My Asadora History

• Aired: Apr 4, 1983
• Completed: Jul 18, 2023

Stressful beyond comprehension.

• Aired: Apr 1, 1985

• Aired: Oct 3, 1988

• Aired: Oct 4, 1999

• Aired: Apr 2, 2001
• Top #4 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

• Aired: Mar 28, 2005

Status: Subs in Progress

• Aired: Oct 3, 2005

• Aired: Apr 3, 2006

• Aired: Apr 2, 2007

The female lead goes through way too much, putting herself in the most exhausting and pathetic situations, all for a man who quite honestly doesn't seem to match her energy.

• Aired: Oct 1, 2007 
• Completed: Sep 14, 2024

An infuriating and pathetic female lead meets an equally infuriating and pathetic male lead, creating an unbelievably lackluster romance that only matured way past episode 100. tiresome and annoying, really that only aspect of the story I liked was that I learned what rakugo was thanks to it, and of course, as an asadora, the fact that it challenged the male dominated area of the art.

• Aired: Mar 31, 2008

The stories with the kids are lovely, but everything that has to do with hip hop and dancing makes me think of that white woman "teaching" hip hop, at any moment I expected someone to say "people ask me all the time 'what are you gonna do when hip hop goes out?', hip hop is an attitude, so it can't go out".

• Aired: Sep 29, 2008

• Aired: Sep 28, 2009

• Aired: Mar 29, 2010

• Aired: Sep 27, 2010

• Aired: Apr 4, 2011
• Completed: Unknown

My first asadora, sadly I don't remember anything about it, it's been so long since I watched it.

• Aired: Oct 3, 2011

• Aired: Apr 2, 2012
• Top #6 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

• Aired: Apr 1, 2013
• Completed: Aug 18, 2024
• Top #1 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

To be quite honest, the FL's constant change of plans was quite frustrating to watch, and it was funny that her mother eventually pointed it out, because it was A LOT. And I understand it's part of the coming of age story, figuring out your future, but I'm a completionist, giving up on something is a very strange concept to me.

All in all, I disagree with Oricon, I don't think Aki is the best Asadora heroine. I say take Aki from the Top 10 and put Kaworu from Mio Tsukushi there, and put Mare in the n. 1 spot.

• Aired: Sep 30, 2013
• Completed: Unknown
• Top #5 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

Yet another drama I watched a while ago and sadly don't remember much about it. What I do remember is loving the lead couple and thinking their love story both in and out of the drama was adorable. It's truly sad that Masahiro Higashide fucked it all up, and I wish nothing but the best for Watanabe Anne and her children.

• Aired: Mar 31, 2014
• Completed: Unknown
• Top #9 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

The drama never picked up steam for me, I'm not quite sure why.

• Aired: Sep 29, 2014
• Completed: Unknown

A slow start and a strong ending, as a biracial woman, it was lovely to see an interracial relationship being portrayed with so much care.

• Aired: Mar 30, 2015
• Completed: Unknown
• Top #7 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

Tao and Kento were born to play husband and wife on screen, it's their fate and I hope they keep blessing us with their chemistry.

• Aired: Sep 28, 2015
• Completed: Unknown
• Top #2 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

The romance was definitely the issue for me, mainly because I never bought the male lead, he was too much of a bum for me, and the actors didn't have enough chemistry to make up for it. On the other hand, the female lead and her tenacity made the drama, she was the highlight.

• Aired: Apr 4, 2016
• Completed: Jun 13, 2022
• Top #8 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

I'm too much of a hopeless romantic for this, and I admit it's a flaw of mine.

• Aired: Oct 3, 2016
• Top #10 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

• Aired: Apr 3, 2017
• Completed: Apr 29, 2022
• Top #3 "Favorite Asadora Heroines" by Oricon

The highlight of the story is the mystery surrounding the female lead's father, the issue is that I don't think the resolution was all that interesting.

• Aired: Apr 2, 2018
• Completed: Jun 15, 2022

The lead couple was the main issue of this drama, there was no chemistry whatsoever, and on top of that the romance was poorly written.

• Aired: Oct 1, 2018

• Aired: Mar 25, 2019
• Completed: Apr 29, 2022

This felt a bit unnecessary to me, I can't lie.

• Aired: Apr 1, 2019
• Completed: Dec 13, 2023

It feels like the romance was very rushed, both the lead couple and the female lead's little sister's marriage, it was all very sudden, and while I enjoyed them, especially the lead couple, I can't help but think how much more I'd have liked them if they had taken their time to establish the relationships. With 156 episodes, for the romance to start 100 episodes into the story, and for it to happen out of the blue, that's a writing mistake in my opinion.

• Aired: Mar 30, 2020

• Aired: May 17, 2021
• Completed: Feb 2, 2022

I know and understand that the entire point of the drama was to show how distance could not destroy the lead couple's relationship, but when the chemistry is this good, the lack of more romance becomes an issue. Or maybe I just like SakaKen so much that I wanted to see more of him, either way I loved it, but not enough to give it a 10.

• Aired: Apr 11, 2022

Status: Subs in Progress

• Aired: Oct 3, 2022

• Aired: Apr 1, 2024