#asunaro hakusho

[jdramablr]

#jdrama #asunaro hakusho

[sunlightfeeling]

Ando Lloyd remade as a BL, when?

…or Asunaro Hakusho, since that’s the actual reference…

#fantastic work takuya #and other dude I don’t know but seems pretty chill #tsukutta #instaglamour content #variety show gifs #long post

[lammfleisch]

☆ Stuff I watched, read .... 2023 Edition ☆

☆ January ☆

Highlights:

• Missing: What happened to MH 370

• HERO SP

• Asunaro Hakusho

• Pokemon Legends Arceus

• Hausmann & Benecke

• Kyojo OST

• Persona 3 Portable Switch

• Masquerade Night OST

• The Legend & Butterfly OST

☆ February ☆

Highlights:

• The Case of Gabriel Fernandez

• Persona 4 Ultimate Switch

• 3096 Days

• Ghostwire Tokyo Prelude

• Cyberpunk 2077

• Riding in Darkness

• Destiny 2 Season of the Seraph

• Destiny 2 Season of the Haunted

☆ March ☆

Highlights:

• MH370: the plane that disappeared

• Destiny 2 Lightfall

• A Bittersweet life

• Addicted

• The Marco Effect

• Downfall: the Case against Boeing

• The Tinder Swindler

☆ April ☆

Highlights:

• Hogwarts Legacy

• QualityLand

• Fahrenheit 11/9

☆ May ☆

Highlights:

• Bring me the Horizon 'LosT'

• The Gazette 'Stacked Rubbish'

• THE GUNDAM FACTORY YOKOHAMA Official Book

• KDA 'All Out'

• fLow

• BBC Johnny Kitagawa

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

• The Man in the High Castle Season 2

• The Man in the High Castle Season 3

• The Man in the High Castle Season 4

• Hemlock Grove Season 1

☆ June ☆

Highlights:

• Hemlock Grove Season 2

• Ado 'One Piece RED Movie Songs'

• Super Mario Bros the Movie OST

• Hemlock Grove Season 3

• Electric Callboy 'Tekkno'

• Helldogs

☆ July ☆

Highlights:

• Wenjia

• ULTRAMAN 2019 S1

• ULTRAMAN 2019 S2

• ULTRAMAN Final

• SD GUNDAM Battle Alliance

• ULTRAMAN Blazar Ep 1 - 4

• Marvel ULTRAMAN Rise of ULTRAMAN

• Marvel ULTRAMAN Trials of ULTRAMAN

• Marvel ULTRAMAN The Mystery of Ultraseven

• Mario Kart 64

• Venom: Let there be Carnage

• Wonder Woman 1984

• Mario Kart Super Circut

• Fzero 64

☆ August ☆

Highlights:

• Wario Ware Inc

• Super Mario Kart

• Super Mario World

• Pokemon Puzzle League

• Super Mario 64

• Shin Kamen Rider

• Godzilla 1954

• Godzilla 1998

• Godzilla Planet of the Monsters

• Godzilla City on the Edge of Battle

• Godzilla The Planet Eater

• Godzilla Singular Point

• Dragonball Fighter Z

• Dragonball Abridged

• The Days

☆ September ☆

Highlights:

• Godzilla Final Wars

• Gacy

• Houdini and Doyle

• Gamera - Rebirth -

• The Batman

• The Suicide Squad 2021

• München

• Resident Evil Infinite Darkness

• The Mumie

• Demon Daughter 1 by Jennifer L Armentrout

• Godzilla: The Official Guide to the King of the Monsters

• Demon Daughter 2 by Jennifer L Armentrout

☆ October ☆

Highlights:

• The Conjuring 3: the Devil made me do it

• ZDFs: Ganz normale Männer. Der "vergessene Holocaust"

• Master Detective Pikachu

• Demon Daughter 3 by Jennifer L Armentrout

• Encounters

• Tschernobyl 1986

#kimura takuya #resident evil #yakuza #mr sunshine #pokemon #dead space remake #the swarm #legend & Butterfly #stray #cyberpunk 2077 #resident evil 4 remake #destiny 2 #lee byung hun #Yoo Yeon-seok #kyojo #masquerade night (2021) #the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #super mario #one piece #ado #electric callboy #shin ultraman #ultraman #Spider-man #spider man: across the spider verse #Yamato #godzilla #dragon ball super

[skajador]

it is still SO FUNNY TO ME that Zenkaiger referenced this ICONIC scene with takuya kimura in Asunaro Hakusho with ZYUGAON OF ALL PAIRS

for reference: this is a drama from 1993

#kikai sentai zenkaiger #zenkaiger #kins watches zenkai #Zyugaon #for the record im 100% on board i love zyu/gaon as a pair

