Autumn Dramas~!
And it's time for autumn dramas! Looks like there's quite a bit of grand stuff, but I'm looking forward to Nino's drama the most. It's been two years!
List of autumn dramas I'm following so far:
Freeter
Ogon no Buta
Odagiri Kyoko
Keizoku 2: Spec
Q10
And I've also just started watching Ghost Friends, which makes me cry somehow and I love Yuzu's Aitai, and just finished Tumbling, which was cracky fun and so damn entertaining. High school yankees in leotards! What can you ask for more??? Plus lots of pretty Japanese guys, always a good thing. And I finished rewatching Rookies for the third or fourth time, never fails to make me cry and squeal in glee. I don't know why, but it just pushes all my right buttons when it comes to drama watching, definitely one of my all time top five favourites.
Freeter...hmm. The script isn't exactly winning me over, and right now I'm still just watching it for Nino's acting. Plus it's a quirk as a psych major probably, but whatever his character's mum is having, is sure as hell not depression and gets on my nerves a bit when they call it that. The characterisation, it looks like the scriptwriter found an ancient 1970s copy of an abnormal psychology text, got his dog to chew it up and spit out bits, and pieced all those bits of symptoms together and called it depression.
It's very scary to watch Freeter now though, because I can relate to Nino's character, and probably get too much what he feels, but at the same time there's fear of becoming like that. And not realising it. And...I probably need to get my act together at work. But it's so hard. When I get so depressed (unlike his mum). And there's so much crazy going on. And I feel so tempted to be like Nino's character, whine a lot and be all negative and go around being 'o`.
Surprisingly I liked Keizoku a lot, I find I like Erika Toda a lot when she's actually acting and not just acting cute, and she does the offbeat oddball character surprisingly well too. None of that Misa from DeathNote or Shizuka from Ryusei thing, but Kimoto from BOSS or Hiyama from Code Blue, both of which I enjoyed.
I can't stand bland female robots as the epitome of perfect woman and Japanese male desire, but I'm watching Q10 solely for Sato Takeru. Which is just as bad in reverse maybe, haha, the cute Japanese male idol with his pretty boy looks and likeable personality tailored to meet fangirl needs...
I hope Ghost Friends stays a comedy and not turn out to be one of those sappy high school love melodramas with the heroine in a perpetual state of moody longing-ness. I suspect the reason why I keep watching even if she does, is perhaps because recently I've been feeling a bit mawkish at times too.
You'd think (or at least I thought) that after someone breaks your heart and you finally, managed to sort of piece it back together, he shouldn't have the ability to break it again.
And if that seems like a lot of drama, it probably is. It's therapy.
List of autumn dramas I'm following so far:
Freeter
Ogon no Buta
Odagiri Kyoko
Keizoku 2: Spec
Q10
And I've also just started watching Ghost Friends, which makes me cry somehow and I love Yuzu's Aitai, and just finished Tumbling, which was cracky fun and so damn entertaining. High school yankees in leotards! What can you ask for more??? Plus lots of pretty Japanese guys, always a good thing. And I finished rewatching Rookies for the third or fourth time, never fails to make me cry and squeal in glee. I don't know why, but it just pushes all my right buttons when it comes to drama watching, definitely one of my all time top five favourites.
Freeter...hmm. The script isn't exactly winning me over, and right now I'm still just watching it for Nino's acting. Plus it's a quirk as a psych major probably, but whatever his character's mum is having, is sure as hell not depression and gets on my nerves a bit when they call it that. The characterisation, it looks like the scriptwriter found an ancient 1970s copy of an abnormal psychology text, got his dog to chew it up and spit out bits, and pieced all those bits of symptoms together and called it depression.
It's very scary to watch Freeter now though, because I can relate to Nino's character, and probably get too much what he feels, but at the same time there's fear of becoming like that. And not realising it. And...I probably need to get my act together at work. But it's so hard. When I get so depressed (unlike his mum). And there's so much crazy going on. And I feel so tempted to be like Nino's character, whine a lot and be all negative and go around being 'o`.
Surprisingly I liked Keizoku a lot, I find I like Erika Toda a lot when she's actually acting and not just acting cute, and she does the offbeat oddball character surprisingly well too. None of that Misa from DeathNote or Shizuka from Ryusei thing, but Kimoto from BOSS or Hiyama from Code Blue, both of which I enjoyed.
I can't stand bland female robots as the epitome of perfect woman and Japanese male desire, but I'm watching Q10 solely for Sato Takeru. Which is just as bad in reverse maybe, haha, the cute Japanese male idol with his pretty boy looks and likeable personality tailored to meet fangirl needs...
I hope Ghost Friends stays a comedy and not turn out to be one of those sappy high school love melodramas with the heroine in a perpetual state of moody longing-ness. I suspect the reason why I keep watching even if she does, is perhaps because recently I've been feeling a bit mawkish at times too.
You'd think (or at least I thought) that after someone breaks your heart and you finally, managed to sort of piece it back together, he shouldn't have the ability to break it again.
And if that seems like a lot of drama, it probably is. It's therapy.