*liveblogs*
poor takeru. i am loving eita more and more with this show.
go michiru! she finally broke up with sousuke.
i hate to say this, and i don't think it will happen, but i'm worried that sousuke's going to abuse that little kid. oh, ryo. there is still hope! .... er he just killed it with that last line: "i'm not lonely. because she's going to come back." no, she's not, you bastard... it pissed me off to read on LJ entries that we should understand sousuke and forgive him for what he's done (aka fans attempting to defend ryo by telling us not to confuse the character with the actor but in effect doing so themselves--violence is NOT forgivable. especially repeated acts of violence.).
... ruka just yelled at takeru. i feel so bad for the guy. but i'm also confused. he basically suggested (or did he?) to emi (um i might've gotten her name wrong--brain fart) that he was gay when she hit on him. but he also clearly likes ruka. hm...?
thought: people in this show are so fragile.
oops, her name was eri.
i'm going to be so sad not being able to watch this show for the next six weeks. x__x because i'm going to china...
WHY DO THE JAPANESE GIRLS IN THIS SHOW HAVE NO GADAR??
at least touching michiru isn't freaking takeru out.
i'm starting to feel like eri is the most underrated character on this show :( at least this episode makes it seem like she might get fleshed out soon.
AAAGGGGHHHH why must it get so good just as i'm about to leave? ;__________;
why can't relationships be as simple as i want them to? i started watching this series, which has been airing on the chinese channel at 8pm every night for the past month, from the middle because finally there was potential for a girl and a guy my age to get together, a really cute would-be couple, except the girl decides to go after his best friend who looks way older than he is and happens to be a jerk while we're at it. the guy that i wanted her to get with is the selfless, brooding type, so naturally he didn't do anything and let his best friend have her. jfdslkfjsalkjflekjrlEFJAEWKRJEWARLK. finally she walks in on them having a conversation about the truth (aka HE was the one who saved her life, not the best friend. HE did NOT post her photos on the internet, that WAS the BEST FRIEND.) and OF COURSE she has to barge in, push the best friend around asking what the hell they meant, all the meanwhile standing dangerously close to a rickety shelf on which is placed some sort of clear liquid that will cause you to lose your vision if it gets in your eyes. yeah, so now she's going to be BLIND for the rest of her life.
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by the way, tudou is the crappiest piece of crap ever. two seconds take five minutes to load, one episode is forty minutes, do the math.
i changed my mind. there is hope for this movie after all.
one more thing: this guy can really act. he's played a badass in gokusen2 and a flaming gay timpani player (timpanist) in nodame and now this preppy guy here, and i totally believe him every time.
wow. is japan's population growth so bad that they're making pro-life movies?
well, we all know it is. :\
that aside, the first half is not over yet so i can't draw any conclusions about the movie's message. it's funny, just yesterday or today i was thinking having a baby might physically kill me... err /tangent
about the actual movie. the problem is not just the story moving too fast but the acting is not believable. hiro's actor looks too young and immature to be playing his role. even aragaki yui looks older. it's entirely impossible to buy into the scenes where he's beating guys up or yelling at the classmate; it's like watching a chihuahua try to be a doberman, as simon cowell might say. he reminds me of the tenimyu kids, especially the newer generations--who knows? he might've been in it at some point. now that i think about it, there was some kid who was supposed to play a role but quit because he got offered TV instead... or something... sorry for this very jumbled-up entry, i'm liveblogging... the sappiness tsujitenai.
anyway, the baby died, so maybe it's not pro-life after all. or it's pro-life but also saying PREGNANT GIRLS SHOULDN'T HANG OUT WITH DELINQUENTS.
probably not to be continued, as i'm (obviously) not very impressed...
Osen 01-03
Uchi is back! Well, I'm sure he has been for a while, but this is the first show I've seen with him in it since... Ganbatte Ikimasshoi. Yeeeah. Aoi Yuu is also as cute as ever, so there's eye candy for everyone. I'm not positive as to where the show is headed but so far it's been light-hearted fun and the occasional sappy one-liner. It's also a show about food so don't watch this right before going to bed. Which is what I've been doing... *stomach growl.* And... I don't think I've ever had food this good in my life.
Zettai Kareshi 01-04
I was skeptical about this series because I'm not a fan of the main actress or actor (both of whose names I can never remember... haha) but the girl was in Utahime recently (HIGHLY RECOMMEND) and I recall them both being in Regatta, which was a flop, right? Well, whatever. In any case, it's nice to know that the main actors have worked together before, so if they're doing it again, something must've clicked the first time. Unfortunately, the guy doesn't have to do much acting because... his character is a robot! :| And the girl is kind of annoying in the way she treats him. This sounds like I am not enjoying the show, but it's only because I've gotten way too emotionally involved that this kind of stuff would bother me. Also the drama differs in a lot of ways from the manga, in which Night is a lot more human and doesn't jerk his body limbs around as awkwardly as, er, Hayami Mokomichi. I know you can't see manga!Night move but there are ways to make him robotic and the artist clearly didn't want him to be--that was the point. Also, whereas manga!Riiko was desperate for a boyfriend, drama!Riiko sort of happens across Night (to make a long story short) and doesn't really want him around, period. It's sad. Four episodes and she's still clueless. WHHHHYYY. HE LOVES YOU. "Aishiteru yo, Riiiiiiiiko."
LIFE
A drama series about bullying. Sounds kind of preachy, right? And it is, but it's also eleven episodes of gut-and-heart-wrenching AMAZING. Some of the actors (well, one) overdo it, but the main actresses are right on. It's hard to hate someone through and through. The soundtrack made the show much more effective. Watch this in one night.
Last Friends 01-05
I am watching this for the actors and Utada's opening song. So far they still haven't explained Sousuke's issues, and watching him hit the main character again and again is getting kind of old/unbearable.
