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Dorama of the Year 1998 - GTO (1998)


GTO (1998) ended up winner, as was expected, nothing from translated ones came even close to it, sadly.
 
1. Thou Shalt Not Cheat (1998) [呆佬賀壽] (Finished 1/25)
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Tags: Drama
The drama tells the story of Hong Kong in the 1930s. He Jinbao, a rich boy, was sarcastic and domineering but good at socializing. Unfortunately, he was harmed by a villain and became insane, turned into a fool, and lost control of the family business. Fortunately, he got help from his friends and his beloved. He used the principle that fools have good luck and often turned danger into safety. In the end, he even snatched the ancestral business back from the villain.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
2. Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1998) [徳川慶喜] (Finished 1/49)
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Tags: Historical, Drama
The 37th NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and final ruler of the Tokugawa period. Born the seventh son of Lord Nariaki of Mito, Yoshinobu is named shogun when he is just 29 years old. With wisdom and vision beyond his years, he tries to prolong the life of this 200-year-old dynasty which began with Ieyasu. However, he is unable to forestall the winds of revolution as clans in Choshu, Satsuma, and Tosa, with the help of the Imperial Court, clamor for change.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
3. The King and the Queen (1998) [king and queen/왕과 비] (Finished 1/186)
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Tags: Historical
This drama depicts the power struggle between various members of the royal family between the reigns of King Sejong and Yeonsangun, for the ultimate prize: the throne.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
4. To the End of the World (1998) [Forever Yours/세상끝까지] (Finished 2/16)
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Tags: Romance, Drama, Melodrama
Suh Hee is left by her mother at an orphanage as a small child. She grows up at the orphanage and becomes close to Sae Joon, the son of the orphanage's director. The Director objects to her son dating Suh Hee and kicks Suh Hee out of the orphanage shortly before she graduates from high school. Suh Hee must survive on her own in the outside world. Sae Joon continues to love Suh Hee despite his mother's objections.
Feels like Cinderella with prolonged bullying phase. Korean way of narration to take everything to extremes and present multiple self-admiring stylish men every time is seriously irritating.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
5. Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake (1998) [神様、もう少しだけ] (Finished 12/12)
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Tags: Romance, Life, Drama
High-school student, Kano Masaki, found herself falling into the practice of selling her body in order to earn money. When she heard that her favourite music composer, Ishikawa Keigo was holding a concert in town, she prostituted herself to earn enough money to attend.
Ishikawa Keigo is a music composer who has suffered a tragic loss of his beloved in the past and was still living with the scars. After his concert, he saw Masaki chasing after his van, drenched in the rain. Unexpectedly moved, he took her back to his apartment where they spent the night. Things take a turn for the unknown when Masaki later discovers that she has contracted HIV and has to live with the consequences of what she has done, while Keigo is haunted by his experience of his former lover's tragic loss once again.
Finished it only because it seems to have good reception even though I can't stand terminal illness conditions. And for the most part it was as I expected - lots of crying and some forced drama. To be honest, can't even call it decent as FL was rather irritating and even soundtrack was just an arrangement from another dorama.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
6. My Date With A Vampire (1998) [我和殭屍有個約會] (Finished 1/35)
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Tags: Historical, Fantasy, Supernatural
Fong Kwok Wah is a Chinese guerrilla fighter from the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1938, he was fighting with Yamamoto Ichifu, a major of the Imperial Japanese Army, when they were interrupted by Cheung San, the progenitor of all vampires. The two men and a boy named Fuk Sang are bitten by Cheung San, and they become vampires.
In present-day 1998, Fong lives in Hong Kong under a new name, Fong Tin Yau. His physical appearance has not changed since 60 years ago. He works as a policeman while Fuk Sang lives together with him and pretends to be his son, who currently attends primary school. Fong meets Ma Siu Ling, the heiress of a clan of ghostbusters who have dedicated themselves to ridding the world of evil supernatural beings. Fong gradually becomes embroiled in a love triangle with Ma and Wong Jan Jan, Ma's close friend and confidante. 
