Soon I will write something about this spring's dramas (half of those I watched disappointed me :<) but I'm already late for this one, so!! There's nothing I'm really excited about I'm just hoping this season will be better than the past one t b h.
Uchi no Otto wa Shigoto ga Dekinai
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Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, 8 July 2017
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Watanabe Chiho (Beppin-san, Go-nin no Junko, Tatakau! Shoten Girl)
Cast: Nishikido Ryo, Matsuoka Mayu, Sato Ryuta, Dan Mitsu, Yabu Kota, Imoto Ayako, Eguchi Noriko, Yoshimoto Miyu, Yagyu Miyu, Yashiki Hiroko, Abe Shohei, Kasamatsu Sho
Synopsis: Good looking Kobayashi Tsukasa (Nishikido Ryo) has a good academic background and income. He is supposed to be the “ideal husband”. But one day, his wife Sayaka (Matsuoka Mayu) learns his secret. In fact, Tsukasa is a burden who continuously gets in the way at his workplace. Meanwhile, Tsukasa does not want Sayaka, who believes that he is a capable husband, to know that he is quite the opposite. But repeated mistakes, humiliation and the contemptuous looks directed at him by his subordinates push him to his limit. Just as Tsukasa is about to quit, he finds out that Sayaka is pregnant. Since he cannot make her feel anxious, he decides that he has to become capable in his work. And so, the husband and wife tag-team begin their fight for survival.
A drama about a good looking man being useless at life. Seems like the authors/whoever casted Nishiki have been going around the internet and read fandom jokes about him. Or they just... saw him. Here, a gif of Ryo hitting the mike with his head after a performance.
This drama is the only one I'm actually anticipating, I hope it's good!
Gomen, Aishiteru
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Trailer
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Sundays, 9 July 2017
Station: TBS
Scriptwriter: Asano Taeko (Dakara Kouya, Utsukushiki Wana, Ten no Hakobune)
Cast: Nagase Tomoya, Yoshioka Riho, Sakaguchi Kentaro, Onishi Ayaka, Daichi, Yamaji Kazuhiro, Kusamura Reiko, Rokkaku Seiji, Ikewaki Chizuru, Nakamura Baijaku, Otake Shinobu, Lee Soo-hyuk
Synopsis: Okazaki Ritsu (Nagase Tomoya) was abandoned by his mother when he was a child and lived on the margins of society. The underworld was the only place for him. One day, in a strange turn of events, Ritsu saves Mita Rinka (Yoshioka Riho). This is an encounter that will change both their destinies. Then, Ritsu gets involved in an accident and sustains a grave head injury. No one knows if he will be able to survive. Wanting to be filial to his mother in his last moments, Ritsu starts searching for her. He finds Hyuga Reiko (Otake Shinobu) with the information he has obtained. However, he sees the mother whom he believed had given him up because of poverty, shower tremendous love on her son Satoru (Sakaguchi Kentaro). He is taken aback by their wealth and happy expressions, and struggles with conflicting feelings of yearning and loathing. Then he meets Rinka again. Rinka has had feelings for her childhood friend Satoru but it is not reciprocated while Ritsu seeks love because he has never been loved by anyone before. Rinka is gradually drawn to him as his loneliness and warmth touch her. Satoru has received all his mother’s love and lives without a care, not knowing Ritsu’s anguish. And Reiko dotes on Satoru without realising that her son is by her side. Now their lives intersect.
Oh, Nagase *heart eyes*
The Korean version was reaaaaally popular in South Korea, back then (I think it's 10 years old or something), but I've never watched it so I don't know what to expect. Other than a melodrama, I mean. I hope it won't be too angst. And that it'll be good. I want to see Nagase for 10 episodes, okay??
Plage ~ Wakeari Bakari no Sharehouse
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Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, 12 August 2017
Station: WOWOW
Scriptwriters: Oura Kota (Heat, Shomuni (2013)), Yoshida Yasuhiro (Cold Case)
Cast: Hoshino Gen, Naka Riisa, Mashima Hidekazu, Nakamura Yuri, Shibukawa Kiyohiko, Suga Shikao, Ishida Yuriko
Synopsis: 32-year-old salesman Yoshimura Takao (Hoshino Gen) has had a string of failures in his work at a travel agency and to make things worse, he is snubbed by the woman he likes. Then he is arrested for using stimulants which he did not really know he was taking to forget his troubles and given a suspended sentence. Takao is naturally dismissed by his company. On top of all that, the apartment he is living in goes up in flames … … Takao is taken to a shared house which has a cafe called ‘Plage’ on the first floor. The basic rent is 50,000 yen, a rotating schedule for cleaning, only a curtain as partition for individual rooms but comes with delicious food. Takao begins to live with a light heart until his next job is decided. But he gets involved in all sorts of commotion caused by the flawed residents (Naka Riisa, Mashima Hidekazu, Nakamura Yuri, Shibukawa Kiyohiko).
