Haven't watched 101st prop, under one roof and Ie naki Ko. Only saw few minutes of few episodes of Beautiful Life when it was airing on local TV (clashed with other shows). I quite surprise to see HN won over those 90's 2000's drama in terms of rating. Although it's one of the best drama I've ever watched.
Only find the time to watch this recently, but i just want to say Ito Atsushi and Sambomaster is a good "combi"...that ending kind of remind me the Densha Otoko drama....LMFAO
The first episode was amazing, then several after that were good, but the rest was "ima-ichi". Ending was predictable but Suda Masaki's acting on that last extended speech scene was top notch. Still interesting enough to keep you watching and wondering on the plot throughout the series.
However the thing that I did NOT like about the end is that Hiargi literally tried to commit suicide in front…
Yup that was ridiculous plot IMO. Considering Hiiragi is portrayed as a person who would prepare everything before-hand, that scene doesn't make any sense. Because you can't precisely estimate how quick other students to reach the roof-top to help Kayano.
This drama is surprisingly good! A bit slow pace, slice of life feeling, but worth the time for watching. Nothing much on the medical, but more on parenting and unique view of life from the perspective of 17y.o. girl (that somehow resembles Ayase Haruka...lmao...then after checking her profile, she was the teenage Balsa in Seirei no Moribito...no wonder).
It's a real job and that division actually exists within the MPD. They're a group of ten-odd people and they help…
Wow! Thanks for the info. Japanese drama/literature/manga are always good when it comes to portraying non usual jobs (but exist in real life) and the people involve around it.
For the sake of people who's thinking to watch this or not, I can confirm that there's no romance in the plot.
Nowadays I only watch something only if the subs are complete to avoid possible future frustration.. :P But it looks like 3nenAgumi subs are going smoothly and will probably watch it soon when it finished. :)
This has been in my PTW for a long time but only managed to watch it few days ago. I was fooled by the synopsis and was hoping for a more real depiction of historical drama. But this drama took the "shojo manga" logics to the bone...LOL...now I regretted to have put this on my PTW list! :P
And also I'm sorry to say this, but if you liked this drama and were thinking to look for other japanese historicals, then you're on the wrong impression! You most probably only liked the Shojo aspect of it and not japanese historical in general.
This drama is not the fancy type, although it has many younger actors. The ROMANCE tag is misleading so don't watch this if you're looking for some sweet moments between the leads. But if you're looking for workplace/career drama, this is it! In other words this is a story of 1 department in japanese welfare, and how would the job being carried out.
I personally find this drama is a good watch and educational at the same time. I don't think many japanese people aware about this "healthy lifestyle minimum standard" thing, so obviously this drama main purpose is more on the awareness part as opposed to the entertainment part.
there was a write in poll in december and from that write in the poll was made from the top 5 in each category.…
The setup might takes some time, but after that the result can be sort out much more easily. Right now setup easy, but sorting out...? Anyway my proposal is for preliminary stage only. The entertaining part should be when everyone "can vote" at the end of the year.
there was a write in poll in december and from that write in the poll was made from the top 5 in each category.…
Actually it can be done with survey form. But still need human intervention for some things that are limited by the app.
Here is my proposal of how the form could be done: https://goo.gl/forms/gb8DZRQfdwkMZQN82 It's far from perfect but this is just to illustrate how it would look like. The only problem is that admin/somebody need to sort the categories.
there was a write in poll in december and from that write in the poll was made from the top 5 in each category.…
I missed that one (and did not nominate in the previous years too), but still like you said it's meaningless if only few people nominating a least watched drama. It can't beat the popularity anyway.
I am expecting a small but a more credential nominations so it must be other than simply writing any titles in comment section. I know it would be tough job, but you can set up a form (like google doc's one) for preliminary nominations.
Then there could be 2 lists in each category; one watched list, the other nomination list. It must be category-based kind of participation. I mean people only nominate based on what they qualified for. So obviously some category will have lower numbers than the other.
The idea is to encourage nomination in the genre that they like the most not randomly nominate any titles to just fill in the empty box.
Anyway, it's nice to know that admin is looking for improvement! :)
This is just my suggestion, but hopefully for this year a new mechanism for nominating dramas should be enforced. People need to have certain number of watched drama before they can nominate in specific category. For example to nominate a thriller drama, a member must have watched 3 thrillers (random number just for the sake of this example) in that year. Or else the nominations wouldn't be counted.
The best drama of the year category shouldn't be nominated but must be picked (by admin/person incharge for polling) among those that made to final list in sub-categories.
However for voting in final poll, no restriction should be enforced. Anybody can vote!
The reason for my suggestion is because of the fact that the final poll listing does not give accurate depiction of how good/bad jdrama of a particular year. Obviously there are many more dramas this year, but people can't vote because it's not even in the poll! I don't give a damn about the results but we should have at least good voting options in the first place.
Never expected this was that good because it's listed as romance and supernatural, which I think a bit misleading. What I can say about this is that the directing and characterization was really good! After finished watching I even checked the manga, and it looks like the characters in drama are much more real. Surprisingly the protagonist from manga is 32, but for drama it's 38 (I read from somewhere). Obviously our actor, Arita Teppei is much older than that. But I think director purposely choose him to make it more real. This character don't even have a male friend in his life let alone girlfriend. So it must be tough to chose actor to fit in this image, therefore slightly older and physically non-attractive (obviously because of aging) Arita was the right choice!
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And also I'm sorry to say this, but if you liked this drama and were thinking to look for other japanese historicals, then you're on the wrong impression! You most probably only liked the Shojo aspect of it and not japanese historical in general.
I personally find this drama is a good watch and educational at the same time. I don't think many japanese people aware about this "healthy lifestyle minimum standard" thing, so obviously this drama main purpose is more on the awareness part as opposed to the entertainment part.
Anyway my proposal is for preliminary stage only. The entertaining part should be when everyone "can vote" at the end of the year.
Here is my proposal of how the form could be done:
https://goo.gl/forms/gb8DZRQfdwkMZQN82
It's far from perfect but this is just to illustrate how it would look like. The only problem is that admin/somebody need to sort the categories.
Anyway, it's just my suggestion.
I am expecting a small but a more credential nominations so it must be other than simply writing any titles in comment section. I know it would be tough job, but you can set up a form (like google doc's one) for preliminary nominations.
Then there could be 2 lists in each category; one watched list, the other nomination list. It must be category-based kind of participation. I mean people only nominate based on what they qualified for. So obviously some category will have lower numbers than the other.
The idea is to encourage nomination in the genre that they like the most not randomly nominate any titles to just fill in the empty box.
Anyway, it's nice to know that admin is looking for improvement! :)
The best drama of the year category shouldn't be nominated but must be picked (by admin/person incharge for polling) among those that made to final list in sub-categories.
However for voting in final poll, no restriction should be enforced. Anybody can vote!
The reason for my suggestion is because of the fact that the final poll listing does not give accurate depiction of how good/bad jdrama of a particular year. Obviously there are many more dramas this year, but people can't vote because it's not even in the poll! I don't give a damn about the results but we should have at least good voting options in the first place.
What I can say about this is that the directing and characterization was really good! After finished watching I even checked the manga, and it looks like the characters in drama are much more real. Surprisingly the protagonist from manga is 32, but for drama it's 38 (I read from somewhere).
Obviously our actor, Arita Teppei is much older than that. But I think director purposely choose him to make it more real. This character don't even have a male friend in his life let alone girlfriend. So it must be tough to chose actor to fit in this image, therefore slightly older and physically non-attractive (obviously because of aging) Arita was the right choice!