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
7. With Love (1998) [ウィズ ラブ] (Finished 7/12)
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Tags: Music, Romance
It all started when Takashi, a talented composer who could not write a love song ever since his girlfriend Rina left him suddenly, accidentally sent an incomplete piece of his latest work to Amane via email. Deeply touched by his music, Amane wrote back to him, without getting a reply. Amane continued writing to him, pouring out her thoughts. Only when she signed as "Teru Teru Bozu", did Takashi responded with a mail saying "WHO ARE YOU?", because what Rina left him as a farewell gift was a teru teru bozu!
It's so artificial and pretentious and empty imitation of romance over emailing that it hurts me with every episode.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
8. Princess Pearl (1998)  [Princess Returning Pearl/还珠格格] (Finished 2/24)
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Tags: Historical, Comedy, Romance
Xiao Yan Zi met Xia Zi Wei, a poor girl who marched a long way to find her father, the Emperor, but nobody took her seriously. Xiao Yan Zi decided to sneak into the mountain where the Emperor hunts, but Zi Wei could not handle the tiring mountain climb, therefore asking Xiao Yan Zi to tell the Emperor her story.
On her way, Xiao Yan Zi gets shot and cannot fully explain her story, making the Emperor mistake her for the Princess. Here starts a long and painful story of getting everyone to their proper roles, but many dangers lie near - the death sentence if anyone lies to the emperor and an evil Empress who is waiting to catch Xiao Yan Zi in the act. Added on top, Xiao Yan Zi's lack of proper manners and knowledge of books has driven her closer to jeopardy.
Too many wuxia elements here to tolerate if for long.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
9. Birdcage Inn (1998) [파란 대문] (Finished 2/2)
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Tags: Drama
Streetwise Jin Ah moves into a boarding house run by a small, close-knit family. But her unacceptable behaviour threatens to destroy them all.
It's rather a movie about poverty and dreadful conditions where still simple happiness exists. Nothing more than nice.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
10. Kira Kira Hikaru (1998) [きらきらひかる] (Finished 1/10)
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Tags: Mystery, Medical
The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and accidents. Hikaru is a graduate of a medical university, also focused her discipline on neurology. One night during a student reunion, a dead body was found in the kitchen. Hikaru, who is a little regretting that she choose her focus in neurology, was moved by another doctor's words, Dead bodies will not tell us what happened, that is why we have to piece together its last words.
Freaking procedural, so just not for me.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
11. Tsumetai Tsuki (1998)  [冷たい月] (Finished 2/10)
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Tags: Thriller, Mystery, Psychological, Romance
Kiyoka Shiina has a successful life : surgeon, happily married and pregnant.
Misaki Morishita has a happy life too : she works as an interpreter, married and pregnant.
One night, Kohei, Kiyoka's husband, hurts a woman with his car and runs away. However, he doesn't know that Misaki saw what happened.
Kiyoka notices that something is wrong in his husband's attitude. When she knows what happened, she decides to destroy his husband's car not to have any proof of the accident anymore.
But Misaki goes to the polcie station to tell what she saw... And here begins Kiyoka's nightmare, who will make everything she can to take her revenge on the woman who destroyed her whole life.
Topic is pretty heavy as protagonist maniac basically plans mass murders on an absolutely normal peaceful family. Not sure why would I watch it further as I'm not interested in maniac logic or execution or maniac actor's play.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
12. Secret of the Heart (1998) [天地豪情] (Finished 1/62)
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Tags: Thriller, Romance, Crime, Drama
Winson Cheuk Sheung Man is a compulsive gambler who just returned to Hong Kong after a bout of bad luck and extreme debts in Toronto, Canada. He was reunited with his childhood friend and neighbor, Ching Ka Ming who is disgusted with his gambling habits and laziness.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
13. Burning Flame (1998) [烈火雄心] (Finished 1/43)
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Tags: Action, Romance, Drama, Melodrama
Lok Tin Yau has always dreamed of becoming a firefighter. Sum Pik Yiu and Tin Yau are good friends but Tin Yau later falls for Pik Yiu after he helps her. But she has to give her feelings up for him when his childhood friend comes to Hong Kong from Japan. Lok Hew Fung, Lok Tin Yau, and Ng Dai Heng are best friends who join and become firefighters. This drama is about the lives of firefighters and the situations that they deal with everyday
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
14. Jinbe (1998) [じんべえ] (Finished 1/11)
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Tags: Romance, Drama
Miku has lived alone with her father, Jinbe, since her mother's death. On her 20th birthday, Jinbe tells her that he made a promise to her mother to raise Miku as his own daughter. In other words, he's not Miku's real father. Feeling as though she cannot live under the same roof with him anymore, Miku sets out on her own. Jinbe confides in a co-worker that lately, he's been seeing Miku less as his daughter, and more as a woman...
