OMG love this show so far. TOTALLY adorable. The boys are utter geeks, and I just want to squish them to me, because they're too cute. 很可愛!!

I'm being flailing about Yamapi. He's much too adorable for words in this show. Never mind the fact that he was only around 17/18 during filming. I was 19 then, thus it isn't creepy. Besides, as long as he's not baby!Yamapi (see IWGP), then all is good! Anyway, he's adorable and I love him.


Yamapi and Hiroki hitting on statues. Speaking of! I saw something similar to that in Seoul.

( More caps )

So, I'm on episode 8 right now. I should finish it today or tomorrow. And then I might start watching a LOT of Christmas movies, because despite the snow, it doesn't feel Christmas-ey yet.

I laughed 'till I cried, and then I laughed some more.

BEST MOVIE EVER.

Though I must say, when Taki and Shun were fighting, I was very conflicted. I kept yelling "Taki!! No, Shun! No, Taki!! SHUN! TAKI!"
(But truthfully I was rooting just a bit more for Taki)

I took a ton of caps, and will probably post some of them later. But for now I leave you with this piece of remarkable cinematography. Love the gel they used to get the color.

As part of my "finally watch stuff that I've been putting off forever" resolution, I finished Densha Otoko! I figured I'd start small, and I only had 2 episodes left on that one.

I adored it. I can't say it's a favorite, but it was super sweet, and well done. Hermes-san has to be the most understanding and sweet heroine ever. She accepted Densha despite him being a total dork. I mean, he was an amazing guy, but it's hard to get past first impressions. I liked it a lot better than the movie, probably because I think the movie was miscast. Like, I do think he's a good actor, but there is no way in hell Yamada Takayuki would not have girls mobbing him even if he was dressed horribly. And while I do think Nakatani Miki is pretty, she's not the drop-dead gorgeous Hermes-san is supposed to be. Plus, you know, Shun-kun was in the drama. I do love Eita, but in this case, Shun wins.

Anyway, caps!


I love when they do this, showing all the A channel users!
( Densha Otoko finale )

Now I'm all sad... and I'm listening to a sad song. Poor kid.

I should just stay away from the asianfanatics news section. I always end up spending LOADS of time on there... some current news stories that interested me (Taiwanese and Korean);

( Stories about Vanness Wu, Big Bang, Wu Zun, Jiro Wang, Lee Min Ho, hot boy lists, Chinese F4, Kim Bum, Superstar Express, Rainie, and Zai Zai )

Also, the cast of BBF must be cursed when it comes to car accidents. Bummie's gotten in two already, Kim Hyun Joong and Kim Joon each had one on the same day, Lee Min Ho was previously injured (badly) from a car accident, and just today Koo Sun Hye had a car accident! Thankfully in most cases, the injuries were non existent or minor (save for Min Ho's). But it makes me wonder, are car accidents in Korea THAT prevalent? I know Taiwan is notorious for car accidents (that's why a lot of times deaths in dramas are due to car accidents), but I didn't know Korea was as well. And really, shouldn't they be hiring better drivers to escort these major stars?

In keeping my Oguri Shun theme... I remembered I never wrote my Gokusen 1 SP thing. I don't feel like writing it now, but I felt the need to upload some of the awesomest Shun caps ever.


Oh Shun, with the crazy hair!

( One of the best scenes ever )

I'm really annoyed at my stupid work computer. It has issues with flash (i.e. it needs a new version), but we're not allowed to install stuff, so I can't get it. That means that whenever a page with flash comes up, my internet dies painfully.

Anyway, someone on my flist (probably an icon comm) has something flash related posted, so I can't view my flist at all. It sucks. Stupid ass work computer.

I'm at a lag period in my drama watching. This usually happens. I get about 1/3rd of the way through a drama, and I get bored and stop watching. Sometimes I go right back, sometimes I don't watch for months. I'm at that point with Densha Otoko and Goong. I keep wanting to start new stuff too.

But yeah, I'm determined to finish Densha Otoko soon. I do like it a lot, plus Shun-kun is there, so there's always that incentive.

I really like Densha Otoko so far. It's amazingly adorable. Ito Atsushi is perfect as Densha Otoko Tsuyoshi-kun. He's SO amazingly dorky, it's almost painful. But then he got a makeover, and actually looks pretty cute now. He's still wicked short though (9cm shorter than Ito Misaki, 10cm shorter than me!).

Anyway, Tsuyoshi-kun goes from this;


To this;


Not bad, eh?

( Some more caps from episode 2, including EVERY SINGLE SCENE Shun-kun was in )

I managed to find Summer's Tail in DDL!! It's on rapidshare, so it's taking forever (I subscribe to megupload, but not rapidshare, that would be a bit much). But yay! I managed to find it!

I also downloaded Meteor Rain, and Waterboys.

And I'm going to download Densha Otoko (the drama, not the movie, although it was the movie I wanted). SHUUUUUNNNNN-KUUUNNN! It's been a long while since I've seen a drama with Shun (last was Gokusen, back in December). I was getting Shun withdrawl!

