So, where to start…
So this blog contains Recaps & Reviews of Asian dramas and movies; views/news on MVs, PVs, and music from Asian artists; the status of English subtitles for dramas; and now some random Asian characters I am learning, various lists – like dramas and movies based on comics, and recipes. Funness. Someday, I will make this site cleaner and easier to navigate. And now thanks to nichan coming on board, there is more anime, movie, and literature reviews and recaps. Plus, due to her obsession with Gackt, we even have had a “hair review” of the infamous jrocker.
NeeNee (aka “The Other Nicole,” “The Good Nicole”)
I am the managing editor for the awesome literary site NewPages.com. Plus, I have worked as an in-class tutor at my local community college for developmental math and English classes. I fell in love with Asian entertainment first by watching Anime. First came Sailor Moon, then came Ronin Warriors, Escaflowne, and InuYasha. Then I was introduced to manga by my good friend Jessie. Thanks to her I discovered Fruits Basket and Mars. And, for whatever reason, I did e-search into various mangas and discovered Hana Yori Dango which firmly cemented me into the Asian world. When I discovered HanDan had a live action adaptation, I immediately when out in search of it and bought it without ever having watched it. And thus I fell in love with Asian drama. My interests quickly left the Japanese realm and entered into the Korean with Full House and then I discovered the wacky Devil Beside You (a Taiwanese drama adaptation of the Japanese manga that I loved). Now I was completely addicted to all things Asian entertainment related. And then I started Asian Addicts Annonymous to blog about my Asian addiction which has morphed into this site (with anonymous spelled correctly this time).
nichan (aka “The Other Nicole,” “The Bad Nicole”)
i like cantonese music, japanese music, a dash of korean music, and our site owner has recently exposed me to mandarin music. — joey yung was my introduction to asian music. ***
i like manga and anime. — “sailor moon” was my introduction to anime, and my first manga obsession was “gravitation”. ***
i really like ancient chinese literature. — i believe “the tale of genji” was my introduction to asian literature, but i very quickly converted from japanese to chinese. i’m pretty sure my first chinese literature experience was “a dream of red mansions”. ***
i was a history major in college. i did my senior thesis on the comparison of yaoi and slash fan histories. when i got out of college, i still had a year left on my parents’ insurance, so i went back to the local college and did an independent study on learning world war i through “gundam wing”. ***
i like the occasional asian movie, but i don’t really have the attention span for movies… ***
i loves me some loligoth/gothloli. ***
the problem, you see, is that i’m way, way, way too cheap and lazy to bother getting new stuff, so i predict that all of my reviews will be on things i’ve already watched/read/heard, rather than new and up-to-date releases. don’t be expecting to see new titles and whatnot listed under my name… i buy from the bargain bin!
Chani
I am a Ph.D. student in natural resources, hoping to become a college professor of biology in the future. However, I am also a very creative person and I enjoy the arts just as much as I do the sciences. As I understand it, middle-brained people such as myself are quite rare.
I have been a fan of anime and manga for many years now and I am also interested in Japanese culture. During my undergraduate studies I double-majored in biology and Japanese Studies and spent a semester abroad in Japan, four months soaking in the culture of the country and working on improving my Japanese language skills. In this blog, in the music section, I hope to contribute album reviews of less ‘mainstream’ Japanese music, as well as lyrics translations of a variety of songs both mainstream and non. In the drama section, I will be blogging a little bit on drama, but more on anime, manga, and some video games. I’m a veteran of the latter three media forms, but am still familiarizing myself with Asian drama. Who knows, maybe I’ll blog more about it in the future ^_^
Hi, nice to meet you !
You seem like an interesting person.
Hmm, so do you. Now you are updating your blog more than I am, but then again, it’s gotten a little crazy for me :p
holy cow, do you have a better stash of my very ancient art than i do?!?
also: i heart the last line of this page. that’s bloody awesome. *lol*
I do have some of your older art on my computer that has managed to survive 2 computer crashes & 3 new computers believe it or not.
wow awesome site, i found it after you registered on mine and linked it
hope to see more of chinese series here 
I’m hoping to do more Chinese, too. Actually, I don’t think I’ve done anything beyond reviewing half of My Bratty Princess, plus a few episode recaps for Gong and Bu Bu Jing Xin. Oh, and I did My Prince. It’s just harder to get my hands on Chinese series.
