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Koi Desu: Yankee-kun to Hakujou Garu Episode 1

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I’ll be honest. I’ve binge watched this series and have since watched it multiple times. There’s just something about this series that keeps bringing me back to it. But, before I start going on about what I like about it, and what I subsequently don’t like about it, let me first introduce this drama.

As you can see, the title of this 2021 Fall Japanese drama is Koi Desu: Yankee-kun to Hakujou Garu, which translates to It’s Love: Yankee and White Cane Girl. For those of you who might not know, a yankee is pretty much kind of like a juvenile delinquent, someone who causes and gets into trouble. The title pretty much explains the premise of what the ten episodes are going to be about, but I can give a little bit more than that.

This drama follows Akaza Yukiko (Sugisaki Hana), our White Cane girl. Yukiko has amblyopia, meaning she can only vaguely recognize colors and shapes. Her vision is blurry, but she is able to read large written letters with a magnifying device. Her and our resident Yankee, Kurokawa Morio (Sugino Yosuke), fatefully meet one day and as they say, the rest is history.

While this first episode sets up the world that we’re going to be living in the next ten episodes, it does a good job in showing us who these characters are and just what about them makes them so loveable. So, let’s get started!

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Hot Mom (Japanese) Series Review

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To preface this, as you can already tell from the title, this is just going to be a complete series overview instead of the usual episode by episode recaps. The primary reason for that is because this currently isn’t subbed anywhere which means that I watched it raw. I have taken classes in Japanese and do have an understanding of the language to some extent but because I don’t want to convey any potentially incorrect information, I’d rather just generally speak about the series and my overall impressions of the show. If one day I could potentially either find subtitles for this show or perhaps even Japanese subtitles, I would probably readily do an episode by episode recap because I just loved this series so much.

But to give a description about this show, it’s based off of the 2013 Chinese series of the same name. Now, I’ve never actually watched the Chinese series so I don’t know what’s the same or different when comparing the series therefore I’ll give the basic premise about what the Japanese series is as a standalone. I also won’t do any comparisons because I haven’t seen the original and can’t speak for those characters or what happened. I do know that the Chinese series was much longer with 38 episodes whereas the Japanese series only had 12. Therefore, I can imagine that either there were other things thrown into the drama that weren’t included or some issues might’ve been prolonged or extended. But whatever it was that filled those 38 episodes, I don’t know because I haven’t seen it. So if any of you have actually seen the original series, feel free to tell me about it and I guess let me know whether you would recommend it or not!

So, without further ado, let’s get started!

Also, as a forewarning, this will contain spoilers about the series.

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Kore wa Keihi de Ochimasen: Episode 1

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Just a little tidbit, I will be using the romanized title for Japanese dramas as that’s typically the title they go by. When it comes to other ones, if there is a more common English translation, like how there is with Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean, then I’ll be using that. If anyone is curious the English translation for this show is: This is Not A Business Expense. I will also be mostly using the character’s first name, even though I know that’s not the norm, but just to make it easier in the case if someone has the same last name.

So I just happened to stumble across this drama one day when I was kind of looking for something that would jump out for me to watch. And after watching the first episode, I can say that I did enjoy this. It seems like a light-hearted slice-of-life type of workplace drama that I’m impressed focuses on a line of work that I haven’t really seen many done about, the work of an accountant.

The general premise of the drama is about Moriwaka Sanako, played by Tabe Mikako, a woman who is working in the accountant department of a company called Ten Ten Corporation, who specializes in cosmetics and soap production. It may seem like a very general premise, but Sanako seems like someone who will dive head first to get to the bottom of things, as much as she tries to stop herself from getting too involved in the personal matters of the people at the company.

Of course we have a male lead, presumably played by Shigeoka Daiki, of Johnny’s West, an idol group, but it doesn’t seem like this drama will be primarily romance focused, but instead more about Sanako’s life as an accountant and her interactions with the people around her. So, without further ado, let’s get into the first episode!

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Long Time No See!

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So let me start out by saying that I truly apologize if anyone was waiting for a certain update from me, but life, as everyone probably knows, has been very hectic. Given the current situation, I hope that everyone is currently healthy and that all of your family and friends are also healthy and that hopefully there can be a semblance of normal soon, even if that standard of normal may change.

But anyway! Moving on. I know that there are some things that I have yet to do, but hopefully I should be coming soon with some new dramas, drama specials, or just things that I’ve had lined up for a little while but just never completely finished. I do recognize that I am updating after a year, which is totally crazy to me because time truly does fly, but, fingers crossed, I can get some things done and posted for everyone soon!

Accidentally in Love: Episode 30 (End)

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We have finally reached the end! It’s finally time to say goodbye to these characters as this episode continues to focus on Feng and Qingqing. However, their future dreams and aspirations begin to be mixed in to their relationship and sometimes when that happens, the outcome isn’t too great. But it’s the last episode and after everything that those two have been through we know that they won’t be discouraged so easily.

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Accidentally in Love: Episode 28

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All is well as Qingqing and Feng are finally able to disembark from the roller coaster ride they’ve just been on. But while another small problem is brewing, it doesn’t seem like it’ll be too much of a problem for them. Instead, a slight issue might come from the jealousy. However, it’s a problem that has to be worked through if they’re going to continue to make it in the world.

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