The very end of #jDrama #NagatanToAoto was so absolutely note perfect that I'm giving the Drama a 10 despite the egregious outrage of having to wait until NEXT YEAR for another season 😍

Well THAT was a surreal conversation - someone calling for a cab with a US number and it turned out she's IN the US. Our cabbies would love a 12,000km fare, but the wait time for her would probably have been a tad suboptimal

And that's a drop for #jDrama #HatsukoiDogs - way TOO #kDrama in feel & focus, including the presence of Na In Woo whose smarmy 'niceness' always triggers an allergic reaction. Add in HEAVY focus on kindergarten kismet and it's time to go back to a PROPER #jDrama hontoni gomenasai Kiyohara Kaya-san!

The #jDrama version of #MarryMyHusband was an example of just how awesome a JPN-KOR co-production can be. After one episode #HatsukoiDogs is feeling like its exact antithesis. I'll give 1 more, two tops and then even with the sublime Ms Kiyohara on board, I'll be jumping ship

When I saw Kindergarten kismet in #jDrama #HatsukoiDogs I was surprised, as it's not a super common trope in #jDrama romances, at least not the ones I've seen. Then I remembered this is a Studio Dragon co-production and #kDrama loves the trope almost as much as it loves serial killer romcoms🙄🤬

Oh merde! Starting #jDrama #HatsukoiDogs for Kiyohara Kaya and it looks like it's built on probably my MOST hated romance trope: Kindergarten kismet. 🤢🤮

8.75/10 for #jDrama #HouteiNoDragon - a sweet, uncomplicated feelgood story about friendship and shogi. But mostly shogi. 😀

#musicchallenge M16: Favorite classical song Would this mean old classic or really classical as a genre? I'm going with both, and a song I use in my profile pretty much across the Interweb Tubes (incl. here ofc) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtg...

One similarity between #jDrama #HouteiNoDragon and #Chihayafuru is that in both, when Kamishiraishi Mone's character goes into 'battle', it's in traditonal Japanese clothing.😍 (now I need to learn the names of the different types)

Learning a lot about shogi from #jDrama #HouteiNoDragon, including the fact that even the verb for "play" is different in Shogi and Go. Having 'done' Karuta and Shogi, Kamishiraishi Mone now just needs to play a Go pro to complete the set.

Starting #jDrama #HouteiNoDragon and chuffed at picking up a throwaway reference. The central character is played by Kamishiraishi Mone and when she starts a new job she's asked if she used to play Karuta. Which the actor did, in the #Chihayafuru series of movies and Dramas😀

Linguistics.

So in #jDrama #Alice-sanChiNoIroribata a 16 yo has a crush on the now 26yo who used to baby sit him, and his childhood friend has a crush on him. So she goes to check out her older "love rival" and ends up developing a crush on her too. And remarkably it's all NOT creepy, just awkwardly cute.

Awww shucks, it's like the writers of #jDrama #Alice-sanChiNoIroribata somehow KNEW that I'd watch it one day. 😍

The Rapture yesterday may've been a bit of a gnabgib, but the AGE OF MIRACLES is not past! Watching #jDrama #Alice-sanChiNoIroribata a character starter humming a tune - AND I RECOGNISED IT. I am less musical than a dead fish but I remembered the tune from #MarryMyHusbandJPN where Reina sings it.

After one truly excellent #cDrama disappointed me with its final few, and another very good #cDrama imploded in its final few, SO happy that my traditional healing refuge is working its wonders for me. " #jDrama - onsen for the soul"

It's VERY rare for me to drop as late as 31/34 but I just can't be bothered wading through any more of the pointless filler angst in #cDrama #SmileCode - A great OTP, but stupidly overlong & so filled with extraneous crud (and extraneous cruddy characters) that clouded and muddied a simple romance

Well, the #cDrama gods REALLY have it in for me tonight. After finishing #ThisThrivingLand where good, decent characters suffered while villains got off scot-free, I went back to #SmileCode and found More.Of.The.Same - worse yet, in this romance the angst and misery is just episode-count filler

I'd like to outline my grievance with #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand , which is actually more substantial than just "it's not fair" but can't without spoilers so I'll bide my time. Despite my bitter disappointment at what I see as errors of judgment and poor choices by the writers, I highly recommend it

I'm giving #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand 8.75/10 - outstanding acting bringing life to very real characters. But the final 6 included needless tragedy for characters I cared about while others got away with being irredeemably vile. Yang Mi & Xing Fei were awesome, hope XF gets a happier role next up

Even though there's only two episodes left, the end of episode 34 of #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand made me want to drop the Drama. I'm going to just FF to the end now. I hate pointless tragedy for its own sake, without no context or point other than to say "life sucks"

When it comes to Dramas, I really am Fred Savage here, which is why the sharp end of #cDrama #ThisShiningLand has seen me FFing A LOT. It's very realistic, but too many of the right people are getting too hurt and too many of the wrong people are getting free passes. Credible, but not enjoyable

Seeing someone post on Masto about the #kDrama #ATimeCalledYou made me feel a need to post this here for cosmic balance: (also, WATCH THE ORIGINAL, people!) #twDrama #SomedayOrOneDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0rf...

