Takane No Hana 終わり

I was quite taken by this Satomi Ishihara drama with its classic take of the rich-socialite girl who falls for the kind, humble and poor man (A twist on Satomi’s drama Rich Man, Poor Woman!) and it’s backdrop of the refined world of Flower Arranging was a fresh, new take on it!

 Satomi stunned as usual with her portrayal as the beautiful, elegant Momo Tsukushima, add in the sincere performance by Kazunobu Mineta as the guy-with-the-heart-of-gold suitor Naaoto Kazama and you had all the makings of another “Summer Snow” (Hey, that was set in a bicycle repair shop, too!) romance!

Gotta say though, this drama was as topsy turvy as riding a bicycle without training wheels  with all the plots, sub-plots, make-ups and ALL the myriad BREAK-UPS (frankly this was, in my opinion, Satomi’s most cruel and callous drama character ever!) but throughout it all, you never stopped caring about the people in the story, and in the end, Takane No Hana left me with characters who will stay with me for a long time!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com

A Bittersweet Conclusion

The D-Addicts Subtitles Forum is set to close down soon, but it is going out on a sweet note as the last two subtitles I downloaded from the thread were the final episodes of the Ayase Haruka show “Gibo To Musume No Blues” and the Haru romcom “Survival Wedding”, both of which ended up being absolutely wonderful, charming  dramas!

With the shutdown of the D-Addicts Sub forum, I’m really not sure where I’ll be able to get my translations from, and until such an avenue opens up, looks like I won’t be having so very much to post about in the coming months…

Guess it’s time to dust off the 100+ Dramas I’ve collected over the years and never got around to watching/finishing!

EDIT: Just heard that the Subtitle forums may REMAIN, albeit as a Members Only Forum!!! Crossing fingers that this holds true!!!!!

Ack, Another Blow to J-Drama Fandom!

Awhile ago Fans of J-dramas took a hit when d-addicts announced it was dropping its j-drama torrent section, and sadly, today it announced that they were soon to phase out their SUBTITLE section as well!

Understandable since they're taking so much flak from copyright holders, etc, but DAMN, I don't rightly know where I'm gonna be getting my subtitles from now! Fortunately I'm still a member of a few outlying subtitle groups out there, but for everything else....
edit:
Looks like they're keeping the subtitle section for now!!!