2 Episode 2
Season 2 of Gokenin Zankuro starts with one of the best additions to a series ever! Abe Hiroshi joins the series as Otokichi, the head of the seven young men brigade of firefighters or jyoubikeshi as...
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