Japanese drama show with singing finishing early a complete failure (2-5)
I believe the answer is:
no-hoper
'failure' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'japanese drama show with singing finishing early a complete' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'drama' could be 'noh' (Japanese drama) and 'noh' is found within the answer.
'show' could be 'er' (US medical drama) and 'er' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'op' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for no-hoper that I've seen before include "One has nil chance of success" , "Person expected to fail" , "Person not expected to be successful" , "One not expected to succeed" , "One with little prospect of success" .)