Sounds like a Sharehouse no Koibito 2.0, which was a useless drama, I hope it's better. These things with n people living in the same place can be very good or, like the above mentioned drama, very bad. Uhm. Also, Hoshino Gen is a carebear.
Kahogo no Kahoko
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Date: From 10.00 p.m., Wednesdays, 12 July 2017
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Yukawa Kazuhiko (Gisou no Fuufu, Marumaru Tsuma, Kaseifu no Mita)
Cast: Takahata Mitsuki, Takeuchi Ryoma, Kubota Sayu, Kuroki Hitomi, Hamada Mari, Nakajima Hiroko, Umezawa Masayo, Tokito Saburo, Sato Jiro, Nishio Mari, Shukugawa Atom, Mita Yoshiko, Nishioka Tokuma, Hiraizumi Sei
Synopsis: Nemoto Kahoko (Takahata Mitsuki), a 21-year-old university student, has been raised in an overly protective environment by her mother Izumi (Kuroki Hitomi) and father Masataka (Tokito Saburo). She has never worked part-time, chosen clothes on her own or walked to the train station because she gets picked up and dropped off. Even at university, she gets the people around her to become her slaves and do all sorts of things for her with her angelic smile. Then one day, Kahoko meets Mugino Hajime (Takeuchi Ryoma) who grew up in an environment completely different from hers. He was abandoned by his parents, grew up in an orphanage and holds more than two part-time jobs to put himself through university. Kahoko is told that this kind overprotectiveness will be the end of Japan. She begins a journey of self-discovery. Through the many “firsts” that she experiences, she starts to solve a series of family problems with the true “ability” which had been lying dormant within her.
With these premises, I would have preferred it to be just a love comedy between the spoiled girl who can't live in the real world and the poor guy who had a hard life and cannot believe she's for real. This thing about solving family problems with some kind of ability may get boring.
Miyazawa Kenji no Shokutaku
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Trailer (somehow)
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, 17 June 2017
Station: WOWOW
Scriptwriter: Ikeda Natsuko (Suna no Tou, Algernon ni Hanabata o (2015), Alice no Toge)
Cast: Suzuki Ryohei, Ishibashi Anna, Yamazaki Ikusaburo, Ichikawa Mikako, Yanagisawa Shingo, Okayama Hajime, Takezai Terunosuke, Inowaki Kai, Inukai Naoki, Kanno Misuzu, Hirata Mitsuru
Synopsis: In 1921, a young Miyazawa Kenji (Suzuki Ryohei) stormed out of his wealthy family and ran away to Tokyo. In the eight months that he lived in Tokyo as he made a living for himself, his mind never left his beloved younger sister Toshi (Ishibashi Anna). One day at the end of summer, he gets an unexpected telegram, “Toshi is sick. Come back immediately.” Kenji returns home in great haste to find a seemingly healthy Toshi waiting for him. He had been thoroughly deceived by this scheme of his father Masajiro (Hirata Mitsuru) who was worried about him. Kenji has not been able to find something to be passionate about. But he begins to realise that his own ideal is to share happiness after he makes the croquette that he had tasted in Tokyo by hand and shares it with his family. This is communicated through his representative work. And in accordance to Toshi’s wish, he makes the decision to take a position as a teacher at the Hienu (now known as Hanamaki) Agricultural School which has just been established.
I was quite unsure about this, but seeing the trailer, I don't know, it seems so pure XD It there will be subs I'm going to try it.
Aishitetatte, Himitsu wa Aru
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Date: From 10.30 p.m., Sundays, 16 July 2017
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Kuwamura Sayaka (Sukina Hito ga Iru Koto, Koinaka)
Cast: Fukushi Sota, Kawaguchi Haruna, Kaku Kento, Suzuki Kosuke, Shirasu Jin, Yashiba Toshihiro, Saeki Daichi, Emoto Tokio, Yamamoto Mirai, Horibe Keisuke, Endo Kenichi, Okae Kumiko, Suzuki Honami
Synopsis: Legal apprentice Okumori Rei (Fukushi Sota) is on the verge of getting married when he is cornered by someone due to a past secret. Eight years ago, during the summer when Rei was a third-year junior high school student, he killed his father Kosuke (Horibe Keisuke) and made it look like he went missing in order to protect his mother Akiko (Suzuki Honami) from domestic violence. This became the secret between him and his mother. Rei aspired to be a lawyer and lived without getting deeply involved with anyone. That was until he met Tachibana Saya (Kawaguchi Haruna) at law school. She is like a sudden light that illuminates his dark life and the two of them soon fell in love. However, right after Rei’s marriage to Saya is decided, he starts receiving ominous messages from someone who knows his secret...
