TimiZero

I only saw few dramas from the 80's. Some of them I watched in the childhood like Oshin, Moero Attack and Stewardess Monogatari alongside tokusatsu Ultraman, Gavan and Kamen Rider Black. But I don't know how to rate them now as my memories from childhood is very vague. Some months ago I watched the first episode of Stewardess Monogatari just to realized how bad the acting of FL was...lol

Thanks for doing all the research and writing this informative article. I haven't watched many dramas from the 90's decade, but those that I watched are all pretty good it's hard to choose the best one. Entertainment-value-wise GTO is unbeatable in my opinion but drama-wise I would go for Long Vacation.

Similarly the 2000's decade was full of interesting dramas. The Great White Tower was amazing, but teen dramas like Nobuta, Prodai, Boku dake no Madonna, Nodame et al were also fun and interesting. Then we also have epic drama like Jin, Mother and Keizoku SPEC. You see, it's so hard to choose one unless we break it down into categories...haha

I guess most dramas in my watchlist are from the last decade (2010-2020). So it would be 100 times more difficult to choose for the best. We have several Sakamoto Yuji's best writing in this decade alone. As I'm biased I would say Soredemo Ikite Yuku is the best drama from this era. Although I was crazily entertained by the craziness of Nobunaga Concerto, got heavily inspired by Juhan Shuttai, had my ROFL moment with Gomenne Seishun, and got mesmerized by Hanzawa Naoki.

I think there's one more category that Japan is good at making. That is the work/workplace dramas as well as dramas featuring rare professions. There are many to list from this category.

No problem! Thanks also for reading and replying my comments and I really appreciate your thoughts on this one! :)

I appreciate your comments. I guess they only revealed the opponent is someone close to FL in these Ep15 and 16? I haven't watched the last 2 episodes yet but well...that's an afterthought kind of writing. I guess it depends on whether you have watched the other version or not. I still wish for a strong FL though instead of someone who's easily gave up over the things they should have loved from head to toe. Unless they never really love it from the start.

I understand the complexity of human. People do change their heart over time and I also know depression can makes you lose interest in what you're doing.

However an athlete should have a different mental training that differentiate them from common people. I just can't easily buy someone in combat sport to be very empathetic to their opponent. Otherwise they won't fit in the sport in the first place. So now they want to say it's because the Dad forcing her? Well...that's true in an afterthought way. But I would say the Dad has failed to prepare his daughter as an athlete let alone to fight for Olympics.

Parents trying to fulfill their dreams through their kids is nothing new or should I say a cliche. It happens everywhere not only in Asian household though. There's an example of successful dad like in Hindi movie, Dangal (2016) which is in fact based on a true story.

You say about winning gold medal with a cost of injuring friend. This is weird for Olympic level event as you fight for the pride of your country not as an individual. I guess the fellow athletes would be more than happy if that tragedy would brings back Olympic medals. Unless FL was the second choice or in reserve team and the friend was the ace. Well...it's still work in an afterthought way I guess.

Yes...they shouldn't fix things that are not broken.

You don't understand my point.
Not finding joy meaning she doesn't like Judo as much anymore which is contradicting with the premise. I know people change but in the story FL should be a Judo maniac not a Judo quitter. This is an adaptation not "original writing" so it's important to give justice to the original.

EDIT: To make things clear I questioned the logic behinds the guilty of making your opponent injured in a COMBAT sport.

I don't find her annoying but definitely the character was not written properly with lack of logic and common senses. The reason she quit judo is because of her guilty-feeling for causing her opponent injury....can you believe it? You are in COMBAT sport and you feel traumatize by the injury of your opponent??

There are many unreasonable writings in this drama apart from the infamous Shin Dae Ryuk backstory, I don't know if I should open a discussion for it. I mean when this drama already received so many criticism, I don't want to add more salt on the wound.

The writers were clearly trying to outwit the original by making many changes. In original, FL had to quit Judo due to long term injury. She was a National Judo Athlete. Working in comic industry is her second goal after judo. It's so simple, logical and straight forward...which is the best.

