Worst J-drama Ever! (spoilers)

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:30 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

wow this thread is so interesting. i wish i could have discover this earlier. (i only read till pg6 and a little bit on the current pages)

I have to admit Hana Kimi was pretty bad. One thing I really don't like bout Japanese drama, they just have to keep it so friendship and family base and lack of romance. I can look past the annoying bad acting either from Shun or Maki, but it is the fact that the whole drama didn't even retain the "essence" of the manga. I didn't feel that Shun and Maki was in love at all. And as much as I love Nakatsu, he got too much air time. That is why I prefer the Taiwanese version (despite Ella's acting), as least I felt the connection/awkwardness between Ella and WuChun.

and here is my ramble about Maki's acting, I think it is either you love her or you don't really like her. NwoP was pretty good, but her character was very extreme and she just kinda had to be a freak. lol Tt isn't that hard. On the other hand, her other dramas where she is a outspoken girl that wants her way, like in Teppan Shoujo Akane, Kurosagi and Hana Kimi, I did found her a bit annoying. Maki just has that one look. That same expression when she got pissed off at Kurosaki, and when she got pissed at her dad in TSA, and when thee trouble look when Sano tells her off.

Teppan Shoujo Akane was horrible. I don't care how good her acting was in NwoP, if you saw TSA you will know what I mean, and I have extreme high torrence for bad things. AND till today I can't believe I finished that piece of crap.

In conclusion, I watch wayyy too much drama.

All the drama that I rated 7 and below on Jdroama
Bambino
Teppan Shoujo Akane
Tatta Hitotsu no Koi
Antique

For me as long as it can keep me watching, and even if in the end I don't like it too much, but I can see why people like it, I will rate it good. Those 4 was just bad.

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:17 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

actually jdramas are quite good compare to kdrama....most of the k drama is suuper duuper draggy and the storyline always repeat... Neutral

jdrama on the other hand can be complete in less den 1 week..and the storyline are focuse mostly on dreamz..haha ver touchin and inspiring....some jdrama even got deeep meaing somemore hahazz...

i think if i really have to choose den i think is miman city...e storyline not bad but e front part quite boring....^^ akihabara too

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I think when you watch jdramas, you need to have the patience because everything is done very subtlety, not over dramatize. You have to pay attention to the scenes and see how everything unfold rather they tell or act it out for you. To me Hana Kimi is not as bad as how everyone painted it, if they cut out Nakatsu’s screen times and replace it with Sano, it would be better. I cannot help but to feel like JE’s has something to do with Toma’s roles in the drama. I like the interaction between the whole casts and I think Oguri Shun did a very good job with the limit of screen times that was given. You can see the subtle changes in his expressions and actions from the beginning to the end. I for one, enjoy his acting in Hanakimi, never watched any of his other series prior to hanakimi, other than Densha Otaku. That's just my 2 cents.

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:19 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hanakimi, Actually i thought it was really good. But that's maybe because i've watched my share of good dramas, so all the rest i watched recently have been really dry so i decided to take a break from dramas and now that i'm back, hana kimi was the first one i watched so it felt pretty refreshing, because it was so light but i do wish there was more romance.

But when it comes to boring...I think me and love generation didn't click very well and i was hoping summer snow would be good that's why i ended up watching the whole series waiting for something good. but it was pretty boring too. Plus i kind of predicted the ending. And then there was bambino, probably what pushed me over the edge to take a break. I didnt like it very much. I also dont know how GTO has the top spot on jdorama, I mean i liked it but i've seen much better. Plus his character seemed kinda creepy man teacher, But i did like the way he handled things. and hmmm one more Itazura na kiss, I got through 1 and a half episodes. For some weird reason the main actress just annoyed me. But i probably just dont like it because i loved "it started with a kiss", of course because it was my FIRST drama i ever watched. And who doesnt LOVE their first drama. It's like a first love.

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:10 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i say its all bout taste. its all about how much the drama touched you.

we will use jdorama top drama list as a standard (i secretly hope that one day their database will fail and lose all their votes, so we can all revote haha)
almost everybody had listed the top 10 dramas as the 'worst'
i think the only drama on the list that wasn't mention negatively in this thread was (from memory) : My Boss My Hero, H2(?), Lunch Queen, Taiyou no uta, My Little Chef, Hotman.
Every other drama has been bashed... haha it is so weird. how one person can love a drama so much and someone can hate it so much.

