Everything but the kitchen sink...
This morning continues pretty good: the sky is shinily blue, I am wearing my favorite sweater/skirt combo (corded, form-fitting turtleneck of black-gray-pale pink and down to the ground a-line skirt, dark brown with a few thick, roughly patterned black/gray/pale pink stripes). Plus my favorite black boots, and I got complimented on my looks this morning by metro guys :D
I think I am now in that point in my drama cycle, where I madly crave jdrama (just as a few months ago I was in kdrama cycle, and before that twdrama). So a lot of this are rambles about potential candidates.
Anyway. Since this is long, varied, and rather rambly, I am going to cut, to spare the flist.
1. YES! YES! YES! I have finally found a link to the subbed version of MatsuJun’s Boku wa imouto ni koi wo suru movie. (For post linking the dl go here). Yup, it’s that movie. The one where MatsuJun is in mad, reciprocal love with his twin sister. I don’t know what is wrong with me. Normally, I view sibcest with all the delight of a hydrophobe confronting the Adriatic, but in drama world I sorta like it. No idea why. Oh, who am I kidding? I have no excuses, but I want to see this. Badly.
2. Speaking of MatsuJun, any idea when Hana Yori Dango 3 (the movie) is supposed to come out?
3. And that leads me to First Kiss. Has anyone watched it? Is it worth getting? I remember wanting to check it out because I adore Inoue Mao, and because Hiraoka Yuta plays the romantic lead, and I loved him in the secondary roles in Tattakoi and ProDai and am excited he got to be a lead. But then I got sidetracked (yes, I have the attention span of a bunny) and never checked it out. Is it good? And does anyone die?
4. Speaking of dramas I am curious about Shinsengumi. I love the period, the story could be awesome (Shinsengumi were a fascinating bunch), but is the drama good?
5. Everyone on my flist is excited for Honey and Clover drama. But I have a confession to make: I haven’t read the manga, watched the movie, or seen the anime (tried by animation style didn’t grab me so I sort of forgot about it). But still…hope it’s good.
6. I keep meaning to start Jotei, but keep being half-ashamed of the cheesiness. Let’s see which side of me shall prevail. I think the acid-throwing might be my undoing :D
7. Has anyone watched Itoshi Kimi E (To The One I Love). It sounds so like something I’d like:
What if the one you love were destined to lose his eyesight in three months?
What would you like him to see last?
If you were him, what would you want to see last?
Shiki Tomokawa is a new pediatrician who is enjoying her life. She falls in love with Shunsuke, a cameraman, who is destined to lose his eyesight in a couple of months. How will Shiki react when she finds out Shunsuke's destiny?
OK, I’ll confess my shallowness. Main reason I want to watch this is I want to see more of Fujiki Naohito.
As long as nobody dies, is all I am saying. Plus look, they look so adorable together.
8. Do people still want me to upload Brand? I know I started and then got really sidetracked (like I said, shortest attention span ever). This reminds me I need to finish it, but it’s in such a happy place I don’t want to move from there, if it makes sense.
9. Kame’s new drama: oh, just the thought of him playing an overweight boxer amuses me. Seriously, WTF? I mean, he makes MatsuJun look bulky. But I love the boy so will check it out, especially since he is supposed to fall for a nun.
10. Is Friends with Won Bin good? Oh, and when is Lee Wan’s new jdrama coming out?
11. Rondo and Remote. Are they good? What is Rondo about? The men look hot, so I am just sayin’. I think I remember meganbmoore posting about both.
12. I really must finish Hana Kimi. I think I’ll enjoy it. I came into it with unreasonably high expectations because the casting was so pitch perfect (Oguri Shun as Sano? Horikita Maki as Mizuki?) but I was disappointed because it wasn’t faithful to the manga. Now that I know it isn’t, I’ll enjoy it, I think. As long as there is kissing. There better be. (Even though I am almost sure the rescuing from rapist scene is gone, it doesn’t seem to be that sort of drama).
13. Mukodono. Good or stupid? And will Karei-naru Ichizoku make me a total wreck?
1. Does anyone know of the cheapest (yet reliable) way to buy manga on-line? I want to get the rest of published Basara (I only have through volume 6) but it’s a lot of volumes, and it’s bound to be expensive when added up.
2. Seeing that I have been sniffing around From Far Away for better part of a week, I foresee it being the next manga I read. It makes me think of Fushigi Yuugi (fantasy romantic adventure), and everyone knows how mad I was for that.
