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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.

It's sad, but it's all about production quality and "western standards" when it comes to MDL ratings. That's why, for example, dramas like Alice in Borderland or almost all KDramas have a rating of 8 or higher, because they spend more money so it always looks like the set's a Hollywood production, actors look like they are going straight to an exclusive millionaires party even if they just woke up, and the plots and acting are more "westernized". If something's not up to par with Netflix productions people deduct 2 points or more from their rating, regardless of the story/acting. If it's something that's more unique to Japan, like here the student - adult relationship (I'm not a fan either, but I don't rate it badly because of it) or unique Japanese comedy like Kenshirou ni Yoroshiku, it gets points deducted because people only watch 2 episodes and then flame it to hell how bad the actors, production and plot are, just because it's made solely for the Japanese market and they simply have other standards and methods how to do tv.

Oh don't get me started. I love Japan and its culture, but I hate quite a few parts of their society and laws (especially when it comes to women's rights, minorities, marriage and their idealization of it). If you see it from the worst possible standpoint, these laws with the family register and single custody could be a means for the husband/father to have complete control over his family. Of course, I don't really believe that, but there are quite a few dramas where the father basically takes them hostage by saying "if you divorce me, I'll take our kid and you can't do anything about it because you are only a meager housewive without any income", so I also wouldn't be shocked if some shogun/politician made the law because of that reason. I really can't believe that this whole "family name legacy" is still a thing in Japan and I think it's one of the (many) reasons why their economy and birthrate is struggling.

I haven't seen the drama yet, so I can't really say anything specifically about that situation, but I'm a divorce kid myself and was in a similar situation you described quite a few years back, so I can understand not really wanting to have anything to do with the father. Well, in my case my dad was quite passive and always seemed indifferent to everything, so I didn't have much of a relationship with him to begin with, which is why the contact naturally got less and less.

In Japan there's no "shared custody" or visitation law or whatever's called. Either the mother or the father gets custody of the kid and they have no obligation to let the other side see their child, everything's basically voluntary. I think it's a Meiji era law from 150 or 200 years ago that never got changed, just like the rape law (the template at least) and that girls can get married (off) at the age of 14, until they changed at least the latter one last year.

So, this is like the movie for episode 1 of the anime, right? I really hope so, otherwise it's going to be a ultra rushed train wreck. If they make a 90 minute episode for an anime, you definitely need 90 minutes for that episode. Well, as a fan, I'm anxious either way, with so many non-actresses cast in character heavy roles. At least the in-the-story-actresses are played by actresses with more of a/a better track record.

The part why it's more common is probably because, at least in the past before all the regulations with privacy, harassment and what teachers are and aren't allowed to do were tightened, teachers were very much involved in the lives of their students. They gave advice on everything, they were called when the student did something wrong (stealing a choco bar or whatever), even parents asked them for advice, etc. I guess some teachers are still like that, which simply makes them one of the closest people around and one that always (tried to) listen(ed). Maybe the easiest way to make a teenager fall in love. Which is one of the biggest reasons why I always thought it creepy af that most teachers in girls' schools are/were male by the way... I wouldn't even want to know the number of unreported cases that happened in that kind of environment.

Unicorn ni Notte is about all that, with Nagano Mei. It's pretty KDrama-esque from how the drama and everyone in it looks aesthetically, but if you don't have a problem with people always looking like they're going to an expensive dinner party even if they just fall out of bed then you should give it shot.

Isn't that the same reason why Freddy Mercury didn't fix his teeth? Interesting that something like this could influence your singing.

Someone should remove the tags. I don't think any of the two was lesbian. One was in a relationship with a guy and the other seemed like she was her best friend and like a sister. Regardless of that, the two actresses seemed like they just memorized their lines and were talking to themselves the whole time. Which is not really good if that's all that happens for 40 minutes.

Typical Shoujo Manga adpation, minus the (verbal) abuse that's present in a lot of them. I get what people are saying about "a fluffy drama", but I tried to watch it three times and dropped it three times because for me it's not fluffy but totally without logic. I refuse to believe that there are so damn painfully innocent and pure girls out in society in this day and age, even if Japan doesn't have a formal sex ed in their schools. She comes across as someone wihtout any interest in a relationship and just wants to work on her manga, but the writer thought that it's not ok to not be in love all the time. But I think the biggest problem is the mindset of "she, and women in general, do(es)n't (or shouldn't) know how sex works, so she/they should let some guy teach her/them even if they're not really interested, as long as she/they can keep their clothes on while doing it".