In related news, I'm really fucking pissed at avistaz. I JUST found the damn site, and they have a lot of Asian movies (which are, apparently my new thing), but they've closed down registration, so basically they're tempting me with their movies, and then being like "Oh no, you can look at them, but you can't download them!"... I think I know what a dude at a strip club feels like...

When listening to the English version of Lies (거짓말), I ALWAYS sing the chorus in Korean... When I listen to Last Farewell (마지막 인사), I always sing it in English. Way to confuse the hell out of me, Big Bang.

ETA: Three and a half hours later, Summer's Tail is finally finished. Goddamn rapidshare.

I hate watching dramas that are streamed. The quality is gross, and I always forget that they're not in VLC, and try to pause them using the space bar (yes, I know this works on online videos too, but I always somehow screw it up, and bad things happen).

I'm willing to suffer for Boys Before Flowers, though.

Observations;

( episode 1 )
- Why do they always say "fighting!", it's cute and all, but WHY?!
( more... )
- Mmm. Joon Pyo is hot. I approve.
- Oh God, Rui.
- The blonde, the violin, the white suit. I'm in love (again). Whether the character be Rui, Lei, or Ji Hoo... I'll always love him.
( ...and more )
- OMG Rui-gasm! Kim Hyun Joong totally IS acting like Shun-kun! It's weird... but I like it. And dear God is that boy fine. It's too bad he's 2 1/2 years younger than. Not that that's terribly weird. I wish I were 2 1/2 years younger than I am now. Mmmmm 22.
- Ginger has an amusing american accent when she speaks english. It's like she learned how to speak english by listening to "Valley Girl" over and over and over again (btw, that's a Zappa reference, not the Nic Cage film)
( ...and even more )
- HAHAHA Domyoji! I love him so much! He's so scary at first, but he's a total dork!
- Jan Di is super awesome. They just egged and floured her, and she's thinking of the pancakes those eggs and flour could have made.
( ...and yet some more )

Well that ended rather abruptly... Are they really airing it every night? Oh, no, only Monday and Tuesday. That's kinda a weird schedule. Whatever.

So yes, I highly enjoyed it (as if I WOULDN'T enjoy it).
( summary of my thoughts )

You know, I can't seem to remember Meteor Garden all that well. Either that, or I'm getting it REALLY confused with HYD...a rewatch is needed.

*sigh* Exhausted. I stay up too late watching dramas. It's supposed to snow a fair amount tonight, and God I hope I don't have work tomorrow *wishes*!

And I know I said I was going to post my HYD Final review today, unfortunately I forgot my work computer at my house, so I couldn't type it up during the day. Sooo it'll be later on. Soon though.

I'm probably going to write my review of the HYD movie tomorrow (during work! Yay for slacking off!), and do the screencaps tomorrow night. I'm a little too tired for the full undertaking tonight.

That being said, three things;

1. I adore Rui with all my heart. He's one of the best characters ever, and is one of the only ones who can compete with Kei-kun for my heart (you know, if they existed). Seriously, ALL the Rui scenes made me inordinately happy. It also reminded me just how freaking much I love Oguri Shun. He was my first drama crush. I still blame the blonde..
2. That being said, Domyoji and Tsukushi are perfect together. More then perfect, they're destined. I always had difficulties with the manga and the dramas, because I love Rui so much, and naturally want him to be happy (in the anime this was never an issue. In fact, I didn't much like Rui in the anime... he ended up with Shizuka anyway). But despite all this, I can't deny that Domyoji and Tsukushi belong together.
3. It ended very nicely. It was not true to the manga ending at all, but whatever. I kinda don't care at this point. I like how they portrayed Soujiro and Yuuki at the ending. It was terribly cute. I felt bad for Rui though. Oh, that damn character breaks my heart. But I had to share this, because I thought it was an adorable ending, the last scene.


The last scene, the wedding picture, which transforms into a manga version. It's obviously drawn by Kamio Yoko too, which makes it all the more special. I nearly started crying when I saw it. It was perfect. The most amazing, perfect ending to an amazing story.

I can't satisfactorily convey just how happy this movie made me. I've had limited experience with japanese movies, and was previously disappointed (I'm looking at you, Lovely Complex), so to have this one exceed my expectations was fabulous. I'm significantly tougher on movies than I am on dramas (I think this is because I've studied film theory. If I were ever to get another bachelors degree, it would be in film studies), so yeah, just happiness all around!

Oh, speaking of, wiki just told me this; "Also, in one of the first volumes of Cat Street, Yoko Kamio admitted that she planned to start a sequel to Hana Yori Dango in the near future." I hope it's true. As much as I'd like to think that I'd be satisfied with things ending as they are, I want more, damn it. *greedy*

I bought the 100 userpic thing today. I currently have 55. 8 of those are of Ikuta Toma (more than of anyone else)... I'm not exactly sure why... I mean, I love him and everything, but I love Zai Zai more, and I only have 4 of him. Whatever.