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🇯🇵 Craving a TV show and craving food are sort of the same thing. Sometimes, you want something you can consume easily at home ; it won't be a masterpiece, but what matters is to be satisfied ! A lesson learned once again with Japanese "appetite drama" #MentsuyuHitoriMeshi today.
🇯🇵 Serufu is a clumsy teenager who has never held a hammer in her life (maybe that's for the best...) who takes an interest in building. Japanese series #DIY is simple, but sincere and joyful. Tell me you couldn't use some of that.
@KDramaQn@youronlyone There are A LOT of recent shorter #KDrama series that are clearly built around at least the possibility of a 2nd season, and I tend to shun those as I INTENSELY dislike that element of "Westernisation".
But having drifted toward #JDrama (where 12 is LONG) in large part because of all the saggy bloated filler in >=16 ep KDramas, I love the nice tight feel of those #KDramas that are written short and complete. "One Day Off" is a beautiful example
@ronsboy67@youronlyone@KDramaQn@kdrama@kdrama@kdrama interesting that you point out mysogyny in k-dramas. I drop most j-dramas because of it 😁
Female characters in Japanese dramas are shallow, submissive and the male characters typically have more screen time.
There are exceptions, like Unnatural, that I liked a lot, or two j-dramas I'm not sure I remember the title because I watched them years ago (one should be Tokyo Girl).
Animals is a good one too.
@ronsboy67 Interesting. The IRIS franchise, especially the spin-off Athena, was well received here. In my case, it's actually the first time I've heard someone who did not like it. I guess that points to cultural differences and genre preferences. Was it perfect? Of course not.
As for Strong Woman, was it not the point of the writer to expose it without getting a negative reaction from their own culture? If one's culture (in this case, the writer's) still have prejudices against this and that, fiction is often the best way to express it and to expose it. Fiction has been used that way for centuries.
Many #Kdrama I've seen for the past 7 years touched on sensitive issues common in South Korea that either no one is talking about or you'll get cancelled for raising it up (for example, toxic feminism). So, fiction became a medium. It's there, and hopefully people in Korea noticed it at least (because foreign fans typically missed it and instead are drooling for their favourite actors).
This is what I like with K-drama, and #Jdrama for that matter, there are social issues embedded in their stories. This has been forgotten, in general, in Western entertainment. In the West, it's about how much money they'll earn; to the point that they'll pretend they agree with “movements” just so members of those “movements” will watch their shows. This is why I like “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, because of all the “nuTrek”, SNW is the only one that went back to its roots (but it does not mean I don't like the other ”nuTrek” series).
Going back to Korea, it was actually amazing that productions like “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” and “Innocent Witness” were green lit, as well as, “The Devil Judge” and “The Killing Vote”. These shows directly addressed social (and political) issues. If I take a guess, they got green lit because those issues (prejudice against #Autistics; and corrupt politicians) apply not just in South Korea, but everywhere else; otherwise, they more likely have to do embed it, or just mention in passing.
In any case, maybe it is just me. When I watch, I try to unlock the mind and goal of the writer, and understand the story from their perspective. What made prompted them to write it this way? What drove the director to express an act in a particular way?
For example, the K-drama “Please Don't Date Him”, and another one I can't recall right now, got so much negative reaction from foreign audiences. Some even had the audacity to make statements like “it doesn't happen in real life” or “the writer should quit, they don't know how to write a good story”. But, when I explained it to them, they changed their mind.
It's the same with “Grid”, “Alice”, and “Sisyphus: The Myth”. The writers got reactions like “the writer is dumb”; “that's now how time travel works”; “they should stop writing, they suck”. Likewise, after explaining it to them, they understood the story and what the writer had in mind.
So, I guess, it is just me seeing things differently in these stories. Maybe because I see these as a form of #Art. If it is an art, then we have to view it and understand it from the creator's perspective.
@emmaaum I notice you watch a lot of j-dramas and thai-dramas.
Right now my brain can't process any difficult language other than Korean. I have some #jdrama entries on my Viki watchlist but I think they will still be there for some time 😉
Just finished chapter 46 of volume 3 of "Heaven Official's Blessing" 🌸 The kiss scene came out of nowhere ❤️ but the calligraphy scene seems even more intimate because it was understated. After arc 2 it is nice to see the main plot moving along.