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
15. Healing Hands (1998) [妙手仁心] (Finished 1/32)
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Tags: Drama, Medical
A medical drama series that focuses on the lives and loves of the doctors and nurses at Yan Oi Hospital in Hong Kong.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
16. Hitsuyou no nai Hito (1998) [必要のない人] (Finished 1/12)
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Tags: Drama, Family
A father is transferred from his work at a prestigious news paper and loses his social status. The family now has to deal with changes in their lives.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
17. King Of The Wind (1998) [대왕의 길] (Finished 1/34)
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Tags: Historical, Drama
The drama talks about the complicated relationship between King Young Jo, (21st king of the Joseon dynasty) to his son Sa Do.
Deadly boring, even worse than Heiyan in Japan, only slightly better than wuxia.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
18. The Barefooted Youth (1998) [맨발의 청춘] (Finished 3/16)
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Tags: Romance, Drama
Tales of the hardships and love. 
Feels like imitation of countless Hong Kong tycoon dramas. Pretty bad.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
19. A Sleeping Forest (1998) [眠れる森] (Finished 3/12)
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Tags: Thriller, Mystery, Drama
Kimura Takuya plays Ito Naoki, a mysterious man that seems to have some special childhood connection with Oba Minako. But she lost her memory long ago and doesn't really remember anything about her childhood or him.
Naoki knows almost everything about Minako and secretly invites her to the "Sleeping Forest". From there on their story begins, into a dark and romantic drama. 
I'm really bad with mysteries, especially murder and stalker ones like this. It definitely keeps lots of elements obscure, so there's at least some tension and suspense.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
20. White Nights 3.98 (1998) [백야 3.98] (Finished 1/20)
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Tags: Action, Drama
In the civil war between North and South Korea, the tension within was high, especially when a mission was hooked with national secrets. A black box, hence, because the key to the struggle. Success, would never come so easily. However, amid the brutal fight for the key-the black box of a crashed battleplane, the male and female spy from the two different nations fell in love with each other. They helped each other secretly, in order to complete their corresponding mission, for the sake of loyalty - and love.
However, a fatal plane crash of battleplane occured and finally they sacrifice their valuable love and lives for the peace of human world.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
21. News no Onna (1998) [ニュースの女] (Finished 2/11)
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Tags: Life, Drama
Honami plays a newscaster, a tough pro who is capable of stonily reporting even her own husband's death in an traffic accident on air. The plot revolves around Honami's relationship with her late husband's teenage son who she is forced to take in. The show stars popular Kyozo Nagatsuka as the boy's lawyer and her romantic interest. The series also includes a lot of behind-the-scenes newsroom action and depicts the rivalry between the show's director and producer, who are locked in a constant debate over whether new and variety are, or should be, one and the same. 
Too plain and simple to my taste.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
22. Seija no Koushin (1998) [聖者の行進] (Finished 2/11)
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Tags: Music, Drama
Exploring the perception and treatment of mentally-challenged youth and their similarities to juvenile delinquents in Japanese society, this drama series follows the trials and tribulations of a group of adolescents in a work/study program for mentally-challenged teenagers. Although the program's intention is to gently "normalize" them for introduction in society, the group is subject to constant physical and mental abuse unbeknownst to their parents and teacher, Ms Hagawa. However, the friendship between Towa, a naive but unusually articulate member of the program, and Arisu, a rebellious schoolgirl, helps both of them learn to overcome their troubles. Features a star-studded cast of current popular youth idols.
