TimiZero

Yeah i'm one of the frustrated fans...haha. I realized i only watched 18 dramas this year, and just managed to catch up with few from Fall Season because i wait for sub to finish. But the most frustrating part is, i couldn't vote because out of 18 dramas only few are on the poll list.

I see many dramas that were not compelling (to me) got through to the final listing. This is truly heartbreaking... I didn't watch Unnatural because of the cliche theme, but i believe it wouldn't be that great as compared to Anone as you said. I watched Anone so i know.

Same with Todome. The plot sounds damn cliche but since i didn't watch it i can't say any more. But knowing jdrama, this type of theme usually has potential to give you WTF kind of ending. Am i wrong?

I haven't decide whether to watch Chuugakusei, but i guess this is the drama most people watched in 2018 (because of the controversy) therefore not surprise if it wins every single thing.

I agree with you about the alternate poll. If someone ever created it, i would love to vote!

Ahhh...thanks. It must be the tracking thing. I will use other browser if i ever want to vote.

Haha...I always wait until sub has finished before watching anything.

Thanks for the reply, but still no effect. It's shown on my other browser though.

Seems like the poll does not appear on my firefox.

I think the jdrama poll itself is irrelevant (regardless of the year) because we couldn't watch many drama due to lack of subs unlike the K.

The last episode was really good! Overall I was expecting more from this drama, but it still not bad. And Toda's acting was also superb in this.

Just another Yonekura drama. She always want to look pretty even just woke up from bed her face was already thicked with makeup....LOL. But considering not many jdramas have been subbed, this is definitely watchable!

Watch it if you like psychological thriller!

The kind of "for festival" movie. Might not be for everyone especially if you're still young. But after you reached certain age, you will find this is easier to relate to the reality of life.

Came here after the movie, because this has more chapters covered from manga and therefore will explain what happened after the event in movie.

First 3 episodes were really tough to get through. It felt like they have missed-cast the MC, with some expressions to imitate manga were done very poorly. At some point, I could even see his acting got influenced by Mineta from the movie...(especially the way he run)...During these 3 episode, Maruyama seemed like he was trying so hard to look ugly IMO....lol

Ep4 onwards, strangely everything turns out better. I'm not sure if I already got used to "Maruyama's trying hard" expression, or his acting got better.. but it's much more watchable than the earlier episodes...

In the end, i think this a good watch and more gender friendly as compared to the movie. The ending was good too!

I forgot to mention, the synopsis above is for the manga, and did not accurately describe the movie. The event in this movie happened before MC starts to think of boxing seriously, which is based on few early chapters of the manga.

Only watched this movie just recently. Without having read the manga first, I personally kind of like it. Though the ending would make you depressed...haha. That means the directing and acting was really good.
However, I don't think this is for everyone and may not suitable for female audience.

I haven't watched the movie, but this is good!

This drama has everything; yakuza, good actors, ossan/obasan's fanservice and interesting storyline...it's just that the directing was a bit below par in my opinion.... and the casting could be more interesting if they choose Gen-san aka Endo Kenichi to play for Kenta's role or at least Goro aka Matsushige Yutaka could have play it better in my opinion...although Nakai Kiichi is a good actor, i don't think he has the yakuza vibe...

Thank you for doing the subtitle. I hope you will do more jdramas...it's just that i hope you will use a more normal structure on the subtitle...what i mean is when there are 2 persons dialog, please make it 2 lines instead of 1 long line with 2nd person dialog inside a bracket...(i watched on kissasian so not sure if the site screwed the formatting...)
Anyway, it was a good job and thanks for the hard work!

Good family drama about brother sister relationship. Nothing much on the food part though.

sorry for the late reply...NTR is abbreviation of the japanese word 'netori or netorare' which literally means sleep with someone's wife (netori) or your wife been taken by someone (netorare). My japanese is very basic so i might be wrong on the latter part...
From my observation, NTR is a 'sexual fetish' based on both netori/netorare and it's quite new (i only see it's being explored from around 5 years back only.... ). Note that in NTR fetish, the husband has to be aware of the infidelity and see the action (accidentally or not) by himself...while the netori/netorare just like a normal cheating or 'furin' in japanese where the husband might not aware of it...LOL
In the drama, nothing to relate with NTR....although there is netori/netorare element definitely...
There's english translation associated with NTR which is 'cuckold' but not sure how close the 2 terms is...

LOL i think in japanese pop culture, incest, infidelity, S&M are kind of common...and now they're going 1 level ahead with NTR... :P maybe for them these are normal?

Such a good production! The story is your usual kind of investigation mystery but the way they present it is what make this a good watch. Love how careful they were with the things that should appear on screen cause we have 3 different eras in this.