Is no one watching anything from this season?
naomi to kanako epiode 6 was great. Looking forward to the next episode.
otousan to yobasete episode 4 was pretty good. The characters all have their unique distinctive traits that make them interesting
started watching 'Love That Makes You Cry' (Itsuka Kono Koi wo Omoidashite Kitto Naite Shimau), just finished the third episode.
Man, this is my kind of show. Really liking it so far (Kasumi Arimura is just amazing, top to bottom)
Anyone else have other good recent shows to recommend?
Otousan to Yobasete is definitely on my radar. Glad to hear it's fun, sounds like it and I wanna check it out. Naomi I haven't seen but...I really do not care for the main actress in that one. Tried several shows with her previously and just one of those actresses who rubs me the wrong way. I'd be glad to hear more about the show regardless, though.
Love That Makes you Cry is on my list for sure. Just waiting till I feel like a bit of a heavier show, haha. I get the sense it's on the heavier side.
We watched I'm Home and Date last winter and enjoyed them both, particular I'm Home which was another knockout role for Kimutaku and had a stellar performance by Aya Ueto as well, who was so good in Attention Please. (I crack up just thinking of the awkward classroom hilarity in that show, like when they're practicing their English and say "Please enjoy the fright!" Bwahah.) Date was a lot of fun, too, and endearingly offbeat.
We caught Algernon, well, it was a bit heavy for my wife so I ended up watching it while exercising since she stopped watching after the first ep. It was an impressive adaptation and kept me glued to the edge of my exercise bike pretty much throughout. In the meantime, we watched 37.5 no Namida, starring Renbutsu Misako in what I think is her first or one of her first main roles. Breakout performance and a really compelling and just terrific show throughout. She was really good in supporting roles in Priceless and Zenkai Girl so it's great to see her get a chance to shine. (BTW, it appears she's in Otousan to Yobasete, so I'm curious how she is in that one.)
How is last year's J-drama adaptation of Death Note? I know the friend from Algernon is one of the main characters in that show.
We tried the new adaptation of My Little Lover and had expected that the characters were going to be older than H.S. students, not being familiar with the source material. We couldn't get into it...we've found a lot of J-dramas that are about HS students feel too fluffy or not substantive enough for us. Which is odd since we really dig American TV shows about HS characters, be they Veronica Mars or Freaks & Geeks. But, yeah, between this, My Boss, My Hero and Operation Love, we really haven't found a HS-centric drama that's jived with us. We did really dig the Freaky Friday-esque antics of 7 Days of Daddy and Daughter, though.
In the meantime, we did start 5 to 9 recently. Decent first ep, interested to see where it goes. I just saw Yamashita Tomohisa in Algernon so it takes a bit getting used to to see him as a regular Joe again. We generally really like Ishihara Satomi, especially in Rich Man, Poor Woman but also in Dear Sister. I'm hoping this one is like a lot of other J-dramas where the first ep is okay but subsequent eps build on it considerably and the show ends up being great.
