Behind Every Star (2022)

 I just finished E11 of 12.  I'm not going to write about this show since I completely forgot to start writing about it when I started to watch it. It was a nice drama and I can't wait to see how it ends!

Fill in the Blanks (Kuuhaku wo Mitashinasai) - Episode 04

 Tetsuo pays a visit to his grandmother and mother, who in E01 said she understood why he committed suicide.

Tetsuo goes to visit Saeki to learn the truth about how he died.  Eventually, he realizes what happened and when he gets home, he tells Chika everything he remembers that took him to that point and how he felt just before he died.

Tetsuo, Chika and their son Riku go on a trip to an amusement park.  Riku crosses a roped bridge and from the other side, he yells out to Tetsuo to cross over by calling him "Dad".  A surprised Tetsuo crosses over and then Riku yells out to his mother to cross over.  Chika stands there staring off into space and then she collapses.

Watch episode 4 here:  Fill in the Blanks Ep 04

Fill in the Blanks (Kuuhaku wo Mitashinasai) - Episode 03

 Tetsuo is invited to join the newly formed "Re-Lifer's Society".  On his way to the hotel (meeting place), he makes friend with another re-lifer and they talk about how they died.  The guy says he died by accidental drowning due to a rip current in the ocean.  Tetsuo tells him he died by accident when he fell off a building.

When they arrive to the hotel, they are met by protesters.  

Once seated, there are speakers that discuss why they have come back to life, the discrimination they face, and the hope that they can make the world a better place.

After the meeting, Tetsuo is alone in his room.  He takes in the beautiful ocean view and then someone slips a DVD under his door.  He picks it up and puts it in the DVD player, then sits down to watch it.

Mind blowing episode cliffhanger!

Watch episode 3 here: Fill in the Blanks Ep 03

Fill in the Blanks (Kuuhaku wo Mitashinasai) - Episode 02

 Last episode eluded that something happened between Tetsuo's wife, Chika and the guy he suspects murdered him, Saeki. Family friend Akiyoshi, who owns a store, asked Chika if Tetsuo knows about "what happened" with Saeki and she shakes her head "no".

Since Tetsuo wasn't able to get his old job back, Akiyoshi gave him a job at his store as a favor to Chika.  The other employees know he's a "re-lifer" and one kid in particular, does not like him and he doesn't hide it.

There are protests against re-lifers and they are discriminated against.

Watch episode 2 here:  Fill in the Blanks E02

Fill in the Blanks (Kuuhaku wo Mitashinasai) - Episode 01

Thanks to Facebook, I found out that NHK as been offering some dramas with English subs on their site.  I have no idea how long they've been doing this but I'm glad they are.  I was looking at the programs they have and there are quite a few that I want to watch.

So this drama is about a guy who comes back to life after he had died 3 years before.  There have been many people this has happened to and they call them "re-lifers".

Official cause of death for Tetsuo was suicide but he was murdered because there's no way he would have committed suicide.  According to the police report, suicide was the only possible reason.

Main character, Tsuchiya Tetsuo, was married with 1 son and believes he was happy so there was no way he died by suicide.  He has no way to prove it because he doesn't remember what happened. 

This first episode has him trying to get his old job back and trying to figure out who murdered him.  He thinks it was this security guy at work but again, no proof.  So he goes to the police to tell them he thinks he was murdered.

Watch this episode here: Fill in the Blanks Ep01

New Year's Resolution For 2023

 Since I last posted that I was coming back, I have watched a lot of dramas but failed to post.  Initially, it was because the laptop I had was shit.  It was so slow that using it became painful to use.  

Before COVID, I had a laptop at work that I was using with no issues.  Once COVID hit and we were told to work from home, I never brought my work laptop with me.  I used my personal laptop figuring we'd be back in the office soon enough, but a few weeks turned into many months and nearly 2 years later, we were told we had the option of going into the office or working from home (as long as our direct manager approved it). I decided to work from home. I kept using my personal laptop even though it was annoyingly slow, until one day it just broke.  It was even slower than ever before, and it was causing me problems where I could not log into the work system so I could, you know, WORK lol.

I ended up going to the office to get my laptop, just to find out they had taken it away.  They thought I had my work laptop and somehow, I had an extra one.  I had to get a new one.  

Last Christmas, while I was having the issue with my personal laptop, I gifted myself a MacBook Air that I was using only for personal things.  Once I got my new work laptop, probably this past June or July, I got myself a new personal laptop (windows).  

I also got a new position at my full-time job and with that, new hours.  I also managed to gain 10 more hours at my part-time job.  When I first started at my PT job, it was 5 hours for 2 days.  The same 2 days I was off from my FT job.  I needed something that would force me to get up early instead of wasting my mornings in bed.  After I got my new position las December, I somehow ended up being added to 2 more days.  I don't know how that happened and every day I get up at 0520 to go work I absolutely hate it but I've learned to live with it because I like the paycheck.  I started at $10/hr which isn't much but when I got the job it wasn't about the money.  The money was a nice bonus.  I just wanted a reason to force myself to get up in the morning on the days I didn't HAVE to be up to go to work.  Without a reason to get up, I would end up waking up by noon and I'd hate the feeling knowing I slept 1/2 the day away doing zero.  It happened a lot and I hated it so getting a PT job was the solution.  

