J-Drama Deja-Vu: The "Koi Ga Heta" Apartment

Just started watching the Atsuro Watabe/Kanna Hashimoto detective drama "Keishichou Ikimono Gakari: MPD Animal Unit" and while watching the two of them on a case, I couldn't help but notice that the apartment complex they went to investigate:

... was none other than the building that Rin Takanashi and Kaho Tsuchimura lived in in the wacky romcom "Koi Ga Heta Demo Ikitemasu":

Since I'd wrapped up Koi Ga Heta not so long ago, the front lobby was still very much in my memory, and watching them walking out, I was expecting Chihiro or Misa come running out right away! LOL!

Hmmm, wonder if I'll be seeing this building in OTHER dramas after this!
EDIT:
A sighting in an episode of Babysitter Gin...

And in Arimura Kasumi no Satsukyu!!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com

Catching Up With Aimi Nakamura (She Grew Up!)

Aimi Nakamura back in 1998's GTO

Watching the fantastic Takeshi Sorimachi drama GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka waaaaay back in 1998, I always figured that pretty Aimi Nakamura, who played the troubled antagonistic student Miyabi Aizawa, was going to grow up to be one beautiful lady some day, but apart from her next role in the Ryoko Hirosue drama LIPSTICK, I never saw her again!

It was surprising, to say the least, as Aimi’s character was such a charismatic and important one in the drama, whether she be playin’ it cool with the guys in her class…

...butting heads with Teacher Fuyutsuki (Nanako Matsushima)…

and dealing with that bothersome Teacher Onizuka, from at first hating him, to ignoring him...and finally being won over by him....

 ...lovely Aimi was one of the main reasons I loved this drama!

 Looking over her dramawiki stats, it appears that she’s done a bit of movie roles since then, but as far as i knew, she’d simply fallen off the face of the earth! And every now and again, I’d wonder, “Hey, what ever became of that pretty young girl Aimi Nakamura?” But I didn’t see anything…until recently!

Looking over a forum with some older gravure videos, I was surprised to see an “Aimi Nakamura” listed there, as I wasn’t aware of her as having done any of those back then…Then I saw it was a video from just a few years ago, and THIS video featured an ALL GROWN UP Aimi:

...and she was looking as ROCKIN’ and SMOKIN' as could be! WHOA!

 

Shedding off her cute schoolgirl image, Aimi went straight for the jugular with this video release, as she was SEXY, SEXY, SEXY!!

Man, going from that mental image of that incorrigible student in GTO to this ravishing  beauty took some getting used to, but once I did, I embraced this video of hers to its FULLEST!

Damn, Aimi is totally going for broke here, posing in the most daring and scandalous of shots- from bikinis to skimpy bra and panties to bold semi-nude shots- this one had it ALL!

Recently, Aimi hasn't done much, and I'm just WAITING for her to come back and make another splash...for now, though, these pics will do nicely!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com

More J-Drama Deja-Vu with Yutaka Takenouchi

I was watching a bit of the new Yutaka Takenouchi/Kumiko Aso drama "Kono Koe wo Kimi ni" and was hit with the strangest sense of...drumroll...J-DRAMA DEJA VU!

In an early scene, Takenouchi (as math Teacher Takashi Honami) is talking to a colleague as he walks through the halls of the school...

When I saw that scene, I immediately recognized the brick wall entrance as the exact same doorway that Fumi Nikaido and Yuya Yagira were having a conversation in front of in the fun drama "Frankenstein No Koi"!

Watching further, when Honami is taking a break in the upper deck  of the school and is meeting up with a few of the school's heads...

...I immediately recognized it as the same eating  area that Yo Yoshida  and Riho Yoshioka  were sitting at in Lady Da Vinci No Shindan!

Yutaka Takenouchi, Fumi Nikaido, Yo Yoshida AND Riho Yoshioka, This must be one helluva school!!!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com