dramas and specials and yet more manga adaptations

[bluelovesorange]

Doraemon beat Kurosagi in the boxoffice sweepstakes - you can't fight a robotic blue cat. With a MAGIC POCKET OF AWESOME.

I quit watching Robbers, and now my kdrama list has been reshuffled so that I'm watching On Air, then Thank You, then Ruler of Your Own World. After fast forwarding through most of 90 days (falling in love) in sort of mute car crash horror, and then watching a few key episodes of Stained Glass to get the taste of LAME out, I've been looking forward to Kim Ha Neul's role in On Air. I love it when my favorite actresses play new archetypes - Kim Ha Neul gives good bitch diva.

My Jdramas are now: watching all of Ashita no Kita Yoshio once it's done airing/subbed, starting Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi, thanks to calixa's starry eyed enthusiasm. I like whimsical and weird and magic realism. I'm keeping up with the slow gentle loveliness of Bara no nai Hanaya, and I've dropped Daisuki! (though, Yuuta. You so pretty. CALL ME.) Play me sad piano ballads!


Things I'm looking forward to: Last Friends, Tokyo Daikushu, Puzzle. Hopefully, Puzzle will be a better class of mystery than the crappy 4 Shimai Tantei Dan. I downloaded the first episode of it and I usually try to keep a threshold of 3 episodes before I decide to ditch a program, but oh the crappitude was so mighty. The main character comes from the wide eyed nosy plucky heroine school of stock characters and while that in itself wasn't irritating (arguably, Tsurara in Kurosagi is also a wide eyed, nosy, plucky heroine type and also I love her very much), the fact that she was SO INCREDIBLY STUPID and constantly walking into danger and just thinking about it makes me grind my teeth. Too much focus was put on her. I'd rather they focus on the sister played by Ichikawa Yui, or but alas, it looks like dumber than a bag of hair sister is the Nancy Drew connection character.

A sneak peek at Tokyo Daikushu is here.

There's rumors of a Hanazakari no Kimitachi e SP filming at the end of March, and since Fuji seems to be on SP roll lately, it's not completely far-fetched, but I'm not going to start flailing until I actually see this rumor pop up on 2ch or ...you know, official recognition.

Like the masochistic thrill of emo/angst shot that Kdrama provides without having to suffer through a long extended series? The next best thing is Korean PVs. I've been watching this and this obsessively. It's a two parter, much like the similar Timeless from last year, but I prefer these over Timeless, because...Chinese Opera. The Korean/Chinese fusion. The actual theatricality of it. So. Good.

And Choi Siwon is always a plus.

Cat Street (from the mangaka of Hana Yori Dango) is getting the dorama treatment.

Comments

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

the fact that she was SO INCREDIBLY STUPID and constantly walking into danger and just thinking about it makes me grind my teeth.

My reaction was the complete opposite! I wasn't really feeling the drama until the end, when she rescued herself and tasered the villians for her personal enjoyment. I loved that the cute young cop rushing in to save the day was useless, and three steps behind her.

okay, I'll give you the taser

[calledinvain.livejournal.com]

I did enjoy that. That was like the one 'FINALLY' moment I had, but all the other stuff - just going off without telling people, not charging her phone, WALKING IN DARK SHADOWY PLACES...confronting the killers on her own, it was just too much. If she teamed up with one of her sisters to fight!crime, I might have ignored the WTH factor, but yeah, I was not terribly impressed with the first ep, and am wary of watching a second.

And escaping all on her own!

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

I don't think teaming up with her sisters would help any, seeing as how her sisters were so empty headed, Jesus Christ. Do you think it runs in the family? "Well, the police said our beloved father is a murderer, let's just believe them and move on!" "What? You're calling me to say you're in danger? Send help? What? Let me talk about my date!"




*cough* I may have hated Kato Natsuki's character a lot.

Re: And escaping all on her own!

[calledinvain.livejournal.com]

*thinks back* You're right. It's like shooting a barrel of fish, isn't it?

it's really just a sliding scale of which sister is more irritating. I hold out slim hope for Yui Ichikawa's sister for being slightly less stupid.

Re: And escaping all on her own!

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

I think Kaho has potential. She can take care of herself, at any rate. And she's the youngest, which is some excuse.

[calixa.livejournal.com]

I thought the four sisters mystery drama was lame too. I mean, the case wasn't interesting, the sisters were boring (but cute, sorta), and it was just -- boring. I didn't even finish ep 1.

Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi... *makes starry eyes*

I'm going to pick up Bara no nai Hanaya soon too. And Binbo Danshi as it's getting subbed now! Yay for Oguri Shun!