When/How/Because of Who did you discover Asian Dramas?

I was on another forum for an American show titled "Switched at Birth" and someone mentioned how it reminded them of a K-drama titled "Reversal of Fate." So I looked up the info for RoF and there was a link to a list of other drama names and I was intrigued by the title "Boys Over Flowers." For thing that came to my mind: "Why would you name something that?" So I went to its info page and all I saw was eye candy so of course I had to watch it. The rest is history.

My name is Christina and I am a drama addict:o.

late in 2009 i got into watching naruto and i got addicted, doing marathan sessions. i used to watch it on crunchroll.com and i was looking for other anime to watch. i always saw the pics for asian dramas on there but when i checked out their drama section the links never worked when i tried so i gave up. in may 2010 i saw the trailer for tokyo dogs on their site and i wanted to watch it but again i could not get working links on that site so i googled tokyo dogs and the 1st link that came up was drama crazy. i never knew that this world existed until the night i found dramacrazy and watched 3 straight hrs of tokyo dogs. within the next 2 days i was done with that drama, wondering who the hottie was with the short hair (oguri shun) and what else i can see him in. i googled his name, dramawiki popped up and i watched almost everything i could find staring oguri shun which got me to falling in love with matsujun and arashi and ikuta toma and muzishima hiro and yamapi and the list goes on. stand up and hana kimi had me doing sleepless night marathon sessions. finished them both in a night and i was sad when they ended. the weird thing is if the links on crunchyroll worked i may have ended up becoming a kdrama addict instead a jdrama addict cuz the pics i saw were for coffee prince and shining inheritance...or maybe i would have been turned off from dramas (who knows)

but now i have no choice but to introduce myself...hi i'm boutux and i'm a jdrama addict.

I really don't want to bored anyone with the story of my life, so I will just give my shortest answer:

I had been reading mangas for a while online, because it was my new found addiction. I was reading Goong which is a Korean graphic novel, and was looking for other websites where they would have more chapters, when suddenly I stumbled upon Goong the drama... it all went down hill from there! lol.

The longest answer would involve me having to explain how Cubans were exposed to Japanese dramas and anime, especially Oshin. The drama that had all Cuba sitting in front of the TV religiously... yep, we were all addicted.

My first drama was "You're Beautiful" when it was first airing. After that though I didn't watch anymore. I was obsessed with it but it was a one time thing, at that point though I didn't know about the world of Asian Dramas. I lived a sad life :*( But then I saw the light....I found out that Ouran High School Host Club was being made into a drama and I just had to watch it. To be honest though that still didn't get me completely into the Asian Drama craze. It didn't start until I started watching Super Sentai that I really got into Dramas, because then I started looking up the actors to see what other works that had done, then I did the same thing with the actors of Ouran, then Dramacrazy.net led me to this site and from that point on I was just hooked, line and sinker.

I only started watching dramas recently. I remembered that while I was on holiday, there was this asian drama that I really liked. I decided to watched and then ended up going crazy bcoz of it. When it was finished I wanted to watch others like it.and so I looked for other asian dramas

started watching Korean Dramas 5 years ago. They used to come on late night when I would sneak and eat ice cream. Lol. I didn't have a computer so I couldn't watch them online. So Every Monday-Friday I watched them. Then eventually the cable changed and I couldn't find the drama anymore!! I can't even remember the names of the shows I watched. TEARS But I still read lots and lots of manga. I joined a site similar to MDL but to keep track of manga. I recently saw that Kimi wa pett was adapted to a drama. I looked it up. Found DC and life has never been the same. Lol

I had liked korean music for a while, and while I was on youtube searching for songs by a group called Secret, "secret garden ep1 eng sub" was one of the suggestions in the search box. I had heard the name Secret Garden before and I knew it was a drama. Back then though, I thought of korean dramas as cheesy and boring(shame on me ㅠㅠ), but I still clicked it, because I was bored I guess. And I started watching it and was hooked at once. I later stopped watching it on youtube and found a website that streamed korean dramas, and I wanted to watch more when I had finished SG so I just picked random dramas from there and well, my new addiction was born. My story doesn't really go back as far in time as most of yours, but well, asian stuff isn't really all over the place here so I'm actually really lucky to have found korean music and dramas in the first place :D

To be honest, I had a bad impression of Asian dramas at first. I lived in both China and Japan as a child, so my family would visit often. Every time I go back, I'd turn on the TV and all I could remember is how corny the plot and acting was. I had friends who were obsessed with them, but I didn't see why. Then, in my first year of university, I was talking to a Korean friend about plastic surgery and she told me I should watch 200 Pounds Beauty. It exceeded all my expectations for Asian movies and I began to look for more similar movies, and later dramas. Now, I love them so much. :)