My Favorite Japanese Dramas
I always see people all over Japanese langblr asking about J-drama and I LOVE J-drama so I wanted to share some of my favorite dramas and some info on where to find them all. I typically don’t torrent because I could fuck up my school stuff if I torrent and also I have a PC so I’m a lot more susceptible to viruses, so I included only streaming services. You can actually download some of the SARS Fansubs dramas I mention through their website if you can’t find them online.
If anyone wants to Rabb.it like J-dramas together I’m totally down just like message me or something.
J-dramas are REALLY difficult to find because most Japanese networks don’t want to sell the rights I guess. You can find J-drama almost anywhere you can find K-drama, you just have to search for it.
There are a lot of J-dramas on YouTube but you have to know what you’re looking for. Pretty much anything subbed by SARS Fansubs in the 2000s can be found on YouTube somewhere, especially the classic J-Dramas.
A lot of people know this as the Korean drama Boys Over Flowers. Affectionately known as HanaDan, the show is the second and most accurate adaptation of the manga of the same name. It launched the careers of Matsumoto Jun (as well as his entire band, Arashi), Inoue Mao, Matsuda Shota, and Oguri Shun. When I tell you that you will see at least three of those names at lest two more times, you better believe it. There are two seasons and a full length movie all of which you can probably find on Youtube. This show is spectacular. It’s set in Tokyo and centers around the life of a teenaged girl named Tsukushi Makino. She’s super smart and is a second year scholarship student at a private school full of snotty rich kids. BUT THE GAG IS, she’s poor and she doesn’t fit in with any of the other students. The school is run by a gang of four third year boys known as The Flower Four (F4) headed by the ruthless, filthy rich, and kind of dumb Doumyouji Tsukasa. They run the school, usually by rallying the entire school into ostracizing single students. When she stands up for a new friend as lunch, she finds herself the target of their harassment and suddenly becomes a person of interest for Doumyouji. It’s very very similar to Ouran High School Host Club.
If you’ve seen the Korean drama, you pretty much know the entire progression of the story, but its worth noting that if you’re studying Japanese this drama is fantastic. There are a ton of idioms and puns including the title. If you’re new to J-drama you should make yourself watch this.
Words I learned: ありえないっつの (I think)
So if you lowkey can’t stand shoujo drama, Liar Game might be for you. This drama is also highly highly recommended and features Matsuda Shota (of the previously mentioned HanaDan) and another really famous actress form the 2000s, Toda Erika. This show was also turned into a k-drama of the same name, but again nothing beats the Japanese original. This is more of a mystery/suspense/thriller show about a nice girl named Kanzaki Nao who gets dragged into a game known only as the Liar Game where a pair of players must compete to steal $1,000,000 from their opponent while risk losing that money themselves. She enlists the help of a recently released mastermind ex-con to help her. It’s SOO good. The theme song is by CAPSULE I think and it’s so like high tension and the music is super good and its just so dramatic and uGH i love it. Like most super popular dramas, there is also a second season and a movie.
Words I learned: 一億円、リストラー
I just started watching this. This one is one of those classic as fuck 2000s dramas with Matsumoto Jun about a woman named Yamaguchi Kumiko who is finally following her dreams and has become a teacher at an all boys school. However, she’s put in charge of the students of class 3-D, a bunch of rowdy boys who are the worst in the school. But that’s nothing she can’t handle because it turns out she’s the granddaughter of a powerful yakuza. It’s good and pretty funny and I really really reccomend it.
Words I learned: てめ、ちこく、おじょう
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