The promos for Jung So Min's upcoming #kDrama romance are REALLY doubling down on the lovey-dovey romcom vibes, which leaves only one question Exactly how many serial killers will it feature? 🙄

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I see Yoona's current #kDrama is getting flak in China now too, for portraying the Ming ambassador as a villain and making him a figure of mockery. I guess if you're going to paint a sadistic psychopath as a lovable romantic ML/Chef, SOMEONE'S gotta be the bad guy.

I've FFd quite a lot of #cDRama #SmileCode but the OTP is so well-written it's worth it, it keeps pleasantly surprising me. As now, the OTP's first proper kiss looks headed for more intimacy until the drunk ML passes out. At which point a voice is heard clearly saying IN ENGLISH "oh, nice!" 😆

Wow! Watching episode 23/34 in #cDrama #SmileCode and a character not only mimics the action of dialling on a rotary phone but also the sound made when the dialler is released. I had no idea this story involved a time skip BACKWARDS 😁

You know you're a born contrarian when watching several episodes of #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand filled with nonstop descriptions of the greedy, evil, grasping Kuomintang leaves you itching to watch a Taiwanese Drama. 😆

Into ep 30/36 in #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand and hitting the FF a lot now. The propaganda is actually very worthy and hard to against, but it's still PPL really. Or rather, CCP-PL😆

Into ep 28/36 in #cDrama #ThishrivingLand and reaching the point where cutting to THIS would represent a massive increase in the subtlety and understatement of the propaganda www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNPK...

Seeing a character in #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand being called "Kela" made me think of a sad, lonely banana

Having a #PrincessBride moment right now in #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand - IT ISN'T FAIR www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ3V...

That moment when you know for certain that a character in an East Asian Drama has never seen an East Asian Drama 😱😢#cDrama #ThisThrivingLand

When I'm REALLY loving a Drama and it hits a wobbly bit where I think "oh, really?🙄" seeing it 'recover' and turn out well is SUCH a great feeling. #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand just did this for me with a conversation/drinking match between two love rivals - one pregnant. I shoulda had more faith. 😍

Two love rivals having an ADULT CONVERSATION about their relationship and interactions? I am SERIOUSLY annoyed at #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand now - there was zero warning of such unheard of alien sorcery in the synopsis!🤯

You know you're a language nerd when a #kDrama actor you follow on Insta posts a promo for a brand called Eskara, and you thought it said Euskara. One more thing to blame Arteta for🤣

One thing I like about #cDrama #SmileCode is that the ML is emotionally damaged, diagnosed with alexithymia from childhood trauma, but he is never a jerk. IOW, the classic stereotypical tsundere ML, but is NOT tsundere. Being emotionally stunted does not REQUIRE also being an anal sphincter

Taking a break from #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand at 24/36 . The introduction a few episodes back of an apparently persistent femme fatale as antagonist has taken a bit of the shine off the show for me. As has the fact that the REAL villain is still alive and thriving.

Completing the set, for me: If you see this, repost with the first #twDrama you watched:

"Perhaps he was saving that for later" - Green Flag ML in #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand just had a massive red flag dropped by his NOT happy wife. 😆

Does it count as irony that in #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand , a CCTV production that very literally waves the red flag on every possible occasion, the ML is pretty much the ultimate Green Flag ML? 🤔😀

This has me conflicted: The synopsis and cast sound unusually strong and interesting, BUT it's a #kDrama daily, so the sane synapse in my brain is screaming

Into episode 21/36 in the quite outstanding #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand and I'm beginning to consider a wondrous possibility: The whole Drama is historical propaganda, VERY well told. If the propaganda message requires that the 'good guys' have some facsimile of a happy ending, all I can say is

The best laid plans of mice and men really DO gang aft agley: I was GOING to stop watching #cDrama #ThisThrivingLand at episode 20, but that episode ended LITERALLY mid-battle.

Mention of #TyphoonFamily put this song from #MainHoonNa in my head because the word for "typhoon" occurs often in it. Rewatching it I was reminded it gives the worst #kDrama fashion crimes a run for their money too (still one of my wife's FAVOURITE #Bollywood films) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXkb...

I'm sorry, but Bluesky needs A LOT more weirdos talking about #jdrama.

#YoshineKyoko for Harper's Bazaar Japan September 2025 More: www.harpersbazaar.com/jp/fashion/f...

I liked the director's My Little Monster, and Han Hyo Joo was fine in #kDrama #MyShiningInheritance BUT 😍😍¡¡OGURI SHUN!!😍😍

A plus of watching a 'contemporary' historical is that you know how it ends - especially a CCTV #cDrama like #ThisThrivingLand the landlords are the villains ofc, but one of them is a nuanced character., a smiling she-devil. Only my 2nd time watching Qin Hai Lu, she's impressing me. AND looks good!