Summer 2008 Drama Previews

I have a love-hate relationship with new drama season. On one hand, new dramas starting are always exciting and there’s plenty to sample from. On the other hand, the previous season has ended and now you’re in this kind of withdrawal from your favorite of the previous season. Sometimes it helps if there wasn’t anything too good last season, but usually, there’s one drama that I just need more of. Well, anyway, I’ve definitely been sampling quite a few of the dramas from this season and here they are:

[Jmovie] Koizora

Koizora

Starring:
Aragaki Yui as Tahara Mika
Miura Haruma as Sakurai Hiro
Koide Keisuke as Fukuhara Yu
Karina as Minako
Usuda Asami as Saki
Haru as Aya
Nakamura Aoi as Nozomu

Koizora is a very interesting mix of a pure first love story mixed with an over the top soap opera. Aragaki Yui plays an innocent girl-next-door type of girl, Mika, who meets through…interesting circumstances, Hiro (played by Miura Haruma). He’s a bit of a delinquent, as evident with his bleached blonde hair and biker older sister, but the two fall head first into love. They face many trials as a couple including (but not limited to) rape, pregnancy and jealous exes.

[Jdrama] Papa to Musume no Nanokaken

Starring:
Tachi Hiroshi as Kawahara Kyoichiro
Aragaki Yui as Kawahara Koume
Kato Shigeaki as Osugi Kenta
Morita Ayaka as Nakayama Ritsuko
Yashima Norito as Nakajima Kokai
Sada Mayumi as Nishino Wakako
Asou Yumi as Kawahara Rieko

Papa to Musume no Nanokaken is a Japanese dorama that aired in the summer of 2007. It was broadcasted on Sunday nights at 9:00 PM on TBS. Its average ratings were 13.9%, though the highest ratings were 16.7% for one episode, and there were seven episodes altogether.