桜蘭高校ホスト部

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I didn't have high expectations of Ouran High School Host Club live action because I loved the anime and didn't think any real life actors would be able to convincingly portray my lovely host club boys. At first glance, I didn't find the live action cast sufficiently aesthetically pleasing but I liked Kawaguchi Haruna's Haruhi enough to want to give it a shot. 11 episodes later though, I'm actually quite pleased with the live action adaptation. It maintained the fun, anime feel with well-placed CGI effects and the cast was able to bring out the 'flavour' of the character they were playing with the exception of Honey and Mori. I cut Honey's actor some slack because I think it's near impossible to find a real life Honey and I was actually kinda wowed when he showed off some karate moves in the last episode. As for Mori, I simply regarded him as part of the backdrop most of the time.

It seems that many second-lead ship Kyouya (understandable because Daito Shunsuke totally rocked it as my darling Kyouya) with Haruhi in the drama but strangely, it made me ship Tamaki/Haruhi when I was partial to them in the anime. While watching the anime, I accepted T/H as the couple that was meant to be but I wasn't rooting for them in particular perhaps because I was on board the Kyouya/Tamaki ship. The live action concentrated on T/H related parts and I ended up pretty touched by our baka prince and gasp, even teared a little when he said he would always find Haruhi even if he had to go up mountains or down into the seas. All in all, I had an enjoyable time with the live action and am definitely looking forward to the movie!

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This song has replaced T-ara's Cry Cry as my song on repeat. Yes, I'm a fickle fangirl.

I've heard of Janne Da Arc when I listened to J-rock/pop a few years back but I've never checked out their music. It was only until I stumbled upon a video of Yasu (JDA's vocalist) fanboy-ing over HYDE (vocalist of L'Arc~en~Ciel, one of my favourite bands) that I decided to go clickety click on youtube. This song puts me in such a good mood I can't help wanting to listen to it again and again. :)



Let me end of with a photo of beautiful HYDE-sama.