A well crafted high stakes life as a game concept will always have room for variations that deliver fun and catharsis. I still remember the one-two punch of K-drama Sweet Home and J-dorama Alice in Borderland when both were released around the same time in December 2020, the perfect holiday binge watch during the height of COVID-19 stay home era. … Continue reading →
I’m so freaking excited for the upcoming Alice in Borderland season 2, confirmed to air on Netflix this December 2022. It would be a two year gap (wow time flies!) between the first season which happened to air the same time as Netflix monster thriller Sweet Home and both are basically apocalyptic survival stories adapted from a source manga/webtoon. I’ve … Continue reading →
This is one of the rare good news to come out of the good news shortage 2020 so far. Japanese idols Yamashita Tomohisa and Kamenashi Kazuya have reunited for a May 2020 mini dome tour starting in Osaka and ending on Tokyo. The two worked together musically first as the fictional Shuji to Akira named after their characters in hit … Continue reading →
Dang, looks like the Japanese appetite for the helicopter docs are way higher than expected so a big congrats to the cast and crew of Code Blue. The three season running medical dorama set in a countryside hospital about a crew of ER docs doing helicopter medical assistance duty got a movie treatment this summer and it’s a runaway hit. … Continue reading →
Nearly all the summer 2017 J-doramas have aired so the arrival of highly promoted Code Blue 3Â with big name popular stars Yamashita Tomohisa, Aragaki Yui, and Toda Erika feels like a white knight late to a party but bringing the beer when before it was all fruit punch. The third season of the popular doctors on a medical transport helicopter … Continue reading →
I love J-ent gossip because its normally so harmless and simultaneously juicy. The latest as usual requires a grain of salt but if taken on face value makes the next few months tons of fun to look forward to. Japanese tabloids are reporting that popular Japanese actors Yamashita Tomohisa and Ishihara Satomi are planning to get married this September! This … Continue reading →
Promos are beginning in earnest for the new season of the medical J-dorama Code Blue 3, starring the exact same cast as the first season Code Blue in 2008 and the followup Code Blue 2 in 2010. And everyone looks exactly the same, just more modern in their styling now. I hope everyone’s characters has similarly matured and we get … Continue reading →
J-ent continues to cheer on the reel to real romance of top young but of marriage-able age stars Yamashita Tomohisa and Ishihara Satomi. That they are two of the most beautiful faces of their acting generation certainly fuels the excitement for some sort of visually impeccable progeny, but for me I’m just luxuriating in two of my faves falling in … Continue reading →
The recently premiered J-dorama You Are My Destiny is off to a solid start and I’m liking what I’ve seen so far after episode 1. It’s not as cracktastic as male lead Yamashita Tomohisa‘s last dorama From Five to Nine with Ishihara Satomi, but this one I’m enjoying the random fun chemistry with the co-male leads Yamapi and Kamenashi Kazuya. … Continue reading →
It’s T-minus 4 days from the premiere of new romance J-dorama You’re My Destiny (Boku, Unmei no Hito desu), with a super cute wrapping of a love prone hapless male lead with his no-nonsense capable female lead crush being brought together by a super cool mysterious matchmaking god. J-ent is also excited for the drama reuniting Yamashita Tomohisa and Kamenashi … Continue reading →
This dorama continues to look cute and cuter, or maybe that’s due to the reunion combination of Yamashita Tomohisa and Kamenashi Kazuya shading everything in rosy tinted Nobuta nostalgia. It could be both, with Yamapi’s last rom-com being the most excellent From Five to Nine (5-ji Kara 9-ji Made) with Ishihara Satomi. This time in You Are My Destiny (Boku … Continue reading →
This dorama looks majorly adorable, as hoped and expected when I hear the three leads casting consisting of three of my J-ent baes. There’s Kamenashi Kazuya doing his version of the earnest lovelorn suitor, Yamapi as his magical and cool ikemen matchmaker, and Kimura Fumino sporting a delightful short do and a no nonsense glower as the lady of the … Continue reading →
I super can’t wait for the arrival of spring romance dorama I’m Your Destiny (Boku, Unmei no hitodesu), not just for the reunion of bromance from ten years ago Yamashita Tomohisa and Kamenashi Kazuya but also for the promised cuteness of a fluffy rom-com. Doesn’t hurt that female lead Kimura Fumino is all sorts of awesome, she is basically a … Continue reading →
