After the horror that was trying to decide my favorite musical artists, I decided to break down dramas into their respective countries. Plus, I basically get to recommend more dramas. Win-win (for me)! But anyway, onto the top 5 k-dramas! If you aren’t familiar with them, click the title to read the synopsis.

5. Who Are You?

Despite the totally impossibility of the premise of this drama (a cold/awkward man is possessed by girl’s goofy dead father at certain times), the drama is obviously unique, as well as quite well done. It focuses a lot on family relationships of all types, and the characters actually develop over time. There’s of course drama about stolen paintings and inheritance, but it’s very secondary to the connections between the characters. There are obviously a lot of (thank the lord, not cheesy) sad parts, but the overall feeling of the drama is very warm and happy. And Yoon Kyesang gets a gold star for pulling off two totally different characters flawlessly.

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In all honesty, I don’t really watch Japanese dramas very much anymore. Everything seems pretty cliche or just weird (looking at you, Sunao ni narenakute), so I haven’t been giving anything a chance. There is one drama that I’m currently watching called “Yankee-kun to Megane-chan” which is an adaptation of an absolutely hilarious manga of the same name.

Basically, it’s about a boy named Shinagawa Daichi who’s been kind of mislabeled as a yankee (a kind of gangster youth) who has pretty much given up on school. Suddenly, a girl named Adachi, who is pretty ridiculous and fanatical about having a happy school life, shows up and starts to ~change him.~ It’s not as cliche as it sounds, as Adachi was once herself a yankee, and tends to get them in crazy predicaments. Not going to lie, I only originally only watched it for Narimiya Hiroki, but it’s been pretty entertaining so far. Not as great as the manga, but I think it’d be hard to go as over-the-top in a real life adaptation as they do in the manga. I’ve been watching this without subs, so I’m not sure if anyone’s subbing it besides viikii, but it’s worth a try!

Also on my radar is Hotaru no Hikari 2! I am so excite about this drama you don’t even know. The first is one of my top ten dramas, if not top five. This time, it’s about Amemiya and Takano’s romantic relationship and their thoughts about the next step: marriage. Sequels have a tendency to ruin things, but I’m hoping this isn’t the case, as Ayase Haruka and Fujiki Naohito has such great on-screen chemistry, and really know how to bring out the characters’ personalities. It’s slated to start running next month. Definitely looking forward to it.

I’m pretty free these days, so if anyone has some recommendations for some good, fairly current dramas or movies, I’m up for them. I watched a couple movies lately that I’ll probably review soon as well~