3. I tried reading the first volume of Sapuri and didn’t care for the art and was bored. I think I’ll stick to the drama. Which I need to finish (seriously, I have the shortest attention span in history).
4. I got volume 9 of Skip-Beat. Heh. I love Kyoko in all her scary glory. And eeeee, Ren is not good at ‘love’ parts of the acting? Because he doesn’t allow himself to care about anyone and it reflects in his acting? Hmmmm. tatterpunk has been promising me delicious Ren angst in the future, so with her promises and this stuff (the boss is all ‘I know why you find it difficult to get close to people’), I hope it’s a doozy. Is it me, btw, or does Ren look a bit like Sakuya in Sensual Phrase?
5. Speaking of which, I started rereading Sensual Phrase. Bad idea. Well, not bad per se, as it’s still trashily supremely wonderful, but bad idea to do so on the metro. Even with volume 1. I kept slouching in my seat, and pulling the volume close to me, hoping the fellow passengers wouldn’t take me for an utter perv :P
6. I also checked out the first volume of S.A. It’s part Kare Kano, part Ouran. Cute and fun in the ‘reading in the bookstore’ kinda way. Our heroine is number 2 student and her goal is to once win over our hero, number 1. But they are also pretty good friends, and he seems to like her in a certain way, even if neither of them yet realize it. The art is pretty.
1. Bull Fighting is total cuteness:
I have to say that Asian parents are HARD-CORE. I mean, Hebe’s Dad ended up whippng Lee Wei so badly the boy has bloody stripes on his back because he helped her switch schools? But I am still not watching this because need to finish the awesome Why Why Love (it’s just the angst is about to hit and I am protective of my OTP).
2. Speaking of Taiwanese dramas: SQUEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I repeat: SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!
Did you know that there is an upcoming drama, Hot Shot, starring Jerry Yan (!!!) AND Alan Luo (!!!) AND Wu Zun (!!!).
How is this much hotness going to be crammed into one drama? How? Heck, the thought of Sano and Domyouji in the same drama makes me hyper (I was going to make a manga related joke here, but Alan Luo hasn’t been in a manga adaptation, to my knowledge. My alternative ‘men who kissed Barbie Xsu on screen’ joke also fell flat as Wu Zun never did that :P)
But seriously. OMG. How????????????????????????
3. A hot Vic Zhou picture or two, just because:
I think I am now in that point in my drama cycle, where I madly crave jdrama (just as a few months ago I was in kdrama cycle, and before that twdrama). So a lot of this are rambles about potential candidates.
Anyway. Since this is long, varied, and rather rambly, I am going to cut, to spare the flist.
1. YES! YES! YES! I have finally found a link to the subbed version of MatsuJun’s Boku wa imouto ni koi wo suru movie. (For post linking the dl go here). Yup, it’s that movie. The one where MatsuJun is in mad, reciprocal love with his twin sister. I don’t know what is wrong with me. Normally, I view sibcest with all the delight of a hydrophobe confronting the Adriatic, but in drama world I sorta like it. No idea why. Oh, who am I kidding? I have no excuses, but I want to see this. Badly.
2. Speaking of MatsuJun, any idea when Hana Yori Dango 3 (the movie) is supposed to come out?
3. And that leads me to First Kiss. Has anyone watched it? Is it worth getting? I remember wanting to check it out because I adore Inoue Mao, and because Hiraoka Yuta plays the romantic lead, and I loved him in the secondary roles in Tattakoi and ProDai and am excited he got to be a lead. But then I got sidetracked (yes, I have the attention span of a bunny) and never checked it out. Is it good? And does anyone die?
4. Speaking of dramas I am curious about Shinsengumi. I love the period, the story could be awesome (Shinsengumi were a fascinating bunch), but is the drama good?
5. Everyone on my flist is excited for Honey and Clover drama. But I have a confession to make: I haven’t read the manga, watched the movie, or seen the anime (tried by animation style didn’t grab me so I sort of forgot about it). But still…hope it’s good.
6. I keep meaning to start Jotei, but keep being half-ashamed of the cheesiness. Let’s see which side of me shall prevail. I think the acid-throwing might be my undoing :D
7. Has anyone watched Itoshi Kimi E (To The One I Love). It sounds so like something I’d like:
What if the one you love were destined to lose his eyesight in three months?
What would you like him to see last?
If you were him, what would you want to see last?
