Winter 2018's dramas
It was, overall, a really nice season (finally!), even though, as always, I didn't manage to watch everything that was on my watchlist: I've only watched 2 episodes of Repeat (which didn't seem bad, so I'll finish it when I have time) and Kimi ga Kokoro ni Sumitsuita is being subbed in these days, so I'm going to wait. The one with Ichihara Hayato didn0t get any subs but I haven't heard anyone talking about it, so maybe it was nothing special.
99.9 Season 2
I haven't finished it yet, but I can already say that I have loved every second of it. It's so dumb and clever at the same time, well written, well acted, never boring and did I mention dumb?? It's just a lot of fun, I love it.
And I appreciate that they changed up things a bit from the previous season, both with adding Ozaki (who I probably like even more than Tachibana) and with exploring a different problem of Japanese legal system (the judges); also, in the first season you could guess who the culprit was in the middle of the episode, this time I feel it was harder. So yeah, the general scheme and feel was the same, but with some small changes, so I didn't get the feel of seeing season 1 all over again.
It was good that in the first episodes they talked again about Miyama's father case, for once we have a Jdrama that actually ends without leaving something to the imagination!
Anyway, I loved it so much. I would watch many more seasons, but I get that would be hard to make XD
Unnatural
Nogi Akiko keeps delivering. When she writes this kind of dramas (focused on some job and the characters relationships) she produces jewels. Do I give a fuck about forensic pathologists? Very little. Did I love this drama? Absolutely yes. It's just the way the characters were written, the way they interacted, the relationships between them. This time there was also some kind of mystery, so even better.
It's still not at the level of Soratobu Kouhoushitsu (because there we had that beautiful love story too and the characters were TOO GOOD), but still, a beautiful drama.
I loved Mikoto (and I appreciate a lot that in the last years Ishihara Satomi is playing something different from the "dumb pretty chick in love"), Rokuro was a lil cute puppy, and while at the beginning I really didn't get Nakado, after like... 2 episodes, I started liking him a lot too.
Todome no Kiss
Okay. It was trash, but the good kind of trash, and it also had some nice points (Yamazaki Kento's face being one of them).
The plot was... not dumb, but with some cliches. Guy with ruined childhood becomes a jerk who only cares about money, is hot, find a dumb rich girl and tries to "catch" her. The good thing was the time slips and, most of all, how they used them. I think they used the time travelling stuff in a very clever way, because the more the story went on, the more "complex" everything got, and in the end the drama was never once predictable.
The ending really surprised me as well, and I really liked how they decided to do it. I did not expect that.
So yeah, not a masterpiece, the characters were a bit weak, but overall I enjoyed it, especially towards the end.
Kuragehime
I'll be quick: everything was waaaaay over the top, for my liking. I get that was their intention, that the manga is like that too, but I prefer something different. Characters that weird and exasperated are just hard to connect with.
I'm not saying it was bad, I still watched it without problems (some bits were fun too), but it's not my cup of tea.
99.9 Season 2
I haven't finished it yet, but I can already say that I have loved every second of it. It's so dumb and clever at the same time, well written, well acted, never boring and did I mention dumb?? It's just a lot of fun, I love it.
And I appreciate that they changed up things a bit from the previous season, both with adding Ozaki (who I probably like even more than Tachibana) and with exploring a different problem of Japanese legal system (the judges); also, in the first season you could guess who the culprit was in the middle of the episode, this time I feel it was harder. So yeah, the general scheme and feel was the same, but with some small changes, so I didn't get the feel of seeing season 1 all over again.
It was good that in the first episodes they talked again about Miyama's father case, for once we have a Jdrama that actually ends without leaving something to the imagination!
Anyway, I loved it so much. I would watch many more seasons, but I get that would be hard to make XD
Unnatural
Nogi Akiko keeps delivering. When she writes this kind of dramas (focused on some job and the characters relationships) she produces jewels. Do I give a fuck about forensic pathologists? Very little. Did I love this drama? Absolutely yes. It's just the way the characters were written, the way they interacted, the relationships between them. This time there was also some kind of mystery, so even better.
It's still not at the level of Soratobu Kouhoushitsu (because there we had that beautiful love story too and the characters were TOO GOOD), but still, a beautiful drama.
I loved Mikoto (and I appreciate a lot that in the last years Ishihara Satomi is playing something different from the "dumb pretty chick in love"), Rokuro was a lil cute puppy, and while at the beginning I really didn't get Nakado, after like... 2 episodes, I started liking him a lot too.
Todome no Kiss
Okay. It was trash, but the good kind of trash, and it also had some nice points (Yamazaki Kento's face being one of them).
The plot was... not dumb, but with some cliches. Guy with ruined childhood becomes a jerk who only cares about money, is hot, find a dumb rich girl and tries to "catch" her. The good thing was the time slips and, most of all, how they used them. I think they used the time travelling stuff in a very clever way, because the more the story went on, the more "complex" everything got, and in the end the drama was never once predictable.
The ending really surprised me as well, and I really liked how they decided to do it. I did not expect that.
So yeah, not a masterpiece, the characters were a bit weak, but overall I enjoyed it, especially towards the end.
Kuragehime
I'll be quick: everything was waaaaay over the top, for my liking. I get that was their intention, that the manga is like that too, but I prefer something different. Characters that weird and exasperated are just hard to connect with.
I'm not saying it was bad, I still watched it without problems (some bits were fun too), but it's not my cup of tea.