J-DRAMAs - Finally! A new galore of offerings. If you want to watch these on Viki.com

you know the drill :wink: - Support! (If not all of them, support those you want to watch.)

  1. Follow the channels (Click + on channel page top right hand corner.)
  2. Submit the Title Request Form. (Complete the form at https://vikiinc.wufoo.com/forms/title-request-form, and click ‘submit’.)
  3. Spread the word!

Below is the new galore of offerings (all are fan channels as of this posting):


Trumpet of the Cliff / 絶壁の上のトランペット (movie)
Synopsis (AsianWiki):
Aoi (Nanami Sakuraba) studies photography at a school in Tokyo. She undergoes a heart transplant operation and goes to the island of Okinawa to recover. Her uncle lives on the island. There, she holds a camera and walks along the island. Aoi hears the sound of a trumpet. She looks up and sees a young man playing the trumpet. His name is Zio (L.Joe).

https://www.viki.com/movies/36244c-trumpet-of-the-cliff
https://i.imgur.com/wUefGw3.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnMchCP0HP8


May I Blackmail You? / 今からあなたを脅迫 (drama)
Synopsis (AsianWiki):
Kanji Senkawa (Dean Fujioka) receives requests which the police or private investigators can’t handle. He solves the cases by threatening people. Kanji Senkawa meets wealthy university student Mio Kanesaka (Emi Takei). She has a good heart and and can’t ignore those in difficult situations. Kanji and Mio get involved in various cases including voice phishing and kidnappings. Based on light novel “Ima kara Anata wo Kyouhaku Shimasu” by Namiya Fujiishi (published April 18, 2016 by Kodansha).

https://www.viki.com/tv/35769c-may-i-blackmail-you
https://i.imgur.com/8usEdaD.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/GEMtvasia/videos/571968309805559


Caution, Hazardous Wife / 奥様は、取り扱い注意 (drama)
SYNOPSIS (AsianWiki):
Nami Isayama (Haruka Ayase) met a man through a blind date and married him. She and her husband moved to a quiet, exclusive residential area. Nami is now a housewife and she decides to take cooking classes. She meets other housewives at the cooking class and receives tips from them, while becoming friends. Nami surmises that one of the housewives in her cooking class is the victim of domestic violence. Nami decides to save the victim by herself.

https://www.viki.com/tv/35768c-caution-hazardous-wife
https://i.imgur.com/mDW1RWb.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQE2RUF_wmg


Overprotected Kahoko / 過保護のカホコ
SYNOPSIS (AsianWiki):
Kahoko Nemoto (Mitsuki Takahata) is a naive 21-year-old university student. She relies on her mother, Izumi (Hitomi Kuroki), for everything in her life. Her mother wakes her up everyday, picks up her clothes, while Kahoko Nemoto has never done housework or driven a car. One day, Kahoko Nemoto meets a young man who grew up in a completely opposite environment.

https://www.viki.com/tv/35767c-overprotected-kahoko
https://i.imgur.com/DADWzGw.jpg
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5yte30


Frankenstein’s Love / フランケンシュタインの恋 (drama)
SYNOPSIS (AsianWiki):
A monster (Gou Ayano) was created from an incident that took place 100 years ago. He possesses super physical ability and can live forever. He yearns for humans and listens to the radio. He picks up things thrown away by other people. The monster dreams of living as a human. One day, he meets a young woman Tsugaru. He falls in love with her.

https://www.viki.com/tv/35766c-frankensteins-love
https://i.imgur.com/Iy9zEWT.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJvfXP-Vu8


SWIM! / 男水! (drama)
SYNOPSIS (AsianWiki):
There are only three members at the high school male swimming club. Swimming club chief Shuhei Sakaki (Ryo Matsuda) and the other two members set a goal to recruit more members.
Based on webcomic "Dansui!” by Tatsuya Kiuchi (published from July 27, 2012 via comic.Hana LaLa Online.com/webtoon/)

https://www.viki.com/tv/35765c-swim
https://i.imgur.com/sRDJFGQ.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nF64N--dBg


Tokyo Tarareba Girls / 東京タラレバ娘 (drama)
SYNOPSIS (AsianWiki):
30-year-old Rinko Kamata (Yuriko Yoshitaka) works as an unpopular screenwriter. She doesn’t have a boyfriend, but she has two female friends Kaori and Koyuki. They meet regularly at a bar. There, they complain about their situations and go through what if scenarios. One day, Rinko Kamata decides to go for happiness at love and work. Based on manga series “Tokyo Tarareba Musume” by Akiko Higashimura (first published May, 2014 in Japanese josei manga magazine Kiss).

