Nao Kanzaki's Japanese and Korean drama emporium: Risa Watanabe: A little bit 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, November 20, 2022

Risa Watanabe: A little bit of this and that....

Knew the posts wouldn't have stopped but thought there would be a big slowdown on them after her May 22md graduation. That hasn't happened as this is Risa's tenth post since then and it's also her sixteenth of the year which is her second most ever. She'll be appearing at a 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show next month and not sure if there will be a post for her in November. Next month is when I slow down on doing posts for those women who will be on the yearly faves list and save all their recent pics for that list post, will just play it by ear for now.

Risa's posts have always rated an A++++ but I think this years are her best since 2019. Last year she finished fourth on the yearly list, though there's been more and better posts this year she'll probably drop down a few positions! That's because the top ten are the strongest ones ever and I'm really going to be struggling with creating the list, only six weeks to go until the countdown begin. Even if she does drop Risa had the much more important honor of being #1 on my all time fave's list and there wasn't anyone all that close. So if another list is done four years from now would have to say she'd be the current front runner to be number one again!

No new mag spreads for today and Risa still doesn't appear in enough of them outside of Non-no. Have some new pics from her IG page and while she doesn't post enough of them they're all superb. The first ones are from an event held ten days ago and will end off the post with that event.

Here's a poster for that upcoming TGC show that will be held next month and there being a show is a nice surprise, few Keya members will be there too.

Was going to say that she didn't have any pics with her old mates at the show held ten days ago. But she does have some brand new ones with soon to be departing Yuuka. They're outtake pics from her graduation photobook coming out on November 8th, Risa also had her and a few other Keya gals in her May graduation book.

How about some oldie pics from the duo and wonder if they've ever had a 'Pairs Post'? Don't think so and that sounds like something I should work on.

There's also never enough modeling pics from the Non-no site but doesn't Risa look so fabulous?! Next post hope to have her November spread for the magazine as she's their cover girl.

If you were hoping for some Halloween pics then you're going to be disappointed as I found the grand total of just one! On October 8th Risa was at the Autumn 'Girls Award' show held in Chiba. She took two strolls on the catwalk, the first was on the Dressterior stage.

Liked the way Risa looked much better on her second stroll which was on the Dazzlin' stage. There are some videos from the event but instead of one of them after the pics is a short video of her with Yuuka for her photobook and hope it stays on YT for a while. EDIT: Well, being a YT video is wasn't on too long before being deleted....