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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Saturday, January 4, 2020

'Top Ten Faves' countdown for 2019.... #6, the ultra alluring Rika Izumi


 This is being published on Wednesday night but wrote this up a day in advance, hope nothing major happens in less than 24 hours and odds are good nothing will. Have about fifty or so new pics plus some oldies to please all fans so that should be plenty but even with a total of eighty(?) pics in all it'll be one of her smaller posts as she usually has the largest ones. Bit ahead of the pace as there's just five spots to go so won't do another until this weekend.
 Rika is who I consider to me the most 'consistently popular' fave of all viewers here. What I mean is that her posts all hit the top ten for most views but never near the top save for the post for her perfect photobook. Plus her posts always seem to get about the same amount of views, high but wish it was higher. She's also consistent as far as rankings go, two years ago she finished third on the list. Didn't have one last year but in my head Rika would have been fourth, with a sixth place position this year her average over three years has been 4.3 which no one tops. She's also just one of five to make the list all three years and also the oldest as she turned 31 two months ago.
 Didn't have a 2018 faves ranking as instead there was a 'All Time Top Twenty Faves' list. Didn't include Rika as I had only been posting about her for a little over a year. However may do another list in two years and know she'll place high on that list. If she doesn't get hitched in that span of time and never hear rumors of her dating these days then it'd be a shock if she wasn't #1 by a mile.



 The only reason for the slight drop in her ranking is the lack of different activities. Rika no longer does gravure spreads which is fine as pics like the above one are almost as good but wish she'd let loose again with an overly sultry spread. But the main reason is that Rika doesn't appear at as many events as she once did though do have pics today from a recent one. At events she always looks so elegant and classy, know she's high in demand to attend them so for some reason it was her decision to cut back on her appearances.



 Once again hope professor Izumi fails at her experiment!!!! On to some new pics and as usual we have a bunch of modeling ones from some sites, will hold a few things back as I don't like to go over a month without a Rika post and seems she does average about none a month. To start off we have some pics from the Apuweiser site and she's done so much modeling work for them over the years.














 These days seems she has more modeling pics at the Oggi site and there's nothing wrong with that as all of them are simply amazing, she looks just as perfect in non-gravure pics.









 And a few from the Stola site, not sure if every one of these modeling pics are brand new but know none of them had been posted before.








 Last batch of modeling pics are from Bijin Hyakka.






 Do have Rika's spread from the December issue of Bijin Hyakka but will save it for her next post as this set is from their October edition, not 100% sure but have a strong feeling this hadn't been posted.









 Posting Instagram pics isn't her forte' but these are new from her account and are from a new CM, will see if it's on YT and perhaps will have it.





 Here's a bonus spread which should bring a huge smile to every fans's face. It was in her initial post and it was Rika's first ever gravure set of pics which were from the December 8, 2016 issue of Young Jump. That was exactly three years ago and is that one of the best covers ever?!












 As mentioned I really miss seeing Rika at events as she looks so tremendous at them. She finally made an appearance at one on November 25th as she was one of three female winners for having the 'Best Nails of the Year' which is put on by the Japan Nails Association. Must be a bit prestigious as it's been going on for 24 years and does she look simply dazzling in her own way....















 We've come to the end and there's really no superlatives left I haven't said about her in this post or her previous ones. Rika is simply the hottest woman in the world and as I said she's on the verge of being my number one of all time plus I can't think of anyone else who I enjoy posts for more than her. Will end off with some utterly ideal pics which most viewers have seen before but as I've said many times who can ever get tired of looking at them.... not me!!!! Found that new CM which is for Taisho and have it after the pics.
















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