Reads Randomly

In the past month, I've gone to Japan, been shaken by an earthquake while NOT in Japan, tried to ignore some significant anniversaries of major tragedies, applied to a graduate program and before any of that happened saw the final Harry Potter with my brother, completing the set. While each of those are worthy of their own post, I'm not feeling very good with words right now. Instead, I bring you YouTube videos from various shows I've enjoyed over the years. See them before they get reported! :-)

( We've got Sorkin, Asian dramas and Charlie Crews, if you're interested... )

Next time I post, I promise it will be Quaggy generated content. :-)

So here, we go. It's not my favorite Asian drama of all time (that would be Galileo) or even my favorite Korean drama (that would be Coffee Prince), but there's something about Wish Upon A Star that just sucked me in. The plot was totally over the top and often required to complete suspension of disbelief (Murder plots! Secret births! Blackmail! Kidnappings! Gangsters! Medical Scares! And that was all in just one episode!) But the characters were just a joy to watch. Even without all the crazy storylines (or maybe especially without), I could see the premise working as a regular multi-season series. Not to mention that WUAS is the first Asian drama I've wanted to write fic for. (Well, okay, I did want to write fic for Your Beautiful... but mostly that was because I wanted to rewrite the ending which sort of derailed towards the end.) I'm just not ready to let these characters go!



( Let me tell you why... )


(This is an image heavy post! Be prepared! Most screencaps came from Dramabeans, but a few came from folderdropping.)

I just found out that they made a live action version of The Wallflower (or Perfect Girl Evolution, if you prefer), a manga I've been following for years. It's a difficult series to describe. The closest I can come is My (reluctant) Fair Lady as seen by Tim Burton... with a good dose of boy band hysteria mixed in for good measure.

Now, they made an anime adaptation a few years back which was actually pretty good, but I have a feeling that this drama is going to be a train wreak. On the plus side, they cast one of the three leads from Nobuta No Produce (one of my favorite Japanese dramas) as the main guy. On the negative side, they added a cute kid. Now, I have nothing against cute kids, but when you add one to an already established series (or adaptation of an established series in this case) then Law of Cousin Oliver comes into effect... which means this drama might have jumped the shark before it even began.

Oh well, I don't think that's going to stop me. I've been meaning to get into another Japanese drama for a while. (I've just been too distracted by a recent run of excellent Korean dramas... but that's a whole other post.) Worse comes to worse, it might inspire me to rewatch Nobuta or maybe even Hana Kimi. In the mean time, bring on the goths and pretty boys! Oh Japan, you do make me laugh!