Unnatural with Ishihara Satomi and Iura Arata a Solid Start to the 2018 J-dorama Year

The first batch of 2018 J-doramas have wrapped up as the winter 2018 lineup has all finished airing and the spring 2018 doramas have arrived. I’m still playing catch up on two doramas but for the first that I’ve finished it’s easily a solid win and entertaining from start to end. Forensic medical dorama Unnatural with Ishihara Satomi and Iura Arata did more than the standard medical drama as it introduced a super quirky and endearing bunch of folks at the UDI (unnatural death investigation) led by the two lead forensic pathologists that have their own personal reasons to take their extensive medical training and use it on dead people rather than saving those who are still alive. Unnatural is easily my favorite drama this year so far but it might lost that perch once I’m done with the also highly entertaining Matsumoto Jun‘s ratings hit second season 99.9 Criminal Lawyer season 2 (99.9: Keiji Senmon Bengoshi).

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Unnatural with Ishihara Satomi and Iura Arata a Solid Start to the 2018 J-dorama Year — 13 Comments

asta on March 28, 2018 at 8:09 AM said:

awesome drama, sp episode please!

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Deb on March 28, 2018 at 8:26 AM said:

I want to check out Unnatural, I’ve been hearing good things about it.

I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on any other asian dramas you are currently watching Miss Koala!

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Julianna on March 28, 2018 at 12:25 PM said:

This is a great drama in fact J drama seems to capture the emotion and true life experience of people which we can realate to i think better than anybody…The film Japanese Story was the calalyst for me.?

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- Royal W on March 28, 2018 at 12:51 PM said:
  
  Yeah I feel like kdramas are usually warmer and more dramatic but jdramas tend to be more mellow or muted so they capture slice-of-life really well.
  
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Royal W on March 28, 2018 at 12:49 PM said:

I feel like Japan does dead-people/medical/detective dramas really well, I still remember how good Border was, nothing I’ve seen in kdramas (even the widely praised ones like Signal) has ever come close.

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- Kat on March 28, 2018 at 6:33 PM said:
  
  Border is amazing. I agree about the medical/police and also slice of life dramas are done very well by the Japanese entertainment industry. I wish they licensed more of their dramas for international viewers.
  
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evie7 on March 28, 2018 at 7:23 PM said:

I loved Unnatural it was a really good drama that turned out to be favorite for the winter season. There were a lot of good ones this time that I’ve found myself watching more Jdramas this winter than Kdramas.

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Maleko on March 28, 2018 at 9:02 PM said:

I love this drama so much I hope we have a second season or at most SP.

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Susan on March 28, 2018 at 9:16 PM said:

I have heard a lot of positive comments about this drama so I’ll definitely check this out now when it has finished airing (doesn’t have to endure waiting for each episode to come out :p)

Besides, I really like Satomi and her choices when picking dramas. My favourite of hers is still “Dear Sister”. Let’s see if Unnatural might take its spot.

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- Maleko on March 29, 2018 at 9:09 PM said:
  
  It’s over 🙂 the subtitle are complete.
  
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  - Susan on March 30, 2018 at 8:16 AM said:
    
    Thank you for telling me 🙂
zappy on March 30, 2018 at 5:37 AM said:

Ishihara Satomi always fun to watch. the story was good. no wonder the rating was good..
anyway so many good jdrama lately ..
I still patiently waiting Blanket Cats subber to resume her work ..

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Hikary25 on April 1, 2018 at 3:46 PM said:

Where can I watch J-doramas? T.T

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