In Today's Webtoon, they made FL uncertain with her future. Her obsessive father made the story arc felt more tiresome....although we know the father will later accept FL decision. FL is just happened to be hired as contract worker because for some strange reason the Chief Editor wants her despite the department is on the verge of closing.

If I remember correctly, the mother never appeared in Jdrama. It must be "Kdrama magic"...lol

That Kwon PD is much more logical if it's done right. People like Kwon PD are all over the place in real life, but obviously Dae Ryuk recovered in 5 minutes is more of a fairy tale.

Yeah they kind of copy pasting the style of Kwon PD backstory, but that one was from the original so it was less ridiculous. Although the writers missed the point of this Kwon PD episode as the redemption of his wrong doing. That's why they did another redemption for Dae Ryuk's mother...lol
Just pray they won't do the same trick for Director Heo in next episodes.

Yes...12 episodes seems reasonable. And I think they should have concentrate more on the webtoon aspect. Yeah the romcom fans will leave/drop the show, but the true fans will stay. What they have now is half-baked. It's not even good slice of life, very bad at portraying webtoon production, and at the same time disappoint romcom fans by giving false hope...LoL

So many people questioning about Sin Dae Ryuk.....lol these writers just thrown out bullshit to extend the story....from preview of next week we can assume everything will be resolved at the end magically...so just take whatever bullshit before that ending as a mere parody...don't take things too seriously as no logic writing ever existed since the very beginning.

I thought they were going to cover more chapters of the manga than what Jdrama have covered since the manga is still ongoing...but it looks like it will end roughly the same. But there's 2 more episodes so we wouldn't know.

As far as EP13

I wonder if these guys do not know what is marketing? Most of their plans are to write new webtoons instead of empower the promotion. This is very bad move as the artist won't be able to come up wit many ideas if they have to publish new chapter of every new titles every week. Having a studio like Artist Mo (the one who had conflict with Kwon PD in the past) is more bullshit. Why you want to subcontracting another company to produce more works when a webtoon company can handle all these artists directly.

Ohh...

About the Japan value VS West value. Yeah there's some disparity between the first half and the second in terms of the feel and acting direction a bit, but the writing was still consistent in my opinion.

About seeing Japan as the country who made Godzilla. Well...that's the stereotype people see on anyone who like Japan's Pop Culture. Usually the film fans. I don't see it as them disrespecting or whatsoever. Maybe the writer used this stereotype to write characters like Woody in the drama. And most probably this is the stereotype the Japanese came up with. I remember watching Nodame in Europe. There's one French Otaku character in that drama which obsessed with anything Japan and Anime.

Don't worry man!! I am not in favor with most of the US foreign policies too, and of course I do respect your opinion that's why I wrote my own review there. At least people will have the options and not be scared of watching. when they see 1/10 review

What you said about medical waiver is right, but I don't take it that deep that it was the propaganda. Most other countries will do the same depending on the case. As you can see Takeshi is given one way passport to return to Japan. If they want to highlight how cool the US they could have given him the Green Card.

Another thing to note is the story is based on Matsuo Satoru real-life memoir or whatsoever they call it, so we wouldn't know if his brother was indeed had been in that situation or not....or whether or not he has a brother that's passed away.

I guess if you don't like J-version, this one is 100 times more worst.

This is a workplace drama but unfortunately we rarely see them working other than drinking coffee, chatting, eating...LoL I wish for no romance too but it seems like the writers don't know how to do work drama properly, they give hints of romance to cover their weaknesses.

Since you say you like Bakuman, have you read Juhan Shuttai too, the manga this drama is based on? There's J adaptation that makes more sense if manga industries is what you're looking for. This drama technicality on the work aspect is simply bad full of bullshit like you said they make bad guy just for the sake of being bad guy. LoL

I have no problem with the American Arc. I think it's important for the story and it was the premise from the start as we can see from the synopsis. But I agree the American Arc was a bit lacking in terms of overall watching experience. Kusanagi looked a bit struggle with the dialogues although he did his best in giving the emotion.