Nao Kanzaki's Japanese and Korean drama emporium: Fuka Koshiba: A little bit of this and that....

Konnichiwa and Annyeong Haseyo minna-san

Konnichiwa and Annyeong Haseyo minna-san

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".

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Fuka Koshiba: A little bit of this and that....

Oooops, should have titled it as a belated birthday post as Fuka turned 22 on April 16th. She's moved way up there on my faves list, have known about her since 2014 but besides two dramas and a film hadn't paid enough attention to her though 2018 was a very quiet year for her. This is Fuka's fourth post already this year and seems many viewers out there like her quite a bit too so hope that means we'll be having many more posts for the remainder of the year.

Fuka does have a few gravure spreads but not that many, main reason she's had a pair of them for this year is because she released her second photobook back in January. There was an event for it and had a post with many pics but there had been another one two weeks after which I had missed. It was another fan meeting session and to also thank all of her fans for buying the PB as it was in the top ten for a couple of weeks. This event took place on January 27th and the pics for the book were taken in Okinawa last Autumn.

So far have only watched the first episode of "Tokusatsu Gagaga" but will watch the other seven episodes soon and may recap the series. That first show was a really fun watch and Fuka has the lead role in the drama, she hasn't starred in a huge amount of things but more times than not has the lead role in a drama or film.

For the drama Fuka also did much promoting for it, had posted most of them but left these out which were from a February 11th interview for Dogpatch.

Fuka is also going to be in another drama that starts this Saturday, it'll be airing on NHK and she had a small spread in their May issue. The mag promotes their shows and the "Tokusatsu Gagaga" series also aired on the network.

That bottom pic is a promo one for the drama which is titled "Damper with Love and Job Hunting".. Checked the site which had very little info so couldn't figure out yet if it'll be a weekly show or just a special one time drama. Kind of think it'll be a one time show as it's length is 90 minutes, on April 11th Fuka was at a press conference for the show with her co-star.

Final Fuka item for today is this superb spread from the May 7th issue of Friday. After the pics check out a new CM for Tik Tok which stars another huge all time fave of Nao's.