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:32 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

sorry, but I think all of them have been listed in this thread Laugh

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I think the only ones spared are some oldies that the new fans have not seen

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:11 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Most boring drama? Well, I'll have to summer snow&Hitonatsu no Papa e...
Just a waste of time :p

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:28 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I already mentioned my worst dramas before but reading your replies kinda reminds me of the one I forgot:
Yes, Kimi wa Petto was not one of MatsuJun's dramas best dramas... pity Sad

( Note: Did anyone know that the woman in actress in Kimi wa Petto is the one in The Last Samurai??) Blink

Gokusen II wasn't that great also. scratch

. They didnt have to have a second part to it.. its exactly the same events!! I mean they could have put Akame in an other drama with a better story.
Tata Hitotsu no Koi was okay, I mean the story is way too simple. And Koki's role was really stupid!! But Kame really looked good Wub

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:24 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Lets see my first ever Japanese drama was Slow Dance (compliments to Ran aka nomanymore) certainly wasn't love at first sight, but a decent drama which definitely made me want to venture out further!! After HYD, it was pretty much any other Jdorama that I can get my hands on, lol but it took me moments to realise that though Jdramas lived up to my expectations of having short paced storylines, good quality acting (not always) and multiple talents of (male) eye candy lol, not all of them got my vote! There were a few by which I was utterly put off by, some I lasted it out but the endings just kill it, and some I stopped watching after an ep or 2-complete waste of time <very>!!

hmm lets see, dramas I didn't finish watching (based on personal opinion, and individual taste, as I know they may be rated highly by others, lol so don't bash me!)

incomplete dramas-
Long vacation: As one person said, maybe coz it's such an old drama, that I couldn't grow to like it. It wasn't bad, I just couldn't get into it for some reason! Though i'm sure it would have been a great drama back in the day.

Sapuri: lol enough said, if the characters don't flow, the story won't either! Kame should stick to what he's good at-ahem. Don't get me wrong, I do like Kame, but this role just wasn't for him!

Kimi wa Petto: I know many people who rate this drama very highly, and to be honest, I havn't even seen the first ep. There's some dramas that you know just wouldn't be your cup of tea, and this is one of them. Having watched and loved HYD, only to go onto a story which revolves around Jun acting as a pet dog, wouldn't have done my vision of his superb acting as Domyouji any justice!

Itzura na Kiss: Yep you've guessed it, I'm too much of an ISWAK fan to even give this drama a go. Actually that's not true, I manged the get past ep 4 (which for me was an achievemnt) and that was it! The lead actress was far too whiny, with an irritating voice, for me to be able to rate it as the original classic to ISWAK! It just didn't live up to my expectations, as well as the lead actors inability to show more than two facial expression-that really did kill it!! Maybe like Long vacation, the drama was probably really good for its time, but now that we're nearing 2008, and waiting for the airing of ISWAK2-this drama has no chance!

Summer Snow: I'm sure it's great, but just can't get myself to watch it, someday maybe

Hero: Just didn't like it, got bored really quickly, and just couldn't follow it like most Jdoramas

Boku dake no Madonna: again, enough said, lol

Other dramas that I managed to complete, though it would have been better had I not bothered-

Gokusen 2 (making a second season to Gokusen 1 which for me is an ultimate classic was a big mistake!! No originality, and no match for the first season-they should have left it at that!)

SOS: Whhhyyyy????? lol

Pride: it wasn't bad, but it wasn't all that either, I know many don't like KimuTakus Good Luck, but I preferred that to this!

Waterboys: Just wasn't my thing

beautiful life: Again wasn't bad, but not great! Probably because I had just finished watching 1 Litre of tears before starting this, I couldn't handle another emotional rollercoaster-plus 1lit of Tears was just great!!

PeAce out Mr. Green

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

quote]Hana kimi is the funniest drama in years.[/quote]

couldn't have said it better myself!! Smile

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