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... )

Today was the first time I skipped forward through parts of "Extravagant Challenge", Skip-Beat T-drama. They've done a bad thing in this latest episode of letting the stupidity certain types of heroines start off with slip into Kyoko's characterization to try and fill out the beats of her getting stuff wrong as Ren's manager.

RAAAARGH.

There is a ( Read more... )

Today: spring cleaning while the sun shines

Writing Stats, in brief:

So. I knew I'd sent out more poetry this year than last, I guessed about twice as much? But I couldn't remember exactly.

Last year: 32
This year: 130

DANG Y'ALL.
That's a lot more. It's not really that huge of an amount of submissions, where I counted each poem separately, but...

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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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Some days are just a Skip-Beat! day.

Today, starting at about 10pm, has become one--why is this manga so GOOD?

Why does the Taiwanese drama have to look so BAD?

I got so many people talking about Skip Beat! in my recent posts, I ended up borrowing Vols. 18+19 from my friend who owns manga tonight.

It's fun to read the volumes because I've read so much in the scanned and fan-translated versions, it's much richer when I do...also, they've cleaned up the art so it's almost a different experience.

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I accidentally figured out my dream actor for playing Ren Tsuruga of Skip-Beat.


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While we're talking K-Dramas

MAD  PROPS

to 1% of Anything for having the girl capable of giving herself a make-over (in a half-hour at most!) when she gets dissed.

This puts her in a very limited company. Most need their future boyfriends to do it for them...
Kyoko of Skip-Beat! is the only other to come to mind.

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I was a bit pleased by a Criminal Minds quote while surfing some fan videos to get acquainted with fabricalchemist  's Spencer Reid that went something like this:

"Amazing what he knows, and he's just 24." "Imagine what he'll know by 40..."

Last year the Anberlin lyric "So beautiful and only 23" was my theme, and I was afraid the only 24 theme I would know for ( Read more... )

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