https://www.viki.com/tv/35764c-tokyo-tarareba-girls
https://i.imgur.com/CsrmALy.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Sey-BdE_U

Pretty Proofreader / 地味にスゴイ! 校閲ガール・河野悦子 (drama)
Etsuko Kono (Satomi Ishihara) is a 28-year-old woman who loves fashion. Aspiring to become a fashion editor, she joins a publishing company, but she is sent to work in copy editing section. There, her job is to correct errors and inadequate parts of documents and copies. Based on the novel “Koetsu Garu” by Ayako Miyagi (published March 14, 2014 by KADOKAWA).

https://www.viki.com/tv/35763c-pretty-proofreader
https://i.imgur.com/H6nqgcZ.jpg
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5yckef


Your Home is My Business! / 家売るオンナ (drama)
SYNOPSIS (AsianWiki):
With four years left before Tokyo hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics, housing sales are fiercely competitive. At this time, an excellent real estate agent appears. Her name is Machi Sangenya (Keiko Kitagawa). She is single and 30-years-old with an attractive appearance. With any of her clients. Machi Sangenya must get a purchase. Machi has her own unique way to get her customers to buy the homes. Her unique method include getting involved in the problems of her clients and their families. She then solves their problems. With her ingenious ways, all of Machi Sangenya’s customers purchase homes from her.

https://www.viki.com/tv/35762c-your-home-is-my-business
https://i.imgur.com/CpXjVlh.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNWd-Q66tPQ


A Girl’s Breakfast / いつかティファニーで朝食を (drama)
SYNOPSIS (AsianWiki):
Mariko (Reina Triendl) cares about eating breakfast a lot due to her mother’s influence. Mariko and her boyfriend have lived together for 7 years, but they haven’t had breakfast together very often. Even though Mariko began living with her boyfriend, imagining eating breakfast together and smiling.
One day, Mariko has breakfast with Noriko (Kanna Moriya), Risa (Yuko Araki) and Shiori (Eri Tokunaga). They are all friends from their high school days. While having breakfast together, Mariko decides to breakup with her boyfriend and to find her new self. The women also decide to have breakfast together regularly. Based on manga series “Itsuka Tiffany de Choshoku wo” by Hirochi Maki (first published September 7, 2012 by Shinchosha).

https://www.viki.com/tv/35761c-a-girls-breakfast
https://i.imgur.com/hPQz4ut.jpg


Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa / 臨床犯罪学者 火村英生の推理 (drama)
SYNOPSIS (AsianWiki):
Hideo Himura (Takumi Saito) is a criminologist and his friend Arisu Arisugawa (Masataka Kubota) is a mystery novel writer. The duo works together to solve cases. Based on the novel “Himura Hideo Series” by Arisu Arisugawa (first published March, 1992 by KODANSHA NOVELS).

https://www.viki.com/tv/35760c-criminologist-himura-and-mystery-witer-arisugawa
https://i.imgur.com/hXTM4F4.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYBfynEM_lk


A shoutout to Rakuten Viki. Thank you!

PS: Please bring Vikians some historical Japanese dramas/movies, for instances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3c1C4BUIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X2Lt5dYqjk

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@jadecloud88 GLAD to see Viki is bringing more Japanese Dramas & Movies FINALLY! :smile:
Hope Japanese Vikiers are still around after more than a year without muct activity in the Japanese side here. :confused:
VIKI, どうもありがとう
(VIKI, Domo arigato, “thanks a lot”) :sunglasses:

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These are just fan channels, though. There’s no info on them, not even a cover image.

Please don’t try to get my hopes up for nothing. fan channels do not mean they will get picked up. fan channels= wishful thinking not actual new dramas. call me when VIKI themselves actually does something constructive. I have lost ALL faith in them actually keeping their promise of new jdramas and they will STILL not get any more of my money till they start doing what they promise. I have spent over a year asking and suggesting new jdramas to no effect.

Funny, when you could still submit channels the channel I submitted for “Frankenstein’s Love” was forever pending until Viki deleted all pending channels because of the new system.
I highly doubt any of these channels will get a license… Would be great if they get a license but the Japanese like to keep things to themselves.

@dale_seymour196220, @dudie
But if they take the trouble to put up a channel it usually means that they at least intend/hope/try to get the video.
So yes, let’s fill up those forms.

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