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I absolutely with you. These subbers really need to be paid handsomely, they do it in their own free time, often by themselves, for hours on end. Sorry I made you misunderstand, the "people" I meant in my original comment were those subbers who start a 150+ episodes drama, or in this case 4 almost at the same time, and seemingly don't know how much work it is and then drop it without notice, some even so they can move on to regular shows a few days later.

Well, it's the same with Scarlet and Warotenka. And once a drama was started to get subbed by someone the chance of it being completed are slim to none. I wish people would be aware of how much work it is to sub 150+ episodes, even if it's just 15 mins per.

I love JDramas, but romance is probably not really the best representation because they are very rarely in the top half of "well made" in my opinion. Silent is one of the exceptions, because usually they either involve cheating, a naive/dumb FL, a sadistic/abusive ML, a plot that doesn't make an ounce of sense, a love triangle or the "I'm getting transferred" angle after the pairing gets together in episode 9 of 10 so they can have one last obstacle. Or everything mixed together. Romance JDramas can get really frustrating after you've seen a few if you ask me.

I think he broke up with her because he knew he was just a stand-in. I don't really believe in all those "I'm breaking up with someone because my best friend (still) loves them/they still love my best friend" scenarios, so in my opinion it was just because he didn't want to be her second choice. Also, it's a Jdrama, so the audience would've probably expected her to cheat on him with the ML and the screenwriters didn't want to include that kind of storyline ;)

And don't forget their fantasy building entertainment businesses. Especially idols play their roles in a way that they are the "perfect potential girlfriends", so there are more and more young, especially male, people who don't even want a relationship if they can have a fictional one with someone on a stage/behind a screen. And of course, for me the biggest one, Japanese men are intimidated by women who want to build their own careers... and because those are increasing, the "perfect family" of working husband and stay-at-home housewife isn't really feasible anymore, especially with the cost of living in Japan.

I can see what all the comments are about that it's a great human drama, but this "hospital villain vibe" from 50% of the characters is extremely annoying and totally overshadows the good parts of the drama for me. They should've stuck with the human aspect and not get into "unrational reputation and career saving" mode. I don't know what's going on in Japanese hospitals or hospitals in general, but what's all this crap about "you think you can break hospital policy just to save a life?" and the dude who saved the life gets suspended just because he broke a rule that says "don't operate on premature babies because they could die during it, even though they'll definitely die if we don't operate"; "we can't operate, if she dies the hospital's reputation will be damaged" or "let's cut off pediatrics because it doesn't generate profit"? And that wass only until episode 3.

If someone goes through this comment section they'll probably be pretty tired reading about the same thing over and over again, but all I can do is repeat that this was pretty mediocre at best, except for the two leads. Even they weren't especially well written, but their chemistry was really good and I liked how natural their acting was. Their colleagues also get a passing grade, they were at least entertaining a few times, but everything and everyone else is pretty badly written. In which parallel universe does this take place where foreign people come into a country, just ignore every (labor) law and handle everything according to what's "normal" in their own country? Also, their decisions in the last episode didn't make any sense to me, especially because of how it ended.

It's still the same in every industry in Japan. Seniority is the best trait anyone can have if they want to be successful and as long as the Japanese market makes enough profit and growth, probably nobody cares or even notices that their methods are outdated.
And that's the same for dramas and movies. I don't know if it's producers, directors, screenwriters or who, but some of these scripts are so horribly archaic they make me cringe even reading the synopsis, especially if it's the 28436th rendition or variation of "Woman wants to be successful in job but meets Dude X and somehow her biggest goal in life is to marry him, so she loses all interested in said job because she only wants to swoon over X even though he verbally abuses her every time he opens his mouth".

Absolutely agree with the translation and actor/actress comparison. There are a lot of those examples in JDrama, too. Mostly, at least in my opinion, "does he look cool and handsome" when it comes to actors and "how big are her boobs and is she willing to shove them into the camera everytime it's on her" if it's actresses. If those are the case, no producer cares if they can act if it's not some sort of super serious prime time drama on a conservative channel. And it's the same with subs, only "the faster they are uploaded the better and we don't even care if the translation makes sense".

To the drop thing (sorry for the upcoming rant ;)): I don't know if you know Asadora, but those are the best examples of what I wrote. Since fall 2019 (that's 8 completely aired Asadoras) every Asadora has been started by someone and only the spring 2020 edition, Yell, and spring 2021, Okaeri Mone, were finished. Yell even with luck because it was dropped halfway aswell. Two of those 8, plus Yell and the fall 2017 one, were started by the same subber, almost at the same time, and all 4 were dropped without notice around 40 episodes in. The other 3 were all dropped with even less episodes subbed by other individual subbers. It's the "too much" against "too old" when it comes to JDrama vs KDrama it seems. Because the subbers who started didn't know that beforehand I guess....

