Law is not my favourite genre; ironically since I wanted to go into law for a while when I got out of highschool and needed to decide on a path. I guess the reason is that in my head law as a drama can't be that much fun because law texts are so boring, there's no getting around it. But no matter my expectations for the genre as a whole, this was ( Read more... )

I've been wanting a place to write my thoughts for the jdrama I watch - especially since it's something I've been doing more again this year than I have for a while. So I moved a few of my old reviews here, and hopefully this'll be a place where I share thoughts in the future as well, for the dramas I've yet to watch ( Read more... )

Originally published on a different blog November 27, 2015.Arifureta Kiseki (Ordinary Miracles) starts off with a dramatic opening, two strangers, a man and a woman, both try to stop a man from jumping in front of a train. Kana and Shota - the woman and man - meet for the first time through this experience and their relationship develops into a ( Read more... )

Originally published on another blog November 22, 2015.

Fuben na Benriya starrs a rather eclectic set of characters and cast, among them Okada Masaki playing the main role of Jun, Suzuki Kosuke - a personal favorite, Endo Kenichi, Triendl Reina, Tanaka Yoji, and more. When I first started watching I wasn’t sure I would enjoy it, or better yet I ( Read more... )

Originally published on a different blog November 16, 2015.jd

I haven’t watched that many old-school jdramas in my time, although the ones I have watched - like Long Vacation, have been great. I think it’s just a hesitation based on the feeling that a lot of the 90s shows would be.. well, shallow, or overly dramatic. This isn’t always the case of ( Read more... )

Originally published on another blog November 6, 2015.

This basically sounds like it’s made for me - (old) books, story set in a book shop, Japanese literature, mysteries to be solved, all things I adore and I was really looking forward to this drama. It’s good! Not amazing, but good.

First off, the mysteries were kind of episodic in style - like ( Read more... )