drama archives, reviews: japanese II
MY JAPANESE ARCHIVES PART II
YEAR 2010
→ Name(s): Samourai High School
→ Genre: comedy, historical, school life, friendship, romance
→ Review : Watched the drama mainly because of my crush Haruma Miura. It was dissapointed though. He did a good job switched between 2 characters but him being coward is dull to watch. Shirota Yuu's speaking was very annoying too.
The Mochizuki family was one of the few funny thing I enjoy.
→ Rating (out of 5): ★★★
→ Name(s): Shiroi Haru
→ Genre: family,
→ Review :
→ Rating (out of 5): ★★★★ - PLAN TO WATCH -
→ Name(s): 3 Peace
→ Genre: family, comedy, work life,
→ Review : I don't even remember why I started this drama (because it's kinda old) but i liked it, it was so cute. But many details / actings were unrealistic. I don't know if all the early 2000s drama were like but why the characters have to yell loud when they speak D: At first I thought it was because they argue all the time but actually 1/3 of the time they spoke like that, which is very annoying. Akira, the child was pretty cute nevertheless.
→ Rating (out of 5): ★★★
→ Name(s): Yasha
→ Genre: family, work life, psycological, boys love
→ Review :
→ Rating (out of 5): ★★★ - ON HOLD-
→ Name(s): Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
→ Genre: bishounen, school life, comedy,
→ Review : I think I had enough of manga-ish (shojo-ish) plot drama.
→ Rating (out of 5): ★★★ - DROPPED-
→ Name(s): Bloody Monday 2
→ Genre: drama, suspense, action, family, police, comedy, romance
→ Review : Awesome like the first season. Still don't understand well all the enigma, especially the ending, still blurry. Really enjoy the suspense. The new characters are more dynamic and mysterious as ever. Hamura Miura's acting didn't improved much but I can sense he got much confident now. I can't wait to watch his next works.
→ Rating (out of 5): ★★★★
→ Name(s): Code blue
→ Genre: drama, suspense, action, family, comedy
→ Review : I'm not into theme drama a lot (esp TVB's ones) but occasionnally I watch one. It happens that I really love this one. Flight doctors, pretty novel subject.
Of course Yamapi and Erika Toda were also the reasons I wanted to try it out. Their actings were not perfect but I enjoyed watching their stories. Aragaki Yui and Asari Yosuke were surprisingly good (knew none of them before).
One story/theme per episode like the typical American series. And a special at the end of the season, which I found pretty uninterested (since it doesn't inform us anything new)
→ Rating (out of 5): ★★★★★
→ Name(s): Code blue 2
→ Genre: drama, suspense, action, family, comedy
→ Review : Basically the continuation of the season 1, with similar stories and evolving more 'serious' cases. We know lot more about each flight doctors, their pasts and families. I seriously wanted the characters to develop relationships, but it seems that the drama only wanted to portray work, family and human values.
→ Review (out of 5) : ★★★★★
→ Name(s): Sunao ni Narenakute
→ Genre: drama, romance, friendship, comedy
→ Review :
→ Rating (out of 5) : ★★★
→ Name(s): Tumbling
→ Genre: sport, friendship, comedy
→ Review :
→ Rating (out of 5) : ★★★ - WATCHING-
→ Name(s): Mageranai Onna
→ Genre: comedy, worklife, drama, romance
→ Review :
→ Rating (out of 5) : ★★★ - ON-HOLD-
→ Name(s): Tsuki no koibito
→ Genre: work life, friendship, romance, action, business
→ Review :
→ Rating (out of 5) : ★★★★
→ Name(s): Love shuffle
→ Genre: work life, romance, friendship
→ Review : I didn't except to enjoy the drama so much! I was recommanded this drama by a friend long ago but the idea of changing partners was ridiculous to me. Then one day I was bored and realized that Tamaki Hiroshi and Matsuda Shota were in so decided to try out. The beginning was quite fast to settle because the 4 main characters have good chemistry and gave nicknames to each other on their first encounter (things that woiuld never happens in kdramas). The humour is very great, didn't know there were so many use of 'Pan da' in Japanese. My most favourite couple was Ai-ai and Usa-tan and O-chan and Kairi.
The end was surprising and expected at the same time but it remains a great romance drama filled with humour.
→ Rating (out of 5) : ★★★★★
→ Name(s): Dare Yori mo Mama wo Aisu
→ Genre: family, work life, friendship, romance
→ Review :
→ Rating (out of 5) : ★★★★
→ Name(s): Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo
→ Genre: work life, friendship, educational
→ Review :
→ Rating (out of 5) : ★★★ - WATCHING-