andoR

I wonder when we timetravelled back to 2005, when everything was hardsubbed on a streaming site. Shame that this one's not downloadable nor any Softsubs available, same as Dasada.

Hey! :)
My comment wasn't written with any malicious intent, sorry if it seemed that way.

I said "it's basically a KDrama site" because seemingly 1 in 50 news stories on the front page are not about Korean Drama/Movies, that's the only reason. I'm not at all interested in Korean stuff, but I know that it's more mainstream and more people talk about it, so I can understand it to a certain degree. It's hard to balance what's popular and giving different countries spotlight, but it's pretty (a bit too much imo) lopsided in my opinion, hence my remark.

And you confirmed my other point that "basically every JDrama is a Miniseries according to MDL". I already figured it's more or less automatic if a Drama has less than X episodes because most country's Dramas are more like KDrama or even longer. And because almost every JDrama is less than 11 episodes they are almost all declared as Miniseries. I think it's a bit unnecessary, but that's all the beef I have with this tag :D.

Thanks for the recommendation in your other comment, I'm basically only interested in Japanese content and I have a few sites that are focused on on that, but I'm definitely going to check it out :)

This story is definitely worth telling, but I wonder why they made this into an Asadora. If Matsushita's character is a heroine then every housewife who's basically a housemaid without pay and completely obeys everything her husband, and every other man in the story for that matter, says, is one. You could say apologizing to and for her husband while simultaneously idolizing him are her favorite things to do, to the point her own child thinks it's useless to tell her anything important.
From the Asadoras I've seen so far the best comparison would be Manpuku, both are stories about a housewife who 120% supports her workaholic husband as the main point of the story. The main difference between these two stories is, besides the topic, that the couple in Manpuku have actual conversations while the husband in Gegege no Nyobo just orders his wife around with commands as if she were a cheap housemaid and otherwise completely ignores her and everyone else in his family if she/they want to say something or has/have a problem.
Also... I would really love to smack her parents around for hours. Especially the father, who still lives in the Meiji era and LOVES to sell his daughters to random men.

Well, if enough young men see this ML as a role model there's no need for concern in Japan about not having enough creepy, arrogant stalkers around in the future. If someone would behave like that with anyone where I'm from they'd probably get a restraining order instead of a relationship out of their actions. I was asking myself a few times in the first two episodes alone if this girl (deliberate choice of word) has Stockholm Syndrome or if she's simply too horny to make rational decisions. And what's up with her friends/colleagues? Do they seriously encourage her to just go along with the sexual harrassment just because they think he's good looking? I guess I should really refrain from watching dramas with Shoujo Manga plots, I can't think irrational enough to enjoy them.

Pretty funny drama. I was never interested in building models myself, but watching someone assemble one I can definitely understand the appeal. I love Yoda Yuuki's deadpan humor here, but it's a shame she either didn't want to or wasn't allowed to use her hands for anything but appearance when her face was shown. Unfortunately it was blatantly obvious she didn't do anything except clicking stuff together after the detailed work was already done. Maybe they should at least have some women do the work when the camera's zoomed in on the hands in these kinds of dramas, it's pretty strange to watch a not-that-young man's hand when it's supposed to be a young woman all the time.

Sorry for commenting on a 2 year-old post, but is the sexism very apparent? I dropped or didn't even start almost all of the Japanese police (or work focused in general) dramas with female leads because of it. A lot of the time they have to fight more against their bosses and colleagues than the actual criminals/problems which is a really annoying, but unfortunately real, plot device in 95% of crime dramas with female leads.

There's a difference between "romantic love" and the "adoration for an idol", which is the case in the anime in my opinion, at least in the earlier episodes. There are other hints later on, but I don't know if they are romantic or just because they started to care a lot about each other as friends. But there's definitely GL vibes between Maki and another member (Yumeri? I can't remember) and they're not even subtle.

Yes, I emphasized it in my second post because that's what you criticized, even though my original post wasn't focused on it at all. Actually, I only wrote about her bust once, which was that it is the only thing the creators got right if you compare the drama to the anime, and that statement isn't even adressed to her but the creators who did a really poor job all around. Every actor in this show was bad and that's simply a matter of script and/or skill and has nothing to do with any body part. I picked out Nana because she was the worst actor/actress in every drama/movie I've seen her in and I simply don't know any of the other actors.
I hope I could clear this up, even though I only repeated my original post, because getting accused of sexism or the like is an absolute first for me. Which is by the way why I criticized the industry for casting people without acting skills solely because of their face or body proportions.

