This is an 8-episode series based on the Clamp series. It seems to have somehow managed to fly way way under the radar. At least, I don't recall anyone actually talking about it when it came out ( Read more... )

Much like the first series, save that they figured out what parts we liked and what we cared less about, so it's all about conspiracies, Eriko being awesome and pwning criminals, Nodate being more charming and likable than anyone that smarmy has any right to be (Takenouchi Yutaka has the superpower to be likable?) and the rest of the cast being ( Read more... )

Boku to Star no 99 Nichi is a romantic comedy about Kouhei, a part-time bodyguard who gets assigned to guard a Korean superstar, Han Yoo Na, for 99 days while she's shooting a drama in Japan. Except his job isn't so much to guard her from other people but to keep her from sneaking out and getting into trouble and hunt down mysterious men from her ( Read more... )

I haven't watched any of the other time travel kdramas that came out earlier this year (Queen In Hyun's Man is the only one of them that I've had any interest in, but I haven't tried it out yet) and so I'm free of any time travel lethargy other kdrama fans might be having. (And this one has also been in the making for much longer than any of those ( Read more... )

This week's Rich Man Poor Woman was fun but I didn't like it as mch as the first 4 episodes.  Last week's Naniwa Shounen Tanteidan (subs are slower on this one) OTOH might be my favorite episode so far even with Shinobu spendng most of the episode in a hospital bed.

I other news, the only 2 kdramas I've really anticipted this year, Faith* and Arang ( Read more... )

(Yes, DOGS is capitalized. I’ve noticed this frequently happens when Japanese titles get translated into English.)

I’ve decided that, while I dislike most US procedurals for their devotion to loving depictions of dead and mutilated corpses (especially female ones) and people (way more men than women anytime I turn on one that isn’t named Bones) ( Read more... )

Untouchable is a bit of an odd one. The descriptions and promotional images lead one to believe it’s a comedy, possibly with a touch of drama, with Nakama Yukie playing one of her wacky, dorky roles. And on the surface it is, but it’s also a very serious and twisty drama with tons of secrets, plots, angst, double-dealing and reveals, with an ( Read more... )

In episode 10, plot emerged!

In episode 11, a character that actually looked like a Kaori Yuki character showed up!


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No pictures as (1) I kept going "..." and forgetting to cap, and (2) there was actual plot. It distracted me.

I love this cosplay. I think it's the hat:


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