What was the first JDrama that you got hooked on?

What was the first Japanese drama that you saw which totally got you hook and left you asking for more?

The first Japanese that I have seen was summer snow I happen to download it off a bittorrent site. From then on I was obsessed with getting more drama that starred Hirosue Ryoko. I ended up bidding on eBay for anything that she was in and spending way too much money getting Shotgun Marriage, Poppoya, Himitsu. If this keeps up I might go broke. I was going to get more but it was so hard to find Japanese drama that contain English subtitle. If only I can understand Chinese and Japanese.

first drama that made me wanted to buy the vcd would be ice world.. :nut: ice world and majo no joken was the earliest drama i've bought.. ;) but i wouldnt say this is the best drama but its still good!! :mrgreen: maybe all i wanted to know is, who was the killer.. and hafta admit i was immersed by nanako beauty :P

My first dorama was also a Nanako series, but the one that got me hooked was "Konna Koi No Hanashi". It was such a good story about a rich man falling for a poor woman. It was so sad. :mecry:

to heart ^.^

Definitely GTO!!!
Got madly into jdrama since then. It's been a year ago. hehe!
Still collectin and watchin jdramas, more of collectin than watchin. Not enough time, will finish the rest of unwatched jdramas by end of the summer. hehe! quite ambitious plan.
A few eps left in Kintaro 2. Good! quite underestimated series.
Season 3 in my wanted list, will get it soon (suppose).

love generation!
^__^V
only cause of matsu takako waa they were great together

long vacation
attached to it..n couldnt get loose
;)

Beach Boys....

Definetly Beach Boys!! :D

gto was definitely the drama that kicked it off for me, even tho my friends were watching dramas before then.

First was Long Vacation I got from a friend, but ended up not finishing it. Then about a year later, I saw Summer Snow, then it was all over... been hooked eversince. :google: :beaten:

the first jap vcd i ever bought was itazura na kiss.. after that my collection grew but it started with takashi kashiwabara's vcds first.. but still itazura na kiss wasn't the first jap drama i watched.. but i think it was news no onna.. that made me notice takki.. ;)

Definitely 'Love Generation' for me. Perhaps, both of the leads are my fave acts. Then there's HERO!!!! Splendid! :applaud:

long vacation.... first drama that i watch and bought...... ;)

I watched a few, With Love, GTO and Beach Boys. You guys can obviously see why!! Takashi Sorimachi and Yutaka Takenouchi were KAKKOII!!
Then I watched 'Love Generation', I was hooked.....
:google:

heh... if memory serves me well... the first jap dorama that got me really hooked would be Oshin....
watched it when i was really, really young.... really liked it alot then....

then there are those shows when they show stuff on earthquakes and tsunamis... was really young then, so don't know if those shows on the natural disasters are jap movies or jap doramas.... but i still remember i enjoyed them tremendously tho.... :mrgreen:

as for the modern doramas, i guess it would have to be Imouto yo, Aishiteiru to itte kure and Long Vacation... :nut:

Tokyo Love Story was the first to got me hooked. Still one of my fave but then I made a long pause on watching dorama and Beach Boys and Long Vacation burst out this madness again :mrgreen:

I would have been either PURE, Ugly DUckling or Yellow Card. I can't which I saw absolutlely first. I saw them all approximately within the same 6 months and was hooked

FOr me..i think it is beach boys. i also enjoyed the show with saito aikiko..the kissing show. forgot the title.

I enjoyed GTO. very much. but my fav is none other than MUKODONO. I watched it for 3 times, i never watch a drama more than twice.

Mine was when i was a kid. I watched OSHIN (great story, i think the whole Msian watched this coz it was hugely popular at that time that it was repeated a few times!!) then Meoro Attack (which was immensely popular too, that at that time every kid wd dream of doing summersault!)

Followed by the excellent story of a teacher teaching in primary school and the brilliant '101 proposal'-instantly fell in love wi Chage and Aska.. it stopped then, and a station rekindles the memories of these superb tradition of Jdoramas wi Meguriai, La Periode Blue. a few years later, Beach Boys revitalised my enthuthiast for Jdoramas..

phew :sweat: i do need some time out fm the couch, arent i?

For those who didn't realise, I've already added Oshin in the database. 297x15min episodes... wonder how I managed to finish watching it last time?! :sweat: Great dorama no doubt.

http://jdorama.com/drama.php?id=739

Some trivia here...

The first foreign country to broadcast "Oshin" was Singapore, at the suggestion of former Singaporean President Wee Kim-wee, who was serving as ambassador to Japan at the time and watched "Oshin" every morning. When Mr. Wee left Japan, he proposed that the then President of NHK arrange for broadcast of the series in his country. "Oshin" made her international debut in September of 1984.

(info from NHK website)