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I still don't find Kame all that attractive. I like him a lot, but he's so not my type. He's way too thin, and he eyebrows weird me out a bit.

But then, suddenly, I found him pretty hot in this shot.


Almost done with Nobuta! And I was TOTALLY off base on who the bitchy girl was. I think I still have bias against Toda Erika from HYD. Stupid Umi...

Date: 2009-06-20 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] your-insomnia.livejournal.com
Yup, I was the same way about Kame in Tatta Hitotsu no Koi.
Look at this
Photobucket

Although I never found Shuji too attractive...Akira on the other hand... I'm so in love with him!~

Date: 2009-06-20 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
Ah, he's SO PRETTY there!! Ah, I'm so torn in whether I should watch Tatta Hitotsu no Koi or Kurosagi next! Decisions, decisions!

I adore Akira SO MUCH! I fear it's going to start a Yamapi obsession, which is definitely something I do not need. I'm obsessed with enough j-actors at the moment, thank you very much ;D

Date: 2009-06-21 07:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] your-insomnia.livejournal.com
tatta hitotsu no koi is infinitely better, but Yamapi is just freaking gorgeous in Kurosagi.

Ever since I watched NwP I've developed an unhealthy obsession with Yamapi. It's horrible...I've watched every drama with him, downloaded every clip I could find, listened to his and his band's trashy songs on repeat like a million times...I do not wish this upon any one, so stay away from him! Lol XD

Date: 2009-06-22 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vierran45.livejournal.com
tatta hitotsu no koi is infinitely better, but Yamapi is just freaking gorgeous in Kurosagi.

I so agree with this comment. Kurosagi was my first Yamapi drama and he was just gorgeous in it. And the tentative romance that never really led anywhere was wonderful, because the UST was just out-of-scale! I love the "hug - not-hug" scene which you'll definitely recognize once you see it. (And this drama was also a big factor in dragging me into JE fandom. Though not with quite such negative feelings. I enjoy fangirling... XD)


Then again, I loved Tattakoi for being such a realistic and non-flashy drama. The characters were wonderfully normal and human with their insecurities, but the romance was beautiful.

Date: 2009-06-23 05:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
Ah, you're making me all the more excited to finish Kurosagi!! I love UST so much!

I love dramas like that; realistic and not flashy. All my favorite dramas are the ones that are character based, like Love Contract, or Hachimitsu to Clover. If the drama is good enough, you don't need all the extraneous stuff.

Date: 2009-06-23 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
Problem solved! I'm watching both ;P

I think it's going to be the same for me! Maybe not as extensively, but he was so awesome in Nobuta, and now I just want to see him in everything. I doubt I'll get into NEWS though... I tend not to like Jpop on a whole.

Hehehe! But he's so hard to resist!

Date: 2009-06-20 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ambergold.livejournal.com
When I first started watching jdramas and asked for recs, I got a FLOOD of people screaming at me about Nobuta and how hot Kame and Yamashita were in it, particularly Yamashita(I had no idea who he was and they were talking about him like he was the second comign). Well, I only found Kame mildly hot and Yamashita not at all, and it wasnn't until Proposal Daisakusen that I fell fast and hard for Yamashita(I'm a total fangirl now. the boy is seriously hot)and it took this to this to get me to see what they were talking about with Kame -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiSXsJgPAeA

wow I really need an icon of one of them.

Date: 2009-06-23 05:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
I had heard of Yamapi, but I had no clue why he was so popular. And then, for some reason, I didn't know that Yamashita Tomohisa = Yamapi, so I got all confused...

I thought Yamapi was hot immediately, but it took a bit longer for Kame. I find him hot in THnK, so that's something. And now I want to watch Pro Dai for MORE Yamapi hotness!

Ahhh... I see. Some people are better when they're singing. Kame is definitely one of those people.

I need icons too!

randomly

Date: 2009-06-20 10:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com
Did you ever finish The Rose?

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-20 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
Not yet. I'm a little more than halfway through it (unfortunately The Rose suffers from the "inexhaustably long twdrama" syndrome (26 70-minute episodes!)), and I haven't felt up to the challenge recently. I'll finish it soon though. It's so insanely good.

Have you started it yet?

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com
Yes! I'm a few eps in and it is SO SO GOOD.

