ItaKiss - Love In Tokyo (IKLIT 2013)
So IKLIT 2013 ended SWEEEEEETTTTLY with Episode 16 ^-^ I kept squueeeaaaaaaaallliiiiinggg like a squeezed mouse in the last 30 mins. The rain scene, the towel scene and the final 'a-re' scene were to die for and very unexpected!! BEST RAIN SCENE and BEST FINAL SCENE compared to other adaptations, by a far margin!! Loooooooooooovvvvveeeeeeee it, so much so much. However there were missing gaps... what happened to Sahoko? She just vanished into the thin air? O_o And to be honest, I was quite bored watching Ep 11-15. I dunno... was it because I have watched too many ItaKiss? I watched the anime, taiwanese, korean versions... so maybe I got bored with it? Actually I was kinda bored watching Taiwanese 1st season - ISWAK... I only got excited with the TW version when it got into the 2nd season - They Kiss Again. In Korean version, I got excited watching Ep8-11... the rest were boring as well hahaa.... The anime was always exciting though.
These are my BEST judgement.
BEST Directing
1. ISWAK/TKA & IKLIT - can't decide, the Taiwanese director was very good too
2. ItaKiss 1996
3. PK Korean
BEST Storyline
1. ISWAK/TKA
2. IKLIT
3. PK
4. ItaKiss 1996
As much as I love IKLIT, the flow of the story kinda irked me as it reached the college arc, esp. Ep10... though I love the romantic scenes there, but I disagree with the combination of kotoko staying at naoki's place with Yuki in the hospital plotline.... Yuki was suffering a serious illness, it was SO WEIRD to see Noriko-mama got excited abt Kotoko staying over at Naoki's place... her son has just undergone a surgery!O_o The story flow for the first 5 eps was perfect though. I choose ISWAK, cause despite the fact I HATE the draggy scenes, but it includes most of my fav scenes in the manga and the story flows better. I was so upset IKLIT didn't include the plot where Kotoko and Naoki working part-time at papa's office :(
BEST Aihara Kotoko
1. Miki Honoka - actually, she's more a favorite rather than a best.... she's really adorable, not too much of a dork and has her mature side too!
2. Sato Aiko, Ariel Lin, Jung Soo-min... I love them all, pls don't make me rank them!^v^
BEST Irie Naoki
1. Furukawa Yuki - his subtle and natural gesture and facial expression... I just loooovveee his Naoki!!!
2. Joe Cheng - he's a close runnerup, I'd pick him #1 a tie with FuruYuki if only he would smile less, heehee
3. Kashiwabara Takashi
4. Kim Hyung-joon
BEST Couple's Chemistry
1. Joe Cheng & Ariel Lin - his portrayal of Naoki and her portrayal of Kotoko makes their chemistry exploded and felt like they fit each other like a glove. Naoki's cool and mature character and Kotoko's dumb and childish character... makes their romantic scenes looks sooooo sweeet and worth to squeal.
2. KHJ & JSM - were very cute... despite KHJ's robotic acting, they had chemistry, feel like rooting for them^^
3. FuruYuki & Miki Honoka - they were good too, but sometimes I feel Miki's Kotoko is too mature and level-headed, so it makes their romantic scene less worth-to-squeal... though I love their portrayals individually.
4. Kashiwabara Takashi & Sato Aiko - too bad... they only had chemistry behind-the-scene, haha
BEST Parents Trio
1. ISWAK/Taiwanese team
2. 1996 team
3. IKLIT team
4. Korean team
I'm sorry... I really can't feel the family atmosphere with the parents trio in IKLIT... In ISWAK, when those three gathers with or without the kids, it felt like home and familiar... I really love the family atmosphere they created... i think it helps alot that the ISWAK family cast were really very close with each other in RL. Second best, has got to be the 1996 team... I love how those three has a lot of comical scenes together!! it's missing in IKLIT... only Noriko-mama stood out.
BEST Irie Yuki
1. IKLIT - the only boy who can actually act, compared to the other Yuki-s haha
2. PK - cause the boy's pretty, that's all lol
3. 1996
4. ISWAK
I reeeeaaally want to see Yuki and Konomi's love story with IKLIT's Yuki!!
BEST Kinchan, Jinko, Satomi
1. IKLIT
2. PK Korean
3. 1996
4. ISWAK
I loooooveeee the IKLIT team... Kinchan is soooo funny but so sweet and romantic as well... Jinko and Satomi were so comical just like the manga/anime... love them!!! It really felt like they came out of the manga. How I wissssshhhh... I get to see Kinchan and Chris' love story, and also Satomi's pregnancy story!! Hopes for a 2nd season!*v*
I love the Korean team second best.... loove Korean Kinchan, he's big yet adorable^^ Love the Korean Satomi-Jinko, they're so noisy when the three of them together... it felt like they're real friends
I'm sorry but I have to say I hated the ISWAK team... worst Kinchan, he's so annoying >_< ... and really bland Satomi-Jinko, they couldn't act comical at all, well... actually they couldn't act much.... that's why in the Taiwanese version, I really prefer times Kotoko was close with her nursery college friends!^^
BEST Soundtrack
1. ISWAK/TKA & PK
2. IKLIT & 1996
The Taiwanese and Korean version really had KILLER soundtrack songs!!! Love most of them! Why can't the Japanese version has any good songs? ;_;
Here's hoping for an IKLIT 2nd season!!! Let this be true! *v*