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| Saeko, Aragaki Yui, Yamapi, Nao Akiyoshi, Masami Nagasawa and Teppei |
Well, after 11 weeks, two of my favorite shows have finally come to an end, and that general empty feeling in your heart that comes whenever you get too attached to these dramas has arrived! That leaves only ATSUHIME to fulfill my weekly dose of japanese dramas, and even that show won't be on forever!
Both shows closed as well as could be expected, NIGHT KING was about right on target with a very solid ending, but I really wished we could have seen more of the kids from Dragon Zakura AFTER the Tokyo University exams. I just didn't want to leave them!
A thought, though: I wonder if Dragon Zakura and Yaoh's last episodes were actually an hour-and-a-half (as most j-doramas are) and KIKU squeezed them into hour brackets. Both shows went slightly over an hour, and if I'm not mistaken, Dragon Zakura had only ONE commercial break! That would make for more than the standard 45 minute drama...
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| Matsuoka with Kitamura Kazuki, Karina |
That's all fine and dandy, but I can't help worry that they might have cut stuff out to made this timeframe work. Especially in the Dragon Zakura scenes with Yamapi and Masami....seemed like there was more, and I even think I heard a snippet of dialog start as it abruptly cut to the next scene! I guess I'll have to rent a copy of the last episode somewhere to be sure. ????
The clincher was that since both shows ran a few minutes over an hour, my DVD (which was set to SP and would fit only two hours of stuff) cut off RIGHT as the ending song to Night King ended. For a milli-second, I brethed a sigh of releif: "I Whew! JUST MADE IT! Then to my horror, there was MORE after the song! Just a 20 second afterword kind of thing, but CRAP! So technically, I'm missing the "end" of Yaoh!
In the immortal words of...Kanjani 8! "Maa sorya shouganai"
