What was yOur first ever jDorama?

pinkstars · Post by **pinkstars** » Feb 15th, '07, 15:32

mine was Hana Yori Dango, it was intrOduced to me by a friend.. i thinK it's early 2006 when i watcHed it..and i started to get hOoked on jdOramas sinCe then.

sO what's yOurs? the year and hOw did yOu come across it?

8thSin · Post by **8thSin** » Feb 15th, '07, 18:07

yOu alReadY knOw abOut tHis thReaD. Don't creAte redUndAnt threaDs!

Tatsuri · Post by **Tatsuri** » Feb 15th, '07, 18:11

Gokusen

Moondy · Post by **Moondy** » Feb 18th, '07, 22:15

i saw my first drama with my boy friend..and it was Kiken na aneki.

I knew drama 1 year ago only...

haruhi-san · Post by **haruhi-san** » Feb 18th, '07, 22:24

It was Gokusen, when it first came out!

lalala, it was good times.

lenrasoon · Post by **lenrasoon** » Feb 18th, '07, 22:47

my first dorama was Gokusen 1 and Hana Yori Dango, at the same time=)

ToadyChan · Post by **ToadyChan** » Feb 18th, '07, 22:53

Mine was the same as yours, pinkstars.

My friend got into dramas thanks to Anego, and then she started watching Hana Yori Dango and she was really into it so I decided to give it a try, too. :3

Puszedli · Post by **Puszedli** » Feb 18th, '07, 22:57

My first dorama was Hana yori dango

Since then i'm a dorama fan.

SinFan · Post by **SinFan** » Feb 18th, '07, 23:07

my first was Nobuta wo Produce in may 2006
recommended by a friend..
through Jdorama I rolled into the Kdrama's and Tdrama's ^^
Since then I'm a total addict =P

dalia · Post by **dalia** » Feb 18th, '07, 23:08

my first ever was...Stand Up! i remember my friend was watching it, and it looked funny, so after she was done i borrowed it from her...
then i watched Orange Days, and i feel like that is my true first drama, and is still my favorite

aibakaneko · Post by **aibakaneko** » Feb 18th, '07, 23:19

Gokusen.. hahahaha.. that's when i got into the WHOLE drama thing

Eternal Snow · Post by **Eternal Snow** » Feb 18th, '07, 23:22

Hana Yori Dango! started Last Year~

terence_hideyoshi · Post by **terence_hideyoshi** » Feb 19th, '07, 02:40

haha.. I just can't remember mine already. I think should be under 1 roof series 1.

BeerChan · Post by **BeerChan** » Feb 19th, '07, 02:45

Strawberry in the Shortcake

KamakazeBettie · Post by **KamakazeBettie** » Feb 19th, '07, 02:55

hana yori dango... still one of my all time faves.

dancing_baka · Post by **dancing_baka** » Feb 19th, '07, 03:05

Beautiful Life!

doce · Post by **doce** » Feb 19th, '07, 06:37

mine was 1 litre of tears which a friend recommended. After watching it i recommend it to everyone

EMTQueen · Post by **EMTQueen** » Feb 19th, '07, 06:43

Orange Days. I watched it in Summer 2004.

wallflower · Post by **wallflower** » Feb 19th, '07, 07:55

1 Litre of Tears. But I didn't finish that yet because it was sad and I didn't wanna go on..
The first COMPLETED series though was Hana Yori Dango. :/ lol. I kept crying while watching though, but it wasn't as sad as 1 litre, so I didn't stop.

I am such a baby ._.

DMPA · Post by **DMPA** » Feb 19th, '07, 08:04

KIMI ME WA PETTO!! LOL!!! Yah...I started watching it cuz i started reading the manga, and on the back it said that there's a j-drama so i found it and watched it

and then i watched hyd followed by gokusen i think

christaluvsdrama · Post by **christaluvsdrama** » Feb 19th, '07, 08:06

Nobuta Wo Produce then Hana Yori Dango or was it the other way around heheeh BUT I'VE BEEN WATCHING ANIME FOREVER ALL MY LIFE. ME AND ANIME ARE LIKE THIS

<3 <3 <3 <3<3 <3<3 <3<3 <3 <3<3

blue_lizzard · Post by **blue_lizzard** » Feb 19th, '07, 08:13

similar to me. i've been watching gokusen anime (think it was around 2004?) when a friend told me there was something like a live action of it... and then the madness began..

