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** this list is incomplete.. i'm working on it now.. but it's gonna take some time for me to clean up the whole DoD forum and list all the threads here as my schedule is pretty tight
for the mean time, please do not create duplicate threads..thank u for your co-op

List of Dramas in Discussions on Drama forum

0-9
101 kaime no puropozu / 101st Proposals / 101 proposals
3 nen B gumi Kinpachi Sensei
A
Abarenbo Shogun
Abunai Deka
Ace o Nerae
Ai Nante Iranee yo, Natsu / I don't need love / I cannot say I love you
Aikurushi
Aishiteru to Itte Kure / Say You Love Me
Anego
Antique
Attention Please
B
Beach Boys
Beautiful Life
Beginner
Big Wing
Bijo ka Yajuu / The Beauty or the Beast / Kiss? or Fight?
Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon
Blackjack ni Yoroshiku / Say Hello to Blackjack
Boku Dake no Madona/You are my only Madonna / ... and I Love Her
Boku to Kanojo to Kanojo no Ikiru Michi / The Way We Live
Brand
Brother Beat
Bus Stop
Busu no Hitomi Koishiteru / Falling in Love in the Eyes of the unpretty
Byakuyakou
C
Chuushingura 1/47
D
Denchi ga Kireru Made / Till the Batteries Run Out
Densha Otoko / Train Man
Dragonzakura
E
Engine
F
Faito / Fight
Fighting Girl
Fireboys
Food Fight / Food Frenzy
Friends
G
Gakkou no Sensei
Ganbatte Ikimasshoi / Give it All
Garusa / Gal Circle
Gift
Gokusen
Gokusen 2
Good Luck
Great Teacher Onizuka / GTO
Great Teacher Onizuka Special
H
H2
Hakoiri no Musume
Hamidashi Keiji - Jounetsukei
Hana Yori Dango / Meteor Garden / F4
Haru to Natsu / Haru e Natsu
Haru, Natsu, and the Undelivered Letter
Hero
Hikari to tomo ni
Hitonatsu no Papa e / Papa for One Summer
Hito ni Yasashiku / Be Nice to People / 3 Peace
Hitotsu Yane no Shita / Under the Same Roof
Home Drama
Home & Away
Honke no Yome / My Marriage
Hoshi no Kinka 1 / Heaven's Coins~die sterntaler~ 1
Hoshi no Kinka 3 / Heaven's Coins 3
Hotman
Hotman 2
I
Ichi Ritoru no Namida / 1 liter tears/A Diary with Tears
Ikebukuro West Gate Park / IWGP
Imouto Yo / Tokyo Cinderella story / Sister of mine
Itazura na Kiss / Teasing Kiss / Naughty Kiss
Itoshii Kimi E / To The One I Love
Itsumo Futari De
J
Jukunen Rikon
K
Kamisama mou sukoshi dake / God please give me more time / Precious time
Kawa Itsuka Umi E
Kemonomichi
Kiken na Aneki / My Dangerous Sister
Kimi to deatte kara / Since I Met You
Kimi Wa Petto / You're My Pet
Kisarazu Cat's Eye
Kita no kuni kara himitsu '98 Jidai / A secret from north area / From northern country
Kochira Hon Ikegami Sho / Central Ikegami Police
Koi ni Ochitara
Koi seyo otome (Let's Fall in Love)
Koi wa Tatakai / Love is a battle / Love & Fight
Koinu no Waltz
Kou Kou Kyoushi 2003 / High School Teacher 2003
Kougen e Irasshai
Koumei ga Tsuji
Kurokawa no Techou
Kurosagi
Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji 2 / 24 Hours Emergency Ward 2
Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji 2 Special / 24 Hours Emergency Ward 2 Special
L
Last Christmas
Long Love Letter
Long Vacation
Love Complex
Love Story
Lunch no Joou / The Queen of Lunchtime Cuisine
M
M no Higeki
Machiben
Majo No Jouken / Witch's requirement / Forbidden love
Manhattan Love Story
Mayonaka no Ame / Midnight Rain
Meguri Ai / Refrain / Twist of Fate
Mother & Lover
Moto Kare / My Ex
Mukodono! / Son in law / Married couple talk / My Husband
Mukodono 2003
Musashi
My Little Chef
N
Nemureru mori / Sleeping Forest
Never Land
Ningen no Shoumei / Proof of the Man
Nobuta wo Produce
Nurseman
O
Oishii Puropozu / Delicious Proposal / Tasty Proposal
Okusama wa Majo / Bewitched
Omiai Kekkon / Arranged Marriage
Ooku / The inner place
Orange Days
Oshin
Oyaji
P
Perfect Love
Pretty Girls
Pride
Primadam
Psycho Doctor
R
Remote
Rinbukyoku~Rondo~
Ryuuten no ouhi Saigo no koutei
S
Saiyuuki
Sakura
Sarariman Kintaro 3 / Salaryman Kintaro 3 / Kintaro, the white-collar worker 3
Sarariman Kintaro 4 / Salaryman Kintaro 4 / Kintaro, the white-collar worker 4
Satorare
Seija no Koushin / When The Saints Go Marching
Seikei Bijin / Artificial Beauty
Sekai no Chuushin de Ai o Sakebu / Crying out, in the Center of the World
Shimokita Glory Days
Shinsengumi
Shiroi Kyoto / The Great White Tower
Shomuni 1 / Power Office Ladies 1
Shomuni Final / Power Office Ladies 3
Slow Dance
Sore wa, Totsuzen, Arashi no you ni... / It was sudden, like a storm...
Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi / One Million Stars Falling from the Sky / The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
Stand Up!!
Strawberry on the Shortcake
Summer Snow
Suna no Utsuwa / Vessel of Sand
Seishun Kazoku / Springtime Family
T
Taiho Shichauzo / You're Under Arrest...
Taiyou no Kisetsu
Taiyou wa Shizumanai
Tengoku e no Kaidan / Stairway to Heaven
Tengoku no Kiss / Heaven's kiss / Tokyo ghost story
Tenshi ga Kieta Machi
Teru Teru Ashita
Tiger & Dragon
Tokyo Love Cinema
Tokyo rabu sutori / Tokyo Love Story
Top Caster
Toshiie to Matsu / Toshiie and Matsu / Love Shines Through
Toshishita No Otoko / Younger Men
Toubosha / The Fujitive
Trick
Trick 2
Trick 3
Tsuhan-Man / Shopping Hero
U
Utsukushii Hito / Le Bel Homme
V
Virgin Road
Visual Battle 2
W
Wakaba no Koro / Days of youth / About the young generation
Watashi no Aozora?
Water Boys
Water Boys 2
Wedding Planner
Wonderful Life
Y
Yanpapa / Young Father
Yamato Nadeshiko / Perfect Woman
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru
Yoiko No Mikata / Pre-School Guy / Ally of Good Children
Yoshitsune


