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I totally agree with you ep 7, 8 and 10 made me cry T.T

This is one of the reasons I'm fine with spoilers, because when I start getting doubts about continuing a drama I can ask/search for spoilers and decide if it's worth continuing it or it's better to drop it.

In my opinion for mystery/crime dramas is harder to drop them since you want to find out how the mystery/crime is resolved, so in my case I want to reach to that final episode and see the outcome. And speaking of romance/comedy it's easier to drop them since you know the OTP will end together at the end or there will be a happy ending so you really have to have a big interest in the plot development in this genre in order to continue watching.

I agree with you, it's nice seeing older actors getting the spotlight after several years of being in the industry.
For Mackenyu, the first drama I saw him in was Aogeba Toutoshi (which I highly recommend for the story in general not so much for Mackenyu), but I really like him in Todome no Kiss he's definitely getting better.

You can find most of them raw online if you search by the date and name (preferably in japanese). And for subbed episodes the best option is to look in livejournal communities. For Shabekuri episodes I use this site http://japanvarietyshow.com/
For Arashi shows you can check this index: https://gonindeiru.livejournal.com/

I really enjoyed Kyoto and all its temples. It's traditional style makes you feel the old Japan

And this is the reason I'm in the drama world!! I started watching dramas thanks to HanaDan. I loved reading mangas and HanDan was one of my favorites I like it so much that I just couldn't resist and watch everything out there involving this story. So I watched the anime first and then I went for the Japanese version (my favorite one ever!!! MatsuJun is the perfect Tsukasa they are a match made in heaven), then I watched Meteor Garden (this one followed the manga closely so all the guys that hang around Tsukushi were really there on the source material) after that when the Korean and Chinese version came out I went straight to watching them. I like the extravagance that's shown on Boys over flowers I think this one is the one with the higher budget. I'm only missing Moon River (but since the story changes the F4 and also Tsukushi's character I'm not really interested on it)

I do not recommend watching Meteor Garden 2 since it doesn't have anything to do with the original story and it deviates a lot from the character's personalities, specially Tuskasa's.

I'm getting ready to watch the new Meteor Garden!! I know I'll end up watching Hana nochi hare though I will definitely miss seeing the F4 and Makino (glad they will have Tuskasa's cameo at least)

Thanks for the article, really like reading your POV about this enormous franchise. I think the only one that can compare to this in terms of size is the Itazura na kiss franchise.

I don't remember if it was kissasian.com or ondramanice.com

I wrote this before watching BG, but I just finished it and I also liked his character, he had good scenes with Kimura.

(I just want to add something concerning this line: "An example is that Spanish sentence structure is closer to Japanese than English." I'm a Spanish native speaker and had been learning Japanese for 10 years now; and Japanese structure is not closer to Spanish than it can be to English. Japanese sentence structure is very peculiar and I really don't know if there's any language that is close to it out there)

Nice article! helping shed some light to the subbing process :)

Good and entertaining story, though I guessed correctly who the villain was. It felt this was filmed in one go as if it was a movie, due to the strange cuts at the end of some episodes. But it was beautifully filmed, I really the Hokkaido scenes. Overall it was a nice ride gave it a 8.5/10.

If you are still interested in suggestions:

N no tame ni
Maou
Ryusei Kizuna
The Quiz Show 2
Siren
Byakuyakou

From this list I have watched and recommend I'm Sorry I Love you and Delightful Girl, Choon Hyang. For tearjerkers there's also Wonderful Life, and other interesting ones are Sweet 18 and Goong.

It's been a year since I saw this and I don't have that much of an impression about it, but if I remember correctly they had minor cases not that interesting and without much mystery about them.

They removed it :(

This is an interesting drama I do recommend it but please do watch the Parallel episode 10 for a complete closure. I also want to say that I'm really glad Yamazaki picked this role because it certainly is something different from what he has been doing and it does let you see a different side of him as an actor.

Thank you so much for sharing. I really needed this epilogue! The ending makes more sense with it.

I believe Rurouni Kenshin is also available on Netflix

The original subber has posted episode 8 softsubs on d-addicts.