Hope that's correct above but what I'm saying is welcome everyone. May 10, 2019 is the first day of this blog and many may know me from 'Nao Kanzaki and Friends'... aitoda.com. There I have such a mix of things and finally decided to branch out with just a blog devoted to Japanese and Korean dramas. Will also be having some film reviews but one thing you won't see are any J-Pop idols or gravure models except for their dramas, this blog is dedicated 100% to dramas and films.
Also actresses as will be having many, many posts for them. Such as them appearing at events, mag spreads, interview pics and whatever else. So you should be seeing a lot of my bigger long time faves such as Erika Toda, Park Min-Young, Lee Yeon-Hee, Tsubasa Honda and too many others to count. The first few weeks there many not be too many posts for new dramas as I'll be copying many recaps from the old blog along with some film reviews and actress posts.
Won't be going too far back, perhaps to 2015 with a few exceptions and will have an entire series in a row to make it easy to follow. Did find it a problem completing series at the Nao Kanzaki blog, won't be doing that here as all the series will have a post for every episode. Thanks for visiting, it'll will be a work in progress for a while here but hopefully not for too long. Comments are also appreciated, like to know your opinions on dramas and for any recommendations you may have.
News and upcoming projects
News and upcoming projects
Should have done this on my Aitoda blog which is to let viewers know what's going on. Seems like a good way to let everyone know if I'll be taking a break, what to look forward to and any other tidbits.
Updating update, May 19th:
Whew, have finally finished transferring over enough posts from the Aitoda blog. May be a few here and there in the future for some new that's being introduced but there shouldn't be too many. Have also included announcers for women that I'll be posting about as my top two current faves just happen to be in that profession.
The first five episodes of '3-Nen A Gumi' have now been posted. For series over five shows will be doing two batches of them as I figure ten posts are way too many to read through during one sitting so will have the second half of the drama coming up in 2-3 weeks, highly recommend the show.
June 4th.... Have written up the recaps for episodes 7 and 8 of the '3-Nen A Gumi' show and will have those long with episode eight by June 6th. Up next for Korean dramas is up in the air but leaning towards a pair of shorter series which will be either "Splish Splash Love" or "The Universe's Star".
Lot of new photos for this post but not many different activities. But these days it's become so rare to have an Erika post so always jump at the chance to have one. She did have a post less than two months ago after being AWOL for the first half of 2022, with any luck there could another post at the beginning of December. Know Erika doesn't have nearly as many fans as she once did and in all honesty she never did have a huge fan base here even though this blog was named after her. But in a way she could be my #1 of all time and no actress will come close to having the amount of posts she has.
Erika did get married close to two years ago but so far hasn't started on having any little ones to make the family larger, guess she better think about that soon as she did turn 34 exactly three months ago. Like most older actresses she seldom posts IG pics, perhaps no one has less of them! But on October 31st she did provide us with four new pics for that ghoulish day....
Erika will be the cover girl of two magazines coming out soon which is why there should be another post within the month. Have two mini spreads for today with the first set being from the December issue of Bijin Hyakka.
Second Erika spread is from the December issue of Oggi.
For only the second time ever in her long career Erika went a calendar year without appearing in any dramas, that was the case for 2022. But she does have a film coming out on November 23rd titled "Motherhood" which she has the lead role in and it'll be her only project of the year. There's been four events for the film and in her next post will have pics from it's premiere. This superb batch is from October 27th as the film had it's first screening at the 35th 'Tokyo International Film Festival'.
And lastly is this large set of pics which was from the film's first regular screening which took place yesterday, so far there haven't been any interviews or such to promote the film. There's probably a dozen videos for the event but will skip all of them. Instead have an Erika CM for Lancome that came out two months ago which is so much better than any event video.
