BOGCHI wrote:

14 Year Old Mother seems weird to me.. Maybe it should have been a little older.. maybe 16?

In a lot of countries you can be legally wed at the age of 16, provided you have parental consent. This include Asian countries such as Korea and China, probably even Japan.

thtl wrote:

In a lot of countries you can be legally wed at the age of 16, provided you have parental consent. This include Asian countries such as Korea and China, probably even Japan.

Well it's not common (right?)
So 16 year old mother would have been as shocking/scandalous as 14 year old mother
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i watched the raw version of 1 and 2nd ep... and i hardly understand anything lol... well i understand a little... and i picked a little bit of whats goin on its not that hard.. but yah its good love the drama... i watched her in sapuri and i think shes brilliant very good young actress

shiro-chan

shiro-chan wrote:

i watched the raw version of 1 and 2nd ep... and i hardly understand anything lol... well i understand a little... and i picked a little bit of whats goin on its not that hard.. but yah its good love the drama... i watched her in sapuri and i think shes brilliant very good young actress shiro-chan

oh, the young actress who plays the lead was also in Sapuri? good.
she did a wonderful job acting in the first two eps, and has a great talent in acting. I compare her with the slighly older Tomoka Kurokawa, and at 17, she is a great actress too.

There are subtitles to the first episode, and i believe they are currently working on the sub's for the 2nd ep to this j-drama. I hope they continue the series ep3 to the end. They are soft sub's, and are located on the d-addicts website.

yea she was na-chan in sapuri

shiro-chan

shiro-chan wrote:

yea she was na-chan in sapuri shiro-chan

so, did you figure it out? i provided some info above in my post regarding .srt files.....happy searching.

yea sorta... so u mean i have to download a seperate file for the video??

BOGCHI wrote:

Well it's not common (right?) So 16 year old mother would have been as shocking/scandalous as 14 year old mother

Of course you are right in saying that this is not an everyday occurence. Nevertheless it being legal does put a cap on the drama. Girls tend to mature early and at 16 they are more 'prepared' (perhaps not the right word here) for motherhood than a 14-year old.

Whether this is scandalous or not really depends on the development of a society's culture. In the 19th century people tend to marry early, probably because most of them die before they see their 50th birthday. Girls turned into mothers at the ripe old age of 12 in a lot of cases. Modern society thinks this is a sin but at the current state of the world, who's to say we are right and that our ancestors were wrong.

Raging hormones aside a young mother feels the turmoil mostly because of how people around her react. If you act scared of something, e.g. a snake, in front of a very young child he/she is likely to feel scared, even though he/she has no knowledge of the dangers of a snake.

I am not sanctioning underage pregnancy, only saying that by acting to protect our young we sometime become the source of fear.

shiro-chan wrote:

yea sorta... so u mean i have to download a seperate file for the video??

the video file...which is usually the (.avi) file, is the episode video of the j-drama...and you get that off d-addicts

depending if the j-drama is being sub'd....with hard subs(meaning...the subs are in the .avi file episode, OR soft subs...d/l the (.srt) file...which is usually very very small file...
and put it in the same folder, d/l VOBSUB and you good to go...

so, remember...HARDSUBS...don't have to worry about the srt file...cause the fansubbers put it in the regular avi file in the j-drama ep series.
SOFTSUBS....well you get the point already.

shiro-chan wrote:

i watched the raw version of 1 and 2nd ep... and i hardly understand anything lol... well i understand a little... and i picked a little bit of whats goin on its not that hard.. but yah its good love the drama... i watched her in sapuri and i think shes brilliant very good young actress shiro-chan

lol shiro-chan!
the 2nd ep was dramatic! i would have disowned her for being pregnant. >_>

thtl
well said

Uedas Wifey wrote:

lol shiro-chan! the 2nd ep was dramatic! i would have disowned her for being pregnant. >_> thtl well said

omg i know... my dad would have killed me twice

shiro-chan

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In a lot of countries you can be legally wed at the age of 16, provided you have parental consent. This include Asian countries such as Korea and China, probably even Japan.

In Sekai Chuushin de... the main characters couldn't get married because they were only 16. I assumed, even with parental consent, they were not able to marry? I wonder if this was only for the drama or if it also applies to real life in Japan?

I saw the first part...I enjoyed it.

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the 2nd ep was dramatic! i would have disowned her for being pregnant. >_>

They were young and foolish. They made a mistake. If it was my daughter, I guess I would have to forgive her. Shikata ga naindesukara.

I can't wait for the second part to finish downloading.

well i would disown her if she WANTED to have the baby. she should get an abortion ne? i just dont see how a 14 year old can mentally and financially raise a kid, even tho they somehow knew how to "do it," it was probably an accident lol. like the sensei said, it's not fair for the baby.

Uedas Wifey wrote:

well i would disown her if she WANTED to have the baby. she should get an abortion ne? i just dont see how a 14 year old can mentally and financially raise a kid, even tho they somehow knew how to "do it," it was probably an accident lol. like the sensei said, it's not fair for the baby.

From what I understood from the subs I don't think it was an 'accident' per se -

Click on button to reveal/hide spoiler:

Miki seemd to know where they were heading and, in fact, argueably took the initiative.

Also I think it is too early to pass judgement on whether it is fair to the baby - if Miki turned out to be a good mother then it would not have been unfair. What is certain is that Miki is going to have a real tough time ahead.

thtl wrote:

From what I understood from the subs I don't think it was an 'accident' per se - Click on button to reveal/hide spoiler: Miki seemd to know where they were heading and, in fact, argueably took the initiative. Also I think it is too early to pass judgement on whether it is fair to the baby - if Miki turned out to be a good mother then it would not have been unfair. What is certain is that Miki is going to have a real tough time ahead.

i can only speak for myself here, but if i was a parent, it would be a really tough situation to be in, having your daughter pregnant, especially at such a young age, but i would be upset and angry, but yet forgiving, and supportive. It is vital to show emotional support at these times, but it is a complicated perdicament(situation) to be in.

qilver wrote:

i can only speak for myself here, but if i was a parent, it would be a really tough situation to be in, having your daughter pregnant, especially at such a young age, but i would be upset and angry, but yet forgiving, and supportive. It is vital to show emotional support at these times, but it is a complicated perdicament(situation) to be in.

I have no idea how I'm going to behave if my 14-year old daughter tells me she's pregnant. I suppose it depends also on my own circumstance - if I am reasonably well-off (able to support my daughter and grand-whatever) I'm probably more likely to be sympathetic than frustrated.

For the record though I don't have any children, and am not planning on having any.

On a different note I love the music in this drama, to the point that I have placed an advance order for the OST. It's available in mid/late November and will probably be shipped to me together with the "Nodame Cantabile" CDs I ordered.

Episode 3 is now available from D-Addicts:

http://d-addicts.net/torrents/14%20sai%20no%20haha%20ep03%20%28704x396%20divx6%29.avi.torrent

woooooooooooTT
now waiting for the subs =(

ep 4 ratings is 19.4%.....shida mirai doing great

wow, this drama is GOOD. at first the whole idea.. i was like whoa, i cant watch this drama... and especially since shida mirai in sapuri didnt really have much of a role, and i hadnt realized what an amazing job she could do in this role. but at first i was seriously so surprised 'cause she is sooo young and looks even younger!! but after the "2 months later" bit, she looked so much more grown up and adultlike just with longer hair and change in makeup. O_O

anyway ive only just watched the first 2 eps but i really think its amazing so far.
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