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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Friday, February 4, 2022

Minami Hamabe: Few recent happenings....

 


 Really not much to do with this post but was just thinking how slow 2021 was for introducing new women. By my count the total was only seven and there's not many females 22+ in age who I haven't noticed so the total for this year may be even lower. But did have a newbie a little over a week ago and there is someone who will be introduced in February, there is that age requirement someone has to be 22 or older to be introduced. So after those two can't think of anyone else who has never had a post here so sure hope my long time faves have a busy year.



 In a way Minami does have something to do with newbies being introduced. Have always said she'll be the youngest person I post about and she'll be turning 22 in August. So if someone was born before August 2000 you may see them in the future if I like them, anyone born after that month is someone you'll never see here. That should have no impact on this year's posts but wonder if it will four years from now when Minami is 26, the bigger question though is will I still be around then?



 Not a huge post as Minami's last one was just done three weeks ago, despite her young age not many have had as many posts as she has the last two years. "Dr. White" is the title of her new drama that begins on January 17th and will be checking it out, Minami's dramas are always worth a view though her last 2-3 shows weren't quite as good as the ones prior to 2021. Few new pics from Minami's Instagram page, the second and third are my top ones as they do feature a biggish fave of mine.








 Not many new modeling pics but as mentioned it's only been three weeks since her last post. But these four from the Voce site are among her best ever!





 More new Minami pics from the Sweet site but no new mag spreads for today.







 Actually there's more modeling pics than I thought. This batch is from the Kyoto Kimono Yuzen site, Minami models for so many kimono sites and why not as she looks terrific in them!











 Mentioned that Minami's new drama is title "Dr. White" and will have more info on it later as I will be recapping it and it does look like her best series in a while. There was an event held for the show on January 11th and it also stars a semi-forgotten mega fave of mine from the ancient days here....

















 Minami's first regular photobook came out at the end of October. It was titled "20" and it's been a decent seller at about 40,000 copies sold, that's an okay total for an actress and book sales were way down in 2021. It's only been about three months since the book came out and I don't like to post an entire photobook too soon as not to affect sales or get any site/agency mad at me. It's worked out well as it's been years since I've had a warning for books. So what I've been doing is having about twenty pics from the book in these posts and have 22 for today, maybe in four months will do one post with all of the pics. Know it's not as alluring as Idol books but to me Minami really looks superb and this was one of my top books of the year. After the super duper pics check out a new CM for Docomo.