With the 2 jobs, I don't have a hell of a lot of time to watch dramas, but I manage to fit some in. 

Finding a site that will let me upload pics to put on my sidebar for free is a hassle so what I will be doing from now on is just listing the dramas in alphabetical order without any pictures or any links to get to it so you can watch.  I'll also update "Currently Watching" the same way.  My first post when I start a new drama, will have a pic of the "official" poster for the show.

Making these changes will make it easier for me to post as I won't need to dedicate as much time as I used to.

I'll be updating all the dramas I've watched periodically as I remember which ones I've watched 

My Second Comeback??

 I got busy at work and life again and had no time to post here or even watch many dramas.  I did watch a few and sometime I'll find a few minutes to post them all.  At least the ones I remember.

Today I am going to start 3 new Kdramas and 1 new Cdrama.  I'll probably watch 1 episode of each.  Today is my lazy day so I am commited to doing nothing but relaxing and watching my shows.

Under the Queen's Umbrella
Behind Every Star
The King's Affection
Love Between Fairy and Devil

I'm also going to continue watching these dramas that I'm already in the middle of...

Once Upon a Small Town
Café Minamdang

MY COMEBACK

 Though I have been watching a lot of Kdramas since I last posted, I'm still so bummed out that I can't make screenshots anymore.  I loved doing them and posting them here and on Pinterest.  I guess I'm going to have to figure a way to do it because I used to have a couple of ways to make them but now none of them work.  I know somewhere out in the www, there is a solution for this problem and I am stubborn enough to keep digging until I find it.

Until then, I'm going to start posting about the shows I'm watching.  I'll be complimenting and criticizing as well as venting.

I'm currently watching BUSINESS PROPOSAL, MY LIBERATION NOTES, ALCHEMY OF SOULS, OUR BLUES & THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH

So far I'm not finding Alchemy of Souls to be very good.  I watched about 20 minutes and I wasn't feeling it so I decided to leave it alone for a while.  I will go back to it sometime this month

I started watching The King: Eternal Monarch when it first came out and then I got side tracked and forgot to go back.  I went back last week and thankfully, I remembered what was going on so I didn't have to watch it back from the beginning.  Same thing happened when I was watching The Legend of The Blue Sea TWICE!  The first time, I started watching when it first came out but it was left behind and I was forced to re-watch from the beginning because I couldn't remember what was going on.  I didn't get as far as the first time before it got forgotten again.  At some point, I will go back to watching it.

I have about 20 minutes left before I'm done watching Our Blues and I've been lallygagging to watch because I don't want it to be over.  It wasn't a great drama but it was Kim Woo Bin's first show back after he had to stop to take care of himself so the sentimental part of it outweighed the fact that the drama was about an 8/10 for me.

I started watching My Liberation Notes because of this girl I follow on TikTok.  I love her and trust her tastes (about 85% of the time lol) because she freaking hates Lee Min Ho.  Probably not as much as I do but she don't like him and that makes her a-okay by me.

I've got plenty of stuff to say and I'm gonna say it here.

Disappearing Pics

So, I just realized that the place I was using to get the pics, will take them down if I do not own the pic.  I found a new place that doesn't have any such terms so as the pics start to disappear from this blog, I will use the new place until I can afford to get my own site to upload the pics.

ACTIVITY UPDATE

It's become more difficult to keep up this blog.  I've been working 2 jobs for almost 3 years now and it doesn't leave me much free time.  I have 1 full time job and 1 part time job where I work 2 days a week.  It starts really early and since I am a night owl, I don't get a lot of sleep before I need to be at my part time job.  After I get home, that's when I get the sleep I've missed the night before.  Soon though, I will be able to put a bit more effort into posting more.

With DramaFever now gone and Netflix showing some good dramas, it's getting difficult to do screenshots because Netflix has done something to make it impossible to get screenshots. I read up on it and it's just a pain to explain because I partly don't understand the technical part of it.  I only understand that they had to do it to prevent people from being able to copy the dramas.

That being said, if I have to watch a drama on Netflix, there won't be any screenshots.  It'll just be me trying to talk about an episode without trying to give too much away!  There are still other platforms where I can watch dramas but I haven't done so YET and I don't know if I can get screenshots from there.

I have been trying to get people to agree to do some summaries or opinion posts to get other POVs but so far the 2 people I know said they don't think they are good enough to write.  Both of them are good writers but don't think they would do a good job.  I will try to convince them anyway.  If there is anyone out there that happens to find my blog and wants to write a post about a drama, please send me a message! nyjellybean66@gmail.com. 

This blog began as a place for me to keep a list of my Japanese dramas.  It used to be "Jellybean Loves Japanese Dramas".   I then started writing a little bit about what I was watching. It was mostly  so I could remember what I had watched.  I never thought anyone would stumble upon my blog.  I still don't know if anyone was reading it...  I then started to make a list of all the Japanese movies I was had watched and I named it "Jellybean Loves Japanese Movies".