DMPA · Post by **DMPA** » Feb 19th, '07, 08:15

HURRAY FOR ASIAN DRAMA MADDNESS!!!! YEAH! lol! ignore me, goin insane...HAHAHAH

thtlam · Post by **thtlam** » Feb 19th, '07, 08:24

Hana Yori Dango

afiq87 · Post by **afiq87** » Feb 19th, '07, 08:49

Hello everyone...!
My First Jdrama was GTO...
Then at the same week, i watched Sekai no chuushin de, ai wo sakebu(crying out love at the center of the world)...
And this week, i've just finished watch Dekichatta Kekkon(Shotgun Marriage)...
Actually...i've started watched those drama at the end of last year..huhuhu....
Great Drama!
I dont expect that im already obsessed with dorama... ;p

Naughty_Girl · Post by **Naughty_Girl** » Feb 19th, '07, 10:59

my first jdorama was Hana Yori Dango 1 .. in September\2006
while I downloaded the first episode by an accident ..
cuz i wanted to download the first episode of the Anime of HYD instead ..
i didn't know that there was a dorama for it
but when i played the video and found that it's a dorama .. i kept watching it till the end of the episode .. i liked it so much and wanted to download the 2nd epi ..
since then i've become a fan of this fantastic dorama ..

and it was the introduction of watching other Jdoramas ..

lolz .. that was my long story .. haha

QNSpider · Post by **QNSpider** » Feb 19th, '07, 22:44

My first Japanese television drama was Yamato Nadeshiko (that was in 2000). I saw it on American television. First Japanese drama I saw on my computer was Pretty Guardian Sailormoon (2003). Man, the years have passed....

addex3 · Post by **addex3** » Feb 20th, '07, 23:11

My 1st JDrama was Satorare. I never seen a US show like that here in LA before.

klon22 · Post by **klon22** » Feb 20th, '07, 23:21

my first dorama was:

Nobura Wo Produce, and liked so much and search for more doramas and found kurosagi, hana yori dango, and many more after,

yes i am a fanatic of this style.

i hope you enjoy too!

ja ne!

fizzlex3mh · Post by **fizzlex3mh** » Feb 20th, '07, 23:33

gokusen of course

then hana yori dango

both with matsujun (loved him in gokusen but not so much HYD)
&& oguri shun! <--he's the coolest

only seen those two doramas, and a little bit of GTO

i like kdramas & twdramas better

P0KEY · Post by **P0KEY** » Feb 20th, '07, 23:59

GTO.

good times, harharhar.

AiaNP · Post by **AiaNP** » Mar 3rd, '07, 05:46

Hmm, me? My first was Trick. . . .

I saw one of the movies by accident on a plane ride back from Japan a couple months ago, and since then, I've just wanted to expand my horizons as far as I can reach 'em!

thislove · Post by **thislove** » Mar 3rd, '07, 06:11

My first was Beautiful Life

forgetting4u · Post by **forgetting4u** » Mar 3rd, '07, 06:24

My first was Hana Yori Dango...actually it was my first Asian drama period and after that I wanted to watch more. I grew to like them more than watching tv. American drama/soaps go on and on and get more and more crazy.

phramc · Post by **phramc** » Mar 4th, '07, 03:56

Hana Yori Dango. It was my first introduction to anything asian ever and from then on I went berserk. Hana Yori dango led to Gokusen (good ol' Jun) and from then on it led to the many many many others.

xaosmx · Post by **xaosmx** » Mar 4th, '07, 11:18

mine was one litre of tears...and i cried my eyeballs out in every single ep. it was a sobfest. a touching story. what's worst was that it's a 'real life' story.

spokeydokey00 · Post by **spokeydokey00** » Mar 4th, '07, 17:54

My first was Sapuri. I was googling Itoh Misaki and stumbled onto D-addicts.com. After DLing and watching Sapuri I started DLing more old and current dramas.

nookiey · Post by **nookiey** » Mar 5th, '07, 06:22

my first jdorama was GTO...at that time i was still in primary school when i saw that my mother was watching Beach Boys...i told her that she's weird for watching japanese drama...hahaha..but then,when GTO was being aired,i was like,oh my god,this drama is great...and since then,i started collecting jdrama...

pinkstars · Post by **pinkstars** » Mar 5th, '07, 06:31

DMPA wrote:HURRAY FOR ASIAN DRAMA MADDNESS!!!! YEAH! lol! ignore me, goin insane...HAHAHAH

ohYes!! hOOOOoooOOoray tO asian drama. esPecially tO jDramas!!!

i'm gOing insane tOo. hahahahaha

Stovila · Post by **Stovila** » Mar 5th, '07, 06:31

It was Tokyo Love Story, when I was in 4th elementary school grade.
It was aired in our local television lol.

