How did you discover JDrama?

I guess most here don't live in Japan and since Japanese movies, dramas, music or whatever is a big non-factor in most countries (due to many factors), except perhaps for some Asian countries I wonder how people got in touch with this genre.

Personally I think it was either Pretty guardian Sailor Moon or You're under arrest that made the way for me. It wasn't some direct genre recommendation by anyone like "watch some JDrama" but a growing interest that later exploded by watching GTO and Long Vacation.

I was hooked in the Morning Musume scene for a few years I think that together with my interest for Japanese movies made my discovery possible. I guess without that I would never have heard of the term JDrama. It's not something you suddenly start google on without information cause to me drama has a bad taste from my experiences of Western standards.

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I found them by accident while looking for Taiwanese dramas. I have no interest in Japan itself, but their dramas are pretty sweet.

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

well my friend kept bugging me to watch 1 liter of tears, so after a year i finally gave in and got into this whole jdrama thing in the summer up till now

FansubWiki · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I used to live in Japan, but barely watched dorama. (I was only there for elementary school) I watched couple of reruns, but usually just to pass time, and I don't even remember the titles now.
In my last year there, I think it was a rerun, but there was "Coach" on TV at 5PM, and I liked baseball, so I watched it, and really enjoyed it.

Couple of years later, I came across a bookstore in "Little Japan" in Toronto, and they had a large collection of Japanese drama, movie, variety shows etc available for rent, and I started renting a lot of dorama every summer, when I had time. Eventually, I found d-addicts, and addiction got even worse Laugh

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I went to Japan this summer, and the last day we're watchin' the tv at ryokan's room and we saw... My Boss My Hero #6, we couldn't understand nothing of what they' saying, but we have a lot of fun, and i search in google and i find D-Addicts Big Smile

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hm...well I was into music waaay before doramas. I remember my first JDorama being Tokyo Wankei...I think I read about it on Wiki and decided to watch it on Youtube. Then came my dorama addiction. pinch

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:50 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

sadly, but totally worth it. through kamechan-lol Laugh

then i started watching jmovies and i luv the movie nana! i cant wait till nana 2 comes out on dvd. cant see it since im in the states!

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:26 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

hmmm...I can't remember how i got into it. I know that my japanese friends talked about how watching and listening american tv shows helped them with their english. I thought "hmm if i can find somejapanese tvshows to watch..maybe that will help me". I think one of my friends told me about jdramas....and i have been an addict ever since. ^__^

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:00 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

it was on tv. i remember oshin.haha that is pretty old drama but i wasn't interested in that but my mom was.what got me hooked was watching yutaka takeonouchi in kaoru no sekai.

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

An online friend was telling me about 1 Litre Tears and I decided to download it. Fell in love with it immediately and my j-drama addiction began, lol.

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:18 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

For me I loved Japan after my sister went and then i got into anime and japanese music followed that and then I came across live action GTO and I thought it would be funny to see them do it and after that watching these dramas just became a part of my life I can't help but love them!

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

My first jdrama was "Oshin" and yea it was long time ago ( it was on our national tv. in Egypt ) which was a different type of drama for us to watch, and it got almost 80% of the egyptians to watch it , after that and also on national tv. we watched "Suzuran", after that the jdrama stopped on tv. and last year i started watching jdrama again , and it was HYD ( cause i read so much about it ) which is totally different than the ones we saw before, and i thank God i watched it Smile

, cause it made me wanna watch more jdrama, so i guess my real start with jdrama is HYD Smile

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I used to watch korean drama & download it from this site so some friend advice me to download jdrama they told it's also as good as kdrama so after that i download it & my first jdrama was summer snow so i like it and i begin to addict to jdrama..