I pay annual subscriptions to:
- Netflix without the ads
- Viki Pass Plus because I wanted immediate access to shows, without ads
- Youtube Premium because I can’t be bothered with the ads on regular Youtube
- Prime Video, but technically, this came free with my Amazon Prime membership
- Paramount+ (What’s this? I never used it. It came free with my Walmart Plus membership)
Disney+(lol. I canceled though because I didn’t want to support the company’s woke agenda)- Jetpack/Wordpress to maintain this blog because it’s my stress-reliever and your gathering place.
I liked Dramacool because it was a virtual one-stop shop of dramas for me.
It conveniently had all the kdramas, cdramas, doramas, Taiwanese dramas, and lakorn collected in one place. It carried not only new dramas but also outdated dramas that none of the aforementioned sites carried. It gave me comfort knowing that anytime I craved for a classic kdrama or needed to refresh a nebulous memory of a scene, I could assess its extensive archive. It also allowed me to take screenshots of scenes for discussion and educational purposes here on this blog. Lastly, it gave me an alternative source when I wanted to get another subtitle for a better understanding of a dialogue.
The demise of Dramacool leaves a void as large as the Black Hole in the universe of avid drama viewers.
@pkml3 I heard about this and am saddened. It was such an archive of shows. So much comfort watching of old shows was possible because of this site.
Especially now when I’m in hospital and convalescing slowly. It was a sure storehouse of something to help kill an hour or two.
There are alternatives still, but I fear to name them, lest they are shut down or forced to. Let us mourn the loss of a great drama site.
Dear @GrowingBeautifully, hope you get well soon!
Thankfully you are in a good country with good medicine. Today Thursday 11/28/2024 is Thanksgiving so hopefully by counting your Blessings you have the best headspace to heal!
Back to topic, lets see what the successor of DramaCool will look and feel like. Such a Community cannot vanish so easily.
Dear @GB, just happened to re-read our viewing of Grace no Rireki in 2023. Even if I will probably never be even in the same country as you, I consider you as a very dear Friend.
Hope you get better soon.
Much thanks to you, @FGB. I feel privileged to call you a dear friend too.
Yes I’m in a positive state of mind about my recovery. I will be working towards getting back on my feet. Thanks for your wishes.
I await more good shows with you.
@GB, I pray for your healing.
There are probably alternatives to dramacool, but not sure they have all the old stuff. I never used it because subtitles are in english. So I used torrent for older kdramas, and subscene for the subtitles and speaking about that:
Subscene closed too, few months ago. It’s a hard loss, because none of the new subtitle websites are as good. I have older kdrama I didn’t watch yet, and now I’m not sure if I can find the subtitles.
@WE, yes no more Dramacool is a hard loss indeed. I’m still aiming to rewatch Kairos and see the gang on Saturday. 🙂
Oh dear. 😢 This is where I watch the most when it’s not available on Netflix, Prime or Disney+.
Ottoke!
VIKI Has been on the fritz yesterday and today. So losing an alternative is even more painful.
I think ViKI has glitches way too often for a Premier service we all pay for! I wonder why that is?
@pm
I was trying to take screenshots of vicki the other day and wondered why I couldn’t. I guess previously I had done it when watching an Alternative.
Mostly I take screenshots for ideas on decorating my house, especially color schemes.
I just read about their demise. I did not realize that drama cool Also
Includes drama nice and some other similar sites.
Where will I watch some of the older dramas? Although I do notice more of them coming out on viki and kocowa. It is not as though it is straightforward to buy the d.V.D’s.
Right now I must say.I have more than enough to watch.
I, too, was saddened to hear about the demise of Dramacool. Watched my very first K drama, Angel’s Last Mission: Love, there and have been hooked ever since. Dramacool helped me survive the Covid lockdown for sure. Such a loss! Any known alternatives comparable to Dramacool?