Not enjoying mentally challenged themes. Quite decent acting, though, not that I care.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
23. Sweet Season (1998) [スゥイート・シーズン] (Finished 1/11)
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Tags: Romance, Life, Drama
The affair that Mahiro has been having with the married Yutaka has been the only escape from her troubled family life caused by her father's own extra-marital affair. Mahiro despises her father for his past infidelity but cannot bring herself to stop Yutaka from being unfaithful to his wife. However, an unplanned pregnancy triggers a series of events that promises to shatter the small bubble of happiness Mahiro has made for herself and bring the brewing dissonance in her family to a head.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
24. Meguri Ai (1998) [めぐり逢い] (Finished 2/12)
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Tags: Romance
Graduate student, Shuji, fell in love with his neighbour, Eri, who has a dream of becoming a dancer. However, Eri was unwilling to give up her dream and hence left Shuji to go to America. Still, fate brings them back together time and again like a bittersweet refrain.
I was amazed to learn that all the synopsis actually happens during very first episode. And second episode is polarly super slow and only hints reunion in future. It's evident to me that super slow pace is going to last till the end in attempt to waste as much time as possible, and it's not particularly interesting.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
25. Sensei Shiranaino? (1998) [先生知らないの?] (Finished 2/12)
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Tags: Comedy, Youth
When an eager young man gets an elementary school teaching position as his first job, he finds a school staff and student body stricken with apathy. He vows to find a way to invigorate his students and co-workers, but his tendency to burn a straight path toward his goals, while failing to consider any obstacles in his way, may be his biggest fault. Or it may turn out to be his greatest asset.
With Onizuka Sensei publishing since 1997, such format is gaining popularity. What prevents me from continuation is mostly elementary school format with corresponding level of problems, but overall it's nice, even better than expected initially.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
26. Brothers (1998) [ブラザーズ] (Finished 1/12)
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Tags: Comedy, Romance, Life
The tale of four brothers and their widower father, who heads a large Buddhist temple in Tokyo. Goro Kishitani, the oldest brother, does not want to take over the temple. He prefers only to pass through now and then to exercise his eldest brother prerogative and hit No. 2 brother Masahiro Nakai over the head. Nakai, who really wants to be a sportswriter, appears to be in line for the temple takeover and zips around in a motorcycle helmet and Buddhist robes to chant sutras for the dead. Papa-san frequents Ginza clubs and had a cigarette or a toothpick dangling from his mouth for most of the first episode. He hires an "Otonashi Karen look-alike" (Kimura Yoshino) with a crush on Nakai as housekeeper and she bops around the temple grounds as if it was Shibuya on a Sunday. The opening sequence where they all grab guitars, line up in black robes in front of the temple incense burner, and rock back and forth as if disciples of the Elvis Presley sect of Buddhism is classic in its own way though.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
27. Shomuni (1998) [ショムニ] (Finished 3/12)
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Tags: Business, Comedy
The stories revolve around the Office Ladies of General Affairs department 2 (Shomu ni, or GA-2) in a large multinational company called Manpan Corporation.
GA-2 is called "the graveyard for female office ladies" simply because it is the place where female employees are dumped should they mess up big time elsewhere. Jobs include replacing used toilet rolls, changing light bulbs, and organizing company outings, among other menial stuff. As an added incentive, their department is located in the nether regions of the company - in the basement and is, in fact, a disused storeroom.
Novelty lasts for couple episodes, and after that not sure what to stay here for... Situations aren't something special, and comedy is typical exaggerated one.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
28. Love & Eros (1998) [ラブとエロス] (Finished 3/12)
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Tags: Romance
When Kasumi's husband dies in a car wreck, Ryuichi vows to watch over her and her unborn son. Over the next ten years, he gradually falls in love with Kasumi. Now 35-year-old, Kasumi has resisted loving another man for fear of reliving the pain of losing a loved one. She happens to meet Ryuichi's bad boy younger brother and finds herself physically attracted to him; but Ryuichi finally acts on his bottled-up feelings for Kasumi and asks her to marry him. Kasumi must decide if she can bring herself to fall in love with a responsible man like Ryuichi, or if she can be content with the purely physical relationship that his brother can provide.
