It just happens that I've got an abundance of free time (against my wish wink wink) but that will stop soon. 😭 2027 will be the year I get to be picky...
NO hey I'm loving that your mdl last online status is now "5 minutes ago" instead of "10+ days ago." this website sucked so bad when my friends stopped updating. nick disappeared for some time too. 😭
I honestly feel like I'm bad at giving recs because while my friends do appreciate the genre asadora, they don't necessarily like the same titles that I do? I wonder if you will like Sakura (2002). It's about this japanese hawaiian protagonist who moves to japan for one year to become a teacher and reconnect with her roots. and as a cliche, she obviously falls in love with the culture in the process and finds it harder and harder to leave. I'm interested to see if you would share that kind of sentiment since you visited japan sometime ago?
one of my personal favorite is Come Come Everybody (2021), but everyone else seems to hate it. 😂 It's a story about 3 generations spanning 100 years. the first 30 eps is about Yasuko and her hard life during wartime. the next 40 eps is about Rui (Yasuko's daughter) who is estranged from her mother and has to navigate her life alone (while Japan is trying to rebuild itself after the war too). the last arc is about Hinata (Rui's daughter/Yasuko's grand-daughter) who is obsessed with Jidaigeki/period dramas. 😂 I personally loved seeing how life gradually got better overtime for each generation; this asadora felt like a time capsule hehe.
Whether you want to support this drama is entirely up to you, but being in denial and insulting others who might have spent time researching news to provide accurate tags is a bit much, don't you think?
And also the previous label, but that's very selective. Before 2019, it's more of a no hope territory but I will…
btw Toyohara Kosuke played a gay character in Bitter Sugar (2011) if you want to add him to your list of obscure gay characters. (You haven't updated that list in a while so I think you're not maintaining it anymore? xD) He had a small moment in ep 3 but no romance. 🥺
Yes, I'm still maintaining the list. Actually, it's not missing anything except one recently announced show that…
ooo I didn't see I Am What I Am yesterday for some reason (maybe I had a typo when searching) so I thought you abandoned this list. Thank you for making it!
Had to remove Wakaba completely because the links at raredoramas are dead :(
I don't know this for sure, but I think NHK has plans to rebroadcast it sometime in the future! ^.^ They finally put Kimi no na wa (1991) on streaming today, and Honmamon (2001) has been announced to get a remaster in October! Wakaba will get its turn eventually, I hope.
NHK finally made this asadora available on streaming platforms today (sept 11th), 35 years after its first broadcast! :D hope a subber will pick this up!
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I honestly feel like I'm bad at giving recs because while my friends do appreciate the genre asadora, they don't necessarily like the same titles that I do? I wonder if you will like Sakura (2002). It's about this japanese hawaiian protagonist who moves to japan for one year to become a teacher and reconnect with her roots. and as a cliche, she obviously falls in love with the culture in the process and finds it harder and harder to leave. I'm interested to see if you would share that kind of sentiment since you visited japan sometime ago?
one of my personal favorite is Come Come Everybody (2021), but everyone else seems to hate it. 😂 It's a story about 3 generations spanning 100 years. the first 30 eps is about Yasuko and her hard life during wartime. the next 40 eps is about Rui (Yasuko's daughter) who is estranged from her mother and has to navigate her life alone (while Japan is trying to rebuild itself after the war too). the last arc is about Hinata (Rui's daughter/Yasuko's grand-daughter) who is obsessed with Jidaigeki/period dramas. 😂 I personally loved seeing how life gradually got better overtime for each generation; this asadora felt like a time capsule hehe.
(https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainment/20260711/agent-kim-reactivated-uses-ai-to-create-so-ji-subs-past-story-sequence)
(https://www.bidpro.co.kr/n0_ipchal/konggo/svc/konggo_view.asp?num=3152844)
This drama was also selected for the AI/Digital-Based Broadcasting Program Production Support (AI·디지털 기반 방송프로그램 제작 지원) project.
(https://news.nate.com/view/20260821n19857)
Whether you want to support this drama is entirely up to you, but being in denial and insulting others who might have spent time researching news to provide accurate tags is a bit much, don't you think?