Just your usual fannish update

[dangermousie]

Yup, still in tropical paradise. Had a bizarre dream in which the Winchester brothers ended up on Moya, which is probably a hint I should watch more Farscape but not before bed.

Watched the second ep of Samurai Champloo which was neat and second episode of Hana Kimi which was neater.

Comments

[alexandral]

That is actually a big chunk of the reason I adore kdramas and twdramas but not jdramas for most part. The female leads.

I agree. Also I find (apart from Takizawa Hideaki and Takeshi Kaneshiro) Korean male actors much more attractive. :D

[dangermousie]

I'd add Yamapi to the list, but yes. Of course, Takeshi Kaneshiro is half Chinese :)

Actually, I find Taiwanese actors (Vic Zhou! Mike He! Joe Cheng! Jerry Yan! Wu Zun!) most appealing of all :)

[vierran45]

I agree with you both. Apart from Yamapi and TK I've also found the Taiwanese actors very attractive (YES! to Vic Chou, Mike He, Joe Cheng and Jerry Yan -though I think he's a bit too aware of his good looks, haven't yet encoutered Wu Zun).

The Koreans always sem to have hot leads and just as hot secondary characters. I'm currently swooning over both Hyun Bin, who is the leading man, and Im Jun Hwa who plays the doctor in The Snow Queen.

[calixa]

I really agree about Im Ju Hwan... I love him!!

[calixa]

Now I am sort of torn.

No you're not. Two words: Snow Queen.

Why do you think I keep doing picspams? To lure you in!!

[dangermousie]

Heeee. Oh, don't worry. I am definitely watching. But I'll need to be home with a faster connection in order to watch this. I was thinking about the rest of the week, while I am on vacation. Magicians won, so far.

[meganbmoore]

Y'know, I think the only female leads I've had any problems with have been in kdramas. I could never warm up to Chaegyung in Goong, and while I really like Jung-Hwa, the main girl in "Emperor of the Sea" as a strong, intelligent and independent woman, as the female half of the OTP she drives me batty because I want to shake her and tell her there's nothing wong with wanting to be happy(and to tell her that if she doesn'r want Yum Moon, I'll take him, but that's another thing altogether)

But then, I find that, in gneral, I like the female leads in shows and movies more than most, anyway.

[grey_fuzzy]

Speaking of annoying korean female leads... I'm on episode 8 of My Name is Kim Sam Soon, and I'm starting to hate her.

[meganbmoore]

That one's on my list.

I think my problem with Chaegyung was that 90% of the time, she was more cutesy than cute, and I couldn't help but constantly compare her to Xiang Qin in ISWAK, who was pure adorable and a very similar character.

[grey_fuzzy]

I know what you mean about Chaeqyung, some of her mannerisms seemed a little contrived, especially in the beginning. What gave her points for me was that she was able to maintain some dignity throughout the series, whereas Xiang Qin just kept following Zhu Shi, and it wasn't until the very very end that he finally was the one to go to her.

[crumpeteer]

You tease me with shirtless comments and no picspam. Cruel! Cruel!

I adore Sano simply because he IS such a guy. Yes, he's kindhearted and a GOOD guy, but still a guy nonetheless.

[meganbmoore]

I wonder how long it took him to stop staring at his still-shaped hand in book 15.

[crumpeteer]

That was quite possibly the funniest thing I've seen in HanaKimi. The expression on his face and then just two frames of him staring at his hand. I nearly died.

[meganbmoore]

You can see his mind "the...it...i...those...her...hand...must move hand" and then the sheer state of shock.

[miss_dian]

But in jdramas, with a few exceptions, I want to strangle them, and here was no exception.
True. I have a hard time warming to leads in j-dramas too. But Strawberry on the Shortcake (Takizawa Hideaki and Kyoko Fukada) and Kamisama were both awesomeness on the protagonists part ^o^

[meganbmoore]

I don't know who the actress in Kamisama is, but Fukada Kyoko, based on "Remote" and the episodes I've seen of "Fugoh Keiji"(very cute and fun, but a "doses" show as opposed to a "binge" show) is like Nakama Yukie in that she's just an inherently likable actress unless she's playing a role you're supposed to hate.

[miss_dian]

The actress in Kamisama was Kyoko Fukada.

And now that you mention Nakama Yukie, I realise that there are actually a few more j-actresses that I like, including Nakama Yukie and Horikita Maki (much thanks to Kurosagi and Trick the movie).

[dangermousie]

I don't really love any jdrama actresses but some of them I am OK with and some...not. I think it's the mannerisms that don't really win me over...