I still feel that way...

[nana_komatsu7]

Day 11 - A drama that disappointed youA drama can disapppoint me in some different ways... it can be boring and slow (most of kdrama I tried watching fits this category... look at my drama list for titles ^^ ); it can be an adaptation unfaithful to the spirit of its original work (a book, a manga, whatever... titles like Honey and Clover, Cat

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[showjuro]

I didn't watch the drama for Honey and Clover, but I thought that the movie was boring. I stuck to it just to listen to Aozora Pedaru at the end, haha. I wonder if the original story was supposed to be like that, I duno xD

[nana_komatsu7]

What can I say... the original story, Hachimitsu to clover by Umino Chika, is AWESOME. It's a really mature slice of life seinen, I totally adore it.
The movie version was cute, I didn't find it boring at all. Not total loyal to its original manga but decent and with a good cast. (but I don't think a story like Hachikuro can be summarised in a 2 hours movie).
The drama was boring and really far from the original story, I had to drop it at episode 3 because it was full of out of characters (and a shame, my favourite character, Morita, was played by my hatsukoi ;_; )

[showjuro]

I guess I found it a little slow moving, and halfway through I didn't understand what was going on. It was kinda 'quiet' too. But many Japanese movies are 'quiet', that's what I noticed.

[nana_komatsu7]

Japanese movies are "quiet" for sure... a part of them embrace the phylosophy of the slice of life in a pure way... they talk about a certain time in a certain space, like they are talking of a sort of... different dimension. I like this way of narrating stuff so usually I don't find them boring at all.But it's a matter of taste I guess.

As for Hachikuro... I don't know if I can understand the point of someone who can watch it without knowing the manga or at least the anime like you because at that time I watched the anime (it follows the manga pretty strictly and it's awesome as well. I prefer the manga for some little things but the anime is GREAT) and I was reading the manga... so I was aware of the original story. It's always different when you have a form of comparison... you notice different stuff ^^

(my icon is from the manga btw ^^ )

[cavix]

Terribile sul serio :/ e suo fratello è Sunano ni Naretakute o come si chiamava :/

(Ed e' un peccato perché in entrambi c'è Eita :/)

[nana_komatsu7]

si', aka Sunanare, l'ho anche citato! (nei pregiudizi "di genere"... perche' concordo U_U)
Pero' devo dire che per me Sunanare e' anni luce meglio di Rasufure per almeno due motivi:
1. avendolo visto dopo, non mi aspettavo nulla
2. parte subito moscio e scemo. E tale resta. Non so neanche io come ho fatto a vederlo tutto. Inoltre la fantascienza e' piu' blanda (c'e' quella del suicidio mancato di Peach che si riprende troppo in fretta, oppure Linda che risorge, ma e' piu' blanda)
3. il finale e' scemo come il resto della storia.

Rasufure invece fino all'episodio 6-7 e' consistente da un punto di vista psicologico, e' fatto proprio bene. Poi svacca in maniera clamorosa nella fantascienza e ha quell'ultimo episodio vomitevole dove ogni singolo personaggio deve andare out of character che per me e' una cosa assurda.

Eita per me e' uno di quelli i cui copioni sono il random. A volte recita in meraviglie altre volte in schifezze cosmiche.

[otai]

I love HachiKuroba original and i was disappointed with drama too, but i was disappointed with movie even more. I have to say, besy Hagu was Chiaki Ito from AAA in Taiwanese version. I saw only one ep to see how Chiaki looks in Taiwanese drama and she seriously was sooooooooooooo Hagu-chan <3.
As for Cat Street i liked drama version and as for Last Friends i really liked that drama too, but i thought last ep were weird too.

[nana_komatsu7]

I instead this that Aoi Yu was a cute Hagu. But more than the casting, I loved the atmophere of the movie because I think it's the kind of slice of life faithful to the original manga.
I have no idea of a taiwanese version... I can't bring myself to watch a taiwanese drama, I always drop them.

Cat Street was awful, both in acting and story, nothing was related to the manga... and I had to force myself to even finish the first episode, so boring...

Last Friends is science fiction as I said. When they had their supposed lesbian with a desire to change sex... they jumped their shark and never came back.

[otai]

Well, for me movie was only disturbing XD. And as art student i was like 'wtf' becuse i was really disappointed in "art" they made. As for drama it was created in more artistic way, that's why i prefer drama atmosphere, i noticed that while re-watching first ep.

Well, i really like Kimura and Katsuji's Ryo acting so i enjoyed Cat Street.

I'm AAA fan and i really love Chiaki so i had at least check how her Hagu turned out and i only watched some parts of to check that~~ But even looking at that pic i could tell she could be good as Hagu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/2008TIBE_Day2_Hall2_MightyMedia_Honey_and_Clover_Signing_Guests.jpg

[otai]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/2008TIBE_Day2_Hall2_MightyMedia_Honey_and_Clover_Signing_Guests.jpg this i mean xD