Japanese SoTW (11/26/06) - Flowers for Algernon

Last edited by mizune on Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:13 pm; edited 2 times in total

Howdy folks, long time no see! Smile

After a long absence, things have finally stabilized enough for me to take part in setting up the JSoTW again. Thanks so much to Jannah who had to take burden for the past couple months alone! salut

Anyhow, it looks like some of the other nominees are being seeded a bit better now, so I'm going to put them off to the back burner for now and churn up a couple new series in their place. :p

I've also been wanting to try something out for awhile now, and it looks like there are finally enough volunteer seeders to do it. What I would like to try in one of the upcoming polls is to group about 3-5 (depending on the size) of the television SPs that have been subbed and offer them together as a single SoTW contender. I always think that these shows get left in the dust pretty easily and would like to give them a chance to stay seeded just as well as regular series. What do you guys think? Any series you'd like to see in a pack? Remember to check the JSOTW: Looking For Volunteer Seeders thread for potential candidates. Smile

If you're willing to seed any of the series in the poll, please post a reply here or in the JSOTW: Looking For Volunteer Seeders thread or PM any one of the Geinou. There are still several series which don't have any volunteer seeders, so do volunteer for those! The more seeders we have, the more variety there will be in the future JSoTW polls.

Many thanks go out to those seeding the current JSoTW (Searching for My Polestar). Thank you for your support! salut

In the now immortal words of thetenken........

PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST. IF YOU DO NOT, YOU MAY BE LIABLE TO THETENKEN'S EXPRESSIONS OF DISPLEASURE.

Taking nominations for the next series of the week. Let me know what you want to add to the poll and I'll add it. From this point forward only series that have a volunteer seeder will be put up into the poll. People can nominate whatever they want, but the series won't become a poll option until there is a volunteer seeder...

PLEASE NOMINATE AND VOTE ONLY FOR THE DRAMAS OFF THE COMPLETED DRAMAS LIST FOUND IN THE JSOTW VOLUNTEER SEEDERS THREAD:
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23787
(06/14/2004: As of this date, the Series of the Week is now officially only Japanese dramas with English subtitles.)

The nominees are:

Summer Snow - torrents
Flowers for Algernon - torrents
Heaven's Coins II - torrents
Yasashii Jikan - torrent

Previous Japanese Series of the Week:
Oyaji, Otousan, Koi ga Shitai x3 (Where is Love?), Strawberry on the Shortcake (S.O.S.), Cheap Love, Big Wing, Hotman, Sutaa no Koi, From the Heart, Love Generation, A Sleeping Forest, Story of One Century, Friends, Younger Men, Merry Christmas in Summer, Shota no Sushi, Koibumi/Love Letter, Waterboys, Aoi Tori (Bluebird), Meguri Ai, Konna Koi no Hanashi, One Million Stars Falling From the Sky, News no Onna, Mukodono/My Husband, Food Fight, Heaven's Coins/Hoshi no Kinka, Forbidden Love, My Little Chef, With Love, Shopping Hero, Stand Up!!, 101st Marriage Proposal, Seija no Koushin, Maria/Mariya, Asunaro Hakusho, Summer Snow, Pretty Girls, Trick 1/2/3 (JSoTM), Itsumo Futari De, Tokyo Wankei, Denchi ga kireru made, Koi ga shitai (DVD), Wedding Planner, Suekko chonan ane sannin, Koi wo nan nen sundemasu ka/Dreams of Romance, Beach Boys, Keizoku, Nanisama, News no Onna, Aoi Tori, Midnight Rain, Chakushin Ari, Aishitteiru to itte kure (Say you love me), Dekichatta Kekkon (Shotgun Marriage), From the Heart, Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu, Princess Hiro, Double Kitchen, Joou no Kyoushitsu (Queen's Classroom), Oishii Kankei, Five Spies, Tokyo Wankei, Narita Rikon, Cheap Love, A Sleeping Forest, Merry Christmas in Summer, Konya Hitori no Beddo de, Story of One Century, Searching for My Polestar

What is a series of the week? More Info Here
Since there are now a substantial number of torrents on this site, we have implemented a "Series of the Week," where we could dedicate most of the bandwidth to a particular series during that week. This helps in a couple of ways:

1. People will know what series are available and have seeds, rather than just waiting and hoping for them to be seeded at some later date.

2. For those seeders who have DVD burners and have already burnt their collections to DVD/CD, then with the series of the week they know which series can be pulled off of DVD to help seed, minimizing troublesome multiple DVD loading.

3. Constantly re-circulates older torrents back into view, and focuses bandwidth and demand toward those specific torrents, rather than having people request series across the board.

Remember, D-Addicts was started for the community, and being a part of the community means sharing. If you don't share, then everyone loses (refer to JEM's dropping of Cdramas), and a good thing open to all may become a private party.

We take no responsibility for deleting poll entries if there are no seeds. No complaints, as this is a community effort. If the community doesn't want to share, then oh well...

Reminder: You must have at least 10 posts to vote. Go on, kiddies... explore the forum a bit... Smile

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Ninoooooooooo~ Yay! I would love to see this one. I have seen the others, but I have wanted to see this one for a while. It sounds like a touching story so please pick this one!!!!!!

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:13 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

summer snow and yasashii jikan was great but've seen them.
so Flowers for Algernon is my choice Cool

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

vote for Masami!

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:37 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Loved the story it's loosely based on and want to see what the Japanese do with it, so I chose "Flowers For Algernon." Smile

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'd love to watch summer snow..

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:20 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

pls vote for Flowers for Algernon!!! ive seen the first 3 episodes and it soo good!! i would like to see the rest of the series, lets vote for it!!! Onegai minna-san!!!!!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Yes please vote for 'Flowers for Algernon'! I've seen a couple of episodes and the story's really one of a kind Smile

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

vote for Flowers for Algernon

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I voted for summer snow...mostly because it's the only one i've seen out of the four... but i think i voted a little too quickly... didn't know there was a japanese version of Flowers for Algernon.. i heard the book was really good and i know there was a recent korean drama based on it as well.. so if i could turn back time..which unfortunately i can't...i would vote for Flowers for Algernon..hehe

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I voted for Algernon because my friend has been bugging me to see it for over a year. I told her that I couldn't since there weren't any subs available for it, but there ya go. Smile

BTW, could you consider doing a SOTM with Salaryman Kintaro 1234 a la TRICK123? I recall that the ratings were really good for this series, but the series is never seeded.

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:39 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:23 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

miz: maybe you should put your idea in a different color font or something. i think it's an interesting one.

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:22 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Looks like a good idea. Smile

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:43 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I voted for Heaven's Coins II.

I think the idea of voting for groups of SPs is a great one.

Also, can someone put a link to this poll on the Torrent page to promote voting?