Akimahende!: cute adolescent Nino and a bunch of really annoying people and situations

[bitterbee]

I decided that when I’m not working this summer, I should try to catch up on dramas. Like, from scratch. And maybe because it’s June, I went for a super-old Nino drama, Akimahende! (1998), which I'm not exactly recommending (but maybe I was just in a bad mood all week? Maybe this actually is a decent drama?). The exclamation point is part of the

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[anoudegozaruna]

I don't think I would've ever finished this drama. Or even started it. I can imagine myself wanting to strangle people or throwing my computer out the window out of sheer frustration with the characters. I applaud you for watching the whole thing and then writing this so as to warn me to avoid it.

[bitterbee]

I am nothing if not stubborn. Often, it does me no good, as probably was the case here. I don't really feel like I've benefited from watching this, and I frankly played a lot of Plants vs Zombies in another window. But I finished it, dammit!

I think I thought it was going to be more of a teenage drama -- like Charles in Charge does Japan or something. I could have stood the older sisters more if they were legitimately adolescents, rather than 25-30-year-olds who acted like spoiled brats.

I am hoping for much better from the next old-ass drama I dig up, which will perhaps be Psychometer Eiji.

[anoudegozaruna]

I am stubborn, too, and that's probably why I was able to finish Bambino and Kami no Shizuku. And those were precious hours of my life that I'll never get back.

OMG, Plants vs Zombies!!!! The sheer amount of time I've spent playing that game, I cannot even tell you.

I think I watched an episode of Psychometer Eiji and it actually interested me. But I was too lazy to download any more episodes, and I eventually forgot about it. Maybe I'll wait until you've watched some and see how you like it before I consider picking it up again.

[bitterbee]

I gritted my teeth through a lot of Bambino -- I was not ready for the manga-esque parade of painful failure and all the dropped dishes. But I think I might do better at it now, if I had any desire to rewatch it. Jun's hair was nice, and I like a lot of the other cast members. On the other hand, there are definitely much better dramas to rewatch, if I'm rewatching. Kami no Shizuku sounds incredibly not interesting to me, so I won't make the mistake of starting it in the first place.

Psychometer Eiji will at least have the benefit of cheesy special effects, if it's bad. I think it has two seasons? It must be at least a little decent if it got a continuation. I shall bump it up on the list!

Plants vs Zombies has taken a bit too much of my time! It is so easy to just zone out over the mini games, which is what I was doing while stubbornly slogging through Akimahende.

[flange5]

Heh--nice speculation on the actresses and jailbait!Nino ^^;

Yeah . . . this is one of those dramas I dutifully Dled and then . . . just kept for archiving, but don't really see myself watching any time soon.

i think the gender stuff might just make me wanna scream. A lot.

[bitterbee]

The second sister is played by the annoying young woman from Namida wo Fuite -- did you watch that? She's got a really slap-worthy ingenue kind of delivery. The older one is less irritating as a whole, but they combine badly. And then with the simpering old lady on top? Arrgh.

I was kind of thinking it might be good for me to watch a more female focused drama, since I tend to pick based on the casting of my favorite male idols. But in 1998, at least, a female focused drama was horribly frustrating. I wanted to be impressed that the one dude cleaned the bathroom for his wife, but then it immediately became a) a sign of being emasculated and b) a way to place the wife on a pedestal -- both of which pretty much wiped out any possibility of equally distributed housework.

You know Nino got initiated by some older costar at an early age. Look at him!

[i_am_zan]

*HUGS you two*

But but ... maybe if you watched it as a comedy, and then everything will be fine! ^__^ And seriously Nino is 15 here ... he looks to be about 11 or something.

Ahahah and I see the 8 in the corner, that's one of our channels. Heee ...Channel 8 went though a phase where they showed a lot of J-drama's and subbed them in both Mandarin and English. Sadly before I got into Arashi so otherwise I'd have been able to watch some of the earlier dramas. Which I would have loved to. Unfortunately now they've all gone over to the dark side Uhm *kof!kof* K-pop

[bitterbee]

I really tried to think of it as a comedy -- I guess I don't laugh at most of the same things the writers of this drama would. I think the funniest moment for me was when the housekeeper told Nino's character to eat breakfast so he would grow taller (cuz short jokes are funny), and Nino responded that both Stalin and Hitler were short. There's all sorts of ironic humor in there! But the whiny women who need to learn their place -- not so amusing to me

[eufry]

AHAHAHAHA OMG :'D

I just woke up and read this, and you totally made my day. And now I want to watch this badly, even though it seems incredibly cliché-ridden. But cute!Nino is always fun.

And I'm pretty sure he only banged the ones in his age range and a bit above. Suzuki Anne ? Nah.

Anyhow, you're hilarious. I'd tell you to make a living out of this, but I'm pretty sure you already are, somehow.

Thanks for this :'D ♥

[bitterbee]

Cliche-ridden -- that's totally it! Now that you've said it, YES, it's the lack of anything really surprising or clever that annoyed me here. And that a lot of the cliches were about women's domestic duties, but yeah.

I just had to go back and read to make sure I didn't accidentally suggest he was doing Suzuki Anne! She was twelve! Maybe during Stand Up or something, but surely not when she was so little! T_T

[oviparous]

b-but i really loved this drama! ...when i was 15. HAHA.

[bitterbee]

But we were all kind of dumb when we were fifteen, weren't we?

Go look at my kittens instead!