The parallel universe may still exist! 🙂
I clicked on some notifications this morning... and managed to sneak to Fanwall that doesn't exist in our universe anymore...
(These little openings may close soon though, I guess.... ).

The fanwall tab is gone. But we can still see other tabs under our account, and still have a header photo.

It’s Gone! I can still see the general wall but my own and the tab under our profile is no more..

Not only the Fan Wall is gone!
I used to read all the comments thanks to the "Beanies" section which showed all the comments chronologically and now that is gone too.
It was very useful to not miss anything.

Actually, @claire2009 Healer's, I noticed that my comment count broke 15,000 today. It is still incrementing, at least for me.

😭 Same, same. A post was open in a tab and now I cannot bring myself to close it.

Yes!

Yes, it was the best way to see what people were commenting on. I hope they bring it back

Exactly! Please, bring Latest comments back! @db-staff

Exactly. Not only we will miss lots of conversations without the comments feature, but we won't notice if someone comments on an old recap or post at all. That was one of the best features to follow mostly every thread. Please bring it back❤️

https://dramabeans.com/comments/ still works (for now).

Can someone explain what this "button" was used for? I'm still learning my way around this site. And, is it back now?

Thanks!!

We had a chat once, a few beanies said they did, to search for actors' filmography etc. but for years the lists weren't complete. I don't know about now.

I go to other sites if I need to know what other things that actor has been in.

@kurama, I don't think I ever used the Celebs page -- although I took a gander today to see what is on it.

AsianWiki has always been my prime reference -- because it gives cast mugshots and not just names. Truly a godsend when watching sageuks with casts of thousands...

In the rare event that I couldn't find info on Korean productions and actors, I would stop by DramaWiki https://wiki.d-addicts.com/. As I recall, they had great info on OSTs... as well as Chinese and Japanese dramas in the event that AsianWiki didn't quite cut the mustard. (I'm stating this in past tense because I haven't been watching as many Kdramas of late, and hadn't been posting on DB for a number of years until recently.)

I hope this is helpful.

Sic, come back for "The Records of the Silla-Tang War."

Have a blessed Lent!

Oguri Shun will be in drama with Han Hyo-joo \o/

These do happen occasionally. I also just saw a comment that Mainland China may be considering dropping the restrictions on drama collaborations with Korea that it put in place a few years back in response to the THAAD deployment. I don't know if this is true or not, but if so, it might increase the number of such projects.

Thank you for being one of the many who made the fan wall a fun place to be. I rarely used to comment on anyone else’s fan wall as I was only went on the beanie tab to play beanie level bingo and check who had levelled up so I could congratulate them. However, once you and a few other beanie’s went all in I was often popping over for a rooftop BBQ and catch up to support the Errand boys desperately trying to get to the rooftop.

I never got my Errand boy full house but it was so good to see so many beanies get their rooftop views in the last 12 months.

My heart almost stopped as I went to choose “Beanies” and had to process that of course the title is gone, too. Wow. That hits harder than I expected. 😿

@johnb, How very apropos. Methinks it'll be awhile as we find our sea legs.

@marcusnyc20, Bowling for salad?! LET'S EAT x LIVE?!

@marcusnyc20, Your query intrigued me. I just finished watching the first episode of TOKYO SALAD BOWL. Interesting. For some strange reason, the Chinese-speaking police interpreter reminds me of an older Kim Min-suk (whom I may be confusing with another young Korean actor whom I could have sworn was in NAEIL'S CANTABILE, but now I'm confused). A former cop, he is amazingly deadpan.

The female lead, a detective, has green hair, and is derisively referred to as "Lettuce Head" by the chief. Warmly empathetic, she knows enough Chinese to say hello to the foreign residents on her beat, who are very friendly towards her. She seems to have a taste for exotic food. (Scorpion shashlik, anyone?) I'll let you discover what she chows down on in a crowded Chinese restaurant...

All in all, TOKYO SALAD BOWL looks promising. Enjoy!

It's been a long time since I watched a Japanese dorama. TOKYO SALAD BOWL is quirky, and reminds me a bit of HOTARU NO HIKARI: IT'S ONLY A LITTLE LIGHT IN MY LIFE. Based on a manga, its title character was the original ‘Himono-onna’ ("dried fish woman") who cares nothing for romance or keeping up appearances when she's not working. It's a hoot.
https://asianwiki.com/Hotaru_no_Hikari:_It%27s_Only_A_Little_Light_In_My_Life

@marcusnyc20, Bong-soo -- Episode 2 picks up even more steam. Scandal in one of the precincts 3 years ago, and it is dogging one of Det. Mari Koda's colleagues to the present day. This is getting good. Nice Sri Lankan food pr0n in this episode.

Thanks for introducing me to my next cracktastic show, @marcusnyc20 Bong-soo. I just finished Ep. #3.

I like the pacing, the lack of makjang, and police investigations that are business-like, logical, reasonable, and effective. How refreshing. And no plot holes that I can detect.

So far, TOKYO SALAD BOWL is a winner. Such a winner that I'm binge-watching it. I believe there are 2 more episodes yet to be uploaded before it concludes in March.

I can definitely recommend Tokyo Salad Bowl. I started watching it because the premise sounded interesting (okay, that and the fact that the FL has green hair), and the whole drama has been a big surprise for me, as I didn't expect to love it as much as I do.