[maenimalist]

hoping for an asunaro hakusho remake too!! onegaiiii 🙏🏻

[seira555]

"พรุ่งนี้ก็สายเกินไป Asunaro Hakusho Eps 11" を YouTube で見る

#Youtube

[exosam11]

so i have been watching back to back old dramas of takuya kimura . i am late on kimura train but oh boy better then never .

just finished his debut drama “asunaro hakusho”. kimutaku isn’t the male lead yet he is an important character as the story speaks about love and friendship of five friends .

#kimutaku #japanese #kimura takuya #smap #jdrama #asunaro hakusho #takuya kimura

[flowerymoments]

#asunaro hakusho #ordinary people #jdrama #cap

[sxnctuarry-blog]

Asunaro Hakusho (1993)

#Asunaro Hakusho #Asunaro White Paper #Brave to Love #90s #jdrama #jdorama #lgbtq

[jdramablr]

#jdrama #asunaro hakusho

[myheartyurete]

Asunaro Hakusho (1993)

#asunaro hakusho #asunaro white paper #jdorama #90s #90s shows #vintage 90s #90s aesthetic #aestehtic #quotes #japan #brave to love

[changru]

I’ve been skimming through episodes of Brave to Love, and I’ve gotta say I’m left with the impression that Asunaro Hakusho back in the freaking 90s managed to handle its LGBT content with far more actual sensitivity than this 2019 adaptation does. Of course, in both, the character is a sad, tragic and ultimately dead gay, but the treatment the character got in Asunaro both from the writing and other characters was soft and heartfelt, but this one... has left a bad taste in my mouth on a few occasions.

#jdrama #twdrama #asunaro hakusho #brave to love

[yooiyasaa]

TRUE LOVE / Fujii Fumiya (Asunaro Hakusho)

#ds #tho my fave is his duet with tomo / kimu cover~~~ #it just gets better as he ages #Fujii Fumiya #Asunaro Hakusho

[maenimalist]

Jdramas/movies I've completed in:

2007

Hana Kimi

2012

Nobuta wo Produce

Buzzer Beat

Hana Yori Dango S1

Hana Yori Dango S2

Hana Yori Dango: Final

Bokura ga Ita

Liar Game

2013

Itazura na Kiss ~ Love in Tokyo

Gokusen 1

Gokusen 2

Gokusen 3

Gokusen: The Movie

Liar Game 2

Liar Game: The Final Stage

Liar Game: Reborn

Akumu-Chan

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

2014

High School Debut

Koizora

Kimi ni Todoke

1 Liter of Tears

Rurouni Kenshin

Paradise Kiss

2015

Kinkyori Renai

Kyo, Koi wo Hajimemasu 

From 5 to 9

2016

Rich Man, Poor Woman

Itazura na Kiss 2 ~ Love in Okinawa

Itazura na Kiss 2 ~ Love in Tokyo

Kurosaki kun no Iinari ni Nante Naranai

2017

Boku, Unmei no Hito desu

The Dark Maidens

Zenkai Girl

2018

Your Lie in April

Suki na Hito ga Iru Koto

Sensei! Suki ni Natte mo Ii Desu ka?

Let's Go, Jets!

Chihayafuru Part 1

Chihayafuru Part 2

Chihayafuru Part 3

Heroine Disqualified

2019

Unnatural

Rich Man, Poor Woman: The Movie

Proposal Daisakusen

Proposal Daisakusen SP

3-Nen A-Gumi

Juuninin no Shinitai Kodomotachi

Hotaru no Hikari S1

2020

Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo

Iguana no Musume

Long Vacation

The Confidence Man JP

Masquerade Hotel (movie)

Switched

BG: Personal Bodyguard Season 1

BG: Personal Bodyguard Season 2

Kakegurui S1

Kakegurui S2

The Many Faces of Ito

Followers

Oyabaka Seishun Hakusho

Engine

Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together

Asunaro Hakusho

Kyou Kara Ore Wa!!

Kyou Kara Ore Wa!! SP

Mother

Alice in Borderland

2021

Todome no Kiss

Good Doctor

Million Yen Women

The Confidence Man JP: The Movie

Kyou Kara Ore Wa!!: Gekijoban

MIU404

Shitteru Wife

The Naked Director

Remolove

Detective Conan Movie 21: The Crimson Love Letter (exception)

Detective Conan Movie 23: The Fist of Blue Sapphire (exception)

Dragon Zakura Season 1

Hana Nochi Hare

Homunculus

Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno

Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final

The Naked Director S2

Dragon Zakura 2

Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu

Uchi no Musume wa, Kareshi ga Dekinai!!

