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Saikou no Obahan Nakajima Haruko Eps 1~4
Saikou no Obahan Nakajima Haruko is a comedy show about this super rich beauty doctor aka plastic face expert who goes around solving people's problems by being very blunt with them and with the help...
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Oi Handsome S2 Ep 3: hara goshirae
Love the writing for Oi Handsome and episode 3 is centred around food. 3 of dad's subordinates you see in the background already had lunch reservations and decided to ditch it when he invited them to...
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Hanasaki Mai ga Damattenai 2024 Episodes 1~4
First thing that popped out at me is that I have not seen that much cash in so long living in a society where cash is no longer king, banks don't have many staff anymore and being a bank teller is...
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Jdorama files sizes are getting crazy!
Dgundam mentioned that Hanasaki Mai raws are 1.9GB in size. As 1080p files have become the norm, its not unusual to find 2GB size files for one episode. I keep my jdoramas in a 5TB portable HDD hoping...
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Kesenai Watashi episodes 1~7
Kesenai watashi is a rape revenge jdorama. Haibara Shoko was raped by a fellow student when she was in high school because her friends were jealous of her becoming the model of a youtube makeup person...
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Double Cheat Itsuwari no Keikan Episodes 1~3
Jdorama remakes are a very common thing. GTO has been remade once to poor effect and the great Shiroi Kyoto has been remade 5 times which reminds me that I don't think I ever finished watching the...
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Ai no Nai Koibitotachi Episodes 1+2
I am a simple man, when I see a jdorama with Narumi Riko and Sasaki Nozomi in it, I have to check it out. Ai no Nai Koibitotachi is a looking for love story featuring 3 guys and 4 girls written by...
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Ai no Nai Koibitotachi Episodes 3~9
One of the things that made Hayabusa Shobodan one of the best jdoramas of 2023 was the use long shot during the title scene. In Hayabusa, the title scene would be usually early in the series with the...
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Godzilla Minus One / Gojira 1.0 jmovie review
 The word on the street was that Godzilla Minus One was a good movie. I was sceptical because Drive My Car had won lots of awards and was crap and Shin Gojira was watchable but seemed to be praised...
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Oi Handsome! S2 Episodes 4~8
I think episode 4 of the second of Oi Handsome! is the peak of the series. This episode is about dad trying to find a reason to read Yuka's 5 year diary and avoiding guilt by trying to get anyone to...
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It's a Summer Film jmovie review
Someone recommended this movie to me last year and I finally got around to watching it. It's a Summer Film is a movie about a Hadashi (barefoot) a member of the high school movie club who is a big fan...
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Looking for jidaigeki movies
Inspired by It's a Summer Film, I was feeling like a jidaigeki (samurai) movie today. I think I had Sword of Desperation on my list for a long time but could not find it in my movie portable HD. I...
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Yakusoku Episodes 3~10
Yakusoku is finally finished and it is not a good show. The writing is not polished, the two main characters wear all black working in the countryside and the show doesn't even try to show the beauty...
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Mondays: See you this week! jmovie review
I have been watching a lot of time travel shows recently with Tokyo Girl, Summer Time Machine Blues and Toki wo Kakeruna, Koibitotachi so I felt compelled to watch Mondays when anonymous recommended it...
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Kagero no Tsuji Seasons 1+2
Now that Nuve has started subbing season 3, I feel I should write something about Kagero no Tsuji. the Yamamoto Koji jidaigeki. He plays the main character Sakazaki Iwane, a poor ronin in exile in Edo...
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Game no Na wa Yukai Episode 1
 The last time Kame was in a WOWOW jdorama, it was the very excellent Shoutai which should that he could actually act. Now he is an another WOWOW show called the name of the game is kidnapping. Kame...
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Hanasaki Mai ga Damattenai 2024 Eps 5~10
 The first season of Hanasaki Mai ga Damattenai is finished and it was pretty decent. The original 2014 series had 2 seasons and if the ratings were decent, I suspect we will get a sequel next year. I...
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Double Cheat: Itsuwari no Keikan Episodes 4~8
Double Cheat starts off as a Kurosagi clone but starts to get better as the scams get more interesting and Mukai Osamu's past gets revealed. Double Cheat is a Kurosagi for an older audience and I...
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Warau Matryoshka Episode 1
By the jdorama gods, I have just watched one of the best first episodes I can remember in a while. From the car crash scene in the beginning, the first episode of Warau Matryoshka wastes no time in...
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Story of the Gameboy Advance Perfect Catalogue
This book is called the Gameboy Advance Perfect Catalogue. It came out on 28 May 2019 for only 2,547 yen. It is a catalogue of all Japanese GBA games with pictures and descriptions of the games edited...
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