Polls / Questions
Your top 5 Drama
Your top 5 Japanese drama soundtrack
The Best Theme Song/s? Ready to vote?
Jdramas, that made you cry!?
Top 5 J-Characters
Which Dramas Are Like Your Real Life
Do You Watch Dramas Without Subtitles
Why Did All Of You Like To Watch Japan Series?
romantic comedy jdrama
Romance Dramas with Happy Endings
Dorama with the best ending
Drama worth watching more than 3 times
Which Dorama(s) Do You Think Had The Most Addictive Start?
Which Dorama(s) Do You Think Had The Best Ending?
What's Your Favorite Quote from a Dorama?
Dorama Sequel: Which Would You Most Like To See?
The Best Kimura Takuya's Drama
Favorite JDorama Sensei
Seasonal Dramas
Christmas Dramas
Comparison
1 litre of tears or Sekai no chuushin de, ai wo sakebu
Long vacation VS Love Generation or Beautiful life?
SOS or LOng Vacation?
Shomuni vs OL Visual K (Visual Battle)
SHIROI KYOTO (WHITE TOWER) or PRIDE
Hero or Love Generation
Mukodono or Mukodono2003
Sleeping Forest VS. Ice World (SPOILER ALERT!!!)
Yamato Nadeshiko or Manatsu no Merry Christmas
Others
Dorama Quiz
J-dramas on Singapore TV
Takuya Kimura's Jdoramas
Things you didn't know about your favorite dramas
Dorama Cliches

2004/11/16

There are several translation tools on the Internet that you can use to either translate to English, or convert the Japanese characters to Romaji. Here's a quick list of the tools I use:

Kanji/Hiragana-to-Romaji Translator
http://www.j-talk.com/nihongo/index.php

Excite Japanese-to-English Translator
http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url

@nifty Japanese-to-English Translator
http://www.nifty.com/globalgate

Babelfish Japanese-to-English Translator
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Again, this policy is only within the Discussions on Japanese Dramas forum. Other forums within JDorama.com -- it's the moderators' call on their respective forums.

