Spoilers for the first 8 episodes of the show ( Read more... )

It's such a glorious paen to work.

Between that and 99.9, I had a fun JDrama season. It's also a little corny but the show was inspirational.

I hope one day I will be able to embrace the virtual water too.

So excited.

Now if Jun gets the spy action movie he has been using Shiyagare to audition for.

1) AFI Top 100 movies
2) Guardian's 1000 books before you die
3) Ikuta Toma movies/dramas
4) Mani Ratnam
5) Georgette Heyer
5) Kudo Kankuran 

1) Structurally the episode reminded me of the Australia Gold Hunt episode ( Read more... )

Warning - the spoilers under the cut may spoil twists.

1) Did 2 weeks of Remember and the show seems to be getting better in its second half .[Spoiler (click to open)]
The father's death finally seems to have pushed the payback plot in the right direction with them slowly taking out the crooks one by one,
It's a mediocre show and the writer doesn't give a crap about ( Read more... )

It is a very minute difference. But I feel like kdramas are interested mainly in institutional corruption while jdramas split between institutional corruption and individual corruption. JDramas seem to care as much about mistreatment by horrible bosses as large scale corruption.

Around this time last year, I was watching Heard It Through the Grapevine which was pretty fatalistic about our ability to amass power to change the system. The thing is at some point, preserving the power becomes an end in itself. The show was fatalistic about the ability to enact large scale revolution but saw individual freedom in giving up the ( Read more... )

They are more than just Dragon Night. Also, why do we not have anything like Kouhaku in the US?

Manchester United is third by Christmas break. We still have a tough fight to hold that position and qualify for Champions League but this is a good start. We are nowhere close to first and second place but that is for next season. Also we need to figure out our injury problems. Is it Van Gaal? Or is it our medical team? Not sure.