@GB Am very sorry to read that you are hospitalized. I haven’t been on BOD lately and didn’t realize this. Hope that you are recovering and it’s nothing too serious🙏🏻
@Lootie Lyn (LL), Thanks for your good wishes. I’ve had surgery on my right knee, and injury to right calf muscle, so I’m learning to rehabilitate with walker. I’m also on antibiotics which are best administered intravenously. So I’m okay and slowly am recovering.
Hope to see you on BOD more often.
Dear @GB, how have you been? Hopefully better!
I binged “Brush Up Life (2023)” up to episode 4 (almost finished Episode 5 then checked and it was 1:40 AM!!!) and so far I can recommend. The heroine is enjoying time with her friends and after they leave her in a Konbini near her house she finds herself in an entanglement with Truck-kun.
After her demise she finds herself in the afterlife having to go into her next life as a Guatemalan anteater or repeat her former life again. The idea of it is for her to accumulate good deeds in order to have a next life as a Human Being.
I think you will like it. She finds herself doing things different, going for a better job and doing her best to help those around her to find their happiness. Love those commando scenes where she goes through many loops to do the right thing even for people she despises.
You will also find unexpected humour, and will love her friends as they are Drama Lovers like us but as early as Middle School!
Will love to read from you, might recommend this Drama in December’s “What are we Watching” if Show goes strong till the end!
@GB, Correction: I finished Episode 5.
One of her iterations is as a Drama Producer. You will get an elegant shot about a good idea taken out of proportions as well as how Dramas look from a Producer perspective.
Hoping I can at least relieve you from beredom 😉
FGB4877
I felt the same when Dramafever bit the dust.
Drama fever was like a legend for me since I only started watching asian dramas a few years ago. I gradually realized that certain dramas were just unavailable because they had died along with drama fever, It seemed to me.
Dramafever was brutally terminated on October 18, 2018. I was in the middle of watching “100 Days My Prince” and stopped to have dinner. When I returned, everything was gone. I still have not finished the drama. It seems that there are too many streaming platforms, and at the same is difficult to find older dramas. I wish there existed a legitimate platform just for streaming older dramas.
Dear @MonMor and @SnowFlower, how have you been?
It is what it is. Personally I am looking for alternative sites. Being more a J-Drama lover than anything else, I am at a disadvantage.
There will be alternate sites, but just as in some occasions, something will be inevitably be lost.
This is, in video format and at a small scale, a little burning of the Alexandria Library.
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Finished “Brush Up Life” (Japan – 2023) and can wholeheartedly recommend. Will write a little bit about it when the “What are we watching in December?” Post opens.
@SF That must have been a shock to see drama fever disappear before your eyes!
I happily pay for streaming services And completely agree with you About how great it would be to have a streaming service that included the older dramas or was even specifically for them.
I have wondered if there is some archive hidden somewhere At whatever the name of the company was that axed drama fever.
Oh, my gosh! I had no idea that Dramacool was gone forever. I tried to access the site and had problems, but I thought that they were just having an issue with their server and it would be back up in a day or two. What a massive loss for everyone who loves Asian dramas (and films and variety content). I also subscribe to several streaming services, but there is still a lot of content that I don’t have access to. Dramacool helped fill that void and it was a wonderful resource for all of the older dramas and other content. I used it quite a lot for watching the older dramas. It was often the only source for many of them.
It’s a very sad day, indeed.
@Snow Flower, I share your pain at the abrupt demise of Dramafever. It was terrible what AT&T did to both DF subscribers/users and to DF staff members. I still miss it.
@monmor: For older K Dramas, Kocowa is probably the site with the most older content, followed by Viki. Otherwise, they are scattered across the various sites and YT channels.
BOD’ers – It is sad to see the sites that we have been using for watching asian dramas. right now, this site seems to be working https://watchasia.pl/. You can try and see if it is the same. There are C, J, K, and T dramas there.
Thanks @angelwingssf!