Showing posts with label JDrama. Show all posts
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Dr Koto

 

Details

  • Title: Dr.コトー診療所
  • Title (romaji): Dr. Koto Shinryojo
  • Also known as: Dr. Koto's Clinic
  • Genre: Medical, human drama

Season 1

  • Episodes: 11 + 2 specials
  • Theme songs:

Synopsis

After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is difficult to get competent doctors to serve on this remote island, and the islanders are now used to traveling for hours via boat for proper medical care. Despite seeming weak and unreliable (he gets very seasick, and does not have a driving license), he wins over the skeptical islanders with his skill and dedication. Some children of the island make a flag for his clinic, but get his name wrong. Thereafter he is known by all as Koto.

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Jyouou Virgin

Details

  • Title: 嬢王
  • Title (romaji): Jyouou
  • Format: Renzoku, across two seasons
  • Episodes: 12 + SP
  • Theme songs:
    • Opening theme: What's Up by KOTO
    • Ending theme: Perpetual Snow by Vo Vo Tau

Synopsis

Fujisaki Aya is a carefully brought up college student. The family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation was bankrupt.

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Mei-chan no Shitsuji

Details

  • Title: メイちゃんの執事
  • Title (romaji): Mei-chan no Shitsuji
  • Also known as: Mei-chan's Butler
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Romance, comedy
  • Episodes: 10
  • Theme song: My SunShine by ROCK`A´TRENCH

Synopsis

The story revolves around a young woman named Mei, who was rescued as a young girl by someone calling himself her "butler." With only a vague memory, though, the experience seems like just a dream. But one day, after her parents' accidental death, he appears: Rihito comes from a line of outstanding butlers, and he has been appointed to serve her! Now her ordinary life has completely flipped, as she discovers that she's actually the heiress to a fortune, and is forced to transfer to St. Lucia Girls' Academy, where all the students have butlers! As a result, her childhood friend Kento decides to enroll in a butler school so that he can stay close to her. --Tokyograph

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Shadow (Ombra) Rank

Moon (Luna) Rank

Sun (Sole) Rank

Mirai Koshi Meguru

Details

  • Name: 未来講師めぐる
  • Title (romaji): Mirai Koshi Meguru
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Comedy, romance, family
  • Episodes: 10
  • Theme song: sakura by Yanawaraba

Synopsis

Yoshida Meguru is an English teacher at a cram school. On her 24th birthday, she awakens to a new power - she can see 20 years ahead into the future of everyone around her. -- Tokyograph

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Mop Girl

Details

  • Name: モップガール
  • Title (English): Mop Girl
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Mystery, fantasy, comedy
  • Episodes: 10
  • Theme song: Destination Nowhere by ERIKA

Synopsis

Kitagawa plays the part of the slow but hardworking Momoko, a low-ranking employee at a funeral services company who carries a mop as part of her job. However, Momoko happens to possess a strange ability. Whenever she comes across the corpse of someone who has left strong feelings behind, she travels back in time to save that person from his or her fate. --Tokyograph

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Nodame Cantabile

Renzoku

Synopsis

Based on the hit comic book by Tomoko Ninomiya, this is a fun-filled quirky romantic story of two very opposite people.
Megumi Noda, or "Nodame" is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a kindergarten teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading the music score. She is messy and disorganized, takes baths several days apart and loves to eat, sometimes stealing her friend’s lunchbox when it is filled with delicacies.
Shinichi Chiaki, is Momogaoka’s top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy, he feels mired in Japan because of a childhood phobia.
They meet by accident. Nodame quickly falls in love, but it takes much longer for Chiaki to even begin to appreciate Nodame’s unusual qualities. Their relationship causes them both to develop and grow. Because of Nodame, Chiaki got the opportunity to lead a student orchestra and begins to have a broader appreciation of people's musical abilities. Because of Chiaki, Nodame faces her fears and enters a piano competition. Opportunities open up as both begin taking risks, stretching themselves far more than they ever thought possible.

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One Pound Gospel

Details

  • Title: 1ポンドの福音
  • Title (romaji): 1 Pound no Fukuin
  • Also known as: One-Pound Gospel
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Romance, comedy
  • Episodes: 9
  • Theme song: LIPS by KAT-TUN

Synopsis

Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first round KO. He is talented, but he has no guts. His uncontrollable appetite is an even bigger problem. He can’t put himself in the right weight class, he runs out of energy because of hunger, and he gets knocked out while his eyes are set on food at the ringside. However, Kosaku’s life changed when he met Sister Angela, a novice nun in the convent near his boxing gym. She became the source of his power, and Kosaku fights only to win her heart. --NTV

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Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu

Details

  • Title: 世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ
  • Title (romaji): Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu
  • Also known as: Crying out Love, in the Centre of the World
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Romance, Human drama
  • Episodes: 11, 1 Special
  • Theme song: Katachi Aru Mono by Shibasaki Kou

Synopsis

"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then. Based on the bestselling novel that sold over 3 million copies, the past and present come together in this love story that is both pure and sad.