FL does not really suit such concept, in my opinion. Bad boy younger brother forces pity towards him which looks weird. Toxicity is high. Watchable, but on a so-so level.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
29. Ao no Jidai (1998) [青の時代] (Finished 11/11)
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Tags: Mystery, Romance, Crime, Youth
Abandoned by his mother and having had to fend for himself, Ryuu is one of many Japanese youths that have turned to a life of petty crime in order to survive in Japanese society. Life on the streets has given him a tough exterior, but it is his kind heart and his dislike for what he has become that wins over a local beauty and helps him take his first steps towards a better life. When an overzealous and less than ethical police inspector fingers Ryuu for a crime he didn't commit, he is resigned to accept his fate. However, help emerges from an unexpected source to give him the strength to fight for his freedom: a victim of one of his past crimes.
It looks surprisingly truthful and natural. Synopsis covers only first three episodes, and it was really unclear for me which direction it can go from then on. Answer is that it goes sideways to different characters developing their stories with climaxes of the stories becoming centerpieces of each episode. I'd say that it gets more interesting after first three episodes as it goes sideways from lawyer. But in the second half most of drama is based on lawyer alter ego which I consider cheezy. I found myself slightly irritated with repeating patterns and ended up forcing myself to finish it which is not a trait of masterpiece 
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
30. GTO (1998) [-] (Finished 12/12)
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Tags: Comedy, Youth, Drama
Onizuka Eikichi is a graduate of a third-rate University and the leader of a motorcycle gang, whose lifelong dream is to become a teacher. After being hired by a seemingly eccentric director, Onizuka begins his unconventional way of teaching a hopeless group of troublemakers. Although he meets much opposition from the students and teachers themselves, his passion for teaching, and more importantly, his students, eventually convinces everyone that Onizuka truly has the makings of a great teacher.
Was confident in material from the start after watching anime, so main worry was about actors and freshness, also about the final score. If I can find some flaw, I'm lowering the score. In first episode it looked very illogical how two blackmailers suddenly decide to vouch for Onizuka after beeing just surrounded by gang members. In anime blackmailers were blackmailed with photos of them tied, beaten and in underwear, but dorama totally failed to present any viable explanation. Still impressive despite the fact that I remembered most of outcomes.  
Overall Rating: 9/10
 
31. Sekai de Ichiban Papa ga Suki (1998) [世界で一番パパが好き] (Finished 1/12)
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Tags: Family
The protagonist is a 41-year-old divorced lawyer. 13 years ago, his wife's infidelity led him to abandon his then 5-year-old daughter and leave home. This summer, his wife departed to heaven. The daughter still hates his father, and wants to enter a Tokyo university so she needn't have to live with him... This is a story of how two people even as they fight each other also gradually come to understand each other. How the father thinks of his daughter, how the daughter thinks of her father, and other faint awakenings of love: This begins the "love story" between parent and child.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
32. Harmonia (1998)  [ハルモニア] (Finished 1/9)
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Tags: Music, Thriller, Romance, Supernatural
At a home for the physically impaired, a cellist teaches a patient whose is unable to speak but possesses a hyper-keen ability to play music. As her cello skills improve, however, so does a mysterious power that allows her to cause great harm to others through ESP-like channeling.
Supernatural thriller about espers sounds like swearing to me. Pilot episode did not impress in the least.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
33. Akimahende! (1998) [あきまへんで!] (Finished 1/11)
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Tags: Comedy
Nowadays, kids have their parents wrapped around their fingers. While they appear to despise their parents, they are actually insecure and want someone to give them love, guidance, and support. Although Katsura is sometimes absent-minded, she is a strong, independent woman. Junichiro proposes to her for the second time in 30 years. During this 30-year span, Junichiro was widowed three times, and fathered four children. Katsura agrees to move into the Aoki household as a live-in housekeeper and marry him only if his children learn to love her. This is a comedic and sometimes touching story about Katsura's experiences as she tries, in her own way, to win the children's hearts and trust.
Main lead is pretty irritating with squeaky voice and constant fuss. Comedy is rather primitive, too, so leaving early.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
34. Nanisama! (1998) [なにさまっ!] (Finished 6/11)
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Tags: Comedy, Drama
While working in the leisurely atmosphere at a food company's factory, Futaro is asked by his good friend to return to their corporate headquarters. Unfortunately, he finds himself as an assistant to Izumi, a highly demanding expert on Italian food culture.
