Picspam: 'Deka Wanko' (or: an excuse to post awesome dresses & teeny tiny hats)

[piecesofalice]

I can't sleep, so I was going through my caps folder (a task that may suggest I'm a masochist) and noticed I'd never done a full post about the jdrama Deka Wanko. Which is a crime unto its self, for reasons you're about to discover.

Deka Wanko first crossed my path after we saw these bizarrely ambiguous posters around Tokyo - was it about a frilly

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[genarti]

WHAT IS THIS SHOW EVEN. *___________*

(I am now convinced that she's secretly a Haninozuka transported from Ouran High School Host Club's universe. Without even having seen the show at all. How else could she afford all those outfits on a detective's salary?)

[piecesofalice]

Embrace the Wanko.

...that sounds odd. Now! Ouran High School Host Club! The question is: should I watch it?

[genarti]

Um! Well, I love it, and as a general rule I heartily recommend it. (The anime, I mean, and also the manga. There's a new jdrama, which is only a few episodes in; I find the couple of episodes I've seen ALSO UTTERLY HILARIOUS, but I have no idea how it'd work for someone who hadn't already seen the anime, because that has so utterly shaped my view. I came into the jdrama prepared to find everything endearing

[piecesofalice]

So you'd recommend the anime/manga first? This is where I hang my head and admit I have never watched an anime in my life, so tips/hints/slaps to the head are much appreciated.

And is a secret martial arts master pretty much had me at "secret". And "high powered motor to cackle at people" and "gender wtf" and, oh, "HOST CLUB". THEY HAVE A HOST CLUB AT HIGH SCHOOL!? And, and...I think you sold me.

(HOST CLUB)

(JAPAN I LOVE YOU)

[genarti]

People in the show are like, "You want to start a club, okay, but you want it to be a host club??" in one flashback. The club's founder is VERY DISTRESSED every time people fail to take his plan seriously! HE IS BEING A NOBLE SOUL. WHEN YOU ARE AS BEAUTIFUL AS HE IS, IT'S YOUR DUTY TO GIVE BACK TO THE WORLD BY MAKING GIRLS HAPPY.

The hilarious thing is, he's totally earnest about this. (He's totally earnest about EVERYTHING.)

>:DDDDD

For anime versus jdrama -- uh! I recommend the anime because it's what I know best, and the one that's finished. I have no idea if the jdrama will stick the landing, or if the quality will fall apart after the first couple of episodes or what. But if you want to try starting with the jdrama, go for it! If you bounce off it, though, I would recommend going back and trying the anime. (I like the manga too, but, um, I have a much easier time following anime than manga -- I like the addition of the colors and motion and voices. So this is not a case where the manga sucks, but I always sort of

[firthgal]

Sorry, sorry, interrupting this convo just to mention that not too long ago I was very "Ick! Anime! What am I supposed to do with that?" and for the most part I still am that way, but the one anime that I sat down and watched all the way through and got completely sucked into was an anime called Toradora. It stars a heroine that I'm pretty sure you'd adore, and the romance is both subtle and obvious and kind of fluffy and kind of angsty and the entire anime is just so darn beautiful and it managed to make me laugh uproariously one minute and then cry the next. So, for a first time anime watcher, I definitely rec Toradora! To this day it's still the only anime that I've actually enjoyed and watched all the way through. Haven't tried Ouran High School Host Club, though (honestly, once I saw that a live action version was being made, I was like, "Pfft, no need to watch the cartoon now