I like Miko, too. She's so much cooler than her Korean counterpart. And so pretty! I can take only so much stupid and reaching for my dreams!!1 and I'm doing it all for my brother who's doing it for me!, but somehow Miko is still loveable.
Before the drama aired, I read several comments where people complained about the male leads being "horribly miscast". I don't know the boys so I can't attest to that, but I thought Yuki was awesome, Ren was good and Shun, well, his character gazes at Mio a lot, so there. Am I the only one who sees Ren as the perfect cross between the Korean lead actor and Domyouji?
The grown-ups are stupid.
That said, I gave up somewhere in the middle of the second ep. I'd probably have watched it was this as slow a season as the previous, but with things as they are I don't have the patience to sit through this. It drags in parts, especially when the grown-ups appear - be it the managers or Mama Diva. I might watch it at some point, though; I'm really curious if they'll keep up the pop culture references. A.N.Jell's faces on a plane were a good start. XD
I love how they've fleshed out Mio's motives and her conflicted feelings about lying. Character development yay!
I read several comments where people complained about the male leads being "horribly miscast".
BLASPHEMY. REN IS PERFECTION WITH A CROOKED SMILE. Shu is... there. Yuki hasn't done much, but then he hasn't been given a lot to do. I wonder if it's just a matter of first impressions? ANJELL as a band didn't really click at first, but by the time they're throwing backyard barbecue fests they are ADORABLE.
ADORABLE.
I'm actually loving the secondary characters. Well, I don't care about the managers at all (except the boss guy who is a hilarious parody of Johnny Kitagawa and his YOUs) but the others are great! RANDOM GAY BFF LOL WHAT. And diva girl is one of the crossdressing idols from Mendol! Maybe she's such a diva because she's pissed that Mio stole her meal ticket.
Fleshing out characters seems to be the trend; see HanaKimi. I hope Japanese viewers have the same feelings about it as the international ones and the producers cater to it. Imagine character development becoming the next big thing! :O
Mendol? Ah, I remember you made a post about that. (Hi, I'm your longtime stalker. *waves*) I haven't watched it, though.
Apropos your pic:
I'm on a roll. XD (Just watched HanaKimi ep4 and adsvfpue I'm so in love with this drama, it's not even funny anymore. ♥)
You're not really missing much aside from crossdressing hijinks and faux lesbian spankings. Actually, I think one of Hanakimi's producers worked on Mendol, which explains... a lot.
FL;SDKFSDFJL I NEED TO CATCH UP. OMG. CUTE DOGGIE WHY DO YOU TEMPT ME SO.
(Actually it was more about the blond hair horns, but, yeah, he's cute, too. XD)
I have this plan. See, on my birthday in November, I will ask a few friends of mine for a few hour of their time as my present. I'll invite them over for an evening, provide tea and cookies, and make them watch the first episodes of some drama with me. I'm convinced that if I do it right, I can make them want to finish the drama - and then, maybe, I can get them to watch other dramas with me. It's nice to be able to flail with others irl occasionally. I originally wanted them to watch Zenkai Girl, because they're totally into romantic comedies and that would be right up their alley, but now I'm second guessing myself if Hana Kimi might not be equally good an option. It's just so AWESOME.
Right? I was thinking so hard about which one to choose - HanaDan seemed the best option, but still not quite perfect to me - and BAM, along comes Zenkai Girl (or Hana Kimi, as it is). The future looks brilliant.
Ha, I was going to rec Hanadan but then I figured you'd already thought of it. (I mean - it's Hanadan.) Coffee Prince is another intro if you don't mind something a little longer.
I mean - it's Hanadan. XD Yes, yes it is. That one worked on my sister, and Rui was enough to make her watch Hana Kimi, too. I just fear that they're at the critical stage where they don't appreciate high school dramas as they should, having just graduated themselves. You know, feeling 'too grown-up' for that and not yet at the point where I am: watching Hana Kimi and thinking they're all so damn cute, like puppies and kittens, and kittens pretending to be puppies, and puppies wondering whether they like kittens or puppies better or is it just the three weeks old sandwich they ate that makes them feel funny in the stomach. ... Which probably means that Hana Kimi is not the way to go.
Coffee Prince! That one's great, but I fear it's too slow-paced. I need something that has them craving more. Besides, it's Korean. I have them far enough that they're not all that skeptic about Japanese stuff anymore (they really like Nino's "Niji" and are currently warming up to Kamiji Yusuke's "Lion"), so I'd rather stay on the isles than throw even more Asian cultures in there. It's high on the 'further watching' list for if they bite, though.
Others I had in mind include Nodame (pro: they're musicians, cons: too crazy to inflict on innocents), Buzzer Beat (pro: cuuute, con: not quite fetching enough) or some Nagase drama like Utahime (pro: they'll cry like babies in the end, con: they won't want to make it that far after just one or two eps). My demands are high. XD I need this to be perfect. Good thing I still a few months to figure out the details.