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Relationship Chart (click to enlarge)

Shokojo Seira

Details

  • Title: 小公女セイラ
  • Title (romaji): Shokojo Seira
  • Also known as: A Little Princess
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Episodes: 10
  • Theme song: Kanashimi wa Kitto by UVERworld

Synopsis

Seira was raised in India, but she is sent back to Japan to continue her education at an affluent boarding high school. Although she has lived in luxury, the well-bred Seira is kind and generous, earning her many friends at the school. One person who dislikes Seira is the school's director, though she treats Seira well due to the father's fortune. Then, during Seira's 16th birthday party, the director informs her that her father has died, leaving her penniless. As a result, she is forced to work as a servant in order to pay off her school bills. --Tokyograph

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Tokkyu Tanaka 3 Go

Details

  • Title: 特急田中3号
  • Title (romaji): Tokkyu Tanaka 3 Go
  • Also known as: Tanaka Express 3 / Limited Express Tanaka 3
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Comedy, romance, friendship
  • Episodes: 11
  • Theme song: Yorokobi no Uta (Song of Joy) by KAT-TUN

Synopsis

After two years of preparation, Ichiro Tanaka finally enters a university disdained as a third-class one. Out of his ardent desire to become popular with girls, he by chance steps into the world of the railroad "otaku" (commonly called "tetsu"), getting deeply involved in the fascinating railroad world. This drama portrays Ichiro who, together with those lonely "tetsu" guys he meets there who "want to be popular so badly but are not," develops love and friendship and grows mature as a person. --TBS

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Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu

Details

  • Title: 太陽と海の教室
  • Title (romaji): Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu
  • Also known as: Homeroom on the Beachside
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: School drama
  • Episodes: 10
  • Theme song: Kimi no Hitomi ni Koishiteiru by UZ

Synopsis

A private high school by the sea... All of the senior students devote themselves only to their studies for college entrance exams from the end of the summer. One day, an unconventional teacher gets posted at this high academia-oriented school. His name is Sakurai Sakutaro. His background is a mystery. Nobody gets what he's talking about. He's pushy and bold. The students are reluctant to open up to him who sticks his nose into their private affairs. But Sakutaro keep trying to help them overcome their problems He also encourages and guides them, and they eventually develop a bond of trust. "Live in the moment which exists only now"... His message gradually gets through to his students. --Fuji TV

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Class 3-1


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Q.E.D

Details

  • Title: Q.E.D.
  • Tagline: 証明終了 / Shomei Shuryo
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Detective, mystery
  • Episodes: 10
  • Theme song: Konomama, Zutto by Aoyama Thelma

Synopsis

A detective story that evolves around two high school students, Mizuhara Kana, a curious girl who can't help looking after others, and her new classmate, Toma So, who graduated from an elite U.S. college at the age of 15. The two try to solve mysteries with a help of Kana's father who is an investigator. --NHK

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Rookies

Details

  • Title: ルーキーズ
  • Title (English): ROOKIES
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Sports drama
  • Episodes: 11
  • Theme song: Kiseki by GreeeeN

Synopsis

Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese Literature teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. The newly appointed teacher finds that the club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover their dream of going to the Koshien high school baseball tournament. However, the road to Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles await them.

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Shiroi Haru

Details

  • Title: 白い春
  • Title (romaji): Shiroi Haru
  • Also known as: White Spring
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Family, drama
  • Episodes: 11
  • Theme song: Yokogao by Sakai Ayumi (阪井あゆみ)

Synopsis

Former yakuza Haruo is finally released from prison after completing his sentence. With nine years worth of prison gratuities in hand, he stops at a restaurant to enjoy a good meal, but all of his money ends up being stolen. With nothing left, he spends the night at a net cafe, and he manages to look up his old friend from his yakuza days. When Haruo visits the next day, he learns that his old girlfriend Mariko was living with another man, but later died of illness. Haruo, who had committed murder 9 years earlier to earn the money for Mariko's medical treatment, is shocked and angered. He decides to track down that other man, who runs a bakery with his wife and daughter Sachi. Haruo later runs into Sachi at the park, but he has yet to find out the truth about her. --Tokyograph

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Taiyo no Uta

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Synopsis

While working at a seaside inn with his high school buddies, Fujishiro Koji meets Kaoru Amane, a street musician. Kaoru is suffering from an incurable disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum), and can’t be exposed to the sun. Under the sun, the two would never have met. Still, destiny brings the two together. Since the day he suddenly lost his job, Koji has lost sight of his dreams. But when he meets Kaoru, who is making positive efforts to become a singer, Koji regains his long-forgotten passion for music. --TBS

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Tantei Gakuen Q

Details

  • Title: 探偵学園Q
  • Title (romaji): Tantei Gakuen Q
  • Also known as: Detective School Q
  • Format: Special, and renzoku
  • Genre: Mystery

Tantei Gakuen Q

  • Episodes: 11
  • Theme song:
    • Opening theme: Answer by FLOW
    • Ending theme: Stand by Me by The Brilliant Green

Synopsis

Notebooks that foretell deaths, numerous urban legends, and murders with no clues... a series of strange incidents occur, and people are lead into a deep labyrinth of mysteries. Five fledgling teen detectives of the Dan Detective Academy, which was founded by the legendary and renowned detective, Morihiko Dan, work together to solve such difficult cases. Stealthily at work behind the strange incidents is an evil crime syndicate called the "Meiosei". They are a group of intellectuals who have long antagonized the Detective Academy run by Morihiko Dan. The five youngsters make their way forward a step at a time as they come face to face with death, clash with one another at times, reconcile, and deepen their friendship. This is a pop mystery drama series about youth friendship and adventure in the face of united efforts against dark forces. --NTV

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