@emmaaum Pity that I missed that but that is exactly what I was getting at. Have you see "My Happy Marriage"? It's not BL but it is Japanese and there isn't even kissing but there is a beautiful love story.
After all, it was Lucy Maud Montgomery 's "Anne Of Green Gables" who lured me to the Feminine side of All Culture around 1999.
Doubling my "scope for imagination ".
I remember photos on "bird" before and around Christmas 2019, from bookshops in South Korea and Japan.
Many had a central display in the store with everything " Anne".
Like usual.
I wonder if they still do that ?
Many Kdramas and Jdramas have a Anne & Gilbert-theme 🙂
For my animanga #DecRecs today, I'm gonna recommend manga that has a jdrama I enjoyed! (this is actually a #jdrama rec)
Juhan Shuttai!
The main character, Kokoro was a judo player who had to quit because of injury. So she went for her next dream, working in the manga industry! She joined a publishing company as an editor, learns the ins-and-outs of the industry/promotions, helped encourage mangaka, etc.
The jdrama is very feel-good, wholesome, like a hug. A warm blanket and hot chocolate in the winter. It's only 10 episodes (jdramas are usually quite short compared to the many, many episodes of cdramas).
If you like Ikuta Toma and Oguri Shun, childhood friends working on opposite sides to achieve the same goal together, police x yakuza, tragedy, injured men looking pretty watch this. It's darker than my first rec (corruption in the upper ranks and all). It's also not the most tightly plotted, but I enjoyed it! It's also 10 episodes only!
... I'm not sure where you can watch this though. You might have to sail the seven seas for this.
I watched the first episode of Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna yesterday and it was interesting.Will share more thoughts about it later, but it’s surprisingly easy to understand.
Also, the food looks good in this, besides Yuru Camp JDrama of course.
Madoka gets a new assignment to advertise rice, but the client, Kamo who has the personality of that Farfetch'd won't listen as he sleeps, loafs off, or not listen to her and her coworker questions about the vague line he has about the line for the advertisment Madoka is working on.
That is while Madoka struggles to beat Kasumi/Misty because of that Starmie. She thought that getting that Farfetch'd can solve things, but it won't obey her, but it reminds her of the client she is working with.Also, her coworker finds out that Madoka is playing Pokemon as she mentions Pokemon names. Yep, it's bound to happen.
Also, it's nice to see the son of the bar owner's mom know more about Pokemon. Of course, they have to show off Pocket Monsters Scarlet and Violet gameplay and point out it's an open world game. But yes, the son explain the badge level limits when they will obey up to for Pokemon you don't own.
With that, Madoka while training her Charmeleon that evolved while playing in the van, she taste each type of rice to the one she is making advertisements for and take notes about it's taste while eventually defeating Kasumi, meaning that Kamo might obey her this time. I find it cute there is a sticker that is shaped like the 2nd gym badge.
In the end, Madoka met Kamo and shared that she understands the rice that she is advertising and the client finally decides to help fix it.
Either way, it’s interesting how they portray Madoka's client as a Pokemon that won't obey, until after she fully understand the rice she is advertising. Then again, that is a crapton of rice to eat. Also, the Pokemon Company obviously need to put a cameo of the newest Pokemon Games because the DLC just came out for it last month.
Also, Kageaki is playing the Pocket Monsters Green Version as well. I wonder, what starter he picked. :neocat_think:
While I haven't watched the 44 minute special, I decided to focus on the second season content of the Live Action, which leaves off Rin's New Year solo camping trip. She is apparently stranded due to the roads.
Nadeshiko invites Rin to her grandmother's house. Yep, she also treated her to a big eel meal. I find Rin's expressions hilarious when she saw it's 4100 yen, which is about $27, which is pretty reasonable. :leafeonmoney: (Not to mention, this JDrama has some of the funniest expressions) Nice of Rin to treat her given that Rin looked after her all the time.
Also nice to see Aya, one of Nadeshiko's childhood friends.
I think I will marathon this since I have a three day weekend coming up. Going to do as much immersion I can!
Watching a Korean drama years ago playing in modern times, an installation in a coffee- bar intrigued me . It appeared to be a way of coffee-making used on Dutch trade-ships in 17th C. to Asia. Called "Dutch Coffee". Ice-brewed coffee taking hours . Still popular in Asia, very few know it in Holland. ( Although a certain coffee-chain sells "cold brew).
Looking on the net, S.Korea and Japan pop up most for using it.