Lamenting the lack of 80's Jpop Otaku...

After my experience on the D-addicts site 2 years ago, i think 80's Jpop/Dorama fans are a rare breed indeed. It seems that 98% percent of the fans out there don't know a damned thing outside of what was on last week and what the newest crappy Jpop song is out.
Like if people really think artists like Morning Musume & Ayumi Hamasaki are the best thing since sliced bread then let them rot in the now cesspoolof crappy Japanese Entertainment that exists today.
I do think there must be other real 80's otaku out there like myself but they're real hard to find, but i think it's worth it to try.
I mean my big thing is just to touch base with other fans and hopefully be able to trade stuff to fill in our collections... Like i've got about 2000 or so 80's-90's Jpop albums (CD's,Cassettes & LP's) that i've built up over the last 23 years yet i think there still about another 1000 out there that i would still want to get my paws on.
Somebody said before that i should go to a Japanese media board to find other fans...Well i've tried that and the problem is that they will talk but the chance of actually trading with them is like next to zero. Japanese collectors always take the position of "Oh, you can see what i got.... but you will never see or get it from me" & that really really pisses me off.
I've been collecting since the early 80's and i lived in Tokyo duting the Golden Age of Jpop (1986-1991) but due to people ripping me off and stealing from me, i've lost key parts of my library... Like my library of The Top 10 & Yoru no Hit Studio from the 80's and countless LP's & CD's...all gone.
Luckily i have had some kind traders contact me and share downloaded 80's broadcasts of Top Ten & Yoru no Hit Studio which are just gold to me.
I think at least if there are more like minded otaku out there that live in North America or even Europe and hope for the the chance of still networking is there. Well i can hope.......

I mean there are countless Jpop/Entertainment boards out there but they only deal with the just the most current and trendy shows/music & artists.... Yet, i've only found one that caters to 80's Jpop/Anime Otaku/Fans. Why ? I really don't know.

Good Idols and Bad Japanese Writers don't mix.

Me and the wife like watching old drama's and of course i generally pull out ones that i've either had copied off Japanese satellite or gotten old VHS tapes off J-Yahoo auctions. For the most part i've been lucky and been able to watch some real good ones or at least enjoyable...well at least until recently.

Two unfortunate stinkers we've watched recently were Tokyo Elevator Girl , a 1992 TV Drama with Rie Miyazawa and the Original Minami Kun no Koibito from 1990 starring Hikari Ishida.

The flaws in these shows was not in the acting on part of our beloved idols, but in the crappy writing skills of the supposed writers on these shows. In previous dramas we've seen both Rie & Hikari in, they've been written well for the shows they were in. However in say Tokyo Elevator Girl, Rie is cast as Rika who is a "elevator girl slash greeter" for a major department store. Which is fine enough and the real story is the intertwining relationships between Rika , her best friend and other employees. Without giving away too much unless one is curious enough to watch it. but pretty much boils down to watching Rika observing her friends and colleagues making disasterous personal and relationship choices and then turning right around and repeating them herself and spending half the series chasing one of the most chauvinistic & arrogant males i've ever seen portrayed in a Japanese drama. When we hit the 3rd episode, we were both going WTF !!! but since we started watching it (and i paid $60 to get it off J-Yahoo) we had already invested the time to actually sit through the series which left us both shaking our heads in disbelief. Pretty much for me the only good parts of the series was seeing Rie dressed up in her cute gold elevator girl uniform & hat with black tights & short heels.

The 2nd Drama, the Original 1990 version of Minami Kun no Koibito starring Hikari Ishida was a one shot TV Movie and was of particular interest (other than it had Hikari-chan) because i saw the 1994 TV Series with Yumiko Takahashi and was quite cute until the end of the series.
However the original version was so poorly written,most of the acting excluding Hikari was so bad and wooden and was made to be mildly ecchi (which was very poorly executed) that it made watching it rather painful. I know it was originally based from a manga, whether it was actually a Ecchi manga i'm not sure. The fault in both of these dramas was not in the idols acting but in horrendous writing. The entertainment industry in Japan main job (other than making money) is to promote their talent in the best way possible. It does amaze me that idols manager's and production teams would allow their talent to undertake such unflattering projects.... It kinda just made me remember the "Santa-Fe" photobook Rie did back in the early 90's. There's a bad choice if i ever thought could be done by a idol.