Asian Dramas

Hey guys! Long time to see! I've been gone for a while because I got immersed in a whole new world, a world of asian dramas. I couldn't write anything about them until I had gotten a sufficient amount of them watched. So, Hikari has started talking about them already, and i'm going to continue, doing more of an analysis of the storyline and acting. So first off, let's talk about the two main types of dramas, Korean, and Japanese. Coffee Prince  is the only drama i've watched that is Korean, and I now realize why Korean dramas are so much more popular than Japanese. 

Ever since Freshman year I have heard more than several people say, "OMG KOREAN DRAMAS!!!" or something along those lines. Well, here's why the Koreans are known for their dramas, and why the Japanese are known for their anime.

 

 Korean dramas are great quality. They're like real life, very relateable, and incorporates the type of humor, happiness, and sadness that real people go through in their lives.

Korean dramas, or specifically Coffee Prince (I can't exactly put all Korean dramas under the same description but it's what seems to be true so far), convey real life problems, real life stress,  and haveactors/actresses behave and speak the way real people in real life do. It's like watching someone elses life unfold on the tv screen. Of course the main characters are extremely lucky and problems end happily, but there are many rough spots along the way to make it a little more realistic.

Now, on the other hand, what goes on in animes are supposed to be cheesy, unrealistic, phony, and the Japanese are good at making them! But when the Japanese make dramas, that cheesy, unrealistic, phonyness, carries over into it, and sometimes the voices/facial expressions/actions from the animes just CANNOT be replicated on a real person, and it really dimishes the overall effect of the scene if not the whole series. I'm not saying that their dramas are bad, they're pretty awesome too, but out of the ones i've watched, it is not possible for anything that happened in any of the dramas, to happen in real life. It can be very entertaining, I mean entertaining to the point that you stop sleeping and eating to make time to watch them, but throughout the entire thing, and even afterwards, you're always thinking, "I know this isn't real life, but seriously...how can this be all these people worry about/do/think about/go through?" For example, in Hana Kimi, at the very beginning, they had a little message saying "pardon this for its foolishness" or something like that. So they know that what they have is unrealistic. It makes for a very popular and awesome drama, but it doesn't affect you the same way that something such as Coffee Prince does.

Super long Korean and Japanese drama analysis!

~Yoruichi