Okane no Kireme ga Koi no Hajimari

Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare

Gekijou

Aishu Cinderella

Watashitachi wa Douka Shiteiru

Kanojo wa Kirei datta

Tremble all You Want

Waiting for Spring

I Want to Eat your Pancreas

Detective Conan Movie 24: The Scarlet Bullet (11.2.21)

Damashie no Kiba

Tapestry/Ito

2022

Saiai - [01.17.22]

Love Like the Falling Petals [3.26.22]

Sakura [04.02.22]

#jdrama tracker #obv got busy from 2015-2017 bc of college 😒

[kaihoku]

V9 IF – February, 2001

Tell you what, why not think of all the "ifs" as possibilities instead?

~*~

If I hadn’t chosen to walk the path I did, what would I have become? I ask myself this sometimes. I reckon that even if I’m not doing this work I am now, I likely still wouldn’t have gone university. I’d probably have found a job right after graduating high school. Maybe it’d have something to do with creating clothes or it might have been something related to animal care. It‘s hard to narrow it down to just one since I have a wide array of interests. Even back as a kid, I’d always thought of wanting to quickly enter the workforce.

Why, then, have I been able to keep doing this work that I’m doing? I ask myself this a lot, too. If I had to pick one, I’d say being able come across people and things that leave an extremely deep impression is the most likely reason. Back when I was still in high school, it was the stage play Modoken. After I’ve graduated, it was the drama Asunaro Hakusho. These two had a huge impact on me. Of course, this is only something that dawned on me when looking back. When I was actually doing them, I had absolutely no idea that they would have as big an impact on my life as they did. It‘s the same even now. When I’m in the middle of a production, all I would think about is how I could contribute in making it something good, even if it’s only a little bit, nothing more and nothing less.

Back during the days of Asunaro Hakusho, I was really just a regular young dude. On set, I was the serious, glass-toting, Toride-kun but the moment my work is done for the day and I can leave the set, I’d be off to have fun with friends. In fact, I was probably more invested in that than I was with work.

Even after Asunaro, there were a ton of experiences and encounters in new jobs. I’d discover new feelings when acting and find a lot to be fascinated about when seeing how others come together to create something.  I’d get elated with every new stimulation and before I knew it, I’m where I am now. So, even if this may come as a bit of a surprise to some, the whole reason I am able to invest myself into the work I do and am able to say with confidence that I want to keep doing it for as long as I can isn‘t something that came from within myself, but from both the things and people I see around me. Thinking back on it now, it’s undeniable that these are what kept me going.

I’m not even aware of when it happened, but I’ve stopped thinking about my initial dreams of creating clothes and taking care of animals. They may not be what I ended up doing for a living, but I have absolutely no regrets about how things turned out. No one made me choose this path. I chose to keep walking it myself.

I’d be lying if I said there weren’t other things that I wanted to do but never got to. But I’m speaking the truth when I say that I do not harbor any if only kind of feelings about it. Because if I really wanted to, I could still do them. It’s all about how badly I want to do them and how long I’m able to keep that feeling burning inside. I really do think this time in which we spend wanting to do something is absolutely necessary. Because if a person can‘t do what they want due to circumstances like injury or the time simply not being right, it is during this time that they don’t give up on the desire and calmly put it on the back burner to be made into reality another day. It's only when this desire is kept alive within, that it can actually happen someday.

I don’t want to apply the feeling of “if” to the future either. “If this happens in the future...” is just not the line of thinking I prefer to have. It makes me feel that the person thinking it actually doesn't believe it would happen. I believe it’s more important to focus on what’s real and look towards the future, both near and far, to see what can be seen from where we are actually standing. This is actually easier said than done, however, and if you get sucked into a vortex, you’ll end up not being able to visualize anything at all. If we’re only talking about vision in the physical sense, though, I’m so confident about mine I’m certain it’s almost 4.0.

Once we’ve ascertained where we are and move decisively from there, we’ll cease thinking about the future in terms of “if” and only think of it in terms of “when.” The fear can be overwhelming, yes, but even so, I just want to keep moving forward. Because the alternative is to keep going around in passive circles, and I fear that even more. Even if there may not be a need to push myself too far, I feel doing that suits me more than the opposite.

