Oh, 2023, you strange beast. If I made a graph charting how I felt every day of 2023, the general trend would show a steep ascension from the pits of January into the cozy highs of December. In reality, of course, the day-to-day experience hasn’t been so simple – while my life changed drastically in …
Off the back of King the Land ending, I've seen a very interesting criticism going around: that King the Land's lack of conflict is to its detriment, because it doesn't properly explore the class consciousness inherent to a rich man/poor woman drama. That the appeal of this subgenre of romance dramas is the struggles the …
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Here we are again. I can't believe, honestly, that it's already time to reflect on this year of dramas! For me, this was a year of wonderful heroines (a trend which I hope never goes away), gorgeous cinematography, reflection and heartache, and I'm excited to share my cream of the crop! As usual, I don't …
At the beginning of this week, I graduated from university. Now that it's time to navigate the world as a proper adult, I find myself thinking about Orange Days, a Japanese drama which I've come to love more and more as the years have gone by and I've aged into the characters. Orange Days opens …
I maintain that Buzzer Beat is one of the best romcoms out there, and one of my absolute favourite shows. Starring Yamashita Tomohisa and Kitagawa Keiko, it's a story of two 20-somethings doggedly pursuing their passions as reality pushes back. Basketball player Naoki's insecurities affect his performance. He tells himself that he's strong, but he …
I've been putting off writing this post, as I do every year, because as usual I have the feeling that I haven't watched nearly enough of the year's best offerings. I've been so busy since September, especially, that a lot of my most anticipated dramas just quietly passed me by. Nevertheless, I'm still fairly happy …
Last week I watched Nobunaga Concerto , the 2014 Japanese drama and then the 2016 film. As someone very interested in historical revisionism (the cool kind, not the Holocaust denying kind), I enjoyed this show a whole lot. It stars Oguri Shun as Saburo, a regular modern teenager who tumbles back in time to the …
This seems like an appropriate way to christen the new blog! I've been working on this list for months now - every time I thought it was ready, I found a new show I'd missed before. For instance, I spent January marathoning the Japanese dramas of 2020 that I'd missed and picked up two new …
Crabby For Dramas 