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Best Japanese TV Shows to Watch on Rakuten Viki: My Fair Prince
My Fair Prince is the latest Japanese drama I completed on Rakuten Viki. Apart from Dean Fujioka (one of the best Japanese actors around), My Fair Prince actually had a main cast of actors/actresses that I haven’t seen before in other shows. My Fair Prince does have a romantic storyline, but it also had other…
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Best Japanese Shows to Watch: Choosing Spouse by Lottery
Choosing Spouse by Lottery is a drama with an interesting concept on Rakuten Viki. The show is completely fictional, but it proposes a Japanese society in which anyone from the ages 20-38 (who are not currently married) gets randomly matched with people from their age group. The pairings are completely random, and the only way…
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Best Japanese TV Shows to Watch on Rakuten Viki: Influence
Influence is a new Japanese drama available to watch on Rakuten Viki, and it is a mystery/thriller show. The main story revolves around three childhood friends who all went to the same high school. When they were in high school, they got caught up in a difficult situation, and it led to them having to…
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Best Japanese Shows to Watch on Rakuten Viki: Dangerless Detectives
Dangerless Detectives is one of the newest shows available on Rakuten Viki, as it was produced in September of 2020 (and only recently added to Viki). Dangerless Detectives is one of the funniest Japanese shows I have watched so far, although it is a really dumb and slapstick type of humor. The show is about…
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Best TV Shows to Watch on Rakuten Viki: Noble Boys
Noble Boys is an 18-episode drama available to watch on Rakuten Viki. Each episode is only 15 minutes long, so it is a super binge-watchable show (in total it comes out to about 4 hours or so of watching). Noble Boys is about 4 boys who come from extremely wealthy families (and who all grew…
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TV Shows: Unnatural Death (Tokyo Broadcasting Station)
Unnatural is a Japanese forensic mystery show that aired in 2018 on TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting Station). In previous posts, I mentioned both Pretty Proofreader and Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa as two shows that I enjoyed watching. The female lead in Unnatural Death is Satomi Ishihara, who also plays the lead role in Pretty…
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Best TV Shows to Watch on Rakuten Viki: Under the Miracle Cherry Tree
Under the Miracle Cherry Tree is a Japanese drama on Rakuten Viki. It is about a boy who was killed but comes back to life seven years later. The main characters are Mei (Iitoyo Marie) and Kota (Sano Hayato), and they were best friends before Kota was tragically killed. Since then, Mei has been struggling…
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Best TV Shows to Watch on Rakuten Viki: May I Blackmail You
May I Blackmail You is a show on Rakuten Viki starring Dean Fujioka and Emi Takei as the main characters. The show is about a professional blackmailer (he acts in a Robin Hood way though, helping the needy) and the cases he and his team try to solve. If you have ever watched the US…
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Best TV Shows to Watch on Rakuten Viki: Tokyo Tarareba Girls
Tokyo Tarareba Girls is a manga that was recently turned into a TV show. I read multiple reviews saying that while the show was good, it was toned down for TV and that the manga is even better. I find this a bit surprising, as I found the show enjoyable to watch, but maybe one…
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