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".

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Rika Izumi: More recent happenings for 2019 #2....



 Was unsure if to have Rika posts here or at the other blog, you can see how the decision turned out and think most of my bigger faves will end up having their posts at this new blog. Rika's acting career is doing much better, no leading roles but her parts are becoming bigger and she's getting much more work. It's not a massive disappointment as she always looks perfect but these days Rika doesn't do any gravure spreads or hardly any pics in that vein. It's such a shame because to me she's the hottest current woman in the world and have been saying that for well over a year. It's okay as she does look so fabulous in her recent pics and in a way she looks almost as good but just in a different way.



 But my biggest Rika disappointment is the lack of events she's attended in the past year. In 2017 she was at about fourteen of them, last year just four and so far for 2019 she's just been at one film premiere. She just looks so classy, elegant and stunning at them, can't understand why she doesn't attend more events. However on April 14th she was at the Tokyo Dome to throw out the first pitch at the Giants game, unlike most who throw a pitch hers made it over the plate!









 Have quite a few new pics for today but there probably could be more, trying to make posts a tad smaller so there's not a huge gap between them. Lack of mag spreads for Rika lately but think there may be more than one in her next post, this set is from  the June issue of Maquia.






 What Rika has done more than ever the past five or so months is modeling, she's always been busy as one but more so these days and could it be because she's getting older? Perhaps as most models don't stay in that field of work until their forties and she'll be turning 31 in October. Have so many fabulous new pics today and while none are gravure ones I kind of prefer the 'classier' Rika. Not sure where to start so why not go in alpha order which means up first are these pics from the Honeys site and are for their Summer collection.









 Rika has been an exclusive model for Oggi since 2016 and these days has more pics at their site then ever as these are all brand new since March.













 Looks as though another company has signed her up who is 'Onward Kashiyama' as I can't recall ever posting any pics from them and these are for their Spring collection.










 Last batch of new Rika modeling pics are from the Roomy's site and really thought there were more than these.




 Rika has a few new CM's for Real Gold that have come out in the past month and will end off with one of them.



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