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".
May sound surprising but am on pace to have thirty more posts than last year but that just boils down to 2 1/2 more posts a month. There's been a huge increase in drama recaps this year along with many more posts for gravure models but there has been a slowdown with posts for J-Pop Idols. However the there's been a massive decrease in posts for my top actresses though can't give you any numbers. Seems I've been able to do posts on a consistent basis for Tsubasa and two other actresses but that's been it. Can't give a good reason on why so many haven't been doing all that much for so long and I do prefer doing posts for actresses over others but sadly it just hasn't been possible.
Yesterday said I wouldn't be doing any posts after this Sunday for the faves who will be making the top ten on the my all time list. Would like to save up as many new pics as I can for those posts but did mention would try to have two posts for a pair by Sunday, this is one of them. Tsubasa should finish around the fifth position so that post would be done in mid September. Her last one was done in late June for her 30th birthday so didn't want to go over ten weeks without a post. This has been a nice comeback year for Tsubasa as she had got into a bad rut for way too long but if you ask me her pics this year have been her top ones ever which is really saying something!
This won't be too large of a post as it mainly contains some recent mag spreads and am even holding three back! Would rather have two posts of fifty or so pics than one massive one with over a hundred. No new event pics but Tsubasa has appeared at five or perhaps more this year, those events are where she's really shined! One thing she never does these days is attend those large fashion shows and wonder why as she's still as popular as ever. So let's go back in time for this small batch from the Spring 'Girls Award' show that took place on April 29, 2015.
At those old shows Tsubasa used to represent the Non-no magazine, She was with them for over eight years but left the mag in May 2018, that's a shame as her pics for them were hard to top and can also say that about other Non-no models.
It's pics like those which came out over the years which is why Tsubasa will be in my top five of all time. No recent modeling pics save for today's spreads but do have a new CM for Morinaga that's after these screenshots that has a behind the scenes segment and are better than any modeling pics!
Now on to the new mag spreads and as mentioned am holding three back for next month's post. Don't know if Tsubasa has been appearing in more mags this year but what I've noticed is how fabulous she's been looking in them, she did have a long stretch of somewhat bland spreads. Tsubasa has been a long time model for More and this first set is form their August edition.
More from More(!) and this batch is from their September issue.
Tsubasa's popularity is still extremely high as she's the cover girl for three of the four spreads, this set is from the September issue of Smart.
"Kimi no Hana ni Naru" is the title of her next drama and she'll have the lead role in it. The series doesn't begin until October so will have info about it in her next post. Will end off with this oddish Tsubasa set that's from the September edition of Vogue. After the pics is another new CM which is for Ippei Loop noodles and it also has a long behind the scenes segment.