Watched it with family. I just remember the song, but not the story x_X

pinkstars · Post by **pinkstars** » Mar 5th, '07, 06:34

Naughty_Girl wrote:my first jdorama was Hana Yori Dango 1 .. in September\2006
while I downloaded the first episode by an accident ..
cuz i wanted to download the first episode of the Anime of HYD instead ..
i didn't know that there was a dorama for it
but when i played the video and found that it's a dorama .. i kept watching it till the end of the episode .. i liked it so much and wanted to download the 2nd epi ..
since then i've become a fan of this fantastic dorama ..
and it was the introduction of watching other Jdoramas ..

lolz .. that was my long story .. haha

HANA YORI DANGO is sUch a great drama.
it's still my favorite until nOw thOugh i watched lots of dramas already.
i'm still hOoked on HanaDan.

franchosa · Post by **franchosa** » Mar 5th, '07, 06:36

Yoshitsune

pinkstars · Post by **pinkstars** » Mar 5th, '07, 06:39

phramc wrote:Hana Yori Dango. It was my first introduction to anything asian ever and from then on I went berserk. Hana Yori dango led to Gokusen (good ol' Jun) and from then on it led to the many many many others.

same here. Hana Yori Dango led to Gokusen..then led tO many many others.

meme-sama · Post by **meme-sama** » Mar 5th, '07, 10:05

as most of u HYD was my first jdorama

Zonakusu · Post by **Zonakusu** » Mar 5th, '07, 10:44

I dont know actually, it might be Musashi (the 1337 samurai) or it was Gokusen 1 after i saw the Gokusen anime. I do love them very much though, especialy musashi.. Some wicked samurai stuff! :>

sveta · Post by **sveta** » Mar 5th, '07, 10:54

i'm not sure if this constitutes as JDorama, but my first J-Drama was 1 littre of tears. I can't recall the one i watched afterwards though. Ones i've seen are GTO, Shota no Sushi, Kimi wa Petto, Seikei Bijin, Koi Gai Shitai and Queen's Classroom. I think that's all.

aatm · Post by **aatm** » Mar 9th, '07, 23:58

there was one from a LONG time ago, that I watched when I was in 6-8th grade (i've been out of college for 3 years now)...that was probably the very first dorama i watched, but i didn't start back up in it, til HYD. So while I'm tired of HYD, I'm thankful for it, because it brought me back to the genre and now I'm hooked. =)

Japanese_alcoholic · Post by **Japanese_alcoholic** » Mar 10th, '07, 00:03

my first asian drama tht i watched was HYD. tht drama introduced me into the asian world.

Rori · Post by **Rori** » Mar 10th, '07, 01:31

Nobuta Wo Produce back in September.

aatm · Post by **aatm** » Mar 10th, '07, 02:24

That's a good one to start with! =)　　のぶたをプロヅスで堀北真希さんはかわいい。＝）

afiq87 · Post by **afiq87** » Mar 10th, '07, 07:23

The 1st Drama is GTO...(unfortunately not finish watch it)

2nd is Sekai no Chuushin de, ai wo sakebu...the 1st drama that i've manage to finish watching it...
Probably this drama had made me addicted to Jdrama...

chanchan126 · Post by **chanchan126** » Mar 10th, '07, 07:32

water boys 2. ^_^ and i'm getting addicted to it! hehe

i love you satomi shirihara! =P

puti_chan · Post by **puti_chan** » Mar 13th, '07, 01:13

My first watched j-dorama was OSHIN!! Hahaha... i bet i'm not the only one who watched this as the first japanese drama

.
And then i started watching tokyo love story, ordinary people, under the same roof, and long vacation. That was my very first interest to Japanese Dorama

Currently i watched nodame cantabille (so funny!!) and next would be itsumo futari de (anyone could give me synopsis about this drama?)

cuddly · Post by **cuddly** » Mar 13th, '07, 13:37

My first Japanese drama was Hana Yori Dango which is the best drama I've eveer seen

Danji · Post by **Danji** » Mar 13th, '07, 18:29

My first Dorama was SOS. Still one of the best Dorama shows EVER!

I quickly followed it up with Long Vacation, Good Luck, Beautiful Life, Hero, GTO, Shota no Sushi, Food Fight, Shopping Hero, Salaryman Kintaro (1,2,3), Kasouken no Onna (Investigator Mariko) (All seasons). And here I am years later, still in LOVE with Dorama.

I play around a bit more now, downloading some Korean and Chinese shows. Most of which are pretty good.

SummerMemories · Post by **SummerMemories** » Mar 13th, '07, 23:57

My very first was summer snow! i loved it. then it was koi ga shitai and the rest is history. i have seen over 50 dramas in the past few years!

Kailey1710 · Post by **Kailey1710** » Mar 14th, '07, 00:22

Ahh everyone is saying this but.... HYD!

still one of my favorite drama's ever, got me addicted to J-drama's and the lovely matsu-jun!

