Kimi Wa Petto and Boku...Suru. it's a MatsuJun feast of sorts.
OK, I am totally in love with Kimi Wa Petto.
Like, I missed my stop because of it! And had to get off and run to the train going to the opposite direction.
No, I am not bipolarly flip-flapping and discovering the love of that drama in me. It’s just I started the manga version (in the US, translated to ‘Tramps Like Us’).
EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
So good.
So freaking good.
It’s funny, because I gave up on the drama midway through, but this is total love. What is the difference?
1. Sumire. I never realized it before but I didn’t care for the Sumire actress at all (OTOH, MatsuJun was perfect Momo). She just really grated on me, and I thought it was the character, but after reading the manga, where I really like her, nope it’s the actress. Her vibe didn’t work for me. Perhaps because in the drama, Sumire came across frigid (not sexually, but emotionally) to a crippling degree, and dorky!emotionally!stunted which just didn’t work for me. Sumire in the manga has ostensibly the same traits: intelligence, reserve, impatience with fools, loneliness, but she just gives off a much more (to me) neat vibe: sort of a tough/rough girl, (on the outside), weary. Makes me think of Barbie Xsu from Meteor Garden only way older and with no bf :)
2. There are little changes, but they all make the manga something that keeps my attention and also doesn’t trigger my ‘squick’ factor the way the drama did: it’s much more clear that Momo isn’t weak-spined or submissive, just very very odd. In fact, the thing that drove me nuts in the drama was the emphasis on the ‘pet’ thing (through the constant presence of that atrocious psychologist) but here it’s not the same vibe. Somehow, it feels more equal. Especially since you get Momo’s thoughts which make it clear that he is not a push-over, just someone who likes her (in whatever capacity) and doesn’t mind giving her what she needs. There isn’t the same power imbalance at all. My fave scene is actually when she gets home totally wasted and is all, ‘I feel so good, I can even do it with you’ to Momo and he tells her ‘Not tonight’ and when she asks ‘when?’ he replies that ‘when you can call me by my real name.’ And she mumbles ‘your name is Momo’ and passes out and he mutters ‘No, Sumire. That’s my pet name. Which means in the morning I’ll go back to being your pet. So I think we should wait.’ Or something to that effect. Mmmmm. I can just imagine MatsuJun saying that in KwP. *thud*
3. Sumire’s love life. I wish they kept the scuzzy guy she went out for a bit and had sex with and then it didn’t work out. The whole casual hook-up thing was…somehow made mer seem both tougher and more functional. And the whole vibe with the guy she is crushing on is so much better in the manga: for one, because he is no prince charming but someone she lost her ‘v’ too, when he was engaged to someone else, no less! Plus, the whole attitude to sex is more ‘rough’ in the manga, like Sumire waking up next to Momo early on and looking in the trash bin to see if they did the deed. Or Momo saying that his landlord told him he’d forgive the rent if he had sex with him. He says that in the drama, too, but in the manga he continues that he was ‘Oh, OK.’ But then he found out he had to be on top and thought it was too much :P I think that would be a bit risque for Japanese TV though.
Anyway, I really love the manga. I suppose once I finish I might try giving the drama another chance.
And on that note, I bring you some caps from Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru
Yes, I am going to hell and yes, I am shipping them:
He comes in to see her sleeping:
And he leans down:
To kiss her hand:
And she is still asleep:
So…
*thud*
He leans to kiss her:
But his hair on her face wakes her up:
So he slowly:
Lifts himself:
As she is puzzled:
Very puzzled:
My, this is hot:
And he nerves himself:
And as she looks at him, tells her the truth:
To be continued because my uploading crashed.
Like, I missed my stop because of it! And had to get off and run to the train going to the opposite direction.
No, I am not bipolarly flip-flapping and discovering the love of that drama in me. It’s just I started the manga version (in the US, translated to ‘Tramps Like Us’).
EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
So good.
So freaking good.
It’s funny, because I gave up on the drama midway through, but this is total love. What is the difference?
1. Sumire. I never realized it before but I didn’t care for the Sumire actress at all (OTOH, MatsuJun was perfect Momo). She just really grated on me, and I thought it was the character, but after reading the manga, where I really like her, nope it’s the actress. Her vibe didn’t work for me. Perhaps because in the drama, Sumire came across frigid (not sexually, but emotionally) to a crippling degree, and dorky!emotionally!stunted which just didn’t work for me. Sumire in the manga has ostensibly the same traits: intelligence, reserve, impatience with fools, loneliness, but she just gives off a much more (to me) neat vibe: sort of a tough/rough girl, (on the outside), weary. Makes me think of Barbie Xsu from Meteor Garden only way older and with no bf :)
2. There are little changes, but they all make the manga something that keeps my attention and also doesn’t trigger my ‘squick’ factor the way the drama did: it’s much more clear that Momo isn’t weak-spined or submissive, just very very odd. In fact, the thing that drove me nuts in the drama was the emphasis on the ‘pet’ thing (through the constant presence of that atrocious psychologist) but here it’s not the same vibe. Somehow, it feels more equal. Especially since you get Momo’s thoughts which make it clear that he is not a push-over, just someone who likes her (in whatever capacity) and doesn’t mind giving her what she needs. There isn’t the same power imbalance at all. My fave scene is actually when she gets home totally wasted and is all, ‘I feel so good, I can even do it with you’ to Momo and he tells her ‘Not tonight’ and when she asks ‘when?’ he replies that ‘when you can call me by my real name.’ And she mumbles ‘your name is Momo’ and passes out and he mutters ‘No, Sumire. That’s my pet name. Which means in the morning I’ll go back to being your pet. So I think we should wait.’ Or something to that effect. Mmmmm. I can just imagine MatsuJun saying that in KwP. *thud*
3. Sumire’s love life. I wish they kept the scuzzy guy she went out for a bit and had sex with and then it didn’t work out. The whole casual hook-up thing was…somehow made mer seem both tougher and more functional. And the whole vibe with the guy she is crushing on is so much better in the manga: for one, because he is no prince charming but someone she lost her ‘v’ too, when he was engaged to someone else, no less! Plus, the whole attitude to sex is more ‘rough’ in the manga, like Sumire waking up next to Momo early on and looking in the trash bin to see if they did the deed. Or Momo saying that his landlord told him he’d forgive the rent if he had sex with him. He says that in the drama, too, but in the manga he continues that he was ‘Oh, OK.’ But then he found out he had to be on top and thought it was too much :P I think that would be a bit risque for Japanese TV though.
Anyway, I really love the manga. I suppose once I finish I might try giving the drama another chance.
And on that note, I bring you some caps from Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru
Yes, I am going to hell and yes, I am shipping them:
He comes in to see her sleeping:
And he leans down:
To kiss her hand:
And she is still asleep:
So…
*thud*
He leans to kiss her:
But his hair on her face wakes her up:
So he slowly:
Lifts himself:
As she is puzzled:
Very puzzled:
My, this is hot:
And he nerves himself:
And as she looks at him, tells her the truth:
To be continued because my uploading crashed.