Best Japanese Dramas of 2020
What Japanese dramas do best aside from being creative with their plot is how they incorporate societal issues without feeling forced. In fact if done right it makes the writing better overall, put more layer to the characters, give them more motivation, but the best when it completes the drama, revisits incomplete plot points, weave those loosely threads into a beautiful, masterful narrative. This year there are 3 dramas that execute that perfectly, 2 written by Nogi Akiko and 1 produced by WOWOW. Those 3 are equally masterpiece worthy in my eyes so it is a tossed up which one should take the number 1 spot. Having said that this year is still a bit weaker than last year where I had 8 great dramas I can one hundred percent recommend ( check my 2019 list here ), this year I only had 6. There are few factors for that, 1. This pandemic, producers pushed some potentially great dramas to 2021 and some dramas that ended up getting released suffered from episode cuts because of it 2. Man...