Aprisea · Post by **Aprisea** » Mar 14th, '07, 00:45

My first Jdrama was Taiho shichauzo in 2002 ^^ I was curious because it was based on a manga and I really like it! Now I have seen hundreds of jdramas! lol

Kuraharashizue · Post by **Kuraharashizue** » Mar 14th, '07, 00:48

It's a little complicated.

Somewhere around '98 I saw a couple of episodes of some dorama about a girl who works at an Anna Miller's and who falls in love with a guy whose family tries to keep them apart. At least I think that was the plot because no subtitles ... But, at the time I didn't know this was a 'dorama', any more than a non-subtitled episode of SHOMUNI a friend in Japan sent me.

Then, I followed a link to a site with a live action version of the anime ACE WO NARAE. I grabbed it and the YOU'RE UNDER ARREST 'doramas'.

The site had lots of other live action, subtitled Japanese shows. I tried a couple, but the first which I took the time to watch from beginning to end was LONG VACATION. I've since then accumulated almost a hundred series, from QUEEN'S CLASSROOM to the SHOMUNI trilogy of series, and from the poignant BEAUTIFUL LIFE to the hilarious - and long running - WOMEN OF THE ONSEN (IKOU E ONSEN).

aJexx · Post by **aJexx** » Mar 14th, '07, 15:45

HANA YORI DANGO opkosh..
i'm in love with Matsumoto Jun..
he's soooo KAWAIIIII......awwwwwwwwwww
HANA YORI DANGO ROX 4EVER

Cassiopeia · Post by **Cassiopeia** » Mar 15th, '07, 07:46

puti_chan wrote:My first watched j-dorama was OSHIN!! Hahaha... i bet i'm not the only one who watched this as the first japanese drama .
And then i started watching tokyo love story, ordinary people, under the same roof, and long vacation. That was my very first interest to Japanese Dorama

Currently i watched nodame cantabille (so funny!!) and next would be itsumo futari de (anyone could give me synopsis about this drama?)

Hahaha ......... I bet you're Indonesian! Coz I'm the same. Not into it all, tho.

Yeah, first is Oshin. Then Tokyo Love Story and Under the same roof. I adore Under the Same Roof!!!!

For a long time I forgot the joy of asian drama. After Meteor Garden and some k-dramas, a friend of mine gave Nobuta Wo Produce. But it's after HYD I got the feeling of watching jdoramas again.

Aki Himemiya · Post by **Aki Himemiya** » Mar 15th, '07, 20:06

Forbidden Love Takizawa HIdeaki e Nanako Matsushima

Emielliano · Post by **Emielliano** » Mar 15th, '07, 20:48

GTO if i'm correct ^- ^

Moofia · Post by **Moofia** » Mar 16th, '07, 04:17

HYD, what a great way to start an obsession!

lavendersky · Post by **lavendersky** » Mar 16th, '07, 13:02

my first was Heaven's Coin 1 (it was shown on local tv and i happened to come across it when i was channel-surfing ^^). Noriko Sakai was my fav. actress back then.

namedx · Post by **namedx** » Mar 16th, '07, 13:16

Slow Dance, lol it all started from there! From one Japanese drama I went onto Korean and then Taiwanese, hehe weird huh!? And now i'm obsessed with all three! o_O

japysia · Post by **japysia** » Mar 16th, '07, 13:32

moero attack,kamen rider & gaban.

afiq87 · Post by **afiq87** » Mar 17th, '07, 01:22

japysia wrote:moero attack,kamen rider & gaban.

Hahaha...lol

better u watch Shin Chan or Doraemon.....hehe

Butterknife · Post by **Butterknife** » Mar 18th, '07, 07:54

Hana Yori Dango... And now it's over... * sigh *

rieno823 · Post by **rieno823** » Mar 18th, '07, 10:37

zibla · Post by **zibla** » Mar 18th, '07, 11:04

GTO a long time a go

altessa · Post by **altessa** » Mar 18th, '07, 11:22

I think my first jdrama was Long Vacation waaaaay back. Then Love Generation, GTO, First Love, Beach Boys... but I kind of stopped watching jdramas when I grew up because I didn't have time due to school.

Now I have lots and LOTS to catch up on!

Albatrice · Post by **Albatrice** » Mar 18th, '07, 12:44

My first drama was Kimi Wa Petto.
After I saw Gokusen as second Drama, started the Jun obsession

super-stylish · Post by **super-stylish** » Mar 18th, '07, 17:03

my first Jdrama was HYD 1 ^^

It was so sweet

and watch it 5 or 6 times or maybe more hehehe

Neji-sama · Post by **Neji-sama** » Mar 18th, '07, 17:21

HYD 1.

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