I think I made a comeback as a J-drama fan at the wrong time 🤔
Or to look at it another way, I think I'm pining after the wrong dramas at the wrong time. Let me explain, J-dramas is my other main source of entertainment besides anime and games back when I was a university student around 2012 to 2017. Then, I became a working adult and I just didn't have the time and mood for J-dramas anymore...
During the years that I was properly into J-drama, I actually watched a lot of dramas from the mid-2000s mainly Mop Girl, Tantei Gakuen Q, Handsome Suit, you get the idea. There's just something about dramas from this era that I'm particularly fond of but I can't really put my finger on it. However, I did find some of my favourites from the 2010s such as NazoDi and Akumu-chan (though I guess Kitagawa Keiko had a huge role in my love of those dramas). Oh yeah, Kazoku Game is also one of my favourites of all time.
And then in early 2020s, I managed to complete dramas such as Gokushufudou, He Who Can't Marry, Kotaro-kun Lives Alone and Life's Punchline in the little free time that I had. Anyway, back then - especially when I was a student - I didn't really care about the quality of the video though I did get lucky with mainly Mop Girl and NazoDi since I remember actually watching the dramas in pretty good quality (especially for NazoDi, it was HD). So, I wasn't particularly bothered with the video quality just as long as I could watch it back then.
However, everything changed when I watched my first C-drama (LBFAD) last year. To top it off, I was watching LBFAD on Netflix using a stable WiFi connection and that experience made me realized that I should go for HD for each and every drama/movie that I am watching. Now, to the crux of the problem, it irks me that I can't easily get the J-dramas that I want in HD as easily as I can get C-dramas in HD. But then I realized that I might have been chasing after the wrong J-dramas at the wrong time...I believe it would have been easier for me to get Atashinchi no Danshi and Mei-chan no Shitsuji in HD during the time they were at their peak popularity just as easily as I could get the recent C-dramas in HD nowadays.
Unfortunately, my brain and heart are currently pining hard for mid-2000s J-dramas in HD which are pretty hard to come by nowadays. (HanaKimi did this to me... I've just finished watching the whole series in HD 😭)
TL;DR - I want to watch Atashinchi no Danshi and Mei-chan no Shitsuji in HD. Does anyone know where I can get them in HD, preferably 720p/1080p? I'm okay with RAWs as well.