Drama Season - Fall 2019
I have to say, I'm not really inspired by anything, this fall. But, but, do you remember the 865 dramas I put in my list for last summer? Well, I have tried and dropped 2 of them, and completed only ONE, Nagi no Oitoma - which I really really liked, ESPECIALLY FOR TAKAHASHI ISSEI'S CHARACTER WHICH WAS THE BEST THING OF THE SHOW AND I LOVE HIM DEEPLY HE WAS A DISASTER HUMAN BEING.
Anyway. The others, I haven't even tried them. I don't know, maybe I'm not in the mood. Maybe this summer I was too busy ruining my life with The Untamed.
Back to business, for this fall I have selected only 3 dramas, I'm not excited about any of them but I hope that at least one will be good.
Ore no Hanashi wa Nagai
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, 12 October 2019
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Kaneko Shigeki (Boku Unmei no Hito desu, Momikeshite Fuyu Series, Kyou wa Kaisha Yasumimasu)
Cast: Ikuta Toma, Koike Eiko, Yasuda Ken, Kiyohara Kaya, Sugino Yosuke, Harada Mieko, Mizusawa Rintaro, Hamatani Kenji, Honda Chikara, Kinari, Nishimura Masahiko
Synopsis: 31-year-old Kishibe Mitsuru (Ikuta Toma) has been unemployed since seven years ago. After graduating from university, he got hooked on coffee and started a business but it failed. However, no one can beat him in a war of words and he keeps using twisted logic to gloss over his own hopelessness. Mitsuru lives off his mother Fusae (Harada Mieko), who runs the cafe left to her by her late husband. But his life suddenly changes when his older sister Ayako (Koike Eiko) and her family (Yasuda Ken, Kiyohara Kaya) come to live with them while their house is being rebuilt. Ayako concludes that Mitsuru is simply escaping from reality and faults their mother for how he turned out. Will he be able to overcome this misfortune and stand on his own two feet?
Yeah I'm mostly putting this here because of Toma. It seems all kind of fun from the teaser, but I have the feeling that it won't be THAT funny, since it talks about a person who tries to re-start his life, it could be quite emotional, hitting all the right spots.
Motokare Mania
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Thursdays, 17 October 2019
Station: Fuji TV
Scriptwriter: Tsubota Fumi (Kounodori Series, Onna Michi, Heat)
Cast: Kora Kengo, Araki Yuko, Hamano Kenta, Tanaka Minami, Yoshiko, Morita Kanro, Sekiguchi Mandy, Kato Toranosuke, Daichi, Inoue Shota, Shuri, Kote Shinya, Yamaguchi Sayaka
Synopsis: Nanba Yukari (Araki Yuko), a 27-year-old office lady, is not unattractive or inferior to the girls around her. Nevertheless, her romantic relationships have not gone well. She cannot forget her ex-boyfriend Saito Makoto (Kora Kengo) whom she nicknamed Makochi. She loves him so much that she looks up his name on social media every morning, has imaginary conversations with him and looks ecstatic when she finds faint similarities in the men she meets for the first time through the “ex-boyfriend scouter” that she activated. Makoto vanished after the two of them broke up five years ago. However, they are reunited as colleagues at the real estate company where Yukari works. He stirs up Yukari with his words and actions without realising. Meanwhile, Yukari’s first client Yamashita Akio (Hamano Kenta), a salaryman with a promising future at a leading food company, proposes that they date …
This whole stalker/maniac ex gf thing kinda disturbs me and scares me, but idk, the drama itself could be a nice love comedy? I will try the 1st episode and drop it if it's too weird.
Haru ~ Sougou Sousha no Onna
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Mondays, 21 October 2019
Station: TV Tokyo
Scriptwriters: Tatsui Yukari (Anata ni wa Watasanai, Koshiji Fubuki Monogatari, Mama to Papa ga Ikiru Riyuu), Honda Takaaki (Watashi Danna o Share Shiteta, Silent Voice, Daishou)
Cast: Nakatani Miki, Fujiki Naohito, Shirasu Jin, Oshinari Shugo, Yamanaka Takashi, Kaji Masaki, Watanabe Kunito, Terada Kokoro, Okuda Eiji
Synopsis: Single mother Umihara Haru (Nakatani Miki) was active in the American business community until she was directly headhunted by the CEO of Itsuki Trading, a leading Japanese general trading company, and returned to Japan. She takes up the position of assistant manager of the elite Corporate Planning Department but her direct superior turns out to be Wada Hisashi (Fujiki Naohito), the ex-husband whom she divorced 10 years ago. From ramen to rockets, Haru takes on all sorts of problems within Itsuki Trading’s enormous departments and affiliate companies. She proclaims that she wants to enjoy work and does things that defies common wisdom amid an atmosphere of paralysis due to a conservative deputy CEO.