--- groink
Co-moderator, Discussions on Japanese Dramas forum

These are the new guidelines for avatars and signatures from the administrator.

Please make the necessary adjustments as soon as possible.

Genma wrote:

Rules have been set. Refer to your profile page for details beside the signature and avatar fields. We will monitor the situation for 2 weeks before actually taking any action. Those whose signatures or avatars exceed the limit, please change or optimise them within this time frame. In short, total size of avatar+signature images must not exceed 200kB, regardless of animation and display size. Mods, could you update this in the guidelines of the respective forums where they apply? Thanks.

I hope people here are reading these new guidelines....

i agree with the new rules. I'll just go double check mine.

yamete_evie wrote:

i agree with the new rules. I'll just go double check mine.

Thanks for your support.

Just a reminder.

I have an off-site avatar that's nowhere near 200 kB. I think its like ~40-50 kB. Thank goodness . If, by some chance, there is a problem with the avatar then I'll fix it ASAP.
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shoujo22 wrote:

I have an off-site avatar that's nowhere near 200 kB. I think its like ~40-50 kB. Thank goodness . If, by some chance, there is a problem with the avatar then I'll fix it ASAP.

Ehh, you're fine.

I'm more concerned about those people who ignore these important posts or just don't read them because they've got horse blinders on.

Dang, I made all my avatars 256K.

loris wrote:

Dang, I made all my avatars 256K.

Ooops.

Ah I do have some that fit in 200K ... forgot about them. I'll use the old Mutsu Izumi for now.

loris wrote:

Ah I do have some that fit in 200K ... forgot about them. I'll use the old Mutsu Izumi for now.

That'll work.

Yeah, the reason I made a bunch of my avatars to fit 256K before was because that was the size limit on photobucket for each picture.

It's tough making a decent animated gif in under 200K. I've seen a couple new animations here that are like a little slide show (each frame is fairly unrelated to the others), and I personally find that kind of distracting from the page. The animated gifs that are more like movies (each frame changes only a little) aren't as distracting to me. Does anyone else feel the same way? Or am I just a weirdo?

loris wrote:

Yeah, the reason I made a bunch of my avatars to fit 256K before was because that was the size limit on photobucket for each picture. It's tough making a decent animated gif in under 200K. I've seen a couple new animations here that are like a little slide show (each frame is fairly unrelated to the others), and I personally find that kind of distracting from the page. The animated gifs that are more like movies (each frame changes only a little) aren't as distracting to me. Does anyone else feel the same way? Or am I just a weirdo?

well...there was a whole thread about the problems people have been having with the huge animated gifs...its not the content as much as the size thats really bothersome to some people

loris wrote:

It's tough making a decent animated gif in under 200K.

Have you tried reducing the overall size of the image from 150x150 to someting smaller? That might buy you some more space for animation.

Quote:

I've seen a couple new animations here that are like a little slide show (each frame is fairly unrelated to the others), and I personally find that kind of distracting from the page. The animated gifs that are more like movies (each frame changes only a little) aren't as distracting to me. Does anyone else feel the same way? Or am I just a weirdo?

Yeah, those choppy "animations" are distracting.

And pretty bad, too.

Eh, I must check mine....should be ok though

battlegirlai wrote:

well...there was a whole thread about the problems people have been having with the huge animated gifs...its not the content as much as the size thats really bothersome to some people

I understand that. My point is that now that there is a size limit, I have a hunch that people will be making animations with fewer frames, hence the gifs will appear more like slideshows. I don't know what other people think of this aesthetically, but I find slide show animations akin to the old <blink> tags: superrifically ugly. It may just be me though. I have been called out for my weird sense of aesthetics before.

bmwracer wrote:

Have you tried reducing the overall size of the image from 150x150 to someting smaller? That might buy you some more space for animation.

Yeah, but after I do that, there's usually a bunch of pixel-editing work to be done to clean up. It's enough to make me grouchy!

Sorry for my whinging. I'll shut up about it and go mortify myself with some knotted leather straps.

I'm lazy so I just found my avatar on the net .
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