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for your great site! I’m loving it.
Haha, NeeNee, your journey to Asian entertainment is exactly like mine. Show by show. Makes me miss the Hana Yori days… they were so long ago! Reminds me I haven’t watched a decent jdrama in ages.
I’m watching Smile DongHae now and enjoying your commentary on each ep (at least I think it’s yours). Thanks for the hard work!
I’m glad you’re enjoying Smile, Donghae. It’s a great drama which I will hopefully finally finish after 3 years :p
Rich Man, Poor Woman (despite some flaws) has been one of the best Jdramas I’ve watched in a long time. Plus Oguri from Han Dan is in it! He’s a wonderful actor. It’s nice seeing him play a lead role where he gets the girl
Haha thanks, I’ll check it out! Definitely used to obsess over Shun. It’ll be interesting to see how he’s grown.
And good luck with DongHae. I hope I can finish before Saewa’s evilness makes me break my computer.
I guess big props to Park Jung Ah for making me hate her soooo much as Saewa. I used to kind of like Do Jin, but he’s proving to be sooo annoying with his unreasonable attitude towards certain people. Sigh. But I will soldier on (prolly cause I know the ending already and it’s not a bad one
) Plus…Ji Chang Wook. Need I say more?
I’m slowly starting to hate that whole family even though I was really looking foward to saeyoung and the mom growing up at some point. And I wanted DoJin to get better too… now it just makes me happy that if DongHae wanted, he could totally beat him up xD
Hey I love your new layout, it’s definitely the prettiest one yet! :3
Awww, thank you! I go through streaks and am pretty satisfied with this theme
Just found your site after searching for details on Netflix. I follow the blog by dramabeans for my Korean dramas. Happy to find your site and look forward to reading reviews on Japanese dramas and many of the Korean dramas dramabeans couldn’t recap. I watch my dramas on DramaFever, Viki, and MVIBO.
Welcome! Happy you found AAA!
They are so good on their kdrama recaps and reviews. I hope you poke around and enjoy my small, eclectic offerings 
. I watch dramas on MVIBO, Viki & DramaFever, too. I wish there was a sight that could offer more Japanese dramas with English subtitles. DramaFever only has a few titles and Crunchyroll has a few as well. But there is no substantial library right now, which is sad.
I’m a follower of dramabeans, too
try gooddrama.net? i’ve been able to find most japanese dramas on there (with english subs)
Viki.com is starting to add more Japanese dramas with English translations.
I have seen that. I was so disappointed when jdramas disappeared from Viki a few years ago, so I have happy they are finally getting them back
and now that DramaFever is doing another jdrama, here’s looking up that we can soon start finding more.
There seems to be a lot of good programming in Japanese television and I hope we’ll see more on Viki and DramaFever too. I read somewhere that it’s more difficult to get licensing to show Japanese television, but don’t know if that’s true or not. I started watching “Summer Romance Shines in Rainbow Colors” with Matsumoto Jun and so far it’s quite good. Have a nice weekend NeeNee.
No, it’s quite true that its hard to get licensing for jdramas. I really wish that wasn’t the case, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Viki, DramaFever & even Crunchyroll will get more.
Dear Nee2
I came across your blog recently. I enjoy your recap so much (Smile Again DongHae, SADH). I haven’t finished reading your recap. I am at Ep 40+ but I feel that I must send my regards, best wishes and thanks to you. Because of you that make my following SADH so enjoyable and interesting. Some plots are quite incredible but these are some of the flaws in Kdramas.
As what you wrote, maybe the pull factor is Ji Chang Wook that makes me follows the drama so closely. Actually I am quite new to kdramas. I can count on my fingers how many kdramas, I have watched completely. I nvr like long kdramas but SADH is exceptional. I cried when JCW cried and I laughed and smiled when he did that. I think I am falling head over heal in love with him but only in Kdrama land.
I am more of a Hollywood addict but I started watching Kdramas only 2 yrs ago. I find that Koreans speak a lot through their body languages and their eye contacts. That is why I like your recaps very much because you added in a lot of your humor and your thoughts. Thanks once again and I will share some replies on some of your episodes and we can discuss more.