4 Top Sites to Watch Japanese Movies & Dramas

 I know that there are many sites providing Japanese Dramas and movies these days. But, in this posting, I'm gonna share my four top places to watch online or download. Actually, I experience watching or downloading in other sites than the following sites I'll share, but they are just not as complete or comfortable as the four sites I love. But, I will share not only the pluses but also the minuses of those sites 😁😁😁

 1. Kissasian.

 It feels like heaven as soon as I found this site a long time ago. Before, I used to be curious of why some Japanese dramas are or not as complete as Korean Dramas. But then I found that the Japanese translators are not as many as Korean drama. Here are the pluses:

(+) Japanese drama and movies are updated. Well, some of them are late, though, but thanks to the sites and the translators who work hard to provide the updated movies for someone like me.
(+) All the movies uploaded here are English subtitled. Some of them are even uploaded not in a precise subtitle only to meet the thirst of Japanese movie fans. They call it as beta version.
(-) The site has too many annoying ads! I know that they need some fund to finance the site but the pop up ads is just too anooying. Captcha is OK for me, but these days, the half pop up ads that every time I click, the pop up ads is always there. ALWAYS! #SIGH
(-) You know, I always use my mobile phone to access the site. So, I always see the mobile version of the site. The problem is I can't see people's comments or I can't put comments here. So, if I want to see people's discussions, I need to open my laptop to see it. Once I changed the mobile mode into desktop mode, but then I couldn't download the movies 🤔🤔
(-) I wonder why the site keeps changing the domain. Last time I knew it was kissasian.ch then changed into kissasian.sh. I don't know if it will change again. It might be due to movie rights. Some copyright police are everywhere 🙂🙂

 2. Ondramanice.

This is another convenient website to watch online or download your favorite Asian movies. I can say that this is the most updated website. if you love watching any drama, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and even Malay and Indonesian, all of them are available here. But of course, it has pluses and minuses, too. 😁😁😁

(+) As I mentioned before, this is the most complete website I've ever visited. Japanese drama seems to be the second choice of everyone who love Asian drama, but this site doesn't really play favorite. The newest drama list I put here, some of them are already uploaded. Yeaayyy.... 💃💃
(+) This site is user friendly for mobile version. I can download and put comments or just follow people's discussion in this site.What else do you need? 😉
(-) The minuses always come from advertisements. Well, I still can understand this, actually. All sites need to finance their sites, and it comes from the clicks and ads. It's quite tolarable, at first. But these days, the ads come in the beginning of the movie. And you cannot skip it. Hahahaha... It's a good way to force the visitors to watch the ads if they are too careful not to click the ads, so, the site won't get anything, right? 😊😊
(-) As I mentioned earlier that the site has the most complete drama, but some of them were uploaded RAW!!! For someone like me who knows nothing about Japanese language but the dirty words #ssssttt..., the raw drama is really torturing. Some then are subtitled, but some remain raw forever. I've been waiting for Henshin, a short drama by Ryunosuke Kamiki for quite long time, but the subtitle is nowhere. Some visitors pleaded to subtitle the drama, but well, it's still raw up to now.
(-) As I told you before about seeing and giving comments, yes, the admin here is a little bit unfair. I put my comments on the site giving link to my blog, but then it's deleted. At first, it's uploaded, but the next moment, it's deleted. But, I saw some comments giving link to some poker games or vague games, and the link is still there. Huh... I only try to give my thought whether or not to watch the drama, or whether the movie is worth watching or not. oh. OK . FINE.
(-) Similar to the previous site I mentioned, this site also keeps changing the domain. One time, it has www1, other times www2, and so forth. So, it's worth to bookmark the site.

 3. XX1 application

 I found this application by accident. When I was looking for a certain movie with Bahasa Indonesia subtitle, I found this site and it has a free app. FYI, the app is not available in Google Play. Oya one more thing, Android seems to be the only operating system this app works with. But, of course , this app comes with some pluses and minuses.
(+) Having this app in your device is like bringing a hard disc external with you. The display is like book shelves with books. The search engine is easy, too.
(+) I thought this app is only for movie streaming, I was shrieked as I found that I can download the movie here, too. Some movies are hard sub and some others are soft sub. But, I think this app is aimed for Indonesian people since the subtitle is in Bahasa Indonesia.
(+) I can't say that the Asian movies are really updated here, but so far, it's not bad.
(-) As I mentioned before, this app is not really reliable for Asian dramas, especially Japanese drama, but if you are into western movies or Korean drama, this is heaven. But, some were said to have subtitle, in reality, the subtitle sometimes is not there. What you can do is just understanding it by heart. 😫😃😃
(-) You can access this app via browser, too. You can see the index and choose the movie you want to watch or download. But if you want to download via broswer, I think you need to insert your Gmail account to access your Google drive. I don't have the experience of downloading via browser. But my friend said that if you download via browser, the result can be found in your laptop. It's easy, though, but for me it's complicated. 😞
(-) This is the most annoying one from using this app, that is, your mobile phone battery drains easily. Your battery might be 70% when you start watching the movie, but before the movie ends, you have to recharge your phone. Fiuh.... 😥😥

4. Dramavery

Well, frankly speaking, I just bumped into this site when I was watching Youtube. The channel owner suggested this site. And since I did want to watch the drama, I clicked the site, And then I bookmarked the site till then. I can say that this site is as complete and as fast as Dramanice to upload new drama/ movie. One thing I'm still not used to this site is I cannot recognize which movies/ dramas completed with subtitle or not. If Dramanice uploads the one without subtitle, it would be tagged as RAW, and when it's subbed, its tag is SUB. Another thing I learned from this site is, the movies/ dramas are available only for streaming. I tried once to download it. But I couldn't make it.

Well, I know there are so many websites offering movie streaming, starting from free of charge until paid app. I used to go to viki, but this website is not really user friendly for Indonesian users. I used to download some Japanese drama from dramafever, but waiting some updates there is forever. Dramacool is another alternative, but I prefer waiting in the 4 websites I mentioned . So, what are yours?

Note:

I decided to edit this post since XXI is no longer available. Well, Indonesian government starts to close down some websites which upload illegal movies. Therefore, starting January 1st, the XXI  site is unavailable. 

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