I still don't trust Fukushi Sota, but maybe with a mystery drama he'll be better? Or maybe he will be bad but hopefully the rest of the drama will be nice? Who knows.
Akira to Akira
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Trailer
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Sundays, 9 July 2017
Station: WOWOW
Scriptwriter: Maekawa Yoichi (Shizumanu Taiyo, Shitamachi Rocket (WOWOW))
Cast: Mukai Osamu, Saito Takumi, Koizumi Kotaro, Tanaka Rena, Kaku Kento, Kinoshita Houka, Horibe Keisuke, Matsushige Yutaka, Takimoto Miori, Nagashima Toshiyuki, Kamikawa Takaya (guest star), Omi Toshinori, Ishimaru Kanji
Synopsis: In April 1986, an orientation is being conducted for Sangyo Chuo Bank’s new employees. The last course is practical training on financial strategy for the two outstanding teams. The leaders for the respective teams are Kaido Akira (Mukai Osamu) and Yamazaki Akira (Saito Takumi) who are both graduates of Tokyo University. As the son of the owner (Ishimaru Kanji) of one of Japan’s leading companies, Kaido was born with an easy life and is promised a future as the next company president. On the other hand, the genius Yamazaki suffered hardships after his father’s (Matsushige Yutaka) company went bankrupt and their family had to run away at night. The two of them have built lives for themselves and joined the same bank. In fact, their lives had even crossed paths before this. But they have yet to realise this fact. Kaido and Yamazaki challenge each other as good friends and rivals as they overcome difficulties. And then, in what can only be described as “destiny”, a punishing ordeal drops on them...
Putting this here because I miss Mukai Osamu's face.
This could be an Hanzawa Naoki or the most boring thing in the world. In both case, even with subs I will have a hard time understanding what they're talking about!
source: jdramaswordpress
I would like to watch Gintama too, with Oguri Shun, but the movie comes before the drama,
so I will have to wait.
Uchi no Otto wa Shigoto ga Dekinai
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, 8 July 2017
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Watanabe Chiho (Beppin-san, Go-nin no Junko, Tatakau! Shoten Girl)
Cast: Nishikido Ryo, Matsuoka Mayu, Sato Ryuta, Dan Mitsu, Yabu Kota, Imoto Ayako, Eguchi Noriko, Yoshimoto Miyu, Yagyu Miyu, Yashiki Hiroko, Abe Shohei, Kasamatsu Sho
Synopsis: Good looking Kobayashi Tsukasa (Nishikido Ryo) has a good academic background and income. He is supposed to be the “ideal husband”. But one day, his wife Sayaka (Matsuoka Mayu) learns his secret. In fact, Tsukasa is a burden who continuously gets in the way at his workplace. Meanwhile, Tsukasa does not want Sayaka, who believes that he is a capable husband, to know that he is quite the opposite. But repeated mistakes, humiliation and the contemptuous looks directed at him by his subordinates push him to his limit. Just as Tsukasa is about to quit, he finds out that Sayaka is pregnant. Since he cannot make her feel anxious, he decides that he has to become capable in his work. And so, the husband and wife tag-team begin their fight for survival.
A drama about a good looking man being useless at life. Seems like the authors/whoever casted Nishiki have been going around the internet and read fandom jokes about him. Or they just... saw him. Here, a gif of Ryo hitting the mike with his head after a performance.
This drama is the only one I'm actually anticipating, I hope it's good!
