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Mikkoku wa Utau season 2 Episodes 1~3
The second season of Mikkoku wa Utau is here! I did not expect WOWOW would do a sequel to the interesting first season. Mikkoku wa Utau is a police internal affairs type show. Lots of tailing and...
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Netflix being a disruptor to the jdorama industry
Chiaki has written a very good article on the effect that Netflix jdoramas are having on the industry or as I would like to call it, Pierre Taki jdoramas. Must read IMHO. Is this bad news for WOWOW...
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Warau Matryoshka Episodes 6-11 spoiler review
 WARNING: DO NOT READ ON UNLESS YOU HAVE WATCHED EP 11By the jdorama gods, I really like the ending of Warau Matroysha. In the end, Seike Ichiro has become his own master. Or has he? The whole show is...
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Kanpeki Wife ni Yoru Kanpeki na Fukushuu Keikaku Eps 1-3
The name of the show translates to the perfect wife with the perfect plan of revenge. Kanpeki Wife ni Yoru Kanpeki na Fukushuu Keikaku is about this couple pretending to live in this perfect...
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Gaming ramblings 2024
RYU GA GOTOKU GAIDEN: THE MAN WHO ERASED HIS NAMEThe RGG spin offs have always been lower quality affairs, see Hokuto no Gotoku and Kenzan holds a special place in my heart but Gaiden is the worst of...
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House of Ninjas
 House of Ninjas is Netflix jdorama directed by Dave Boyle who is American. I think it is interesting to see foreigners directing Japanese shows. One of my favourite movies from last year was the...
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Japan trip 2024 days 1+2: Osaka
Kitagawa Keiko welcoming me back to Japan for my 3 week trip.This is my first time landing at Kansai airport. Felt a bit weird deciding to start at Kansai for the first time ever but my first 3 main...
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Japan Trip 2024 Day 3 Kochi
Took a shinkansen to Okayama, west of Osaka.Then took a local train to my destination, Kochi in Shikoku.Lucky to have gotten the Anpanman train as not all of them are Anpanman. Inside the train was...
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Japan Trip 2024: Day 4 Makino Botanical Gardens and Ulfuls in Kochi
Taking the tram from Kochi station. Took me a while to figure out that the train network for Kochi was a cross and that you changed trains once you reached the middle to get where you wanted to...
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Japan trip 2024 day 5 and 6: Okayama and back to Osaka
When I said I was going to Kochi, Yukimi said that the way to Kochi was really beautiful because you are going on the elevated tracks along the coast and jungle. It has hard to take shots because you...
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Japan Trip 2024 day 7: Imai Miki in ROHM Theatre Kyoto
 I have not been in Kyoto for a long time. Last time I was here, my friend from Shiga took me around and I remember there were too many tourists and the highlight was the yakiniku.I know her! Takaichi...
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Japan Trip 2024 day 8: Sambomaster in Osaka-jo Hall
Kazama Shunsuke has become a morning talk show person. Same as Tanihara Shosuke. The program as about trendy items for Autumn. Zzzz.Need to find name. Looks like it is マーシュ彩.Typhoon no 14 going past...
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Japan Trip 2024 day 9: Last day in Osaka
Tanihara Shosuke no TV talking about Sanada Hiroyuki winning best actor for Shogun. I wasn't going to watch Shogun because I was afraid it would be another western perspective of Japan show but they...
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Japan trip 2024 Day 10: Fukuoka
Went to Shin-Osaka station to take the Shinkanesen to Hakata station. Pictured is the creepy mascot for the world expo 2025 in Osaka. Whenever I hear world expo, I think of 20th Century Boys.Checking...
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Japan trip 2024 day 11 Pt 1: Nagasaki Peace Museum and Peace Park
Weather forecast for the day. Bloody stinking hot in Kyushu. I was sweating in tank top and shorts and Japanese walking around in trousers and long sleeves not breaking a sweat.Taking the train to...
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Japan trip 2024 day 11 Pt 2: Nagasaki and Glover Garden
Nagasaki skyline, something I will be seeing a lot of as there are a lot of stairs and hills in Nagasaki. Old church but nothing to see here.Lol, there is a Kiyomizudera temple in Nagasaki. It is the...
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Japan trip 2024 day 12: Day trip to Kokura
View outside hotel in NagasakiWoke up to news of sudden thunderstorm in Hachioji in Tokyo with hail damaging cars. Glad I am not in Tokyo yet.Rest of the country still crazy hot. 38 degrees in Kofu and...
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Japan trip 2024 Day 13: Kurume
Looks like a music event happening at Hakata Station.One name I recognised was Yaida Hitomi. I can't think of a song but I am sure I have heard her before as I remember the name from when I started...
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Japan trip 2024 day 14: Kumamoto and All About Suomi jmovie review
Kumamon head at Kumamoto station. I actually wanted to go back to Fukuoka to take it easy but I could not get a hotel there on this Sunday. Getting hotels on Sundays is difficult and it was a 3 day...
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Japan trip 2024 day 15: Kasuga and last night in Fukuoka
Goodbye Kumamoto. 1 day was not enough. Back at Hakata station. Put my bag down in hotel.Tried to use my suica to get on the Nanakuma line and confirmed my suica is dead. I had been using my JR pass...
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