So the rumor floating around since last autumn was actually true. JTV was working on Bus Stop and they released the first ep last night. I haven't seen the series, only heard the lovely Naoko Iijima and Teruyoshi Uchimura (Chief Terasaki's right hand in Shomuni series , the mastermind behind the nasty tricks to have the girls fired) feature in the series. Can't wait to see it. Leeched it a little while ago Thanks JTV!

More info http://jdorama.com/drama_476.htm

It's quite cheesy in the beginning but gets more likeable slowly.

I just finished watching ep1, and I have to agree about the cheesiness. What's with those little hearts flying around and those scene transitions with the animated bus? I find that stuff really annoying. I also find myself not caring at all about any of the characters. If/when ep2 is released I will download it though. Maybe it will get better.

I wish JTV would focus on releasing the last 3 episodes of Long Vacation instead of this lower quality stuff. I know many of you have seen the whole thing but some of us are still waiting...

whats it about? is it only in japan or will it come out here in cali?

tailchaser wrote:

I just finished watching ep1, and I have to agree about the cheesiness. What's with those little hearts flying around and those scene transitions with the animated bus? I find that stuff really annoying. I also find myself not caring at all about any of the characters. If/when ep2 is released I will download it though. Maybe it will get better. I wish JTV would focus on releasing the last 3 episodes of Long Vacation instead of this lower quality stuff. I know many of you have seen the whole thing but some of us are still waiting...

I think the cheesiness made it so 'artificial' that I didn't really care about the characters also. Its ok if it were funny. I'd hope that JTV work more on Good Luck though. Oh well, beggers can't be choosers.

[quote="Pemu"]Teruyoshi Uchimura (Chief Terasaki's right hand in Shomuni series , the mastermind behind the nasty tricks to have the girls fired)

Terasaki's right hand man Nonomura was played by the late Toshihito Ito.

tailchaser wrote:

I wish JTV would focus on releasing the last 3 episodes of Long Vacation instead of this lower quality stuff. I know many of you have seen the whole thing but some of us are still waiting...

Even though I haven't watched Bus Stop, it seems that this drama isn't really that good (from what i heard from ppl). As mentioned above, I too think that JTV should finish the ending of LV. Recently, they have just released Good Luck! and now Bus Stop. In my opinion, they should finish each drama before starting another new one. JTV has mentioned that many ppl are always requesting more episode of a drama. I think the main problem isn't the ppl, but how JTV has organized their releases of drama. I think they have started on too many projects at the same time, and are unable to finish it. I mean one can only do so much.


But anyways, I really want to THANK the whole team at JTV for putting so much time and effort in distrubuting drama. I know how many of you use your spare time and $$ to share the drama with us. THANK YOU!

UWFShooter wrote:

Terasaki's right hand man Nonomura was played by the late Toshihito Ito.

Pardon my mistake. He really looked like Uchimura.

tailchaser wrote:

I wish JTV would focus on releasing the last 3 episodes of Long Vacation instead of this lower quality stuff. I know many of you have seen the whole thing but some of us are still waiting...

Wouldn't it be funny if Long Vacation was already done...

thesog wrote:

Wouldn't it be funny if Long Vacation was already done...

Don't know about funny, but certainly mildly amusing.

who cares rina chan is in it
ive been looking for bus stop for the longest time haha :X

I love it when people tell others what they should do as if they were all important. Personally, I'm in no hurry to see JTV stuff sold on Ebay. The longer it takes for Long Vacation to finish, the less time some fuck off can sell a complete fansubbed series.

If you want to see a series so bad, go learn Japanese and buy the DVDs. Or better yet, be an idiot and buy it on ebay so you can put money into someone's undeserving pockets.

thesog: don't let these fools get ya down. some people don't realize that it takes a lot of time and effort to actually encode and sub hours worth of video. for every ungrateful person, there's always more that are grateful. i've been waiting on long vacation too, and it's not so bad waiting a week or so for another episode to come out. that's how long people had to wait for a new episode to come out when it was on tv anyway.

some people would rather wait a longer time for good dvd quality subs with accurate subtitles then deal with a lot of the other stuff that comes out. take your time

I must say I'm looking forward to Bus Stop. I haven't seen much of anything with iijima Naoko. I have downloaded the first episode via the newsgroups but haven't watched it yet. I heard of this drama a couple years(?) back and was ready to trade for it subbed on VHS (that's how some of us dorama oldheads do ). I still may do that, but hey. They aren't going to be able to please everyone every time a series is selected for a subbing project, right? If they had a voting process to pick out new projects, there would STILL be disappointed people.

I'm happy Jtv is still going because they have absolutely no obligation to do anything. They work on a lot of stuff simultaneously. Maybe they are doing so to appeal to many people's tastes by having a large variety or even the tastes within the Jtv team themselves. If some people think it pushes back releases of a particular favorite series of their own, it's not really their place to complain even when concealed with thankfulness. Jtv is doing something nice for them in their own spare time while getting only gratitude (probably accompanied by complaints, pestering for faster releases of certain things, people selling their stuff, etc...so it seems).

They have their own methods, schedules, preferences, personal lives, problems, what-have-you. They can't please everyone nor is it their duty. As someone said above, "Beggars can't be choosers". Those not doing any work have no cause for complaints, in my opinion. Fansubbing isn't exactly quick and easy. It's not a business or paid service, so Jtv is free to sub what they want, as much as they want, how they want to do it, when they want to, and for how ever long they want to. They have been releasing several episodes of various shows a week, which is FAST. So they have a very decent pace going. In time, what people want will come out.....one must have patience.

@ thesog's post above: Damn good points. Well said

Sorry......rant over.

Could someone please seed this series on D-Addicts? My girlfriend and I are really enjoying Bus Stop, but I've only been able to get the first five episodes. We need 6-12.

PLEASE!!!

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Bump, this drama needs a little push, though it's now over a decade old still my #1 in the light-hearted/romantic genre though it does turn quite serious over the second half of the series, don't listen to any of those negative comments. Think this was also Rina's first major role, her part just got bigger and bigger as the show went on and of course the major reason to watch it is Naoko!!!!!!!!!

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