Peach Girl isn't very good. I adore the anime but the live action leaves A LOT to be desired. The light, cute, funny, angsty, inter-relationshippy stuff is gone. Plus, I have the hugest thing for Kairi from the anime (he is my anime boyfriend) but he is not very interesting here.
If you can download, there are plenty of sites that do. I do get them on ebay a lot and have been lucky so far *knock wood* I am not super-knowledgeable about which ones are excellent as I've only recently started. I did start "Goong" which is Korean and I am enjoying it a lot. It would make a good BW movie as it's sort of a fractured fairy tale about a prince of South Korea (this is an AU) and a girl his age who are stuck in an arranged marriage and they don't want to be but their love blossoms blah blah blah. I've only seen one half of an ep but I liked it. It's so charming. It's a lot less angsty than Mars though. From what I can tell, Mars and MG are considered about the best ones, btw.
"Long Vacation" is really highly recommended by a lot of people though I am really struggling through it. It's very low key and realistic and I am certainly in the minority for not caring for it. You should check out koalathebear's posts on it. And I am only two eps in so I'll see how it goes from there.
There are four really famous Korean ones, named after seasons: Spring Waltz, Winter Sonata and... I don't remember the other two names but you can find them on wikipedia (just look up winter sonata and click on the cycle link). I am about to watch Winter Sonata but I haven't seen it yet. Full House is another really famous Korean one but I haven't seen it yet, though I really want to.
I am really dying to see "Silence" which you can find early eps of on youtube (I am not sure, but I think it's still running in Taiwan, it only started at the end of May), which I linked to above because it sounds incredibly angsty (and because I like the lead a lot, after Mars. There is also a trailer for it on youtube). There is an upcoming one, "The Hospital" which looks really cool: (trailer with subs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRDY7E6PGJ0)
Gokusen is light-hearted (it's about an heir to a mafia family going into teaching) but great. I haven't finished it yet though.
I am actually more familiar with anime then with doramas which I am only getting started with.
Thanks for recs. I can download but I'd rather buy and save the trouble of burning them to DVDs and then watching them. I just don't really like watching on the computer - it's not the same. So I guess I'll ebay and try and remember who I got the Mars ones from and just go with someone else.
If you can download, there are plenty of sites that do. I do get them on ebay a lot and have been lucky so far *knock wood* I am not super-knowledgeable about which ones are excellent as I've only recently started. I did start "Goong" which is Korean and I am enjoying it a lot. It would make a good BW movie as it's sort of a fractured fairy tale about a prince of South Korea (this is an AU) and a girl his age who are stuck in an arranged marriage and they don't want to be but their love blossoms blah blah blah. I've only seen one half of an ep but I liked it. It's so charming. It's a lot less angsty than Mars though. From what I can tell, Mars and MG are considered about the best ones, btw.
"Long Vacation" is really highly recommended by a lot of people though I am really struggling through it. It's very low key and realistic and I am certainly in the minority for not caring for it. You should check out koalathebear's posts on it. And I am only two eps in so I'll see how it goes from there.
There are four really famous Korean ones, named after seasons: Spring Waltz, Winter Sonata and... I don't remember the other two names but you can find them on wikipedia (just look up winter sonata and click on the cycle link). I am about to watch Winter Sonata but I haven't seen it yet. Full House is another really famous Korean one but I haven't seen it yet, though I really want to.
I am really dying to see "Silence" which you can find early eps of on youtube (I am not sure, but I think it's still running in Taiwan, it only started at the end of May), which I linked to above because it sounds incredibly angsty (and because I like the lead a lot, after Mars. There is also a trailer for it on youtube). There is an upcoming one, "The Hospital" which looks really cool: (trailer with subs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRDY7E6PGJ0)
Gokusen is light-hearted (it's about an heir to a mafia family going into teaching) but great. I haven't finished it yet though.
I am actually more familiar with anime then with doramas which I am only getting started with.
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