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You're already planning on watching Omusubi and are not watching Tora ni Tsubasa? If both Omusubi and Anpan get subbed I may well on streak of 4 in a row for the Naka Riisa and Kawai Yuumi of them all. 🪦🪦🪦🪦

Kishida Nami (the real person who this series is based upon) posted up multiple translations of one of her essays back in 2020. Here's the English: https://kishidanamicork.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/volvoeng/ . The real Boru-chan was black, but her Mom's wheelchair wheels are red.

You did a better job than I did - I tried episode 4 and could not find the production number. I think I had watched the first episode years ago but no musical number came to mind and so I did not dig deeper.

There are, of course, many other jdramas with diegetic music usually centered around bands, symphonies and groups. But pure musical tv series are really rare in general throughout the world from what I can tell.

MDL has 5 other than this one tagged with "Musical". I'm pretty sure that the two seasons of Lupin no Musume just have a bit of music as the family transitions into their superthief disguises every episode. Koshiji Fubuki Monogatari is a fictionalized biography of a Japanese singer and so it's just going to be diegetic scenes of her singing, I expect. Seishun Musical Comedy Oddboys is currently airing but not being subbed. But again I expect to only have diegetic performances of the high school music club along the lines of those in Glee. No, you're only option would appear to be Babysitter Gin, which does indeed seem to have non-diegetic performances meant to advance the narrative. Having just watched ep. 1 it seems utterly terrible in concept and execution, but the production number was not bad.

It's available through drama-otaku dot com, but I'm never clear when and if they are allowing people to register. DM me if you're still interested and would like a link.

It was hard to access for a long time. It appears, however, that the usual unlicensed sites have finally found the subs and are posting the episodes, and so hopefully more people around here will find this gem.

Yes: really excellent and timely (they got the ones including Friday's episode up today, i.e. Monday for those of you in the future) fansubs are available at d-addicts. The raws are available linked at drama-otaku, if you can get in there. It appears the subbed episodes have finally leaked to the usual unlicensed streaming sites but are behind by about 3 weeks at this point.

To be fair, I do think Oshin was intentionally produced to look to old even in 1983, and the length of the series was also a throwback to the asadoras of the 60s. Oshin is great, but there are a few asadoras I've liked better than Oshin and I agree that TnT so far is one of them.

(I think the probability of the TnT collapsing in the last nine weeks is small, but that's always a danger in long series. And I will be at least slightly disappointed if Yone does not get a week's storyline.)

A perfectly understandable assumption, but the asadoras about real people tend to be pretty faithful to the real lives of those people with only minor changes. For instance, the real animator at the center of Natsuzora did not marry the director Isao Takahata as she does in the series but did marry another animator at the studio which became Ghibli. And I suspect the fashion designer in Carnation really did have an extramarital affair with one of her employees rather than just thinking about it really hard. (Her husband had died years earlier in the war at that point.) But things like locations, timings and number of family members all seem to be pretty accurately portrayed in the asadoras I have seen at least.

This series is a fictionalized biography of a real person (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Mibuchi), and it appears from her Japanese Wikipedia page (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%B7%B5%E5%98%89%E5%AD%90) that it's pretty much exactly what happened to her family. Not that Yoshida Erika is above crafting points into her dramas: her Koisenu Futari is an excellent look at being aro/ace in present day Japan, and she makes lots of relevant points there. Highly recommended.

I assume you know that terrible machine translated subs are available. I agree that the series deserves good fan subs. But if anyone is looking for the terrible subs, I've left instructions on where to find them and the RAWs over in the comments for Boogie Woogie here on MDL.

I suppose that depends on what you're looking for. For me, it's easily the best jdrama since Brush Up Life, and while I definitely enjoyed Boogie Woogie, I'd say this series is the best asadora since Amachan. It is, however, very much first wave feminism in Japan, and if the idea of women challenging patriarchal power structures is not your thing, then you have my permission not to watch it. That being said, Ito Sairi may not be doing the song and dance that Shuri did in Boogie Woogie, but she utterly deserves also getting the best actress award for the following quarter that Shuri did last quarter - she's delivering a full range of emotions within a very interesting character who is never comfortable being a first.

There are but they are probably machine translations and so the pronouns are pretty much randomized. Still, I got through the series and enjoyed it despite the awful subs. The person making them has moved them off subtitlist but they're still on subdl. Do a google search for "BoogieWoogie(Week1)" with the quote marks to find week1 and "BoogieWoogie(Week2)" to find all the rest. The RAWs can be torrented at acgnx dot se by searching for ブギウギ there.

Thanks for this link. The previous asadora, Boogie Woogie, lost its torrent links at nyaa, but they're still up at this site.

Seconding BrightestStar here: Kankuro is one of the most lauded writers in Japan, and this isn't even his best work on Netflix let alone his entire oeuvre. Try his Saving My Stupid Youth on Netflix or take the real plunge (since it's so long: at 156 15 minute episodes) and seek out Amachan his 2013 morning drama which is, in part, about the idol industry. He's been the guitarist in a celebrity punk band since 1995, and so while not every one of his series centers on music, it's clearly important to him.

You're most welcome. This approach will get you access to most of the Japanese media that's available. But if you ever do come across a subtitle file and cannot find the RAWs, the last bastion of hope are torrents like nyaa dot si. Try searching both the title in English and the original Japanese title at the site, and if the RAWs are there, you'll need torrent software to download it. I use the free qBittorent to so. I've only needed to hit the torrents for maybe half-a-dozen things over the years, but it's been necessary for the two most recent NHK asadoras.

I'm pretty convinced that she had a speech-impediment, and Ankyloglossia is definitely a possibility. I'd guess something more neurological given the bladder control issues as well but my doctorate is not in medicine.

It could happen - for instance, Come Come Everybody is now on a Hong Kong subscription site apparently with complete English subs. But here's the issue with Boogie Woogie that just completed: the machine translated subs by the same person who's doing the subs here are done and available for all the episodes, but two weeks ago the RAWs for weeks 1 - 23 just disappeared from the nyaa torrents. And the account that was posting those RAWs is the same one posting these. Therefore, if this poster behaves the same way, you wont have access to all the RAWs when the series is done airing.

Pretty bad but adequate machine translation subs are now available at subtitlist.net .

Sadly, at this time I'm pretty sure you can't. I was getting the RAWs from a torrent site and was shocked today when only the last three weeks came up. Up to this week all the episodes were out there on the pirate seas.