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Instructions for finding the subs and RAWs are in the spoiler 3 comments down. I just checked, and they still work. The subs are at subdl and the RAWs can be torrented from acgnx.

Not to mention that you're dealing with a lot of Kansai ben and Hichiku ben, I imagine. You did great! The subs for week 1 were excellent.

Plus, you were getting them out daily? I'm more than happy getting a batch per week with a week or two lag, and have literally waited well over a year for some asadoras. This is a marathon, and so take care of yourself, and do not feel any pressure from us.

I meant no critique: I've had far more typos on the subs I've done. (I speak no Japanese or Mandarin but have done English review and timing for subs in those languages.)

Thanks again!

If GS is using machine translation as part of their process, the results are much better than pekochan - all the pronouns are in the right place and almost all of them were correct for week 1 at least (there were 2 or 3 we's that should have been I's, but that's it). Thank you GS!

Agreed. My review is up as well.

I think the big thing is that it just took a while for the subs to leak to the usual unlicensed sites. It would be better for both NHK and the people who would enjoy this show were it to be licensed to a streaming site like Netflix or Viki, or, you know, if they'd create the infrastructure to accept foreign currency subscriptions for subbed versions of their content on NHK On Demand.

Another thing to be aware of about Japanese asadoras (morning dramas) is that they are meant to be watched by the whole family before heading off to work or school. Thus, while romances happen and children are born over the course of a series, you will see rarely even a kiss.

That being said, they are prestige dramas produced by Japan's national public broadcasting service, NHK, which is funded by television fees rather than by advertising. And that means you consistently get the best currently working actors, and frequently young up and coming stars in the industry. This particular one is, in my opinion and among the dozen I've seen, the best in over a decade. (So far I still like 2013's Amachan better, but I'm more into the music and entertainment industry in Japan.)

You're already planning on watching Omusubi and are not watching Tora ni Tsubasa? If both Omusubi and Anpan get subbed I may well on streak of 4 in a row for the Naka Riisa and Kawai Yuumi of them all. 🪦🪦🪦🪦

Kishida Nami (the real person who this series is based upon) posted up multiple translations of one of her essays back in 2020. Here's the English: https://kishidanamicork.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/volvoeng/ . The real Boru-chan was black, but her Mom's wheelchair wheels are red.

You did a better job than I did - I tried episode 4 and could not find the production number. I think I had watched the first episode years ago but no musical number came to mind and so I did not dig deeper.

There are, of course, many other jdramas with diegetic music usually centered around bands, symphonies and groups. But pure musical tv series are really rare in general throughout the world from what I can tell.

MDL has 5 other than this one tagged with "Musical". I'm pretty sure that the two seasons of Lupin no Musume just have a bit of music as the family transitions into their superthief disguises every episode. Koshiji Fubuki Monogatari is a fictionalized biography of a Japanese singer and so it's just going to be diegetic scenes of her singing, I expect. Seishun Musical Comedy Oddboys is currently airing but not being subbed. But again I expect to only have diegetic performances of the high school music club along the lines of those in Glee. No, you're only option would appear to be Babysitter Gin, which does indeed seem to have non-diegetic performances meant to advance the narrative. Having just watched ep. 1 it seems utterly terrible in concept and execution, but the production number was not bad.

It's available through drama-otaku dot com, but I'm never clear when and if they are allowing people to register. DM me if you're still interested and would like a link.

It was hard to access for a long time. It appears, however, that the usual unlicensed sites have finally found the subs and are posting the episodes, and so hopefully more people around here will find this gem.

Yes: really excellent and timely (they got the ones including Friday's episode up today, i.e. Monday for those of you in the future) fansubs are available at d-addicts. The raws are available linked at drama-otaku, if you can get in there. It appears the subbed episodes have finally leaked to the usual unlicensed streaming sites but are behind by about 3 weeks at this point.

To be fair, I do think Oshin was intentionally produced to look to old even in 1983, and the length of the series was also a throwback to the asadoras of the 60s. Oshin is great, but there are a few asadoras I've liked better than Oshin and I agree that TnT so far is one of them.

(I think the probability of the TnT collapsing in the last nine weeks is small, but that's always a danger in long series. And I will be at least slightly disappointed if Yone does not get a week's storyline.)

A perfectly understandable assumption, but the asadoras about real people tend to be pretty faithful to the real lives of those people with only minor changes. For instance, the real animator at the center of Natsuzora did not marry the director Isao Takahata as she does in the series but did marry another animator at the studio which became Ghibli. And I suspect the fashion designer in Carnation really did have an extramarital affair with one of her employees rather than just thinking about it really hard. (Her husband had died years earlier in the war at that point.) But things like locations, timings and number of family members all seem to be pretty accurately portrayed in the asadoras I have seen at least.

This series is a fictionalized biography of a real person (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Mibuchi), and it appears from her Japanese Wikipedia page (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%B7%B5%E5%98%89%E5%AD%90) that it's pretty much exactly what happened to her family. Not that Yoshida Erika is above crafting points into her dramas: her Koisenu Futari is an excellent look at being aro/ace in present day Japan, and she makes lots of relevant points there. Highly recommended.

I assume you know that terrible machine translated subs are available. I agree that the series deserves good fan subs. But if anyone is looking for the terrible subs, I've left instructions on where to find them and the RAWs over in the comments for Boogie Woogie here on MDL.

I suppose that depends on what you're looking for. For me, it's easily the best jdrama since Brush Up Life, and while I definitely enjoyed Boogie Woogie, I'd say this series is the best asadora since Amachan. It is, however, very much first wave feminism in Japan, and if the idea of women challenging patriarchal power structures is not your thing, then you have my permission not to watch it. That being said, Ito Sairi may not be doing the song and dance that Shuri did in Boogie Woogie, but she utterly deserves also getting the best actress award for the following quarter that Shuri did last quarter - she's delivering a full range of emotions within a very interesting character who is never comfortable being a first.

There are but they are probably machine translations and so the pronouns are pretty much randomized. Still, I got through the series and enjoyed it despite the awful subs. The person making them has moved them off subtitlist but they're still on subdl. Do a google search for "BoogieWoogie(Week1)" with the quote marks to find week1 and "BoogieWoogie(Week2)" to find all the rest. The RAWs can be torrented at acgnx dot se by searching for ブギウギ there.

Thanks for this link. The previous asadora, Boogie Woogie, lost its torrent links at nyaa, but they're still up at this site.