LJ ranting, Itoshi Kimi e, Yukan Club, KAT-TUN & Kame, random photographs

[winterspel]

Ordinarily I like to take care of housekeeping first before I post, but I've realized that it's probably going to take me a lot longer to sort out my tags issue, so I might as well just post and tags be damned for the time being.

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[thinking_lotus]

now you need a birds on the wire tag ;-)

[winterspel]

Hee!

[trance_angel]

So I wasn't losing my mind yesterday? I was having trouble editing one of my communities, then figured it must have been something with the new release. D:

[winterspel]

The fact that my tags appear in this post doesn't make sense, though: I have other locked posts in which the tags are not appearing, and even making them public did not make the tags appear, so I have no clue WTF is going on. I'm definitely NOT under 1000 tags yet.

[gingifere]

Oh I am very, very excited about 1 Pound Gospel. Both Kame and Meisa looked so awkward and giggly. I really think they'll have wonderful on screen chemistry.

I think I liked the Utaban segment because Kame was so relaxed and dorky in it and I sort of prefer it when he's relaxed and not Mr-Perfect-Idol. It makes him feel more real.

Wow those birds are amazing! They actually don't look real because the space between each of them is so exact.

And new lj rules about tags? Incredibly aggravating, although I'm lucky in that because I've only recently started updating my livejournal I don't really have that many tags!

[winterspel]

Oh I am very, very excited about 1 Pound Gospel. Both Kame and Meisa looked so awkward and giggly. I really think they'll have wonderful on screen chemistry.

Yes, yes, on the first 2, and gosh, I hope so on the third! It makes such a difference when Kame has chemistry with his leading lady. :)

And you're absolutely right about Kame being quite relaxed on Utaban - I love it when he starts enthusiastically (and un-self-consciously) telling stories.

The new tagging limit is infuriating. :(

[darkeyedwolf]

many birds continued to land on the power line, and somehow, no matter where they landed, the whole line of birds would automatically move down so that they were all the same distance apart.

I-- it's like they're plotting something. *marvels*

[winterspel]

I-- it's like they're plotting something. *marvels*

Heee~ I just want to know how the bird on the end of the line knows he has to move down X far to accomodate the ten that just landed 3 seconds ago, and why are they all X distance apart?

[ginzarhapsody]

I had the exact same reaction to Yuukan Club. So many problems with Mike He playing an Arabian Pprince. And the "stereotypes" get worse. But the plot still manages to have fun in the end. :)

[winterspel]

I had the exact same reaction to Yuukan Club.

You're like my drama-taste twin! :D I kept thinking, why does he have to be an Arab prince? Couldn't they have invented some Asian state that doesn't have vending machines or noodle stands and lacks civil liberties? Either that, or avoid stunt casting Mike He and actually hire someone who could actually pass for an Arab prince!

Of course, I complain about similar things in Western television, too.

But the plot still manages to have fun in the end. :)

Which is why I am definitely looking forward to the conclusion - somehow, they've managed to pull it off thus far...

ETA: by any chance do you have any insight to offer for concerns with Itoshi Kimi e? I had hoped you, in particular, might be able to enlighten me if there's something I'm missing in Japanese culture.

[ginzarhapsody]

I don't really think you were missing anything from your understanding of Itoshi Kimi e really. The idea of obligations is quite important.

However, there is the idea that once a woman marries, she usually quits whatever job she is doing anyway to become the devoted housewife. There is a saying in Japanese, "ryousai kenbo", which means "good wife and wise mother", thus emphasizing the domestic role of the woman. So a woman having to choose between the outside world and work and the domestric life and family when she marries is understood as normal. So everyone telling Shiki that she'd have to quit being a doctor to take care of Shunsuke is partly them saying, "Once you marry him, his household is your life." Maybe this is what you were looking for in terms of cultural explanation?

[winterspel]

I'm familiar with both: the idea of obligations, and also the idea that a woman would not work once she marries and would devote herself to her household/family. The reason this bothered me is because the reasoning for her quitting as a doctor is consistently tied to his illness (because he will need so much help), not to them marrying