I didn't say she's a bad actress because of her bust size. I said she's a bad actress, period, and that she probably only gets roles because of her breasts (you only need to look at the characters she plays in all the anime adaptions). She should stay with gravure modeling because that's something she does well and is naturally inclined to. I know it's a sad reality all over the world and often not even her (or all the idols who can't act but are still casted in everything) choice, but then it's the responsibility of the creators and casting director to cast someone who fits the character AND can act. That's by the way something that's not restricted to gender for me, I also hate it if some guy only gets casted because he's handsome or has cool looks.
I also don't have a "bias against big bust size", in fact I couldn't care less about it. My bias is against "casting someone BECAUSE of her big bust size even though she can't act". I like Ayase Haruka for example and she's pretty well off, too. But I like her roles and her acting skills and that's enough for me.

Seems like basically every JDrama is a miniseries according to MDL because most of them only have 8 - 10 x 45 Minutes episodes, instead of the 16 x 70 minute or more KDramas. And MDL is basically a KDrama only site that happens to have Japanese stuff in their database.

You probably got your answer already, but no, it's just friendship. At least from what I've seen and read in interviews and trailers. But, seeing as the two mains are pretty good friends outside of the movie, it would've been interesting if it had a romantic aspect to it in my opinion.

I always download the subs on the pages the fansubbers upload them on themselves, d-addicts.com for example, so I'm not very familiar with streaming sites like KissAsian and all those who look the same/similar. But they are some of those who take the fansubbers work and upload them without consent to make ad revenue. That's also the reason why a lot of subbers tend to put their subs behind a pay wall these days or stop translating altogether, they don't want to their work to get stolen and monetized. The only official streaming sites, I think, are those listed here on MDL in the Where To Watch above the Cast. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

You can only request KissAsian to steal subtitles from hard working fansubbers, remove their credits, make it seem they did the work and make money out of it. Wouldn't recommend.

Seems like the subs and tumblr page on which they were on got removed. Even with waybackmachine and the mega links you'd need a crypto code to download. Shame, love the drama and really wanted to watch the special.

After the around 15 BL dramas this year alone we get the second ever JDrama focused on GL? Really looking forward to it. I just hope the screenplay won't be rewritten as another typical Japanese "a woman only loves another woman until the right guy comes around to take care of her" stories.

Probably the worst JDrama I've watched more than 2 episodes of. And I only watched more because I like Fukuhara Haruka and usually the characters in these stories grow at least a little bit, but if this was set in the Meiji era her character would probably be super happy to know she'll be sold by her parents into a family in which she'd be the house slave who's forced to wear used rags. And the ML is the abusive husband who slaps her around because she doesn't dress nice enough to go to a banquet. But worst of all: the manga (probably) and screenplay are written by women. I don't know which trauma they underwent in their childhoods, but every woman on the planet should send them insulting letters a few times a year.

Yeah, Natsuzora, Yell and Okaeri Mone were the spring Asadora after Manpuku and all of them are subbed, while Scarlet, Ochoyan and Come Come Everybody are either in work for more than a year with little to no progress or are subbed partially with no subs available to the average Jdrama watcher. Don't know what'll happen to this year's spring one, Chimudondon, because the original subber vanished without a trace. So, I think everyone's super grateful Mai Agare! gets a sub that quickly.

It's also pretty confusing because the "machine" can't differentiate between male/female or we/us and stuff like that because Japanese never use any pronouns. Expressions unique to Japanese are getting all jumbled up and don't make any real sense, too. I guess it'll land on the non-subbed list like all the fall Asadora since 2018 :/

Just my opinion, but I don't think you need to rush to be up to date with every episode of an Asadora. Chimudondon doesn't have a subber (anymore) and the last fully subbed fall Asadora is Manpuku from 2018, so I think everyone's pretty much grateful, even if you are months behind ;)

Thanks for picking this up! It's been a while since a fall Asadora was fully subbed, so Ganbatte :)
By the way, you can get all raws in 1080p (even the complete 15 minutes of ep2 without the text insertions) on nyaa.si if you search for 舞いあがれ！. It would be super nice of you to make the softsub for ep2 available, but only if you're able to and willing. Thanks!