The thing is, I ship the OT3 hardcore, and I want to be prepared if it's going to break my heart by canonizing Jin/Bai He and leaving Kui in the dust. But I'm a major spoilerphobe, so I'm too afraid to go looking for an answer. XD I had hoped you could give me a vague unspoilery answer, but I guess I'll have to steel myself and charge ahead.

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 01:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] biases.livejournal.com
I can answer this if you want, although I don't know how vague I can be. :(

P.S. SUCH A GOOD SERIES!!!

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com
Ooh, I'll take you up on that.

Without specifics, does one couple become canon?

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 07:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] biases.livejournal.com
I see this has already been answered, [livejournal.com profile] uisceros was TOO FAST, TOO FURIOUS!

...but yeah, it's a great drama. Kui steals the show regardless and there's all these Kui/Bai He-ish scenes in this sunflower park and Ella's hair is all windswept and amazing and I want to marry her because she's so gorgeous and I'd probably take Joe Cheng too but only if he had the long flowing Kui hair and wah, why do they tempt me with their incest and awesomeness?!

Please keep watching and do an awesome [livejournal.com profile] rainscene pimp because then more people will get on board and give the drama the love it deserves. ♥

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 01:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com
a;flsjfsdf I can't wait. I just finished the ep with the burglar and the sliding-off-the-shoulder pajamas and the MOST EPIC RAIN SCENE EVER MY GOD.

I will most definitely be pimping. The incest tag has never been more appropriate.

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-23 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
OMG isn't that rainscene AMAZING?! SO very epic. So epic they parody it in the ending of ISWAK.

Yay!!! I remember when I started The Rose, I was the only person I knew of who had watched it. As of now, you're only the third person I know of!

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
It doesn't end up OT3, and yes, one couple becomes canon. EITHER WAY, their relationships are adorable, and there's plenty of shippiness all around.

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 02:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com
WAAAAAAAAH. Oh, I know it's Kui left out. My woobie.

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
Do you want me to actually tell you?

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com
Sure. (Unless someone dies, in which case I don't want to know, please.)

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 03:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
No, noone dies! It's Bai He x Jin. As progressive as Taiwan is, I don't think they're ready for full on incest yet ;D
Still, Kui and Bai He get a LOT of good scenes. And there IS a Bai He / Jin sex scene at the end.

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 03:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com
As soon as Jin/BH lost the incest angle, I knew they were the end OTP. Sigh. I do love Jin, but he's been absent or ignored for a good half-dozen episodes now while Kui is the one cuddling and kissing and romancing BH. I want him to get the girl too!

Why can't they all fall in bed together?? They had no problem doing it before. *sulks*

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 04:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
I feel the same way about Jin. I like him, but he's just NOT KUI, you know? I don't know why they had to make Kui and Bai He so awesome, and then go and turn the OTP all around. *sigh*

There's an MV I like to watch when I'm getting sad that MY OTP isn't the canon OTP... Slightly spoilery, but not real bad.

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-21 01:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com
Seriously! I was all aboard Jin/BH when he was the only one being nice to her, sleeping in her bed, etc. Now he's pulled a vanishing act with his dead fiance emo quest and Kui/BH is getting all the rain scenes and splashy cuteness and cuddles and kisses and. and. *_____* How am I not supposed to ship it?

Re: randomly

Date: 2009-06-23 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
Eh, I know! They're just messing with us. They make Jin a bastard, and then give Kui an amazing role where he changes into a better person because of Bai He, and they expect us to NOT ship them (despite the incest)?! Craziness!

Date: 2009-06-21 01:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] biases.livejournal.com
I still find Kame smokin', and I'm glad that you think he's occasionally attractive - better than nothing!

Yamapi...I'm wishy-washy on. He can look okay and he's definitely fun in Nobuta, but he's not that gorgeous and I'm a bit sick of everyone touting him as the MOST AMAZING GUY EVER.

And I need to rewatch Kurosagi, I only got to ep 2 before I threw in the towel. Yamapi was too emo and Maki was hatefully annoying. She was all about CHANGE and JUSTICE and I got so sick of her lectures. Argh!

Date: 2009-06-21 01:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ambergold.livejournal.com
I agree-Maki's character was the main reason I stopped watching it:( that and I realized there was only ust, not real romance.

Date: 2009-06-21 01:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
Maybe I'll find him hotter in other things... I don't know. Like, I do really really like him as an actor, but yeah, still not striking me as super hot.

