Does anyone know a good resource for watching or downloading Japanese variety shows? I prefer watching variety shows instead of Drama, because variety shows lack a story line so I can just pick an episode randomly every time I have some time to spare. But it's really difficult to find good material online. It's really scattered all over the Internet. So does anyone know a good resource for this? Or maybe some YouTube channels? I would be really grateful

You can get pretty much anything when it comes to variety shows on everyone's favorite Chinese site, youku. Its chinese, but searching in Japanese is usually just fine and retrieves good results. example:
http://www.soku.com/search_video/q_%E3%8...1%E6%85%A2
A specific youku channel to watch is japanch. He/she uploads various J-variety shows regularly:
http://i.youku.com/u/id_UMjk2MzI3OTQ4

Also, I watch London Hearts every week by downloading it on d-addicts.
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/torrents....on&start=0

Another great site is Hello!Online. The site is idol centric but even if you're not an idol enthusiast I still recommend giving it a shot. They have a lot of shows on there like Downtown DX, waratte ii tomo, hoko tate, TORE, etc that just incidentally have an idol on the panel so their presence shouldn't be over bearing if you're not really into them. Another awesome bonus is that many of these uploads come with the Japanese closed caption file.
http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?app=xbt

For japanese variety, you can pretty much watch everything here:

http://youtubeowaraitv.blog32.fc2.com/

You're welcome

squarezebra Wrote:For japanese variety, you can pretty much watch everything here:

http://youtubeowaraitv.blog32.fc2.com/

You're welcome

Damn that's awesome! Thanks!

squarezebra Wrote:For japanese variety, you can pretty much watch everything here:

http://youtubeowaraitv.blog32.fc2.com/

You're welcome

ya wtf that's an amazing resource. thanks!

For the record the japanch has stopped uploading videos since several weeks ago.

Today I tried this thing called Variety shows thanks to this thread. I'm learning quite a bit about American celebrities, :lol:

Thanks for the links! I'll look into it this evening

You can watch quite a few variety shows as streaming videos here http://moviemaga.blog20.fc2.com/ . The site also has dramas and documentary’s in case anyone else is interested in that.

TheVinster Wrote:For the record the japanch has stopped uploading videos since several weeks ago.

they just made a new account i think. besides who finished all the crap japanch uploaded.
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