My Boss My Hero is still, to this day, one of the funniest dramas that I’ve ever seen. I love it OH SO MUCH! This Japanese drama first aired on July 8, 2006 until September 16, 2006. The story revolves around gangster Sakaki Makio (Nagase Tomoya), a 27 year old high school dropout. His father forces him to go back to school after he makes an elementary math mistake that causes a fight. If he cannot graduate high school – while posing as a 17 year old – the position of boss will go to his younger brother, Sakaki Mikio (Kikawada Masaya). At school he befriends Sakurakoji Jun (Tegoshi Yuya) and Umemura Hikari (Aragaki Yui). However, they must not know of his alternate identity.

This drama is engrossing, and Nagase Tomoya plays his role excellently! His character has a very firey personality and is always on the move, therefore there is never a boring moment when he is on screen. From the very beginning to the end of the series, you’ll be ensnared by Makio’s personality. The chemistry between him, Tegoshi Yuya and Aragaki Yui is pretty amazing in itself also – both drama and lots of humor in this series between them. I really, really recommend this drama.

I present to you, one of my favorite scenes.

I first picked up Sweet 18 a long time ago through the recommendation of a friend. Sweet 18 is a Korean drama which aired from January 19, 2004 to March 9, 2004. It took me until 2009 to actually finish this drama. Nevertheless, it was a pretty good series, but there are a lot of parts that seem to drag on forever.

The story is actually pretty good – an eccentric high school girl named Yoon Jung-Sook (Han Ji Hye) has been engaged since birth to straight-laced Kwon Hyuk-Joon (Lee Dong Gun) in an arrangement by their grandfathers, who were friends. However, instead of fighting the engagement like Kwon Hyuk-Koon, Yoon Jung-Sook cannot wait to be married when she turns 18, though she thinks that her fiancee is boring and he thinks that she is too wild. In fact, Yoon Jung-Sook has a crush on a man wearing “traditional garb” whom she happened to see one day – unaware that the same man is her future husband. They get married anyway though, and the series revolves around their life together as newlyweds who really don’t care for each other.

Basically I watched this series for Lee Dong Gun, who was pretty funny throughout. Han Ji Hye also acted very well, especially seeing as though one of the selling points of her character is her many facial expressions. Lee Da Hae (who played the character Moon Ga-Young) did really well in her role of the hateful ex, because even I disliked her.

That being said, I think that the best actor in the entire series was probably Kwon Hyuk-Koon’s Grandfather, played by Lee Soon Jae. Especially when he was hanging out with the young people trying to be hip. However, outside of his awesomeness, the series is something that I would watch again and go through faster than the first time that I saw it. The main problem that I had with the series is this: I really don’t have patience for the whole overused storyline about a couple being tested by one person’s ex, more drama and so forth.

Mineta Chisato (played by Horikita Maki) is a homeless 20 year old, who lives on the streets in order to avoid her missing father’s debt collectors. Atashinshi no Danshi is a drama that aired in Japan from April 14, 2009 until June 23, 2009. Taking a new look at the genre, Chisato is confronted by an older man named Okura Shinzo (Kusakari Masao) who asks that she marry him. He informs her that he only has a limited time left alive and if she marry him, he’ll pay off her debt. The catch is that she must become a mother to his six adopted sons, all of whom have varying rebellious personalities and range from way younger than her, to some being her elders. The sons are Okura Fuu (Kaname Jun), Okura Takeru (Okada Yoshinori), Okura Sho (Mukai Osamu), Okura Masaru (Yamamoto Yusuke), Okura Satoru (Seto Koji) and Okura Akira (Okayama Tomoki).

I loved, loved, LOVED this drama! First of all, I adore Yamamoto Yusuke and Horikita Maki – so I basically only watched this drama for them in the beginning. However, I have not been sorry once that I picked this series up and wasted those hours of my life because it is excellent. All the main characters are very well developed (the side characters, not so much) and there are so many new twists in the series that it is impossible to guess what is going to happen next. Of course, the main couple is a little bit predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable to watch.