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beckerbell

voice, boys before flowers, gundam 00

Jan 24, 2009 10:52

Oh, well, goddammit. Of course VOICE is just as enjoyable as Mei-chan no Shitsuji and Uta no Oniisan. Which means, despite that I have three dramas that I adore utterly this season, I still have to wait week to week for each of them. Add in the wanting each week for Decade and I'm going to claw someone's face off eventually ( Read more... )

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moonbyrd January 24 2009, 19:34:27 UTC

*flaps at you* I am all over Voice, I'm seriously considering watching that episode again just to coo over them more. They're all working incredibly well together, and the dynamics on screen are fantastic. Also, WAY TO MAKE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU, SATOTOMOYUUKI. What freaking killed me was the very end of the episode, when the whole group are walking back onto campus during the credits, and Hanei put his arm around Teppei's shoulders. alskdhfga

I hadn't given much thought to Mei, is that good? Then again, I haven't yet watched Uta, oh my gods I'm so behind!

beckerbell January 24 2009, 20:22:55 UTC

....s-sorry about the word vomit on you here, it's just. I'm kind of really in love with Mei-chan. >_>

Mei-chan no Shitsuji has been getting a lot of flak from fandom, as far as I can tell, but I kind of love it without irony. It is what it is, it's a drama based on a shoujo manga (no idea how accurate it is, but I'm taking it for its own thing) and it's fluffy fun. It's sort of delightful, I spent the entire first episode cooing at just about everything and spotting all the toku actors and thinking Eikura Nana was about the most adorable thing I'd ever seen and Satou Takeru is just. You want to pick him up and feed him cookies and maybe slash him with Hiro's character.

But also Hiro is just gorgeous in this drama, the butler suit kind of makes him even hotter than usual, so he's kind of on Kabuto levels of hotness for me here. If you're looking for something serious, this isn't it, but if you're looking for something fun with just a little bit of really solid acting, then Mei-chan is really good ( ... )

moonbyrd January 24 2009, 21:37:14 UTC

I was late in replying to this because I was off watching the first episode of Mei-chan no Shitsuji. I've never heard of the manga, but it makes sense considering the roses and the pampering and the vindictiveness and all those wonderful ridiculous shoujo tropes. I had to take a breather every time Hiro and Takeru appeared on screen together; I'm seeing all sorts of scenarios where their family of butlers are secretly ninjas who fight men in rubber suits, or where the two of them trade horror stories about voice-overs and body doubles, and it all just degenerates into hotness and slash from there ( ... )

beckerbell January 24 2009, 22:15:27 UTC

I'm going to be terrible at responding as well, between Voice ep 2 finally finishing its download and finishing up my anime series and Boys Before Flowers ep 5 also just having come out. It's like-- like Japan is either trying to give us ADD by making us hop around from series to series or trying to give us an attention span by getting us to sit still for so many great series lately.

Mei-chan no Shitsuji: I hadn't heard about the manga before, either, but you can totally tell it's originally based off one (no idea how faithful it is, god knows Japan isn't that great at it, though) and it's got the whole ikemen buffet thing going on, but... well. It's shoujo. And the glasses thing is totally shoujo and just totally Japan and probably just every place that's ever produced fictional stories. I hardly really even notice it anymore and, w-well. I have to agree that she looked a lot better without them. As cute as the glasses were, they just didn't quite fit her style. Though, the super-short haircut is growing on me a lot ( ... )

moonbyrd January 24 2009, 23:18:25 UTC

Okay, so I've watched episode two, alskdhfgjskjhfgsd. IF HANEI AND TEPPEI ARE NOT MADLY IN LOVE, I WILL SOB. Also, they're all such boys, picking on her like that! And omfg again with how awesome Yuuki's role is and how much I adore him. And Eita-woobie is so effing cute and gahbibble the banter between Eita and Toma in the beginning and I just love them so much omg.

beckerbell January 26 2009, 20:40:54 UTC

I have now watched episode two as well! I-- I am not sure if I want Hanei/Teppei or Hanei/Ryousuke or Hanei/EVERYONE because I love Yuuki and his character just that much.

But OMFG YES. THEY ARE SUCH BOYS. SUCH BOYS PICKING ON THE GIRL I LOVED IT.

Her reaction at the end, making him apologize to Hollywood was kind of beautiful, too, omg.

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