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Addressing The Kare Kano Kontroversy
I just realized many of my AMVs don't have descriptions lol Commission an AMV at https://www.patreon.com/Cariboukun a twitter thread in case you don't believe me: https://twitter.com/buildknuckle/status/972172006329344001 Anime: Kareshi to Kanojo no…
Is ‘Attack on Titan’ Getting Too Political: Addressing the Latest Controversy
Following WIT Studio’s long-running anime adaptation of Attack on Titan, MAPPA has once again found itself between a rock and a hard place. Naturally, the run of the…
The Journalist (2022) [Drama Review]
The Journalist; or, Checks and Balances After seeing how Ms Matsuda strives to give a voice to the voiceless no matter how difficult it...
The Days (2023) [Drama Review]
The Days; or, Anatomy of a Disaster March 11th, 2011. What happened in those days after that fateful date? Japanese filmmakers are not ...
The Truth About "Washoku": Addressing Japanese Cuisine and Washoku's UNESCO Classification (Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka)
Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka is Chair of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University. She is an expert on food history of modern Japan and Korea. Dr. Cwiertka's
The Drama of the Stage: Kageki Shojo!!
I love pretty much everything about Kageki Shojo!! It’s not the first anime about aspiring actors, and it’s certainly not the first to be inspired by the Takarazuka…
Filian’s VTuber Awards Ceremony & The Drama
Discover the excitement and controversy surrounding Filian's groundbreaking VTuber Awards show. Find out more!
The Toys R Us Drama Continues
Despite entering bankruptcy and emerging as a new company, Toys R Us executives aren't able to escape the past quite yet, as Krystallina looks at their latest troubles…
The Understated Drama of Just Because!
There are quite a few shows this season getting attention, and they’re all pretty different. There’s the action-packed and weird-as-hell Juuni Taisen which has some surprisingly strong …
The Silent Sea (2021) [Drama Review]
The Silent Sea; or, 2021: A Lunar Odyssey Not a damn thing works smoothly in this station. I have been looking forward to The Silent Se...
Be Forever Yamato: the radio drama
Decades after their original broadcasts, the Yamato radio dramas still linger in relative obscurity despite their enormous popularity at the time. The allure of hearing next Yamato story…
About Sunday Night… (the drama review!)
As someone who is chronically on Instagram, I am overly up-to-date on what my favorite entertainment groups and actors are up to. Back in March/April, it was announced…
Moyashimon drama is…
…outright awful. Seriously, these last few episodes have been particularly a mess. Everything feels like an exaggerated version of the jokes from the original series. I was facepalming…
K-Drama: Possessed
I have decided on branching out a bit beyond just talking about anime and manga and talk about some other things I have been watching si...
March Comes in Like a Lion: Addressing the Lion in the Room…and All the Baggage It Carries
Greetings, fabulous people of the Internet! Hanime on Anime here, and today’s show was a lot deeper than I anticipated. But for a show that garnered a lot…
Well that was a drama I guess – Ciguatera (drama review)
I think it would surprise most people that for the majority of my life, I never got the whole ‘be hype due to a single name in a…
The GLORIO Chat Episode 163: Band Drama
Artemis joins to revive some shows the rest of us dropped, we catch up on Sandland, and then we spend a lot of time talking about girls being…
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The Confidence Man JP (2018) [Drama Review]
The Confidence Man JP; or, The Ultimate Sting What you see may not be reality. What is real and what is fake? Did Beethoven really…
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The Naked Director (2019-2021) [Drama Review]
The Naked Director; or, The World is Yours People have seen my asshole, but I’m not embarrassed. To be human is to live as who…
Diamond Drama: Princess Nine
1998’s Princess Nine is the kind of sports anime with an instant hook: What if a Japanese all-girl baseball team competed against the boys in pursuit of the…
Usotoki Rhetoric Drama Review
Usotoki Rhetoric by Ritsu Miyako is a manga series I fell in love with four years ago when I picked it up in 2020 due to being a…
Sports Anime and DRAMA
Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to Otaku Thursday! Can you believe it’s already the second week of March and this is the real first Otaku Thursday I’m…
The Summer Drama to Watch – Midsummer Boys: 19452020
Ah yes, early December, an ideal time to talk about a drama set in the middle of summer vacation in Japan. It’s also a drama that I thought…
A-Z Drama and Movie Challenge – The Retrospective
I promise, that we are really close to the end of me blabbering about these challenges. The 52 titles, with forty-four published reviews are done. They can be…
Blood: The vampire drama I dropped in 2016
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing well! Today I’m going to be reviewing a Korean drama series called Blood, plain and simple. I haven’t really watched a…
A-Z Drama and Movie Challenge – The Awards
Welcome, to the most out of season and barely relevant to the majority of readers, A-Z Drama and Movie Challenge Award Ceremony. I promise this is my final…
Dacapo VTuber’s Face Reveal & The Complete Concert Drama
Curious about the drama that rocked Dacapo's VTuber concert? Read on to uncover the controversy and his intriguing face reveal!
