hey, I was wondering if anyone out there gets their Jdorama fix on television. If so where do you live, what's the name of the network, and what do they show? I live in the US, but the only dorama series that comes on are the ones that come on the international channel, and they aren't subtitled.

Hehe! Jdramas being broadcasted at the place where I reside is totally unrealistic, it's far beyond the horizon
All they broadcast are mostly US soaps and some domestic.

http://www.jdorama.com/viewtopic.php?t=1305&start=30 you'll find ur answers at this link...so far it seems the only place to get ur dorama fix on tv...is 2 live in cali (south) or in hawaii

Hey there! I don't have cable (okay, I'm a cheapskate) and I get all of my JDoramas from the international station KSCI-18 in Southern California...

Yeah, some of the stuff isn't subtitled (and I still watch it--Duh!), but a lot of it is like Musashi and Trick, which I'm currently watching...

I haven't picked up many Jdoramas online, but I'm starting to, just to gather up all of the Yonekura Ryoko stuff that I can...

They're currently airing Musashi here in the Bay Area. I wanted to watch it because Abe Hiroshi and Tsutsumi Shinichi are in it...but there's no subtitle.

:::hALuCin8::: wrote:

They're currently airing Musashi here in the Bay Area. I wanted to watch it because Abe Hiroshi and Tsutsumi Shinichi are in it...but there's no subtitle.

No subs??? That's messed up.

:::hALuCin8::: wrote:

They're currently airing Musashi here in the Bay Area.but there's no subtitle.

How come there is no subtitle in the series? Since it's being aired in the US. hmm...dramas for the japanese speakin audience? like American born japanese (I suppose they study their native language) and native japanese...

I hate asking my friend whats goin on when watchin Jade on Direct TV.

Alot of old school Chinese dramas on though.

Only the movie channel seems to have english subs.

bmwracer wrote:

:::hALuCin8::: wrote: They're currently airing Musashi here in the Bay Area. I wanted to watch it because Abe Hiroshi and Tsutsumi Shinichi are in it...but there's no subtitle. No subs??? That's messed up.

OOPS! MY BUST! Actually, Musashi did have Eng sub. I was confusing "Musashi" with "The Beauty or the Beast" (which is also airing.) "Beauty or the beast" had no subtitles, so I couldn't understand. Since I missed the first few episodes of "Musashi", I couldn't follow the storyline!

Pemu wrote:

:::hALuCin8::: wrote: They're currently airing Musashi here in the Bay Area.but there's no subtitle. How come there is no subtitle in the series? Since it's being aired in the US. hmm...dramas for the japanese speakin audience? like American born japanese (I suppose they study their native language) and native japanese...

My local station broadcasts subbed & un-subbed dramas. I think the programming is intended for Japanese viewers. But since there are some Japanese-Americans who can't speak/understand the Japanese language, they provided some subs for their sake. Besides that point, there are also many non-Japanese viewers watching the programs on that channel.

I tend to miss the first few episodes of the subbed dramas! ARGH!!!

:::hALuCin8::: wrote:

bmwracer wrote: :::hALuCin8::: wrote: They're currently airing Musashi here in the Bay Area. I wanted to watch it because Abe Hiroshi and Tsutsumi Shinichi are in it...but there's no subtitle. No subs??? That's messed up. OOPS! MY BUST! Actually, Musashi did have Eng sub. I was confusing "Musashi" with "The Beauty or the Beast" (which is also airing.) "Beauty or the beast" had no subtitles, so I couldn't understand. Since I missed the first few episodes of "Musashi", I couldn't follow the storyline!

Confused Musashi and The Beauty and the Beast? Man, you must've been tanked!

Hmm, I think would still be able to follow Musashi even though you missed a couple of episodes... But that's just me, since I'm more than familiar with the story, having read the book and seen the trilogy and other TV series...

I watch B&B before. It's quite nice. I loved Nanako's acting.

.... how can anyone confuse [Musashi] with [B & B].. they're so different

hahahahaha! I know both are totally different shows! LOL! I didn't say it right!

What I meant was, I just forgot which one was subbed.

I live in Guam so we only get NHK which you have to pay extra, which I don't. NHK's pretty boring anyway. A friend tapes the Jdoramas for me from Hawaii where they have two stations - NGN and KIKU. About a year or two ago, she was sending me Yamato Nadeshiko and at about episode 6 or 7, they had this written announcement at the beginning of the program stating that FUJI TV is prohibiting the station from adding English subtitles because of copyright. So whatever FUJI TV jdoramas shown in Hawaii are no longer subtitles which kind of sucks since FUJI has most of the good shows. Is this the same in California?

Guam Viewer wrote:

I live in Guam so we only get NHK which you have to pay extra, which I don't. NHK's pretty boring anyway. A friend tapes the Jdoramas for me from Hawaii where they have two stations - NGN and KIKU. About a year or two ago, she was sending me Yamato Nadeshiko and at about episode 6 or 7, they had this written announcement at the beginning of the program stating that FUJI TV is prohibiting the station from adding English subtitles because of copyright. So whatever FUJI TV jdoramas shown in Hawaii are no longer subtitles which kind of sucks since FUJI has most of the good shows. Is this the same in California?

When I was still living in GU, NHK was part of the cable package...so we didn't have to pay extra. Now they have to??? That sucks!

Yeah, I think it's the same in California. All the dramas that Fuji TV broadcast had no subtitles.

Southern Cali huh? what' cities are in SC, I want to move to San Francisco, is there access to jdorama there? or within a reasonable drive to purchase/ reasonable price to watch on tv.