Ah, I've been meaning to ask you: do you still read fics? Because there's a gorgeous novel-length one being posted.
You speak the truth about the cycle. I went through a period where I couldn't stand high school dramas and considered myself so ~above~ all their youthful dreams and big speeches... and then it took just one (Asuko March, incidentally) to remind me why I used to love them.
NOW I AM WATCHING LIKE FIVE.
The cycle is unforgiving.
*ponders your dilemma* Does it have to be a cracky drama? Because I've hooked at least one person with SPEC. Zettai Kareshi is nice and hilarious, but the ending may traumatize them away from jdramas for good...
Maybe BOSS? It's another crime drama, but it has guns and explosions and enough wacky team hijinks to introduce them to Japanese humor.
The cycle is unforgiving. [insert Lion King reference]
*ponders your dilemma* O__O I just realised I implicitly asked for your help. I'm so slow... Sorry! You don't need to wreck your brain for me if you don't want to. I won't be offended, promise. If you do like that kind of thing, though... read on.
SPEC was AWESOME. I watched it a second time almost right after the first and took notes to maybe see through that mess and get the ending. XD I think I understood stuff better, but not entirely. Ah, good times. Actually, I was about to lure someone in with it! A friend I ride the bus with. He really liked Heroes, the NBC one, and I told him about SPEC. I promised to send him dl links but... I forgot. DD: Shame on me. SPEC might be a little too complicated for my girl friends, though. We're not English native speakers after all, and they're not used to subs. A show like SPEC, where every line is important, might be hard. Maybe JOKER is more fitting, that's not quite as complicated. Though I'm not sure if crime dramas (BOSS, too) will work. They probably watch crime, but the stuff they get really into is romance. They both loved that-vampire-book-with-T and a few months ago we went to the cinema to see a movie called "Letters to Juliet". The heroine annoyed me to no end ("The guy you dated fifty years ago definitely still lives here! Of course he still loves you! I'm sure he's unattached! Real love overcomes everything!") and only her love interest ("... no, probably not") made it somehow bearable, but my friends were all "He's so unromantic! She's totally right!" and, yeah. (I swear they're decent people. I'm sure their taste will develop; they're still young, and they have me - and thus Johnny and his definition of taste - to guide them.) So I wonder if I can make them want more of a crime drama. I mean, possibly, but romance seems the safer option.
Oh, Zettai Kareshi is good. I remember I thought it was nice but not extraordinary, but I'll watch the first eps and check the addiction factor.
Round up: Just one shot, come on, you wanna be part of the gang, right? a.k.a. first drama candidates: Zenkai Girl, Zettai Kareshi, (HanaKimi, HanaDan) Recommended for further studies, a.k.a. the second drama: SPEC, JOKER, Buzzer Beat, all of the above.
Before the drama aired, I read several comments where people complained about the male leads being "horribly miscast". I don't know the boys so I can't attest to that, but I thought Yuki was awesome, Ren was good and Shun, well, his character gazes at Mio a lot, so there. Am I the only one who sees Ren as the perfect cross between the Korean lead actor and Domyouji?
The grown-ups are stupid.
That said, I gave up somewhere in the middle of the second ep. I'd probably have watched it was this as slow a season as the previous, but with things as they are I don't have the patience to sit through this. It drags in parts, especially when the grown-ups appear - be it the managers or Mama Diva. I might watch it at some point, though; I'm really curious if they'll keep up the pop culture references. A.N.Jell's faces on a plane were a good start. XD
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I read several comments where people complained about the male leads being "horribly miscast".
BLASPHEMY. REN IS PERFECTION WITH A CROOKED SMILE. Shu is... there. Yuki hasn't done much, but then he hasn't been given a lot to do. I wonder if it's just a matter of first impressions? ANJELL as a band didn't really click at first, but by the time they're throwing backyard barbecue fests they are ADORABLE.
ADORABLE.
I'm actually loving the secondary characters. Well, I don't care about the managers at all (except the boss guy who is a hilarious parody of Johnny Kitagawa and his YOUs) but the others are great! RANDOM GAY BFF LOL WHAT. And diva girl is one of the crossdressing idols from Mendol! Maybe she's such a diva because she's pissed that Mio stole her meal ticket.
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Mendol? Ah, I remember you made a post about that. (Hi, I'm your longtime stalker. *waves*) I haven't watched it, though.
Apropos your pic:
I'm on a roll. XD
(Just watched HanaKimi ep4 and adsvfpue I'm so in love with this drama, it's not even funny anymore. ♥)
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FL;SDKFSDFJL I NEED TO CATCH UP. OMG. CUTE DOGGIE WHY DO YOU TEMPT ME SO.
