meganbmoore | Wha-wai-doo-wha...huh? (Reply)

This has been going around for a few days, but it only just registered maybe 10 minutes ago.

They're doing a jdrama of Rumiko Takahashi's One Pound Gospel. So...weird. Now, I like Rumiko Takahashi. I'm very fond of Ranma 1/2 and Inu Yasha(which some will recall my having a serious fangirl craze over some time back, which I can sometimes be convinced to slip back in to) as well as her Mermaid Saga books. I like Maison Ikkoku, though I eventually gave up on it because it was rather meandering, and in a dragging way, not an entertaining one, and thought the bit of Lum that I read was fun.

But One Pound Gospel? I admit, I looked for it back when I was binging on Ranma 1/2 and Inu Yasha, but it was more of a cursory thing, and the books were hard to find at the time(a large part of why I only ever read one volume of Lum.)

Now I read and watch a LOT of stuff that's out there, but this is something that's "out there" on a whole other level. OPG is about a binge-eating boxer who...falls in love with a nun. Somehow, it breaks my mind. The fact the Kamenashi "Kame" Kazuya, one of the skinniest and least tough-looking JE Boys out there is playing him breaks my mind even more.

Somehow, this both scares and fascinates me.