In my previous post on 'Manee Dan Suaan', I talked about how I couldn't care for the main couple because I didn't understand how they came to supposedly love each other. That got me wondering, what makes in you tick in a drama romance? Some people go for fairytales complete with rainbows and stardust while others prefer watching the trails and ( Read more... )

My first thought when getting ready to write this post was 'meh, what a lackluster drama year' and it certainly feels so with me stuck in this drama slump with no apparent end in sight. However when I skimmed through my lj entries as well as my written journal, I realised that while dramas didn't consistently deliver through 2012, there were quite ( Read more... )

Oh Japan, when will you ever give me back those glorious love dramas which accompanied through my younger days and are forever etched in my heart and mind? When I scroll through what's on air these days, it's 50% mystery dramas based on mystery novels (70% of which seemed to be written by Higashino Keigo. Now, I like reading his novels too but ( Read more... )

Dropped ( Read more... )

Translating the novel made me want to give the drama another shot so I did but this time I'm dropping it for sure. Having read the novel (and quite a few times at that), I can't help but compare the two and the characters are so fundamentally different. Ironically, the only episode I've enjoyed so far was the one focused on an original character ( Read more... )

I just finished the movie version of 'General Rouge no Gaisen' and I was once again bowled over by Hayami's charisma.

堺雅人的将军较之西岛版的多了一份狂人的味道。不似西岛版一样咄咄逼人，嘴角总是挂着轻浮的微笑，任性指数却还是一样爆表。冷眼看着佐藤放弃急救，才慢条斯理地戴上手套，以高超的医术挽回病人。那一刻仿佛给在场所有不服气的人都赏了一个耳光。

不管是狂人版或面瘫版的速水，都耀眼得让人无法转移视线。

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The shippy portion got a little too long so I'm putting it in a separate post.


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Nope, no Hayami and Hanabusa scenes in the SP but I expected as much ( Read more... )

I'm shipping Hayami with Hanabusa but why do I have the nagging feeling that she might be the person responsible for Terauchi's death? Like how Izumi wanted to report Hayami's corruption to the hospital in order to keep him 'with her' in the Emergency Department, I wouldn't put it past Hanabusa to do something extreme to protect Hayami. Most ( Read more... )

Written back in 2007


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