Issue #98: The 2020s in TV Drama Music
We look back at our favorite J-pop singles tied up with TV dramas from 2020-2024, featuring music by Official HIGE Dandism, Kenshi Yonezu and more
A-Z Drama Challenge: Kakafukaka
Now this is a drama that I remember putting on my PTW specifically because there was a review here on Wordpress that I commented on saying I would.…
Ignoring Mori Calliope Superchat Drama
Not going to highlight Vtuber drama unless it’s something that’s actually major and not just people on the Internet crying for attention.
A-Z Drama Challenge; Engine
I am finally back to this challenge. I got distracted what else can I say? Hopefully I’ll be a bit more consistent for the remainder of the year.…
Ninku Batch+Drama CD Release
The deed is done. Went back and fixed every possible inconsistency within reason in the entirety of this show, OVA, and movie, and now I am satisfied enough…
Kyoto Animation’s Forgotten Romantic Drama
Many would enjoy this anime if they knew about it. So here I am, doing my part to give Noroi no One Piece its long overdue spotlight.
I"s Japanese Drama Review
I"s/Aizu/アイズ might not be the best Japanese drama but it's very entertaining if you like harem type plot. It also starred cute actresses so it's a huge plus.
Hitorigurashi (90s Japanese Drama Review)
Hitorigurashi ReviewDrama: HitorigurashiScreenwriter: Aoyagi YumikoNetwork: TBSActors: Tokiwa Takako, Nagasaku Hiromi, Takahashi KatsunoriDuration: 45 min.90s Japanese dramas are known for having the best romance genre but I wouldn’t recommend…
Historical drama film review: Cromwell
I know I started that Hollow Crown watchthrough a while back that I’m only three films into, but I’ll try to justify covering this one in between, because it’s…
A-Z Drama Challenge: Quartet
Back to the challenge! I’ve made so much progress and I can only hope that I continue to keep making it until the end. This title is a…
A-Z Drama Challenge: xxxholic.
… I’ve talked at length about my rocky relationship with CLAMP before. I too am very surprised that 1) xxxholic. got a live action drama adaptation back in…
This KOREAN Drama is INSANE...
Doona Kdrama on netflix based on a webcomic and chinese anime or donghua "Lee Doo-na" or THe Girl Downstairs was an amazing watch following the romance story of…
Golden Time, Ragna Crimson, The Apothecary Diaries, Undead Unluck
A-Z Drama Challenge: Pride
Pride. The drama that’s potentially an all time favorite of mine. Encapsulating some of my favorite things ever – ice hockey, early 2000’s JDrama aesthetics and techniques, an…
K-Drama: Hi Bye, Mama!
Hi Bye, Mama! is a heart wrenching tale of a mother who lost her life and watches over her young child as a ghost. Spooky, am I right?…
The Reason She’s With the Duke #01 — Rich People Drama
Oh goodie. This show yet again. Impressions: Supposedly this thing has been growing in popularity for the last couple years as reincarnation cheat powers start to decline. Except that…
Suki Suki Wan Wan! – The fluffiest drama of the season
I actually did watch the first episode back in January, got in my previous slump, came back to it the day before it finished airing, marathon-ed episodes two…
Witness the thrilling & life-affirming crime drama THE LAST BLOSSOM
ONLY IN CINEMAS 27 MARCH 2026 “A Scorsese-esque character study of a gangster in animation” ★★★★★ – Ryan Gaur, Skwigly ★★★★ – The Japan Times Glasgow, UK, 17…
Talking About Suits Season One, the Law, and Drama
Today, we’re going back to the real world and talking the hit series Suits.
Historical drama film review: The Hollow Crown: Richard III
Look up a list of the top five most controversial kings of England and you’ll probably find something among all the crap and detritus of the internet with…
Historical drama review: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
I’m starting to work on the review of Yuru Camp S3. I should have something to say about it, even if I already wrote about the first two seasons,…
Historical drama film review: The Hollow Crown: Richard II
Throw a Shin Megami Tensei in the front and Raidou Kuzunoha vs. Whoever on the back of that post title. But no other title works, because after rewatching Kenneth Branagh’s…
Even If You Don’t Do It – The Drama Review
I hate when affairs/infidelity are central themes in dramas. I don’t mind it as a secondary plot device, or something that happens off screen but as a main…
Historical drama film review: The Hollow Crown: Henry IV
Oh yeah, these are where the history plays really get going. Henry IV is a great time, and in particular the first part of the two. High politics,…