Gomen, Aishiteru
Trailer
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Sundays, 9 July 2017
Station: TBS
Scriptwriter: Asano Taeko (Dakara Kouya, Utsukushiki Wana, Ten no Hakobune)
Cast: Nagase Tomoya, Yoshioka Riho, Sakaguchi Kentaro, Onishi Ayaka, Daichi, Yamaji Kazuhiro, Kusamura Reiko, Rokkaku Seiji, Ikewaki Chizuru, Nakamura Baijaku, Otake Shinobu, Lee Soo-hyuk
Synopsis: Okazaki Ritsu (Nagase Tomoya) was abandoned by his mother when he was a child and lived on the margins of society. The underworld was the only place for him. One day, in a strange turn of events, Ritsu saves Mita Rinka (Yoshioka Riho). This is an encounter that will change both their destinies. Then, Ritsu gets involved in an accident and sustains a grave head injury. No one knows if he will be able to survive. Wanting to be filial to his mother in his last moments, Ritsu starts searching for her. He finds Hyuga Reiko (Otake Shinobu) with the information he has obtained. However, he sees the mother whom he believed had given him up because of poverty, shower tremendous love on her son Satoru (Sakaguchi Kentaro). He is taken aback by their wealth and happy expressions, and struggles with conflicting feelings of yearning and loathing. Then he meets Rinka again. Rinka has had feelings for her childhood friend Satoru but it is not reciprocated while Ritsu seeks love because he has never been loved by anyone before. Rinka is gradually drawn to him as his loneliness and warmth touch her. Satoru has received all his mother’s love and lives without a care, not knowing Ritsu’s anguish. And Reiko dotes on Satoru without realising that her son is by her side. Now their lives intersect.
Oh, Nagase *heart eyes*
The Korean version was reaaaaally popular in South Korea, back then (I think it's 10 years old or something), but I've never watched it so I don't know what to expect. Other than a melodrama, I mean. I hope it won't be too angst. And that it'll be good. I want to see Nagase for 10 episodes, okay??
Plage ~ Wakeari Bakari no Sharehouse
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, 12 August 2017
Station: WOWOW
Scriptwriters: Oura Kota (Heat, Shomuni (2013)), Yoshida Yasuhiro (Cold Case)
Cast: Hoshino Gen, Naka Riisa, Mashima Hidekazu, Nakamura Yuri, Shibukawa Kiyohiko, Suga Shikao, Ishida Yuriko
Synopsis: 32-year-old salesman Yoshimura Takao (Hoshino Gen) has had a string of failures in his work at a travel agency and to make things worse, he is snubbed by the woman he likes. Then he is arrested for using stimulants which he did not really know he was taking to forget his troubles and given a suspended sentence. Takao is naturally dismissed by his company. On top of all that, the apartment he is living in goes up in flames … … Takao is taken to a shared house which has a cafe called ‘Plage’ on the first floor. The basic rent is 50,000 yen, a rotating schedule for cleaning, only a curtain as partition for individual rooms but comes with delicious food. Takao begins to live with a light heart until his next job is decided. But he gets involved in all sorts of commotion caused by the flawed residents (Naka Riisa, Mashima Hidekazu, Nakamura Yuri, Shibukawa Kiyohiko).
Sounds like a Sharehouse no Koibito 2.0, which was a useless drama, I hope it's better. These things with n people living in the same place can be very good or, like the above mentioned drama, very bad. Uhm. Also, Hoshino Gen is a carebear.
Kahogo no Kahoko
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Wednesdays, 12 July 2017
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Yukawa Kazuhiko (Gisou no Fuufu, Marumaru Tsuma, Kaseifu no Mita)
Cast: Takahata Mitsuki, Takeuchi Ryoma, Kubota Sayu, Kuroki Hitomi, Hamada Mari, Nakajima Hiroko, Umezawa Masayo, Tokito Saburo, Sato Jiro, Nishio Mari, Shukugawa Atom, Mita Yoshiko, Nishioka Tokuma, Hiraizumi Sei
Synopsis: Nemoto Kahoko (Takahata Mitsuki), a 21-year-old university student, has been raised in an overly protective environment by her mother Izumi (Kuroki Hitomi) and father Masataka (Tokito Saburo). She has never worked part-time, chosen clothes on her own or walked to the train station because she gets picked up and dropped off. Even at university, she gets the people around her to become her slaves and do all sorts of things for her with her angelic smile. Then one day, Kahoko meets Mugino Hajime (Takeuchi Ryoma) who grew up in an environment completely different from hers. He was abandoned by his parents, grew up in an orphanage and holds more than two part-time jobs to put himself through university. Kahoko is told that this kind overprotectiveness will be the end of Japan. She begins a journey of self-discovery. Through the many “firsts” that she experiences, she starts to solve a series of family problems with the true “ability” which had been lying dormant within her.
With these premises, I would have preferred it to be just a love comedy between the spoiled girl who can't live in the real world and the poor guy who had a hard life and cannot believe she's for real. This thing about solving family problems with some kind of ability may get boring.
