Akimahende!: cute adolescent Nino and a bunch of really annoying people and situations

[bitterbee]

I decided that when I’m not working this summer, I should try to catch up on dramas. Like, from scratch. And maybe because it’s June, I went for a super-old Nino drama, Akimahende! (1998), which I'm not exactly recommending (but maybe I was just in a bad mood all week? Maybe this actually is a decent drama?). The exclamation point is part of the

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[bitterbee]

I really tried to think of it as a comedy -- I guess I don't laugh at most of the same things the writers of this drama would. I think the funniest moment for me was when the housekeeper told Nino's character to eat breakfast so he would grow taller (cuz short jokes are funny), and Nino responded that both Stalin and Hitler were short. There's all sorts of ironic humor in there! But the whiny women who need to learn their place -- not so amusing to me.

I find it fun when there's evidence that the drama came from TV instead of from the internet. So back in 1998, someone videotaped this off the TV, and then later managed to digitize it! Cool! Too bad that channel doesn't run jdrama anymore.

Tokujo Kabachi is not as painful as Bambino -- he has a steep learning curve, but there's no dishes to break (just, you know, people's bank accounts and such). I also have not seen Smile (not the kind of thing I generally go for), and I haven't seen any of the Arashi dramas after Kaibutsu-kun -- too busy and not willing to be depressed, even though I'm told NatsuNiji and Freeter are both good. Bartender probably wouldn't depress me, but I just haven't gotten to it. And no one seems to have uploaded Matsuoka's cooking drama, which I did want to see...

I do recommend Ryusei no Kizuna. Toda Erika didn't annoy me nearly as much as I thought she would. I guess I don't care much about Nishikido, but he didn't get in the way. Good story, and I pretty much always like the Kudo Kankuro I've seen.