Asian DramaWiki Forum

In my case, the person who disappeared without a word was Deearhunter. He was subbing Tightrope no Onna & I was editing. He said he was studying Japanese before setting out on a bike ride the length of Japan. I have seen several YouTubes of people doing that safely, but I have always wondered if...

If the main character could be an architect rather than an engineer, Kekkon Dekinai Ototko might be what you are looking for. Episode one ends with the humiliating anal probe by the attractive female doctor.

Kira Kira Hikaru was one of the older dramas that Avallac'h recruited a transcriber for, so the raws (DVD?) and soft subs are both available here on d-addicts. It has been a few years now, so you may need to ask for seeders.

lots of episodes available on youtube -- follow the link from Ersby's If By Japan blog

and since the bottle only says pop-i, here is a screen shot of the sponsors, which features the orange bottle. I don't read Japanese, so don't know if the text has anything to do with the bottle.

here is one from ep 1

Thanks for those links, Keiko, very interesting. There was one photo on the meijishowa site that looked like a scene from Jin, the place he used to sit and look over the city.

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/History_of_the_Salaryman

The wiki description doesn't indicate how funny it is, though: so corporate shenanigans, the usual Kdrama love quadrangle, but lots and lots of laughs. The trailer is quite amusing too, perhaps even more so after you've see some episodes.

I'm trying to remember which drama had a scene in which a male character found an abandoned bicycle in the shrubbery of a park, and rode it around for awhile; he had another character with him -- a girl or woman; a policeman comes by and accuses him of stealing the bike and he is warned against usin...

This drama felt as though it were based on a novel, and some of the story got trimmed. I kept waiting for more about Rio, but was left with hints rather than the complete explanation. Although he told Saki that he loved her, it felt more like he was the one who really understood how dangerous she wa...

Thank you for the link to charity ratings, bmwracer. Here is another chance to give directly to the Japan Red Cross, with matching funds, for US residents who may have hesitated because of the difficulty of bank transfers. This is copied from yesterday's Densho enewsletter: The Seattle Mariners are ...

Just checking back to say that I was wrong about some of the details I posted above. Although the Seattle internees went to Puyallup at first, the ones from the east side of Lake Washington (which would be the family in 99-nen no Ai) were sent to the Pinedale Assembly Center, near Fresno, CA which d...

I'm late to this discussion, but after watching the first 4 episodes, I have mixed feelings. These events really happened, and forcing them all onto one family and getting details wrong sort of takes away the reality. The Japanese audience probably won't pick up on the inaccuracies, but it is drivin...

Since I don't have any other access to these Japanese & Korean dramas, I try to do at least 2:1, with more if necessary & if I have the disk room & bandwidth. If there are still more leechers than seeders, keep seeding. Others are doing the hard work of uploading, the least we leechers c...

I could seed the following:

Ai no uta! (2007)
BOSS
Home Drama
Ninkyo Helper (704X396 Xvid)
Oh,My Girl (SD)
Shibatora

There seemed to be a lot of loose ends at the finish of this drama -- or was I just not paying enough attention? Why did she go back to N Y at the end? Why did she tell Hiroshi not to wait for her this time? Can Japan just send its police off to the US for training and/or employment at will? I'd loo...

WithS2 has released the subtitles for the first episode. Look on their web page http://withs2.com/projects/ and use the link given under "comments" on the right side of the page.

Does anybody know if there is a different forum or something that everyone goes to for Kdrama discussions?

Try Dramabeans.com. It has current drama news, episode recaps, and very enthusiastic discussion of Korean dramas. It is a good place to get ideas for which drama to watch next.

You need to be sure that the filter plugins (*.vdf) are in the Virtualdub pugins folder. You can cut and past textsub.vdf and vobsub_vd.vdf into that folder, and I think there is a way to do it automatically. I always have to look for instructions on how to do it with every upgrade, so can't tell yo...

Do you know if any group is going to be subbing this series?

It is on the list of possible future projects on WithS2's web page. I hope they do, because I like their subbing.