Then I started watching Korean dramas and doing screenshots...then I watched a Chinese drama and a Taiwanese one .   And I started watching some Korean movies.

The blogs became "Jellybean Loves Asian Dramas" and "Jellybean Loves Asian Movies"!

I have been watching dramas and movies since I last posted but I've been lazy to update the blog. The host I was using for pics is no longer active so I need to re-do everything on a new host.  I will be updating the old ones slowly and the new ones will be up as I watch them.

Signal (Japanese Version)

I'm back!

I have to seriously update this blog jic someone out there was looking forward to my screenshots.  Even if nobody enjoys them I DO.

If I havent mentioned it before, I really suck at reviews/summaries.  I know I started out doing those but I never liked them. SO...if anyone reading this wants to be like a "guest poster" and write summaries of episodes or an opinion piece about a drama they've watched, PLEASE email me and let me know.  I can post it here.

So, I've eliminated all the pics of dramas I am watching now and I'll have to start rebuiling my list.  That will take some time though.  I have an extra day off a week from this Thursday so I may end up updating the blog that day.

Last night I started watching the Japanese version of the Korean original "Signal".  I loved the Korean one and I am excited about the Japanese one!  The female lead is Michiko Kichise who was in "Bloody Monday" and "Bloody Monday 2".

I'm going to watch the first 3 episodes tonight and screenshots will be up soon!!

Time To Fix

So I noticed that a lot of my pics are missing.  I'm going to have to update my list of dramas again.  I don't know why they're gone.

Ever since DramaFever closed down, it's been shitty having to figure out where I was going to spend my money to get a new subscription. After many months, I think I am going to sign up with Kocowa.  I think once I am with them, I will be allowed to watch on Viki as well. 

It's also been shitty trying to figure out what the new dramas coming up are.  Before I was paying for DF, the commercials were great.  I knew exactly what was coming and I always added them to my list.  Then I started paying which got rid of the commercials but at least I knew I could count on DF's FB posts to tell me what was coming up.  Now I'm lost.  I started looking on YouTube which is a bit of a hassle but it works for now.

I'm going to have to dedicate some time to cleaning up this blog and my Asian Movie blog too.

I'll have to take some PTO (which I am seriously due for) and I'll clean up my blog then.

I'll be back in the near future to update my watch list!

Starting Over One More Time

As you can see, I'm in the middle of several dramas now.  There are 2 that I need to start watching and when I do, I will be blogging about it again.  Going to try my hand at a little summary and lots of screenshots.  I'm also trying to get a friend to be a guest reviewer as well.  She writes as a hobby and she's really good!

I'm going to re-start watching "GRAND PRINCE" with Yoon Shi Yoon.  This one has already finished.  I started watching it when it first came out and I sort of fell behind and it's been quite a while so I'm going to need to re-watch.  I can't just start back from where I think I left off!

I'm going to start watching "WHEN TIME STOPPED" with Kim Hyun Joong.  His first drama in 4 years. 

So, I'll be back soon with some words about EP 1 of Grand Prince and a few screenshots!

[MV] Suzy (수지) - I Love You Boy (While You Were Sleeping OST Part.4) 당신이 잠든 사이에 OST Part.4

Also love this one...

[MV] Henry - It's You (While You Were Sleeping OST Part 2) 당신이 잠든 사이에 OST Part 2

I love this song so much.  I could listen to this and to Suzy's "I Love You Boy".  

This fan did a great job on his vids but he uses the same scenes in all of them.  Which I understand because there weren't that many episodes out when he did them.  I love this one the most though...

While You Were Sleeping

I couldn't wait to watch this one after I heard about it.

I'm already a huge fan of Lee Jong-suk and I also love Suzy so I was very excited!

Here are screenshots from the 16 episodes out so far.  They're in no particular order.

I will try and put up screenshots from episodes 17-20 over the weekend.

Screenshots of The Bride of the Water God ~ 하백의 신부 2017

I got lazy when I did these and I did not really pay much attention to which episode these screenshots were from.

Main cast:

Nam Joo-Hyuk ~ 남주혁 as Ha-baek
Shin Se-Kyung ~ 신세경 as Yoon So-ah
Lim Ju-hwan ~ 임주환 as Shin Hoo Ye

In no particular order...

"The Best Hit" Screenshots - Part 01

I titled this "part 01" because when I started watching "The Best Hit", I wasn't really liking it too much.  I started watching because of Yoon Shi Yoon and it took quite a few episodes before I warmed up to it.  I didn't think the role of Yoo Hyun Jae was suited for him.  Eventually, the character evolved into something that was quite him.  It was because I didn't like it at the beginning that I didn't do any screenshots.  It wasn't until somewhere about episode 27 or 28 that I decided to do them.  These screenshots are from the last few episodes.  I'm going to have to re-watch this at another time so I can get screenshots from the beginning.

I am going to re-watch "Goblin" in the next few days and I'm going to do screenshots this time.  

Enjoy the YSY screenshots below :)