Watching Japanese Variety Shows?

Hey everyone~
I've been getting really into Japanese variety shows and I kinda have two questions...


1) Does anyone know of some good websites to watch/download different Japanese variety shows (preferably english subbed)? They're really hard to find...

2) Are there any variety shows you like watching?



bannie posted a forum a while ago about Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende (http://watchgakinotsukai.blogspot.com/) and it's hilarious! Especially the batsu games (^^)

I know kattunstuff.wordpress.com is good for downloading some (not all) of Cartoon KAT-TUN (http://kattunstuff.wordpress.com/category/variety-shows/cartoon-kat-tun/)

And dramacrazy has some of Arashi's variety shows but they're either not subbed or the links don't work anymore...

And I've watched clips of SMAPxSMAP on youtube.

http://crazyontv.com/ is great for newer episodes of Japanese variety shows (some older episode streams have been removed on various sites).

asliceofkate wrote: I've watched many episodes of Cartoon KAT-TUN on dramacrazy, though it's been a while so some links may not still be good.

I'm also intersted to know what shows everyone has watched and liked. I wish Japan had a show that was sort of like Strong Heart. I really really like that show.

Yeah, that's where I started watching Cartoon KAT-TUN too. But it was better to download episodes from websites.

I really like Family Outing! I would love a Japanese version of that lol
There are some variety shows that have little segments that resemble Strong Heart, but I haven't seen a show that's completely similar yet =/ I recommend Hey! Hey! Hey! though. It's not like Strong Heart but it's funny ^^

i also wanted to watch some arashi variety shows.. was only able to watch one episode.. But i watched lots of gaki no tsukai on youtube haha.. that show is the best

by searching the forum for "variety show" I found this thread:

http://mydramalist.com/forum/showthread.php?1652-Variety-shows&highlight=variety+show

seems to be along the same lines. may be useful.

I've recently been thinking I wish I could find better places to watch Japanese variety as well, in HQ and with English subtitles. I enjoyed an episode of Shabekuri 007. I'd also love to see any show where actors/singers appear as guests.

I'd love to watch some where you get to see more of their culture like Girls Night Out on Viki, but unfortunately no one is subbing :(  maybe there's something similar, would love that, but I've given up hope.