Talk:Asadora

Article Title
The proper name for NHK's morning serial show 連続テレビ小説 approximately translates to "serial television novel," so the title for this article should reflect thusly.--76.21.81.118 00:25, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * If you hang around in the Japanese drama realm on-line, you'll find that out of 100 people, 99 of them call the shows "asadora". It is within Wikipedia regulations to use the romanized spelling rather than a translated spelling for the article, as well as the use of the most common reference to the series. Groink 02:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * To make you feel better, I've created a re-direct article NHK Continuation Serialized Novel for Television, which is the actual translated name of the series provided by NHK. Groink 02:48, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Isn't "Asadora drama" redundant? It goes along with the Tōkaidō not being called the Tōkaidō Road. Maybe it should just be titled Asadora?
 * Feel free to move it. There aren't that many articles that link to it anyway. Groink (talk) 22:33, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Unanswered Questions
Reading this page I sensed that these might be similar to "Soap Operas", however there is no mention of that term. It would be helpful to me, and presumably to other readers, if there were either a statement saying that this is a similar phenomenon, or a clarification contrasting the two genres. --This statement was unsigned by User:69.180.201.215
 * Two things. First, the term "soap opera" is not clearly defined to the level where all viewers will watch a given show and say, "Yes, this is a soap opera." Look at the debate within the Korean drama community; there's a division between people who call Kdramas soaps and those who don't want their dramas compared to something like General Hospital. Therefore, we can't say in this article whether or not an asadora is a soap opera or write in any other text that will finite the style and genre without actually citing reliable sources. That would clearly cause a debate. Along the same line, asadora is not porn and it isn't a documentary, but we're not going to write that into the article either. It isn't encyclopedic to include things in the "not" category. Another thing, asadora is no different than a Japanese dorama, so you should look to that article for style and genre information, and apply those ideas to asadora. The only difference between a prime-time dorama and an asadora is simply 1) the time slots, and 2) the length - both which are defined in the asadora article. Groink 00:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Noted series
Does "noted series" means "notable series"? If so, why are these ones so notable? It just seems like the most recent ones, plus one from the '80s. If it just means "series that are noted here," it's an incomplete list that doesn't even reference all of the ones in between. Can someone add prose to clean up the section? Douggers (talk) 13:11, 23 January 2008 (UTC)