Nao Kanzaki's Japanese and Korean drama emporium: Yua Shinkawa: A lot 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".

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Yua Shinkawa: A lot of this and that....

Thought I'd be going back and forth between the two blogs quite frequently but that hasn't worked out that way. My fave Idols and gravure models have been very quiet the past month so seems as though 80% of my posting the past ten days has been here. Sure that'll change and am not forgetting the viewers there in case you're reading this, would think soon there will be quite a few things to post about such as Nogi's new single and a trio of photobooks coming out.
Didn't have a top twenty faves list last year, back in 2017 Yua made the list but can't recall her position. Had there been one last year bet she would have finished fifth as she's become such a mega fave of mine, next two posts are a pair of older ones from Aitoda. Know she'll make this year's list but not sure how I'll be doing it, perhaps there will be two? One here for actresses and one at the other site for Idols so if that's what happens it'll probably be two top ten lists but as of now don't know if there's ten idols who could make a list, have plenty of time to think about it.

Yua just had eighteen posts at the other blog, really thought there would have been more but have only been posting about her for about three years. But Yua is one busy woman so that's why I would have thought there would have been more. Am holding back one mag spread so there won't be a huge gap between posts. On April 25th there was an event for Yua's current 'Villain' drama that began on May 12th and airs on WOWOW. Last year she had her first two lead roles in dramas, I enjoy her acting as she's such a calming influence on screen.

The Yua spread I'm holding back is from the July edition of Non-no but do have her June set.

Can't have Yua posts without many other Non-no pics as she has so many new ones added to their site every week and always represents them at the bigger fashion shows.

The last huge show took place last weekend, May 18th to be exact which was the 'Girls Awards' show that was held in Chiba. Bottom pics are from a backstage interview with Walker Plus.

The May 18th show was the final one for a while, as you can see above the next one won't be until October 5th but there's usually one in September. Final set of terrific Yua pics comes from the April 20th 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show that took place in Kumamoto. Those top pics are so fabulous and she could be my Queen ~~any~~ every day of the week, as you can tell the bottom pics were from a Modelpress interview after the show. Plenty of pics here from the show, Yua both opens and closes the video following them.