-okinawa-

#takuya kimura #kaihoku

[doramaticbites]

10 Representative Jdramas of the 2010s (so far)

This post is inspired by, or rather, is a reply to this excellent question posted by an anon to @jdramaconfessions. I meant to reblog the post with a reply but then this post got MASSIVE so I decided to just make a new one.

Of course, the best answer to that question of what are the representative dramas of this current decade can only be written in about 2025, when there is enough time to look back and take stock of what dramas actually stood the test of time. As it is, there are still 3.5 years left to the decade – and if 2013 and 2016 was any indication, one fairly good year could give us a couple of hits. That being said, I’m going to try.

I think the best place to start, when trying to curate a list of representative dramas is first to ask – how exactly does one define representative and what are these dramas supposed to be representative of?

The word ‘representative’ is tricky to me because it implies something different than ‘favourite’. When asked for a list of ‘favourite’ dramas, it’s definitely personal, and there’s no need to try to choose something objectively. But the word ‘representative’ implies that there has to be some sense of objectivity to one’s choice, even though I agree with the admin of jdramaconfessions that at the end of the day, personal preference still comes into play.

I define representative in three ways.

Firstly, by memorability. We are still living this decade out, so it’s hard to say which dramas will stand the test of time in the next decade or so. Still, I’m sure that there are a number of dramas from the early 2010s that cling on to our minds and are still referred to often.

Secondly, by popularity. I don’t mean to say that every popular show that has come out in the past decade is automatically memorable or representative drama. In fact, quite the contrary. Every season will inevitably have its own popular drama. But there are a number of dramas that have exploded in popularity and I feel that it is then valid to give them a spot on the list. After all, to an extent, popularity indicates a show’s ability to resonate with a wide audience. I will also try to choose dramas that are popular both domestically and internationally. Making popularity a criteria is also why I sadly exclude excellent dramas like the Oguri-led BORDER and gothic drama Karamazov no Kyodai – both were insanely memorable and unique to me, but perhaps not commercially popular enough to make them ‘representative’.

Thirdly, by innovation. This is also a way to address the question of ‘What exactly are these choices supposed to be representative of’? Jdrama is a big umbrella of many sub-genres. A representative drama of one sub-genre (say romance) may not always be representative of the entire group. Though to be sure, there are times when they overlap. So what I mean by ‘innovation’ is any given drama’s ability to give fresh life to their genres, and bring something new to the table. It’s a drama’s ability to be either be excellent within the constraints of its genre, or conversely, its ability to push the boundaries of the genre.

With that being said, I’ve got chosen a couple of dramas I think fit the bill – In no particular order after the cut!

1)     Hanzawa Naoki

I’m putting this one first because @midnightrain910 brought it up. Yes. Personally I didn’t think Hanzawa Naoki was THAT great, but boy was it adored by repressed salarymen all over Japan. I literally had 2 of my (Japanese) managers come up to me to ask me if I’d watched it – on separate occasions! I mean shame on any 2013 Japan enthusiast who didn’t know the “bai-gaeshi” catchphrase. It also cemented Masato Sakai’s reputation as a credible and commercially viable actor.

2)     JIN 2

I thought JIN 2 was inferior to the first season, but I included it anyway because I wanted to somehow squeeze JIN into this list. JIN is the historical, time-travel, medical drama OF DREAMS. It was so well-acted and so unexpectedly good. Just last year my Turkish colleague was raving about it to me. In that sense, I think it is an internationally accessible jidaigeki with a lot of heart.

3)     Strawberry Night

Ok so, if you were to compare Strawberry Night with the MANY other Japanese crime/detective dramas, you wouldn’t find it definitive or groundbreaking. But still, it was GOOD. Sure I may be biased, but look, it lasted 2 SPs, 1 full season and 1 movie. If that’s not a testament of its popularity I don’t know what is. It managed to weave a bit of romance into it too. Also I think this is the series that threw Nishijima Hidetoshi into the limelight. He’s been around for ages, but I don’t think he had done anything since Asunaro Hakusho that was really popular until Strawberry Night. 

4)     Juhan Shuttai!

Juhan Shuttai! never set out to be critically acclaimed or sold itself like it was a precious gem filled with top actors. Nah, it set out to be a feel-good show but boy was it that and MORE. It just goes to show that great characterisation and a solid plot will bring a show far. That’s not to say that the actors weren’t good. A few of them were excellent, some of them were serviceable. I just wanted to point out that unlike some shows (cough Triangle, cough Rich Man Poor Woman, cough MOZU), they didn’t overpromise and underdeliver. Also, oftentimes well-written dramas happen to be so serious. I would really love to see more in the vein of Juhan Shuttai! (And Legal High, if I might add).

