Nao Kanzaki's Japanese and Korean drama emporium: Akane Hotta: Yet again another extremely overdue post for her

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".

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Akane Hotta: Yet again another extremely overdue post for her

For most gals when they go seemingly eons between posts it's usually because there's been zero to post abut them. There's a few other scenarios too such as that sometimes I just forget about a person and the other would be that they've fallen out of favor and are really no longer a fave or someone I follow. But in the case of Akane none of those apply as she's still a fave, been following her activities and she's had enough happenings where she could have 3-4 posts this year. Can give no good reason for having zilch up until now but do plan on having a pair of posts in October. Not a huge post for today as I just wanted to 'break the ice' as far as posting about Akane again. That's why this post is titled part one, she'll be turning 28 on October 26th so right around then is when I'll have those next two post or perhaps one a bit ahead of them.

Akane is known more for her modeling work but is now much busier as an actress, just saw her in a recent drama so may be that's what inspired this post. As mentioned not a huge post and it was kind of a spur of the moment one too, here's a few modeling pics for Mercury Duo.

The site where Akane has more pics than anywhere else is With Online and she's an exclusive model for the magazine, these all are August pics from the site.

Akane appears in almost every With issue but will just have a pair for today but there will be many in those upcoming posts. Top five are from their February issue while the rest are from the April edition.

Two more spreads from April, top four are from Cameraman as Akane was their cover girl while the others are from Ginger.

Have a few other sets which I'll hold on to for Akane's next posts, final two spreads are from Steady with the top three being from January while the rest are brand new for their October issue.

Last batch of pics are from an event that took place on September 1st. It was for the premiere of the "Come On, Kiss Me Again" film and it's the second time Akane has had the lead role in a movie, actually for this film it's the main female role. Have only seen her in a few dramas but she does play the roles of goofy and bizarre woman characters quite well, after the pics is the film's trailer.