I was going through the stickies and a lot of them suggest watching a japanese drama, I was wondering which one I should start out with.
I was hoping to come across a thread similar to the one for recommended manga but I can't seem to find it, so which one do you suggest?
I know none of them but I was hoping to find a fairly ordinary/easy one, ideally dealing with the lives of students, with subtitles in japanese (do you know where I can find them in .srt or .ass ready for vlc?)

There are a few listed here: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid202196
In that thread they also recommended this link: http://japaneselevelup.com/media-guide/

Good luck!

Thank you!

Some i use:

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"hard subtitles" japanese and chinese.

* 孤独のグルメ
If you like food. You can find japanese subtitles for season 2 easily.
If any has japanese subtitle for an other season, let me know :-)

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...ZJu_en0XU0
short (and ugly) anime from the 80th that have hard subtitles. bad quality of image, but relatively easy to understand.

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Some really really nice short horror story you can understand even if you dont get the dialogs.

Thanks a lot Nightbreak I'll check them out

I just got a hulu.jp account, and I hear that netflix will be in japan by this fall.
I second 孤独のグルメ if you're looking specifically for a japanese show and they also have dubbed american shows.
The thing is you have to use a proxy or vpn to seem like you have a japanese IP in order to watch the videos on hulu.jp.

I use Express VPN, which costs about ~$20 per month, their Tokyo server gives me a pretty fast connection while streaming. Hulu.jp costs about 1000 yen (~$8).

I also recommend 日本人の知らない日本語, which is a super fun look at the japanese language.

We should really start a thread of shows by JLPT level similar to the manga thread.