5)     Quartet (2017) - Not to be confused with the other jdrama of the same name

Putting this in despite not having watched it because all the reviewers that I trust to give an honest opinion found that it lived up to its hype. THANK GOOD HEAVENS. After giving the couple of examples above of how a good cast doth not a good drama make, I’m glad that Quartet can now live on as the drama which BROUGHT IT. Also I wasn’t about to make this list without Mitsushima Hikari (If Quartet hadn’t made it I would have put in Woman). She’s one of most excellent actresses to have surfaced this decade. It’s so odd because I remember her from Folder5 days – and who would’ve known she’d be here today.

6)     Marks no Yama

To me this must have been the drama that put WOWOW on the map. It was that drama that made everyone sit up and realise that WOWOW wasn’t just a second-rate channel airing foreign shows. It had a good strategy going – a very strong understanding of its niche, and the willingness to ignore popular models and idols and go for gritty, well-written fare instead. Because I’m ultimately quite a frivolous drama fan, I must have to say most of WOWOW posters (and shows) don’t really attract me, but the couple that I have watched have wow-ed me (pardon the pun).

7)     Itazura na Kiss ~ Love in Tokyo

Ok it was a toss up between Good Morning Call and this one, neither of which I watched by the way. Well I did attempt one episode of GMC but I just….couldn’t. The truth is, now that I teach Japanese high-schoolers, it’s very hard for me to watch dramas with them in it. Though in a sense I’ve outgrown the genre, it’s more of a ‘this hits too close to home’ thing. That being said, high school dramas are a staple of drama world and it’d be weird not to include at least one. So I just went with which one I heard about the most.

Admittedly, the early to mid 2000s were a heyday for high school dramas to me. I’m hard-pressed to find a Stand Up! or Nobuta wo Produce among the current lot of dramas. They just don’t make them like they did anymore. That’s not to say it has been bad. I thoroughly enjoyed Narimiya Hiroki and Niigaki Risa trying their darndest to act like teens in Yankee Kun to Megane Chan. I was impressed that Piece managed to build itself into a dark mystery cum social commentary despite having pretty weak actors. I heard Sprout was cute. THAT SAID, none of them could be considered representative in my book.

As such, Itazura na Kiss stands out for being one rare remake that actually became as popular as its predecessor – and which was one teen drama to capture the hearts of international tumblrites.

8)     Saikou no Rikon

Not only was this the show that introduced me to the genius that is Ono Machiko, it was the drama that turned the romance drama genre on its head. Its dialogue was witty, it was unapologetically real. And I think it made more writers sit up and realise that it’s the 2010s and they should really be challenging romcom stereotypes, not mindlessly rehashing them again and again.

9)     We Got Married as a Job

@repinipi brought this up and yes, HOLY SMOKES this was THE romcom of 2016. It took Japan by storm. Till now theme song Koi is still on the top 10 of karaoke charts. My kids went wild when we teachers danced it at grad party. People still talk about the drama and Hoshino Gen is capitalising on it. Solidly written, it managed to be realistic, though the circumstances were obviously way to fictional to happen in real life. In 2020, I think this drama will still be looked upon fondly.

10) HiGH & LOW

I thought about this. I thought about this long and hard because, should H&L even be considered on the same plane as other dramas? At its core, it’s more of a promotional vehicle. But it just threw the delinquent/gang genre and shook it up into it’s own visually brilliant spectacle. It will probably never find its place among mainstream audiences in Japan. But it has grown its own dedicated fan base. If anything I’d compare it to Tokusatsu and Takarazuka fandoms. They are niche, but there are there, they are proud, and they are ready to throw some bills. LDH took J&A’s ambition and promotional ideas, then stepped it up a couple of notches. If anything, the business savvy of this company puts the entire series on this list. 

Final Thoughts

I am just one person who simply hasn’t had much time to watch as much jdrama as I’d like. So its inevitable that I would have missed some out. Also, to make the arbitrary number of 10, I was unable to put some other picks on (trust me I would put either SPEC, Yae no Sakura, or Sanada Maru in in a heartbeat). Well, it wouldn’t be representative if too many made the list eh? Lastly, please remember, objective as I try to be, feel free to agree or disagree. Let me know your picks! :)

#jdrama #jdramas #hanzawa naoki #saikou no rikon #juhan shuttai #quartet #we got married as a job #Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu #high&low #jin #marks no yama #strawberry night #itazura na kiss love in tokyo