Shiki Tomokawa is a new pediatrician who is enjoying her life. She falls in love with Shunsuke, a cameraman, who is destined to lose his eyesight in a couple of months. How will Shiki react when she finds out Shunsuke's destiny?
OK, I’ll confess my shallowness. Main reason I want to watch this is I want to see more of Fujiki Naohito.
As long as nobody dies, is all I am saying. Plus look, they look so adorable together.
8. Do people still want me to upload Brand? I know I started and then got really sidetracked (like I said, shortest attention span ever). This reminds me I need to finish it, but it’s in such a happy place I don’t want to move from there, if it makes sense.
9. Kame’s new drama: oh, just the thought of him playing an overweight boxer amuses me. Seriously, WTF? I mean, he makes MatsuJun look bulky. But I love the boy so will check it out, especially since he is supposed to fall for a nun.
10. Is Friends with Won Bin good? Oh, and when is Lee Wan’s new jdrama coming out?
11. Rondo and Remote. Are they good? What is Rondo about? The men look hot, so I am just sayin’. I think I remember meganbmoore posting about both.
12. I really must finish Hana Kimi. I think I’ll enjoy it. I came into it with unreasonably high expectations because the casting was so pitch perfect (Oguri Shun as Sano? Horikita Maki as Mizuki?) but I was disappointed because it wasn’t faithful to the manga. Now that I know it isn’t, I’ll enjoy it, I think. As long as there is kissing. There better be. (Even though I am almost sure the rescuing from rapist scene is gone, it doesn’t seem to be that sort of drama).
13. Mukodono. Good or stupid? And will Karei-naru Ichizoku make me a total wreck?
1. Does anyone know of the cheapest (yet reliable) way to buy manga on-line? I want to get the rest of published Basara (I only have through volume 6) but it’s a lot of volumes, and it’s bound to be expensive when added up.
2. Seeing that I have been sniffing around From Far Away for better part of a week, I foresee it being the next manga I read. It makes me think of Fushigi Yuugi (fantasy romantic adventure), and everyone knows how mad I was for that.
3. I tried reading the first volume of Sapuri and didn’t care for the art and was bored. I think I’ll stick to the drama. Which I need to finish (seriously, I have the shortest attention span in history).
4. I got volume 9 of Skip-Beat. Heh. I love Kyoko in all her scary glory. And eeeee, Ren is not good at ‘love’ parts of the acting? Because he doesn’t allow himself to care about anyone and it reflects in his acting? Hmmmm. tatterpunk has been promising me delicious Ren angst in the future, so with her promises and this stuff (the boss is all ‘I know why you find it difficult to get close to people’), I hope it’s a doozy. Is it me, btw, or does Ren look a bit like Sakuya in Sensual Phrase?
5. Speaking of which, I started rereading Sensual Phrase. Bad idea. Well, not bad per se, as it’s still trashily supremely wonderful, but bad idea to do so on the metro. Even with volume 1. I kept slouching in my seat, and pulling the volume close to me, hoping the fellow passengers wouldn’t take me for an utter perv :P
6. I also checked out the first volume of S.A. It’s part Kare Kano, part Ouran. Cute and fun in the ‘reading in the bookstore’ kinda way. Our heroine is number 2 student and her goal is to once win over our hero, number 1. But they are also pretty good friends, and he seems to like her in a certain way, even if neither of them yet realize it. The art is pretty.
1. Bull Fighting is total cuteness:
I have to say that Asian parents are HARD-CORE. I mean, Hebe’s Dad ended up whippng Lee Wei so badly the boy has bloody stripes on his back because he helped her switch schools? But I am still not watching this because need to finish the awesome Why Why Love (it’s just the angst is about to hit and I am protective of my OTP).
2. Speaking of Taiwanese dramas: SQUEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I repeat: SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!
Did you know that there is an upcoming drama, Hot Shot, starring Jerry Yan (!!!) AND Alan Luo (!!!) AND Wu Zun (!!!).
How is this much hotness going to be crammed into one drama? How? Heck, the thought of Sano and Domyouji in the same drama makes me hyper (I was going to make a manga related joke here, but Alan Luo hasn’t been in a manga adaptation, to my knowledge. My alternative ‘men who kissed Barbie Xsu on screen’ joke also fell flat as Wu Zun never did that :P)
But seriously. OMG. How????????????????????????
3. A hot Vic Zhou picture or two, just because: