Genki Japan Blog はじめまして。

I was trying to decide what I should do for my first Friday Review series, if that name even sticks. At first I thought, "Everyone watches anime, so I'll do that!" However, then I thought, "If this is going to be unique, I should start out with something other than the usual anime or video game review," so I decided to do a combined review for 1 Litre of Tears , both the drama and film because they're both amazing. I was planning on doing GTO , but I'll have to do that one next time. Firstly, both of these are different adaptations of the same true story. That is, our story's heroine, Aya Kito (Aya Ikeuchi in the drama) was a real person who suffered from the disease spinocerebellar ataxia. For as long as she was able to hold a pen, she consistantly wrote in her diary. After her death at the age of 25 (she was diagnosed when she was 15), her mother published the diary. Well, I've also read that she actually had it published shortly before Aya...