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I have this plan. See, on my birthday in November, I will ask a few friends of mine for a few hour of their time as my present. I'll invite them over for an evening, provide tea and cookies, and make them watch the first episodes of some drama with me. I'm convinced that if I do it right, I can make them want to finish the drama - and then, maybe, I can get them to watch other dramas with me. It's nice to be able to flail with others irl occasionally.
I originally wanted them to watch Zenkai Girl, because they're totally into romantic comedies and that would be right up their alley, but now I'm second guessing myself if Hana Kimi might not be equally good an option. It's just so AWESOME.
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I'm convinced that if I do it right, I can make them want to finish the drama - and then, maybe, I can get them to watch other dramas with me
Dude, absolutely. That's how it starts. One good drama and they'll be hooked for life.
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XD Yes, yes it is. That one worked on my sister, and Rui was enough to make her watch Hana Kimi, too. I just fear that they're at the critical stage where they don't appreciate high school dramas as they should, having just graduated themselves. You know, feeling 'too grown-up' for that and not yet at the point where I am: watching Hana Kimi and thinking they're all so damn cute, like puppies and kittens, and kittens pretending to be puppies, and puppies wondering whether they like kittens or puppies better or is it just the three weeks old sandwich they ate that makes them feel funny in the stomach.
... Which probably means that Hana Kimi is not the way to go.
Coffee Prince! That one's great, but I fear it's too slow-paced. I need something that has them craving more. Besides, it's Korean. I have them far enough that they're not all that skeptic about Japanese stuff anymore (they really like Nino's "Niji" and are currently warming up to Kamiji Yusuke's "Lion"), so I'd rather stay on the isles than throw even more Asian cultures in there. It's high on the 'further watching' list for if they bite, though.
Others I had in mind include Nodame (pro: they're musicians, cons: too crazy to inflict on innocents), Buzzer Beat (pro: cuuute, con: not quite fetching enough) or some Nagase drama like Utahime (pro: they'll cry like babies in the end, con: they won't want to make it that far after just one or two eps). My demands are high. XD I need this to be perfect. Good thing I still a few months to figure out the details.
Ah, I've been meaning to ask you: do you still read fics? Because there's a gorgeous novel-length one being posted.
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NOW I AM WATCHING LIKE FIVE.
The cycle is unforgiving.
*ponders your dilemma* Does it have to be a cracky drama? Because I've hooked at least one person with SPEC. Zettai Kareshi is nice and hilarious, but the ending may traumatize them away from jdramas for good...
Maybe BOSS? It's another crime drama, but it has guns and explosions and enough wacky team hijinks to introduce them to Japanese humor.
I read fics like a FIEND. :D What fandom?
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[insert Lion King reference]
*ponders your dilemma*
O__O I just realised I implicitly asked for your help. I'm so slow... Sorry! You don't need to wreck your brain for me if you don't want to. I won't be offended, promise. If you do like that kind of thing, though... read on.
SPEC was AWESOME. I watched it a second time almost right after the first and took notes to maybe see through that mess and get the ending. XD I think I understood stuff better, but not entirely. Ah, good times.
Actually, I was about to lure someone in with it! A friend I ride the bus with. He really liked Heroes, the NBC one, and I told him about SPEC. I promised to send him dl links but... I forgot. DD: Shame on me.
SPEC might be a little too complicated for my girl friends, though. We're not English native speakers after all, and they're not used to subs. A show like SPEC, where every line is important, might be hard. Maybe JOKER is more fitting, that's not quite as complicated.
Though I'm not sure if crime dramas (BOSS, too) will work. They probably watch crime, but the stuff they get really into is romance. They both loved that-vampire-book-with-T and a few months ago we went to the cinema to see a movie called "Letters to Juliet". The heroine annoyed me to no end ("The guy you dated fifty years ago definitely still lives here! Of course he still loves you! I'm sure he's unattached! Real love overcomes everything!") and only her love interest ("... no, probably not") made it somehow bearable, but my friends were all "He's so unromantic! She's totally right!" and, yeah. (I swear they're decent people. I'm sure their taste will develop; they're still young, and they have me - and thus Johnny and his definition of taste - to guide them.) So I wonder if I can make them want more of a crime drama. I mean, possibly, but romance seems the safer option.
Oh, Zettai Kareshi is good. I remember I thought it was nice but not extraordinary, but I'll watch the first eps and check the addiction factor.
Round up:
Just one shot, come on, you wanna be part of the gang, right? a.k.a. first drama candidates: Zenkai Girl, Zettai Kareshi, (HanaKimi, HanaDan)
Recommended for further studies, a.k.a. the second drama: SPEC, JOKER, Buzzer Beat, all of the above.
The fics a J&A one - Ryo/Junno. I'll be lazy and link the pimpage I just finished writing.
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