I guess it's easier to divide things up...

1. Maou
I watched the first episode of Maou last night, and while I did enjoy it, I also found is ridiculously hilarious in quite a few spots. The biggest thing? It's way over-dramatic. Especially Toma's character. Everything he does is SO dramatic, SO passionate. I mean, he runs everywhere. As sn0tcat said, he ( Read more... )

1. Don't be alarmed if you randomly get replies to comments you posted a long time ago. I'm trying to go through them and reply, because I hate being such a sucky friend.

2. I'm freaking the fuck out over my imminent schooling. Several of the programs I want to apply to have deadlines in January. And since, for some reason, I assumed the ( Read more... )

OMG MISCHIEVOUS KISS!

How did it get to the end so fast?! We're on episode 13/16, and they're already corresponding to episode 29/30 of the Taiwanese drama. I'm assuming the last three episodes will have some of the plot from They Kiss Again thrown in, but who knows.

I do quite like Mischievous Kiss, but I have to say, It Started With a Kiss did ( Read more... )

I've been watching Mischievous Kiss (admittedly slowly - I'm waiting for the Haru2Haru subs, instead of streaming), and I quite like it. That didn't come as a surprise to me in the least. I love Hyun Joong a ton, the girl strongly reminds me of Yoon Eun Hye (which is always a good thing), and I'm also quite fond of the storyline ( Read more... )

I was a little hesitant about this drama to begin with. The cast is mostly people I am either unfamiliar with, or aren't terribly fond of (which does influence me greatly). Add onto that a pretty convoluted storyline (I remember when the plot summary first came out ages ago, and how confused I was by the whole thing), and I wan't terribly excited ( Read more... )

I'm watching Scent of Love. First off, it's not english subbed, so I'm winging it in Chinese. So it gives locations, and I was like "okay, where in Taiwan are they?"... Yeah, took me awhile to remember it takes place in Vietnam. So 下龍灣 does not equal Xia Long Wan, but rather Vinh Ha Long (Halong Bay ( Read more... )

All things considered, I keep on top of Taiwanese entertainment news pretty well. I don't know HOW IN THE WORLD I could have missed this.

Taiwan is remaking Coffee Prince

Excuse me while I die of utter delight! And the best part is Ariel Lin is going to be playing Eun Hye's role. Ariel is one of my three favorite Asian actresses, and I've been ( Read more... )

It looks like Summer's Desire (aka, Summer of Bubbles, Summer's Bubbles, etc) is going to be airing at the end of May. Apparently the reason the drama had trouble selling was because of the ages of the main actors (Huang Xiao Ming = 32, Da S = 33 Peter Ho = 34). I personally do not see why this is a problem (almost all Taiwanese dramas feature ( Read more... )

Everyone else was listing their favorite dramas (dangermousie, princess-dexter, cranberrysheep...), and I cannot resist a meme, so here we go! I've done this already, with explanations (well, I did MOST of it with explanations), but it's infinitely easier just to list stuff, so I did! I only did 5 for kdramas though... I haven't watched very many kdramas to completion ( Read more... )

Taiwan had an big 6.4 magnitude earthquake about 3 1/2 hours ago. Luckily no one was hurt. (The epicenter was in, I believe, the southern mountains, and that area is far less populated than the north) When I was in Taiwan, there was a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. The epicenter was in Hualien county, which is fairly far away from where I lived way up ( Read more... )