It's funny, because you find Kame super hot, and I think Yamapi is GORGEOUS. Seriously, if I saw him on the street I would run him down and jump him. Apparently he is very my type. BUT prior to Nobuta, I was all like "who is this Yamapi, and why is he god-like to fangirls?!"... I still don't get the massive attention to him. Sure, he's hot, but so is Yamada Takayuki, or Osamu, etc, and they don't get near the same attention.

I want to give it a try, mostly because of Nobuta. When I like a pairing of two actors, I tend to watch everything else they've been in together. Hehehe... lectures?! That should be, uh, interesting.
From: [identity profile] calledinvain.livejournal.com
Okay, I've seen Kurosagi, and the Movie (note: never watch the movie. Seriously, don't. It's not worth the download time.) and the thing is, it's basically a pretty bleak/dull live adaptation of a shonen title (though, funnily enough, the manga Kurosaki is a bit of a jokester/kind of light and the romance isn't figured as much) but they don't go bleak and dark in an very interesting way. The plot as it is, is your usual revenge cycle/formulaic swindle/mystery per episode and Yamapi dresses up in ridiculous disguises that a three year old could cop to, but everyone in Tokyo is stupidly thrown off by his false facial hair.

He's definitely emo and he's a victim of his own fate - he has a definite shitty backstory, but with every case - you suddenly realize that Kurosaki can't really ever achieve any long term happiness because he purposefully isolates himself from anyone who can help him/comfort him. Because revenge is his life.

Which brings in Maki's Tsurara, and she's definitely a different character from Nobuta (I find it v. interesting that they essentially filmed two series together back to back and Yamapi got to work with her from when she was 15/16 and then 17.) She's the standard idealistic 'moral' character who doesn't agree with Kurosaki's way of dealing with issues - where he's shades of grey (odd contrast to his name Kuro (black swindler) at the beginning, Tsurara is very black or white - you do good or you do bad. And that lends itself to speeches that come off as preachy and annoying to some viewers. She wants to be a prosecutor and fight the bad guys that way, and Kurosaki doesn't agree and thinks she's a nuisance. But over the course of the series, their minds do change about each other's methods, and I think it's...episode 6 or 8? It's been a long time - where Tsurara has a major breakdown and pleads for Kurosaki. It's very UST-based and Yamapi had some rather splendid moments of eye-fucking, and both of them are at the pinnacle of their attractiveness (well, Yamapi certainly was. I think Maki's gotten better looking as she gets older.) together. But yeah, if you want ship fulfillment...umm...maybe another drama would be better for you.

When I watched Kurosagi at the time, I did enjoy it and love it a lot and I shipped Kurosaki/Tsurara so hard because she does love him so very much and he can't bring himself to quite get rid of her - but as the years passed and I revisited it with different eyes, it's only a so-so drama. I think Yamapi has it in him to really fully inhabit a character and do amazing things with it (Akira was a wonderful gift of improvisation and selflessness and spot on teenage selfishness at the same time) and be more than just a Johnny's actor, but he hasn't really stepped up to the plate for me. And he doesn't even have his hotness to pull him through as of late - I'm definitely not one of the fangirls who think sunshine comes out of his ass (ahem), but his recent fugstyle of late needs to GO. HE NEEDS TO HAVE SHINY BLACK HAIR AGAIN. Oh, and since I'm on a roll of dishing the Yamadrama opinion, I hated Kenzo from Prodai with the heat of a thousand suns. Totally fucking useless character. I also just binned Prodai for all the rage.

And now I will go and write you Sho/Chisato comment fic. ;)

Date: 2009-06-21 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] homocoucho.livejournal.com
I don't find him all that hot either, but he is strangely endearing, especially in 1 pound gospel. I just want to hug him.

Must re-watch Nobuta!

Date: 2009-06-21 02:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
I feel the same way about him. Not hot, but adorable in his own way! For me, he's just too thin and frail. He looks like he's going to break or something!

Ah, I totally have to watch 1 Pound Gospel!

Date: 2009-06-21 04:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marspeach.livejournal.com
I also though the same about Erika's character but I think they did that on purpose. I felt so bad and even wanted to apologize to her at the end, even though she's just a drama character...

Date: 2009-06-21 04:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uisceros.livejournal.com
I feel the same way, like I spent the whole drama hating her, and expecting her to be a major bitch in disguise, and then she's suddenly not, and I feel bad for thinking that!

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