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I don't know why there's a nudity tag. The only nudity in the movie is a naked back and a doll. The fact that we don't see any results in a lot of static and weird camera angles that made me chuckle a few times and a lot of unnecessary zoom-ins. Not to mention the "overly conscious" and unnatural movements/actions to hide any nudity. The movie itself was ok, but the above mentioned really messed up some vital scenes in my opinion and either the director's/producer's need to keep the age restriction low or Aoi Yu and/or her agency really dropped the ball here. I think if people act in/film/produce an erotically inclined movie they should rather forego any nude scenes at all if the actors/actresses aren't willing/allowed to be nude before they half-ass those scenes and make them look pretty stupid with that.

Why do JDrama career women "don't have time for romance because they use it all for work" while every working man with a career miraculously doesn't have any problems with having relationships and even getting married. I know women need to work twice as hard as their male counterparts to have a chance of getting the same recognition... but I'll probably never be able to make sense of the concept of those dramas.

This is just my (more or less sarcastic) opinion, but my answer would be: a very male dominated society dominated by very insecure men. If you look at these, as you called it, queerbaiting dramas and movies, in the end the girl always has to choose the guy because Japanese society still clings to the archaic viewpoint of "marriage is the ultimate happiness for a woman" and "women need to rely on a man because they can't provide for themselves". I think that's also why there are about at least 3 new BL dramas every few months and 3 GL dramas ever in Japan. The real problem with this is that mothers are mostly the ones to still teach this to their daughters and they're the ones to pressure their daughters into "find a man and settle down" when they're in their mid-20s. And a lot of them don't really have a choice because the percentage of women able to build a career in Japan isn't really high.

Thanks for the warning, will definitely not watch it. I'm pretty sick of those dramas. If you believe Dramas/Movies and Anime then there's no friendship in the world except for between men. If women would prioritize a friendship, then men would think they aren't the absolute #1 and the person the woman's life revolves around, which would be a nightmare for Japanese men. That's of course half sarcasm, but I really start to believe it the more Japanese media I watch. The worst part about it? A lot of the screenwriters for these dramas are women themselves.

The only three GL dramas (with actual romance or relationship) from Japan are "Transit Girls", "Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna" and "Chaser Game W", but the last one is of questionable quality except for the chemistry between the main characters. Everything else is just, let's call it "pretend play" (like this one), unrequited or a single character is LGBTQ.

Thanks for the link! Unfortunately I don't speak Korean or Russian and the English subtitles are under the YT membership aswell.

I get you. It's like the only thing Japan cares about to export is anime, anime, anime. It's like they're afraid to make their movies and dramas available "overseas" because a lot of content is acceptable when it's 2D characters but would be pretty much a no-go if it was live-action. Music has the same issues. Not only missing subtitles, but merchandise and even availabilty of content on video sites is sometimes limited to Japan only. Perfect example because it's Aina the End's movie, her former group BiSH was moderately successful when it comes to Youtube and Spotify outside of Japan, but you couldn't even register on their site if you wanted to buy merch because you needed a valid written Japanese name to do it.

Such a shame that nobody seems to be interested in subbing this. Love the manga, anime and the drama.

As far as I know it takes longer because WOWOW doesn't provide Japanese captions or at least the people who rip those don't include them. It's a lot more work to sub something by hearing than by translating subs.

I'd recommend anything that's not romance. 90% of JDrama that "need" skinship gets cringe and fish-y pretty fast because they can't/aren't allowed to show any skin or act kissing. It's also pretty hard to find a romance with people that have more than 5% rational thinking left or a female lead with at least a millimeter worth of self-esteem.

No romance at all. It's just police school, silly gags, murder and Bromance ;)

It's an episodic drama, but the "main story" ends with the usual JDrama police topic of some politician/high ranking officer is corrupt/evil and tries/tried to destroy evidence of his or his family's wrongdoings and the main characters (help) uncover it.

I can't say, but I doubt it. As far as I know the movie has no international release (at least I can't find one) and there are usually no English subs on Japanese BDs that are for the domestic market only.

Way better than I expected because I'm usually not a fan of those "fated partners" dramas, but I would've liked at least half an episode from her perspective towards the end. Nonetheless very enjoyable, even if you're not into time travel or fate.

Man, this could've been a real good Asadora, if it weren't for the second half. It seems like they lost their reasoning all at the same time. I never thought the romance in an Asadora could be forced even more than in Teppan and that the writing could kill the characters over it almost as gruesome as in Mare. It's like "the sisters are in their mid 20s and even though they're both successful and independent they need to have a man by their side, regardless of how stupid he is or if he was the elementary school teacher when they were in 3rd grade". It's also like they never heard about contraception, but that's nothing new in a Japanese drama ("I don't want to go on a trip alone with him because I don't want to get pregnant"... what the hell, it's the early 2000s and you're 24, buy a condom!).

It seems like everyone here in the comments wants to see a shaky version recorded with a smartphone and subbed through the google translate app. Bluray release is Jul 19th, don't know why it would be available anywhere before that date.

If you think of it as a 1960s drama, you'll definitely enjoy this one. After I just put it somewhere in that time frame in my head I at least quite enjoyed it. The main couple and siblings of Ao were quite likeable as well. The little cases they solved were also quite fun, but I wasn't a fan of their internal struggles and problems.
But if you expect something with modern values or anything like that, I definitely advise against watching. It absolutely glorifies the traditional multi-generational family with "traditional" gender roles, keeping old values, discrimination and pure marriage. It seemed like it's more valued that the main couple didn't lay a hand on each other before they're married than them even knowing each others names.

There's nothing particularly good or bad about this Asadora, it's just... boring. Hitomi is boring, the topic was boring, the side characters were boring.
I don't really care about dancing, but Asadora's aren't really about the topic for me, it's about the characters and especially the development of the heroine. But nothing happened with her. She moved, she lived there, she took lessons, she entered a contest or two and then there's two or three weeks about a festival I couldn't get myself to care about.
If I have to say one bad and one good thing: The bad is Nishida Toshiyuki. It's like he can only play characters one way, regardless of who the character's supposed to be. The good would be Hitomi's friends, they weren't particularly interesting, but they brought a bit of desperately needed modern flavor into all the old fashioned elements (the town, the values, etc) of the story.

Why are the conversations always so disconnected in every Thai YouTube series? It's my 4th or 5th, and it's like that every time. It's like they read from cue cards and the person holding them snaps their fingers when it's the actress/actors turn to talk, but always half a second after the first person stopped talking. It's super distracting and I instantly get the urge to skip forward so I don't notice the gaps.

Dropped after 10 minutes into the first ep.Seems to be another "who has the biggest god complex and is able to most disrespect every other person working in a hospital" competition between doctors. I'm sorry, but if Japanese hospitals were all like they're depicted in dramas, I don't think there'd be 5 people interested in working as a nurse or non-surgeon, except for some hardcore masochists.