I'm afraid the plot is going to be boring/too much focused on the job they do, I want to try it -if it gets subbed, of course- just because I LOVED seeing Nakatani Miki and Fujiki Naohito in Watashi wa Kekkon Dekinai Janakute etc etc.
Anyway. The others, I haven't even tried them. I don't know, maybe I'm not in the mood. Maybe this summer I was too busy ruining my life with The Untamed.
Back to business, for this fall I have selected only 3 dramas, I'm not excited about any of them but I hope that at least one will be good.
Ore no Hanashi wa Nagai
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, 12 October 2019
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Kaneko Shigeki (Boku Unmei no Hito desu, Momikeshite Fuyu Series, Kyou wa Kaisha Yasumimasu)
Cast: Ikuta Toma, Koike Eiko, Yasuda Ken, Kiyohara Kaya, Sugino Yosuke, Harada Mieko, Mizusawa Rintaro, Hamatani Kenji, Honda Chikara, Kinari, Nishimura Masahiko
Synopsis: 31-year-old Kishibe Mitsuru (Ikuta Toma) has been unemployed since seven years ago. After graduating from university, he got hooked on coffee and started a business but it failed. However, no one can beat him in a war of words and he keeps using twisted logic to gloss over his own hopelessness. Mitsuru lives off his mother Fusae (Harada Mieko), who runs the cafe left to her by her late husband. But his life suddenly changes when his older sister Ayako (Koike Eiko) and her family (Yasuda Ken, Kiyohara Kaya) come to live with them while their house is being rebuilt. Ayako concludes that Mitsuru is simply escaping from reality and faults their mother for how he turned out. Will he be able to overcome this misfortune and stand on his own two feet?
Yeah I'm mostly putting this here because of Toma. It seems all kind of fun from the teaser, but I have the feeling that it won't be THAT funny, since it talks about a person who tries to re-start his life, it could be quite emotional, hitting all the right spots.
Motokare Mania
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Thursdays, 17 October 2019
Station: Fuji TV
Scriptwriter: Tsubota Fumi (Kounodori Series, Onna Michi, Heat)
Cast: Kora Kengo, Araki Yuko, Hamano Kenta, Tanaka Minami, Yoshiko, Morita Kanro, Sekiguchi Mandy, Kato Toranosuke, Daichi, Inoue Shota, Shuri, Kote Shinya, Yamaguchi Sayaka
Synopsis: Nanba Yukari (Araki Yuko), a 27-year-old office lady, is not unattractive or inferior to the girls around her. Nevertheless, her romantic relationships have not gone well. She cannot forget her ex-boyfriend Saito Makoto (Kora Kengo) whom she nicknamed Makochi. She loves him so much that she looks up his name on social media every morning, has imaginary conversations with him and looks ecstatic when she finds faint similarities in the men she meets for the first time through the “ex-boyfriend scouter” that she activated. Makoto vanished after the two of them broke up five years ago. However, they are reunited as colleagues at the real estate company where Yukari works. He stirs up Yukari with his words and actions without realising. Meanwhile, Yukari’s first client Yamashita Akio (Hamano Kenta), a salaryman with a promising future at a leading food company, proposes that they date …
This whole stalker/maniac ex gf thing kinda disturbs me and scares me, but idk, the drama itself could be a nice love comedy? I will try the 1st episode and drop it if it's too weird.
Haru ~ Sougou Sousha no Onna
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Mondays, 21 October 2019
Station: TV Tokyo
Scriptwriters: Tatsui Yukari (Anata ni wa Watasanai, Koshiji Fubuki Monogatari, Mama to Papa ga Ikiru Riyuu), Honda Takaaki (Watashi Danna o Share Shiteta, Silent Voice, Daishou)
Cast: Nakatani Miki, Fujiki Naohito, Shirasu Jin, Oshinari Shugo, Yamanaka Takashi, Kaji Masaki, Watanabe Kunito, Terada Kokoro, Okuda Eiji
Synopsis: Single mother Umihara Haru (Nakatani Miki) was active in the American business community until she was directly headhunted by the CEO of Itsuki Trading, a leading Japanese general trading company, and returned to Japan. She takes up the position of assistant manager of the elite Corporate Planning Department but her direct superior turns out to be Wada Hisashi (Fujiki Naohito), the ex-husband whom she divorced 10 years ago. From ramen to rockets, Haru takes on all sorts of problems within Itsuki Trading’s enormous departments and affiliate companies. She proclaims that she wants to enjoy work and does things that defies common wisdom amid an atmosphere of paralysis due to a conservative deputy CEO.
I'm afraid the plot is going to be boring/too much focused on the job they do, I want to try it -if it gets subbed, of course- just because I LOVED seeing Nakatani Miki and Fujiki Naohito in Watashi wa Kekkon Dekinai Janakute etc etc.