The leads are great, and their scenes together are always a joy to watch. The stories are good and full of heart too. I also love the tone of the drama, which stays pretty consistent even when the main storyline comes into focus. I could say more, but I don't wanna spoil. But all in all, it's a pretty great drama.

@marcusnyc20 Bong-soo,
I go so carried away last night that I binged the first 4 episodes of TOKYO SALAD BOWL. Another episode is supposed to become available today (Tuesday).

Now off to watch episode #5.

Dang, @marcusnyc20 Bong-soo... I just polished off episodes #5-7.

TOKYO SALAD BOWL is addictive, just like the best Kdramas, while focusing on the story and refusing to spin its wheels on dopey diversions. I enjoyed the flashbacks that show what makes Sgt. "Lettuce Head" Koda and Police Interpreter Akino tick. I'm thoroughly enjoying this taut, well-scripted Jdorama.

Yay finally I found Tokyo Salad Bowl's comrades 🥗🥬! Right now I'm stuck at ep. 8.

@mmmmm, Weird indeed. I feel like I'm playing blind man's buff.

*stubs toe on rubble from fanwall*

It feels like the site is less dynamic and alive now. Not having a fanwall, not having the featured beanies, not having an easy place to see most recent comments... Now it's more like all the other k-drama sites and less of a community.

I like a lot of things about potato lab; the romance writer friend doing the voice over at the start of the episode 2 was hilarious. I have had so many laugh out loud moments, so far it’s a yes from me.

Me! Now hopefully we won't regress to them flipping if their fingers happen to brush for the remainder of the show, lol.

Mother was one heck of a heavy hitting drama that still occupies a space in my fragmented brain. It was and still is heavily underrated. Lee Bo-Young was incredible. That child actress Heo Yool stole the show. It's a shame that it is not available for legal streaming anywhere from the USA. I consider it a must watch if you are in the right mood. It's the complete opposite of a Rom or Com.

Despite watching it years ago, I still remember the emotional punch that drama had when the director slowly, then suddenly, walked the audience through the realization of the biological mother. That was probably the biggest Daebak! moment of my kdrama watching life. The only thing that comes close was that one reveal in Light Shop.

I also loved the underlying theme of Mother that was repeated over many character relationships. The love and attention is what defines a mother, not necessarily in a biological sense.

Here is another fun fact. The show that followed Mother was My Mister. Can you imagine two Heavy Hitting dramas of this caliber back to back? There must have been no time to breathe.

Another idiosyncrasy. DB let's you sort all of the dramas by rating. If you sort from highest to lowest, the highest rated drama is a 9.8 and Mother does not show up. However, it's DB rating is a 9.8, which means it's the highest rated show. It's just one more snub of a brilliant show.

PS - what is this fanwall that everyone talks about? Maybe it never existed in the first place

Mother is a gem of a show , Japanese or Korean , they are both well done . I see that there are also Chinese ,Thai and Filipino takes on the story , I have not seen those.

The Japanese writer, Sakamoto Yuji, is top notch.
I enjoyed his Woman a Family drama and Saikou no Rikon a RomCom .

Some of the actors you’ll see in his dramas are Eita, Ono Machiko,🥰 Mitsushima Hikari 🥰and Tanaka Yuuko 🥰

One of the DB headers states "Deconstructing Dramas and Kpop Culture". I guess DB never really explored the Kpop part.

It's not wrong to not be as fan as others! You don't have to vote, watch the MV 100 times, etc to listen the music you like.

I went to some Kpop concert and usually I'm behind because I didn't wait for 2 hours to be the first to go in.

That's totally ok! But do you want to engage? You can make new friends when you attend concerts, but you don’t have to. In my experience I don’t really want to engage with other fans. I just selectively followed some of them on twitter without ever interacting. I did receive some free goodies from the fans before concert starts. But that’s about it, no social media handle exchange. I attended the concerts quickly, I didn’t mingle. That worked for me. You just do what you’re comfortable with, that won’t make you any less of a fan than those who can buy multiple copies of album😊

Oh, I learned something new today. Within Dramabeans click on "Recaps". From the Recaps page, there is a dropdown menu. Now select "Kpop and and Music." The last time Dramabeans had a Kpop recap was 2014!!!! @midnight was right. This site used to cover Kpop.

This is interesting to me. I never saw any use for the Featured Beanies, what do you like about it?

Add my name to the petition to restore the Comments section. Not only is it helpful for me to see what folks are thinking about the current dramas but occasionally comments will appear on older dramas that folks have discovered.

I've followed you back.

They're so in sync because these 2 already worked together before in TTEOTM. That's something I wish actors who do not dub themselves did more often - have a go-to VA for most of their projects so we as audience wouldn't have to suffer whiplash from the new voice with same face kind of thing every single time. Overall, I've seen polarizing opinions on dubbing in LOTDT mainly from baby voice haters crowd, I guess, but to me it was a non-issue, and I'm rarely NOT bothered by dubbing in cdramas. There was a specific post about show's audio on Reddit a few days ago, here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CDrama/comments/1j2v1yz/dubbing_in_love_of_the_divine_tree/

Agree with drama being a mostly very smooth watch - I did admit to FF some parts (evil sis and crown prince - because to hell with them), but otherwise it was a thoroughly enjoyable show.