Comments | dangermousie: Ikemen Desu Ne - You're Beautiful goes Japanese

dangermousie

Ikemen Desu Ne - You're Beautiful goes Japanese

Jul 21, 2011 22:25

I am sure many of you are aware that last week saw the premiere of the first episode of the jdrama Ikemen Desu Ne, the Japanese remake of the mania kdrama You're Beautiful.

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sisterjune July 22 2011, 02:47:28 UTC

I tried out ikemen desu ne since i love it when a counter adapts something another country did, because i want to see the differences and how the culture interprets different scenes and lines. Honestly I was not impressed. On the one hand, less OTT so that is a plus. and I really like the japanese actress, I have no illwill to PSH but her cloying wide eyed baby faced minam made me cringe. that said, tae kyung here or ren as he is called just doesnt have a fraction of the charisma and gravitas JGS had. I mean JGS Tae Kyung was the highlight of the drama and the reason i checked it out in the first place, (well that and crossdressing heroine) he just doesnt have that IT factor. and i liked jeremy alot in k version and this jeremy is wooden as all hell. and shin woo was wooden and japanese shin woo is eeven MORE wooden. so IMO i see this as a cheap imitation so far. I wish they had tried to deviate from the k version more and establish its own identity cause the more it borrows from the k version the more it will be held up in comparison ( ... )

dangermousie July 22 2011, 02:50:44 UTC

I agree JGS was pretty awesome but I dunno, for some reason I am really mellow towards Ikemen (which is not the common reaction in online fandom). I was always bored by Jeremy and Shin woo so they could replace them by trees and I wouldn't care.

For some reason jdramas just make me more tolerant.

Plus, cute orphans!

sisterjune July 22 2011, 04:57:33 UTC

Aahahaha I just had an image now of PSH having a dramatic conversation with a tree. and then dancing between two trees on stage. hugging a tree which she would call "hyung!" honestly they could have replaced shin woo with a tree and i would have liked him so much more.

I have been struggling to find a jdrama i like these days. i am enjoying ohitorisama but thats an older one.

omg that kids drove me crazy, there was just influx of children and taking over the drama and i kept wondering wtf is with all these kids? why are they there? the drama was trying way to hard to tug at your heartstrings and be inspiring. it was emotional manipulation! I won't respond to such pushy tactics. *folds arms* i wanted to like it too, i enjoy dumb fluff dramas which was YAB in a nutshell.

dangermousie July 23 2011, 01:06:03 UTC

The tree thing would be awesome.

I like orphan kids. I am easy.

jpookemon July 22 2011, 03:50:51 UTC

You know... it's not often I see a Jdrama adaption of a Korean idea. It's always K-dramas that adapt Japanese stuff (BOF, God of Study) so this sorta peaked my interest. I dunno... I hope to see more of it.

jpookemon July 22 2011, 03:54:16 UTC

Oh... I saw the first episode. I like it. Wish they wouldn't recycle the songs though.

dangermousie July 23 2011, 01:06:19 UTC

I guess they were too lazy to write their own :P

akatsukichii July 22 2011, 03:54:17 UTC

I liked how they actually tried to make a relationship between the twins as children XD I don't remember seeing that in the original. While I didn't hate the show by the end I do remember it getting really messy and going what? I want to see how the JDrama version goes. Most people that don't like this version only say that because they think the guys are errm not the best-looking and have a complain against Jeremy's teeth XD. I'm used to Japanese drama guys so I like it so far.

dangermousie July 23 2011, 01:06:53 UTC

Yeah, I don't find most jdrama guys hot and i still enjoy jdramas so the looks don't bother me.

village July 22 2011, 04:46:18 UTC

I didn't even know there was a Japanese version of YB. I think I'll check this one out as I got pretty irritated with the original by the middle and gave up. A low-key version sounds better.

dangermousie July 23 2011, 01:07:13 UTC

Well, it's relatively low-key. It's still wacky :)

corlee1289 July 22 2011, 05:43:32 UTC

YAY~

I wasn't too fond of YAB either as well, I finished watching the entire thing for the sake of finishing it because my friend loved it...

But since you've put your own perspective into it as well, I hope to following your flails and rants of Ikemen before I decide whether or not to pursue it...

dangermousie July 23 2011, 01:05:18 UTC

I'll see how it goes, i.e. whether I get buried under all the dramas.