Drama Recs Challenge Day 7
This was an easy one. Not only does this great #JDrama feature a strong ensemble cast, the entire plot and point of the show is their characters ARE an ensemble, a string Quartet. No #KDrama or #CDrama I've watched is as literal a fit for this #DramaRecsChallenge . That it was my first introduction to the multi-talented ( and gorgeous) Mitsushima Hikari was a nice bonus
#DramaRecsChallenge! #AsianDrama
Day 4: A Powerful Performance
#Jdrama Shōgun (2024), actress Anna Sawai, for her powerful portrayal of Lady Toda Mariko. Strong, graceful, defiant, loyal, brave. Anna Sawai won the Best Actress Emmy 2024 and Golden Globe 2025, and so well deserved. The scenes at Osaka Castle are so powerful and memorable, Mariko facing questioning by the council, and when she and her group defiantly try to leave. Shōgun also won the Best Drama Emmy 2024 & Golden Globe 2025.
@AnnaAnthro I wouldn't recommend. SSH was in Dr Jin, an AWFUL #KDrama remake of a #JDrama, and in that one he was comprehensively out-acted by a pickled brain in a jar. That one was made a year AFTER this one, and it's my recollection that in this poor Ms Kim would have been served by having a green screen as her romantic interest.
Curiously enough, I've gone on to like him in a few, her, not so much.
Drama Recs Challenge Day 2
I agonised over this one too, not sure about what IS "epic". I very, VERY nearly went with the outstanding #CDrama #WhenIFlyTowardsYou , but in the end, this #TWDrama seemed more "epic" for #DramaRecsChallenge beating out both #KDrama and #JDrama
#DramaRecsChallenge! #AsianDrama
Day 1: Recommend a first drama
#Kdrama modern, Descendants Of The Sun (2016). The lead couple, 2nd lead couple, bromance. Starring Song Joong Ki, Song Hye Kyo, Jin Goo, Kim Ji Won.
#Cdrama #Xianxia Eternal Love (2017). The story, production, the acting: Yang Mi, Mark Chao, Vin Zhang, Gao Wei Guang, Dilraba Dilmurat.
#Jdrama Shōgun (2024). Epic historical.
#TwDrama modern. A Thousand Goodnights (2019). Family story, the acting, train travel around Taiwan.
Drama Recs Challenge Day 1
The challenge pic for the #DramaRecCchallenge does not specify #KDrama so many of my recs will be #JDrama, #TWDrama or #CDrama
It was REALLY tough to pick Day 1, but In the end I went with a KDrama anyway. #FatedToLoveYou has enough of the common elements of #KDrama to be a good intro,. Critically it has an uncomplicated happy ending, after a gut-punchingly emotional couple of eps toward the end.
@girlbandgeek
That's my name for the trope, I don't know what others call it, but it has creeped me out right from the start of my #KDrama watching 12 years ago. Happily, it's MUCH less common in #CDrama, #JDrama and #TWDrama
I dumped Cha-Cha-Cha because of the omniscient, omnipotent ML. Sadly THAT trope is also very common in #CDrama, especially.
@joakimfors East Asian comedy generally doesn't sync well with me. The attached image shows all the Dramas that I've tagged as having comedy either primary or secondary genre. Not many out of almost 530, and #JDrama has a clear edge over #KDrama
I just finished the short but very sweet #jdrama #WhyIDressUpForLove. It stars the ML from the Japanese version of #Nevertheless as a laid-back food truck owner who learned to cook in Spain, and a FL who is an up-and-coming influencer for a cute housewares company. And a home full of roommates.
A solid 8.5/10.
watching The Hot Spot (2025) E2, nice little slow-burn #jdrama https://mydramalist.com/781372-hot-spot
I am watching #EyeLoveYou on my own, and also #UnlockMyBoss with my partner. And it just connected with me that the male lead in both these is played by #ChaeJongHyeop . I have also seen him in #Sisyphus according to IMDB. I am enjoying his acting, I will have to keep an eye out for him in the future. #kdrama #jdrama
