I am chain-reading Tokyo Crazy Paradise, which didn't really strike me much when I first started it, but after a certain point *really* grabbed me. It's an earlier series by Yoshiki Nakamura, writer of Skip Beat, and man...does she do complicated relationships and following through on ins-and-outs of concepts brilliantly ( Read more... )

I always figured there were no adaptations of the (fairly common, actually) shojo comics of a guy masquerading as a GIRL idol, because it was just too impossible, for a teen boy to pass for a girl. Though the girls (actress-pretty girls) playing boys is kinda not that possible either. We just go with it...

Of course, k-pop boybands have proved this ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I first meant to blog about these, but they just keep falling by the wayside--mostly because these aren't shows I feel are so brain-exploding awesome everyone MUST WATCH, nor particularly unknown, so I feel the need to alert people to their existence. And yet, they were so much fun!

Gokusen I actually haven't finished. I try ( Read more... )

To give myself some more time to focus on my COMEBACK from illness
I have decided to only let myself watch *one* drama for the next month or so.

When it's finished, I'll probably pick another one, but the key is to streamline the feed a bit...

To combat the obvious loophole, I'm also allowed only to read manga I can get out of the library in volume ( Read more... )

It is a rare illness that can make me unable to accomplish at least something while sick.

This has been the case for almost 2 weeks, so the only redemption has been blogging about all the stuff I was watching, etc. Just thought I'd mention it, in case you were wondering what was wrong with me...I mean, with the posting so much.

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Kaichou wa Maid- ( Read more... )

Dear Readers,
I have started a manga with a too-stupid-to-live heroine. :sigh: It's derivative, and no doubt to be full of martyrous behavior. But it's got something, apparently, because I haven't stopped...


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I've been meaning to post about some of the stuff I've been reading/watching but the list has gotten to the point of madness.

Also, I am probably running a slight fever.

So pick, what should I tell you about?

I am watching/finished watching lately
j-drama
Gokusen
Nodame Cantabile

k-drama
Wild Romance (stopped)
Color of a Woman
Greatest Love/Best Love
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Kimi wa Petto, Korean Movie version

This is a review I didn't want to write so negatively; trust me, in a movie based off a manga I love about a woman adopting a young man as her pet and meanwhile dating someone else my standards are exactly what you'd think they would be:

we're in this for a good time, okay?! don't think too hard!

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I watched the opening episode of "Extravagant Challenge", the Skip-Beat! drama being broadcast in Taiwan. Despite my many reservations. And while a lot of those reservations are spot on, I think it's going to be a decent rendition. That...I will skim liberally if I watch any more of it at all.


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