(At least) in Japan, if someone gets raped, it's still seen as shameful. Now, I didn't see the drama yet (just about to start actually), so I can't speak for what's going on there, but a lot of women in Japan still get blamed and/or blame themselves when they get sexually assaulted. This is often even transferred to the family of the victim, so there's a high number of unreported sexual assault cases just because the women don't want to live with the shame added to the mental and physical wounds and some even get pressured by family and/or friends not to report it.
It's also pretty hard to make a case that you actually were raped in the first place, because, at least until mid-2023, if you didn't visibly fight back, it was seen as consent. Even if you were drugged or unconscious, if you can't prove it. But if you fought back and the assailant was injured, there's a chance the victim could get reported/sued for assault. When it comes to women's rights and sexual crime laws, Japan's way behind all the other G8 states. Actually, they're way behind in everything concerning women and sexual minorities in that list of countries.

Is Katayose Ryouta cross-dressing as a woman or has a sex change? Otherwise "My favorite [...] became a Woman", if you translate the romaji title like it's written here, wouldn't make much sense I guess. I wish people would actually pay attention that おう, オー and the romaji Ō is ou and is pronounced like that (drawn out "o") aswell. Otherwise as fast as a superior becomes a woman here, a girl would become a virgin if you don't.

Yeah, the only sites (and hope) we got is d-addicts and drama-otaku. Japan will probably never change on their own in the next 10 to 15 years. Too many old dudes still stuck in the Showa era at the top of production companies, filming sets and tv stations that don't go with the times. You can even request on d-o, but there are more and more people who create these bad machine translations that are even thanked for by people, which in turn demotivates real translators because they think it's not worth the effort if people are satisfied with the machine crap. But the real problem is, in my opinion, that a lot of translators start something, get tired of it and drop it, then the drama will never get picked up again because people seemingly don't want to finish what other people started.

The only thing that's subbed or even released overseas is Anime and the odd mainstream movie with some stars. All the other entertainment industries only care about the domestic market. Dramas, Movies that aren't planned for international release from the beginning, Music, Talent/Actors/Actresses/Artists/Musicians. You just have to look through Youtube channels of those and you'll instantly see that there's no subs on any of the videos, even though it's super easy to do with AI generator or whatever it's called these days. Seems like the Japanese don't care about or want any money for their productions.

Well, it's probably not realistic at all and it's not meant to be because it's a cute comedy about a fan and her oshi, but I agree with everything else.
I hope I'm not bursting a bubble here, but the idol scene is known for their exploitative tendencies and that girls like Maina would probably be "discarded" after a month, if they'd even make a group to begin with. Or, if they'd make a group she'd probably be buried and give up herself.

Just going by the description this has nothing to do with the Manga, except for the title and the profession of the MC. Someone should probably delete the "Adapted from..." because it's quite misleading if you don't know the actual City Hunter story. It's like if you renamed "Heat" into "Lupin the Third" and claim it's adapted from the Manga (just an example, not a comparison of quality).

"Black" in Japan(ese) usually means something like "exploitive" or "no good", like in "Black companies" who exploit their employees by letting them work overtime without end, etc. But, maybe it's really the coffee that's insinuated, who knows with Japanese people and English.

I have to give it to them, for the fact that she's at least half naked 1/3 of the movie, their determination to actually show nothing is absolute first rate. Because of the resulting awkward shooting angles and unrealistic dry humping I couldn't really take the movie serious one bit.

Sounds interesting and I like Imada Mio, I just hope it's not going to be like Gegege no Nyobo and she has to play someone who's main profession is to get ignored by the men in her life and then needs to apologize for their idiotic behaviour because they ignored her and her input in the first place.

Characters, story and concept get quite old after 2 seasons, but some parts are still enjoyable. And after everything, Kinoshita Houka still got to reprise his role in season 3. No words for that. I wonder how many women he sexually harrassed and assaulted in the other world. Made the first half of episode 6 a hard skip through for me.

It's a shame that Warotenka, Scarlet, Ochoyan, Chimudondon, etc, all got started, abandoned after a few weeks and will never be completed, except for extremely bad Google Translate subs that don't make sense half the time and never get a name right.

Yeah, I don't think most Japanese men that are now in their 30s or older couldn't bother being a single parent anyways. For a lot of them work still comes first, second and third on their priority list. It's also something that's against the norm, which makes it another point against gaining custody as the father. I think in the west it's just that most fathers think the kid would be better off with the mom anyways, she's the one who spends most time with the kid and probably knows way better what's best.

I don't think there'll ever be a "general solution" to this. Theoretically every divorce should have a psychologist or something involved that evaluates the parents, the child and the surroundings of all of them and then decides without the influences of the involved parties. But the amount of money and time that'll consume is probably too much to be implemented on a regular basis. As an outsider to this whole situation and someone who only experienced the "child side" of things I'd say the happiness of the kid should always be top priority because that's the person who's least at fault. I don't think a child will be unhappy just because they don't know one of the parents, it's probably rather the opposite because if it's only the mother/father and they really care, they probably try even more to give it their all.
In my case it's been over 20 years, I was already in 5th/6th grade (I'm getting old...) and I was relatively happy because I had a lot more freedom than any of my peers, until my mom remarried an idiot. Of course, in hindsight it would've been better if I tried a bit more to stay in contact, but the brain of a 11/12 year old thinks "man, I don't need to bother, let's play games/with friends, rather than hang out with my old man". You'll never know what would have been best until you look back at it 20 years from now, both as the child and as the parent.