Posts Tagged ‘j-drama’

PRECAUTION NOTICE:

Please see the previous precaution notice. It’s pretty much the same except with a few additions.

In case you are wondering, I have never done any fansubbing work or anything to do with media files. The only “media” that I have done is audio files. I thought of streaming edited audio files on a streaming mp3 player at AMNOSnet as part of our promotional system to get the fans to purchase the CDs. Anyway, that’s just a sidenote.

Here’s Part 2. This would probably be more of a Q&A format rather than a standard article/blog entry.

As fans, sharing is (probably) the prior factor in a general fanbase of something or someone. Otherwise, no fan would ever appreciate their love and devotion to their favorite idol or group. Obviously, if they are foreign, you pine for any subtitled clips that feature your favorite idol or group. Sadly, the only thing that anyone can rely on at this point is clips subtitled by fellow fans who have the skill, equipment, and time to do so.

In the case of J-idols, or to be more specific, Arashi, nowadays it’s pretty easy to gain access to these fansubbed clips, be it via downloads or (yes…) streamlined media. Though it is considered easy, there are also restrictions that fansubbers enforced on fellow fans and users regarding downloads and usage. As a user, you would think that this is all ridiculous and what not and may be thinking that the fansubbers were just being elitist over their projects.

So, I compiled up some possible Frequently Asked Questions for an easier explanation and to have everyone aware as to why fansubbers and fansubbing groups enforce their regulations to the general fanbase.

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QUICK EDIT
Samurai Seventeen has recently changed to the new title, Samurai High School. Check out the NTV official site (well, that is if you know basic Japanese…) for the update.

(Personally, I prefer the “seventeen” than “high school”… it sounds a lot cooler… maybe some Japanese people wouldn’t understand what the “seventeen” means I guess, so they decided to change it to something everyone can actually understand. *sigh*)

Aside from being my birthday (and my brother’s birthday too), October is a huge month for the a huge lineup of new fall season dramas in Japan. That month is just four weeks ahead and it is one of the anticipated months for every J-drama fan out there (and probably just prime time TV in general). So yay for the birthday, yay for fall season J-dramas (and NCIS and the upcoming NCIS: Los Angeles spinoff season), yay for…

So, moving on. Two particular dramas that I really look forward to watching. That would be (as the entry title says) My Girl and Samurai Seventeen High School. Why? Because I’m a story-wise nerd geek and a J-drama dweeb. Now that we got that out of the way, here are my comments on why I particularly picked those two as the dramas that I look for (aside from being those are the only two dramas that I know of that begins in October. ).

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Dedicated to all the devoted Asian drama fans out there (especially you J-drama and K-drama nuts out there), a spoof rant from a Japanese-American YouTube comedian named Ryan Higa.

It’s because of this particular clip that somehow made me feel SO GOOD of being Asian. It’s hilariously funny (though some of you Asian drama devotees may be a bit offended, but this is just all clean fun!) but everything that he illustrated in that video is absolutely true. It’s so true, you can’t really argue.

And it’s because of this video that seriously makes me want to stand up and shout out loud:

ASIAN PRIDE 4 LYFE~!!

Well okay, maybe not that… but seriously, I feel really good being Asian right now.

[A Rant on Asian Dramas]

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The Quiz Show II

Genre: Psychological Mystery/Suspense
Air Dates: Every Saturdays @ 9:00 p.m., 04.18.2009 – 06.20.2009
Network: NTV
Starring: Sho Sakurai, Yu Yokoyama, Aya Matsuura, Elena Misuzawa
More Info: D-Addicts Wiki

Plot:
A popular (and controversial) TV quiz show is aired throughout the country in which contestants are handpicked to answer seven questions and a “Dream Chance” round, in which if the entire quiz show is cleared that the contestant will win an ultimate personal wish granted by the TV network.  However, as the questions continued, the more personal they get, which forces the contestant to open up and confess for that contestant’s mistakes. All in all, the personal questions and the specifically selected contestants had connections to the past of the quiz show host’s six-year lost history and his mysterious relationship with the director of the quiz show and the true purpose of this particular quiz show is about.

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恋空
Koizora
(Sky of Love)

Genre: school, drama, romance
Air Dates: Every Saturdays @ 8:00 pm, 08.02.2008 – 09.13.2008
Network: TBS
Starring: Elena Misuzawa, Koji Seto
More Info: D-Addicts Wiki

Plot:
Based on a popular cellphone novel (which was also claimed to be non-fiction), this is a story of young love and first times of a girl named Mika and a boy named Hiro. Both go through the usual issues many teenagers go through, such as first crushes, first kiss, first fights, peer pressure, love triangles, sex, teenage pregnancy, first breakup, and a very deep understanding on what true love really is about.

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• Mood: inspired
• Quirky Sidenote: Currently talking to a very good friend whom I haven't spoken for awhile. He actually knows more about Koizora than I do...

正しい王子のつくり方
Tadashii Ouji no Tsukurikata
(The Creation of an Ideal Prince)

Genre: high school, comedy, romance
Air dates: Every Tuesdays @ 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm, 01.08.2008 – 03.25.2008
Network: TV Tokyo
Starring: Kotaro Yanagi, Yurie Midori, Hiroki Aiba, Hatsune Matsushima (and others…)
More Info: D-Addicts Wiki

Plot:
An all-girls high school became an integrated co-ed school, allowing a first batch of boys from its brother (all-boys) private school to be admitted as a trial run. Unfortunately, the boys the school admitted were far from what the girls expected from the good-for-nothings to the rejects of the youth’s society. As a result, one particular class collaborated a program that would reform these boys from total rejects to noble princes, but as expected, it would take more than just convincing for the plan to work.

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