FUCK

[dr4b]

My favorite TV show is going off the air in March

No, really. Ainori, the show I watched every Monday night the entire time I lived in Japan, and intended to continue watching, is ending. I'm a bit in shock over this. They even said it has wildly popular ratings, they just feel like this is the time for it to end.

Arrrgh grumble grumble.

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

How sad! Ainori sounds delightful. :-(

Isn't it likely these days that at some point some other channel will pick the format up and do an English-language version? (For instance, The Apprentice was originally a Japanese format that found worldwide fame, and there are plenty of others...)

Isn't it also true that Japanese shows fairly frequently tend to stop while they're at the top?

[kieferskunk.livejournal.com]

The Japanese equivalent of the FOX network? Where when a show starts becoming popular and shows signs of being good, they either cancel it outright or make the producers change it until it sucks? :/

[oren.livejournal.com]

Not really, the show has been on for over 10 years. Just reached the point of better to retire it than keep repeating.

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

I think they've visited all the countries they're physically able to visit, anyhow. Stuff has to end sometime, I guess. But I wonder, how are they going to end it? Are they going to wait until all of the remaining people end up coupled, and shoot the remaining single person or something?

Also, I think Yamaji needs some serious tranquilizers.