Utahime gush!
Yes, this post is a converting post about my new drama darling, Utahime. Utahime, which came out in 2007, is a jdrama set in the 1950s on a remote fishing island. The story centers around a young soldier who washed ashore on the beach 10 years ago, right after the end of the war, wounded and with no memory of his past life, due to the war trauma. The villagers gave him the name Taro, and he ended up being taken in by the family of the village projectionist, and falling in love with the projectionist's feisty daughter, Suzu.
It stars Nagase Tomoya, who is a huge favorite (he is a rare combo of someone who makes me weak in the knees at his hotness and someone who can act) and Aibu Saki as Suzu (she is so adorable, that if I wasn't married, I'd be tempted to switch sexual orientation).
I am only an ep in (haven't had a chance to watch much of anything this weekend) but am madly in love and thus bring you this picspam of ep 1 in hopes of convincing you to watch!
I have started Utahime. One ep in and it's mad love. LOVE. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE. I haven't fallen for a drama this hard and this fast in a very long time.
Also, I aways find Nagase Tomoya hot, even when he has floppy hair and/or plays a dork or a simpleton, but with a short haircut, dark clothes and presence of a quantity of brains?
I THINK HE IS THE HOTTEST THING I'VE SEEN IN JDRAMAS IN...I'd say since when, but my brain has melted.
Also, Aibu Saki=adorableness. She is like a human kitten. I want to smoosh the two of them together into a shippy sandwich SO HARD. Which, seeing that I have been promised AAANGST by everyone and their cousin, does not bode well for my sanity in later episodes.
Oh, and the scene where she accidentally falls on top of him and they both totally still and then spring apart super awkwardly and a bit dazed? Marry me, jdrama. Marry me.
I need to cap this, I need icons, I need to marathon this thing.
ETA: Whaaaa? I knew he was a Japanese WW2 soldier but he was a kamikaze? Oh. Em. Gee.
ETA2: Aibu Saki (child version) was the one who found him, wounded and unconscious and amnesiac? And wanted him to stay with her family? OMG. This is as good as the quasi-siblings stuff kdramas love so much.
ETA3: All the staring. I approve. But my fave is the way he grins proudly when she defies the mobster.
ETA4: I love the fashion in this. I love Aibu Saki's yellow performance dress. And hair. And necklace. And the sunglasses thing was adorable.
ETA5: He overheard her telling Merry that she wanted to win to get him that three-wheel car and OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. I know I offered you marriage earlier drama, but forget that. If you want me, we can even live in sin, TPTB!
ETA6: Singing Mobster, don't they teach you things in mobster school? Don't you know who sings the show's credits? Hint: not you. Also, the way you stare at the guy indicates not a desire to engage in singling contest but engage in something else. Not that I blame you.
Suzu, bossy and adorable:
Taro, with some of the awesome village characters:
She has come to fetch him home and they are so dorktastic!
They are walking home:
GIRLCRUSH!!!!
As I said, dorkatastic!
LOLOLOL. She yells she is all grown-up so he tells her back she is so grown-up she is growing a mustache:
Next morning. Heee.
Food theft! :)
I really like Merry, the woman who owns the bar and who used to sing in Tokyo.
Suzu decides she wants to win a singing contest because the prize is a 3-wheel car and she knows Taro wants it. Awww.
I really like the projectionist, Suzu's father:
I like 50s brick-a-brack in the background:
Hilarious hotel keeper lady and singing mobster:
Suzu is practicing for the performance but she is petrified in front of all these people:
And so she is all mopey about her failure:
It's Taro. He's come to cheer her up. Yay!
Secret weapon-sunglasses! If she puts them on, nobody can tell if she closes her eyes on stage to shut out the crowd!
Oh God, I ship them so hard!
And thus this shot makes my heart melt like butter...
My fave scene in the ep! Her thank-you hug gets a bit overenthusiastic.
GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH
Woobies!
Afterwards. She is the most adorable thing in existence.
This drama is very very pretty:
He remembers his first memories:
(yes, he is pretty so lots of shots. Too bad):
And yup, first thing he saw, 10 yrs ago, was the younger version of Suzu, finding him bloody and unconscious in the ocean:
And having him stay!. SQUEE.
If I didn't ship them before, the way he looks at her when she defies singing mobster, would do it.
Love the outfits and hair:
Singing Mobster gets her sunglasses stolen so she falls apart and can't perform:
She loses, of course, and OMG, she is weeping to Merry that she really wanted that car as a present for Taro for his birthday and now she ruined it and he overhears and realizes why she was trying so hard and OMGOMGOMGOMG.
Look out, singing mobster!
Doesn't it make you want to watch this?
(x-posted from my LJ)