I’ve taken some time to list all the Japanese TV shows and movies that I watched over 1 year in the holy name of learning a language.
Since I found that the typical sense of humor in Japanese dramas doesn’t quite suit me, I also watched a lot of non-Japanese TV shows with a Japanese dub (thanks to Netflix and Disney).
This list also includes a lot of food and cooking-related TV shows as food is one of my major interests in terms of cultural exploration.
The list is actually longer than I imagined.
Solitary Gourmet – 5 hours
A hard day – 2 hours
Finding Nemo (Dub) – 20 hours
The Practice (Dub) – 40 minutes
Tokyo Swindlers – 12 hours and 40 minutes
Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House – 6 hours
K-foodie Meets J-foodie – 16 hours
Evening Drink Style – 4 hours and 20 minutes
Big Short (Dub) – 2 hours
Slam Dunk Movie – 2 hours
Atom’s Last Shot – 37 hours and 30 minutes
The Family – 2 hours
Wakako Sake – 1 hour
Weekend Family (Dub) – 50 hours
Prison Break (Dub) – 6 hours and 30 minutes
Hanzawa Naoki – 9 hours and 30 minutes
The total is 176 hours and 10 minutes.
The time specified in the above list is not the total runtime of the show but rather the actual time I spent watching. Some were watched several times and some were stopped without finishing the whole series.
The main contributor to this grandiose list of watching TV in the name of learning Japanese is dishwashing.
70% of the total time was spent doing the dishes while watching the shows.
I feel obliged to dedicate myself to the dishwashing to maintain my commitment to learning Japanese, which leads to serious eating.
I need to keep going.
I need to keep eating, all in the name of learning Japanese.