How did you discover JDrama?

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:30 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I stumbled onto a few Asian Fan Sub sites while I was looking for anime to download from the net about a year ago. I've downloaded and watched shows from many different Asian countries. It has become an addiction ever since. Beating heart

Watching Japanese shows helps because I'm also trying to learn how to speak Japanese and am looking forward to visiting my friend and her family in Japan one day in the near future. Smile

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well for me i always was an anime fan but last year at some point i didnt watch anime more like i used to do. I still watched Naruto and such, I was always A Kamen Rider fan and when i heard HIro Mizushima will be playing in Hanazakari No Kimitachi e i starded to wathc drama's.

But Hana Kimi was not the first one i saw i already saw Akihabara @ deep but didnt had in mind that it was adrama.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

in 2005 when Attention please and kurosagi started, I watched them... I think I stumbled upon this site per coincidense because I was bored.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

on accident! i think i saw a video on youtube with images from the drama & searched it up.
from then, addicted, haha.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I got tired of anime and decided I wanted to see real people on screen that speak japanese, so I went looking for it and downloaded something random.

Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 1:11 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

some years ago i was into anime, then eventually i became interested in Japan and so on.
year or two ago i was exchanging anime with another anime fan and she gave me Nobuta wo produce, in *rm^^.
i was hooked immediately!
now i rarely watch anime, most of my free time is for dorama and nihongo.

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:10 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I've lived here since 1991, and have picked up most of my Japanese from television and in ramen shops. For anything more complicated than a simple comedy, I usually want subtitles (so the local video shop is out-for Japanese material).

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:26 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Tokusatsu that helped me discover JDrama ....

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:09 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

from a forum in my university . called rileks.comlabs.itb.ac.id
it provides many dorama jmovie and many stuff like that which is easily downloaded from everyone in my university.
then i addicted n search more from internet .

hehe Wub

Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well, it's partly because of my attraction to tall Asian women... I discovered jdramas because of The Last Samurai. Koyuki's gorgeous. I watched Engine and loved the drama formula of Japan. then I looked for other tall Japanese actresses like Koyuki and found Misaki Itoh and Sachie Hara. Now I dont know which drama to finish first. So little time.

Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well, like with many people here, I used to watch anime before Jdramas. Then 3.5 years ago my dad, who at the time used to download all the anime we watched (he watched too) told me that he downloaded a live action drama called Great Teacher Onizuka. At that time I didn't know anything about GTO. So me and my sister watched it and we loved it! It also made me cry at some scenes. But we didn't get to watch another drama until Densha Otoko came out! I just so happened to stumble at a jdrama fansite and read the synopsis which moved me to tears and decided to watch it. After that I wanted to watch more but I wasn't sure what to watch.
Then I became a huge Arashi fan and heard that Matsujun was also starring in this drama called Hana Yori Dango with Oguri Shun who was both in GTO and Densha Otoko. So after that I became completely hooked, forgetting about anime in the process. As a matter of fact, thanks to jdramas I was able to learn a lot more Japanese than what I learned with anime and quickly became the top student in my Japanese class (I even scored the 2nd highest grade in my countly at the 3rd level JLPT). 2.5 years and some 150 series later I can say my love for dramas (and Arashi too) still goes strong! Big Smile

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:58 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

hmm honestly i was just watching Korean dramas before... not really into downloading stuffs. just buy them at the local pirates here because my connection would be affected if will be downloading torrents because i was playing online games... but eventually my older sister was watching jdo's and well i was amazed by it because the story/episodes were fast and the ones that i watched are like the ones with comedy on it.. thats why im watching them nowadays.. (both downloading and streaming)

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 2:30 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I think it was my friend introducing me to Japanese movies that eventually led me to watching Japanese dramas. Being previously a fan of anime though, at first I wasn't that interested in anything "live action", but in no time I had become completely obsessed with with both Japanese dramas and movies. Currently, depending on how I'm feeling at any given time my interest may shift to either Japanese movies, anime, or drama...