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a.k.a. the "I can't believe I have to wait until next summer for season 2" rant

In July, I started watching the drama Whirlwind Girl (旋風少女), also known as Tornado Girl, despite knowing nothing about it except that Chen Xiang, one of my favorite singer-turned-actors, was playing a supporting role. And that it was martial arts-related, which I was ( Read more... )

Or more specifically, Wallace Huo's face?

I wasn't planning on watching The Journey of Flower (花千骨), Wallace's latest fantasy-wuxia drama, but holy crap, just look at him!


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Over the weekend, my sister and I finally got to attend FanimeCon! We've been wanting to go for the past two years, but something always came up, so we were super stoked to get the chance this year ( Read more... )

I suppose I should have known better than to keep my hopes high for Cruel Romance, the 1930s Shanghai cdrama starring Huang Xiaoming and Chen Qiao'en that I was really excited about last year. But I mean, when you release pretty stills like this, what am I supposed to expect?


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Let's talk about this scene.


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You could call 2014 a slow year for me, in terms of drama watching. A huge part of it is because I started working full-time near the end of April, which meant a significant cut in my drama-watching time. I also started consuming much more anime/manga than I do normally, which is quite a time commitment. But at the same time, 2014 just didn't have ( Read more... )

The entire soundtrack of Legend of the Condor Heroes 2003 (starring Li Yapeng and Zhou Xun) is amazing, but this is the song that always guts me, especially the soaring notes in the chorus. Unfortunately, I could only find a low-quality video on YouTube and it's just a clip from the drama so the dialogue is still there, but check it out ( Read more... )