Miyazawa Kenji no Shokutaku
Trailer (somehow)
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, 17 June 2017
Station: WOWOW
Scriptwriter: Ikeda Natsuko (Suna no Tou, Algernon ni Hanabata o (2015), Alice no Toge)
Cast: Suzuki Ryohei, Ishibashi Anna, Yamazaki Ikusaburo, Ichikawa Mikako, Yanagisawa Shingo, Okayama Hajime, Takezai Terunosuke, Inowaki Kai, Inukai Naoki, Kanno Misuzu, Hirata Mitsuru
Synopsis: In 1921, a young Miyazawa Kenji (Suzuki Ryohei) stormed out of his wealthy family and ran away to Tokyo. In the eight months that he lived in Tokyo as he made a living for himself, his mind never left his beloved younger sister Toshi (Ishibashi Anna). One day at the end of summer, he gets an unexpected telegram, “Toshi is sick. Come back immediately.” Kenji returns home in great haste to find a seemingly healthy Toshi waiting for him. He had been thoroughly deceived by this scheme of his father Masajiro (Hirata Mitsuru) who was worried about him. Kenji has not been able to find something to be passionate about. But he begins to realise that his own ideal is to share happiness after he makes the croquette that he had tasted in Tokyo by hand and shares it with his family. This is communicated through his representative work. And in accordance to Toshi’s wish, he makes the decision to take a position as a teacher at the Hienu (now known as Hanamaki) Agricultural School which has just been established.
I was quite unsure about this, but seeing the trailer, I don't know, it seems so pure XD It there will be subs I'm going to try it.
Aishitetatte, Himitsu wa Aru
Date: From 10.30 p.m., Sundays, 16 July 2017
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Kuwamura Sayaka (Sukina Hito ga Iru Koto, Koinaka)
Cast: Fukushi Sota, Kawaguchi Haruna, Kaku Kento, Suzuki Kosuke, Shirasu Jin, Yashiba Toshihiro, Saeki Daichi, Emoto Tokio, Yamamoto Mirai, Horibe Keisuke, Endo Kenichi, Okae Kumiko, Suzuki Honami
Synopsis: Legal apprentice Okumori Rei (Fukushi Sota) is on the verge of getting married when he is cornered by someone due to a past secret. Eight years ago, during the summer when Rei was a third-year junior high school student, he killed his father Kosuke (Horibe Keisuke) and made it look like he went missing in order to protect his mother Akiko (Suzuki Honami) from domestic violence. This became the secret between him and his mother. Rei aspired to be a lawyer and lived without getting deeply involved with anyone. That was until he met Tachibana Saya (Kawaguchi Haruna) at law school. She is like a sudden light that illuminates his dark life and the two of them soon fell in love. However, right after Rei’s marriage to Saya is decided, he starts receiving ominous messages from someone who knows his secret...
I still don't trust Fukushi Sota, but maybe with a mystery drama he'll be better? Or maybe he will be bad but hopefully the rest of the drama will be nice? Who knows.
Akira to Akira
Trailer
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Sundays, 9 July 2017
Station: WOWOW
Scriptwriter: Maekawa Yoichi (Shizumanu Taiyo, Shitamachi Rocket (WOWOW))
Cast: Mukai Osamu, Saito Takumi, Koizumi Kotaro, Tanaka Rena, Kaku Kento, Kinoshita Houka, Horibe Keisuke, Matsushige Yutaka, Takimoto Miori, Nagashima Toshiyuki, Kamikawa Takaya (guest star), Omi Toshinori, Ishimaru Kanji
Synopsis: In April 1986, an orientation is being conducted for Sangyo Chuo Bank’s new employees. The last course is practical training on financial strategy for the two outstanding teams. The leaders for the respective teams are Kaido Akira (Mukai Osamu) and Yamazaki Akira (Saito Takumi) who are both graduates of Tokyo University. As the son of the owner (Ishimaru Kanji) of one of Japan’s leading companies, Kaido was born with an easy life and is promised a future as the next company president. On the other hand, the genius Yamazaki suffered hardships after his father’s (Matsushige Yutaka) company went bankrupt and their family had to run away at night. The two of them have built lives for themselves and joined the same bank. In fact, their lives had even crossed paths before this. But they have yet to realise this fact. Kaido and Yamazaki challenge each other as good friends and rivals as they overcome difficulties. And then, in what can only be described as “destiny”, a punishing ordeal drops on them...
Putting this here because I miss Mukai Osamu's face.
This could be an Hanzawa Naoki or the most boring thing in the world. In both case, even with subs I will have a hard time understanding what they're talking about!
source: jdramaswordpress
I would like to watch Gintama too, with Oguri Shun, but the movie comes before the drama,
so I will have to wait.