Futaro gets off to a rocky start with his new female boss and always seems to be saying or doing the wrong thing. He also doesn't seem to be particularly suited to his new position on the Italian Restaurant Project, considering he doesn't even like tomatoes! But Futaro may still have a few tricks left up his sleeve that he can use to win over Izumi and find success in his new job.
Everything is so-so here - comedy, leads, concept. Watchable, but I'm not sure what to like here.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
35. Change! (1998) [チェンジ!] (Finished 1/10)
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Tags: Comedy, Supernatural
Atsuko Asano and child star Yuka Nomura appear as an actress mother and her daughter who hates her mother's work. Struck by lightning, the two are surprised to find they have switched bodies and have to live each other's lives.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
36. Kiseki no Hito (1998) [奇跡の人] (Finished 1/10)
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Tags: Life, Drama
Since his auto accident at nineteen, Katsumi has suffered from amnesia and minimal brain damage. All memory of his previous life was lost, and he now lives with the mind of an eight-year-old. When Yasuko meets Katsumi in the rehabilitation center, she is captivated by his sincerity, genuineness and musical talent. The attraction is mutual, but Katsumi is like an adoring child to her, and Yasuko is intrigued by his unusual situation and her desire to reintegrate him into society. And when another beautiful young woman takes an unusual interest in him, no one can be sure of her motives or her connection to his former life. Will Katsumi ever recover his memory enough to put together the events of his past and move on?
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
37. Sommelier (1998) [ソムリエ] (Finished 1/11)
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Tags: Food, Business
After a corporate restructuring, Mr. Ogura, an aging manager, is assigned to run La Mer, a French restaurant in Japan. Joe Satake, a very talented French Japanese wine expert, has been asked by Ms. Katagiri, Mr. Ogura's immediate supervisor, to help. Using his expertise and keen observation skills, Joe is a genius in selecting the right wine for every occasion for his customers. He is very eccentric and has high standards, demanding that the wine be properly handled and appreciated.
On his flight to Japan from Europe, he comments on the wine selected by Nao, an arrogant, young self-styled wine connoisseur and fellow passenger who coming back from a shopping spree, angering her when he starts by saying, "the wine is crying…" In a series of accidental encounters, Joe keeps bumping into Nao, who grows angrier and more determined to get back at him in some way. The spoiled daughter of the department head, Nao tells her father that she wants to become a sommelier when she finds out that he is working at one of the company's restaurants.
BS theme and realization as wine here is the answer to every single question.  
Overall Rating: 5/10
 
38. Tabloid (1998) [タブロイド] (Finished 3/10)
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Tags: Business, Crime, Drama
Tokiwa plays a sharp tongued reporter for a major daily newspaper. She was demoted to a sleazy tabloid as a punishment for breaking the reporter's code of conduct. While working in the tabloid, she discovered that she has the freedom of uncovering the truth behind a murder case.
Feels like a light detective to me as each time there's a scoop, then there's research and getting to know situation better followed by correction of actions. Fine, but not impressive.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
39. Seikimatsu no Uta (1998) [世紀末の詩] (Finished 1/11)
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Tags: Drama
Just when about to commit suicide after being deserted by his bride-to-be during the wedding, a man meets a university professor who is also at the point of killing himself. A woman nearby intervenes, one thing leads to another, and the three lost souls move in together. Each episode is a distinct story about the sometimes painful, sometimes warm romances between them and the people they meet while sharing an apartment.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
40. Shounentachi (1998) [少年たち] (Finished 1/3)
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Tags: Mystery, Youth, Drama
The drama centers around family court investigator Hirokawa Hajime and deals with juvenile crimes that take place in a local family court.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10
 
41. Happy Mania (1998) [ハッピーマニア] (Finished 1/12)
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Tags: Comedy
A comedy about a girl who keeps developing crushes on guys. A humorous drama that will appeal only to those who want a cute girl drama without seriousness.
Not translated.  
Overall Rating: 6/10

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