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meganbmooreFinished the Wolf's Rain rewatch. Excellent, of course, but I'm not posting on it because there's no way to talk about ity without completely spoiling it and I'm not doing that.
Also watched Those Who Hunt Elves, about three people from our world who get transported to a fantasy world and have to strip elves to find pieces of the spell that will take them home(and-despite the description-it's almost completely non-pervy or risque) It's a very fun anime, and one that'd be good to randomly pop an episode of in(something I'm prone to do) but not one that'll stand out after a bit.
I also watched my firt episode of Inu Yasha in a long while(meant to get back to it-and some other things-back in the sumer but got sidetracked by these things called "doramas"...) It was a filler, but an entertaining one. Downside? It was a Shippo-centric ep. Bah. Don't passionately hate him like some I know, but easily my least favorite of the main cast, and I prefer a fair number of the supporting cast to him, too. I mean, couldn't it have been a Sango/Miroku ep, or one with Sesshomaru or Koga? Ah well.
I've had the first three seasons of Charmed in my backlog for a while and finally got started in on them(finished season 1 today) While still quite fun, it isn't as engaging as I remembered it being back when I first discovered it and Angel on TNT a few years back...but then, before finding those 2 shows, my main exposure to urban fantasy was Jim Butcher and Mercedes Lackey, so maybe I just have different expectations for the genre now. I AM enjoying it quite a bit and will start season 2 shortly(likely after a few more eps of Inu Yasha) but I doubt I'll get the later seasons. If I were obsessively loving it like when I rewatched the Gargoyles, Angel, Dark Angel(will not admit to "EEEEE!!!"-ing when Michael Weatherly-aka, Logan Cale-showed up here as a warlock born to be evil who was trying to escape his destiny and be good) and Hercules episodes I'd already seen, yeah, but at just the "enjoying" level...well, I'm one of the few people who VASTLY prefer the show with Prue than with Page...not so much because of the characters themselves as the change in tome they bring with them.
But most importantly, I have a bright new shiny to fill up the Dresden Files sized hole that just opened up in my life: the jdorama, Liar Game. Liar Game is about Nao, a sweet and VERY dim girl(and well aware of it) who receives a package with 100 million yen, a note, and a videotape informing her that she's been chosen to participate in a game where two opponents are each given 100 million yen and have to swindle the other out of theirs. They have to give back the original money at the end, but anything over the 100 million they get to keep...anything underm though, is a debt they owe. Nao's opponent is a favorite teacher from middle school, and she assumes he'll help her get out of the game, but instead she finds herself taken within about 5 minutes. When she asks the police for help, she's told there's probably nothing they can do one the record, but off the record, the best way to get a swindler is with another swindler, and is told about a con artist, Shinichi, who's about to get out of jail.
Now, they BEST way to get me to check something out is to tell me it has an angsty guy with a sword, but the second best way is to promise me a GOOD romantic mystery/thriller, preferably with logical and mind games and so far, this is one. It's being referred to(including by me when asking if anyone was checking it out) as "Kurosagi-lite," and that's pretty accurate...and is far, far from a bad thing. Toda Erica is seriously doing her best to be the most adorable thing ever in doramas, and Matsuda Shota...well, I swear, that boy found some sort of magic pill or something between Hana Yori Dango and Hana Yori Dango 2, and he kept taking it for this. It's more about why Shinichi is doing what he's doing in his games than any actual mystery in this episode(and I like that, unlikeKurosaki in Kurosagi, Shinichi fills us in on what he's up to by telling poor lost Nao, instead of voiceovers and recaps after...which is not to say that one is better than the other, just that the different type of story makes explaining things easier)
Shinichi and Nao are, seriously, the most squishable dorama OTP I've come across since Remote(which, come to think of it, also has an insanely cute heroine and a removed-from-the-world(though much more so) hero who tells us what he's up to by filling the poor lost girl in...bah, now I want to rewatch Remote, which ranks right beside Kurosagi for me...) I love how she was viewing him as her bright and shiny savior before she even met him(girl was getting a head start on that "blind faith" thing) and how he looks at her like this stray kitty he doesn't want to take in, but keeps checking up on, asnd then keeps, because only a big old meanie would leave a poor little kitty out there alone after it waited all night for him
But, seriously. New shiny. Happy Megan.
Also watched Those Who Hunt Elves, about three people from our world who get transported to a fantasy world and have to strip elves to find pieces of the spell that will take them home(and-despite the description-it's almost completely non-pervy or risque) It's a very fun anime, and one that'd be good to randomly pop an episode of in(something I'm prone to do) but not one that'll stand out after a bit.
I also watched my firt episode of Inu Yasha in a long while(meant to get back to it-and some other things-back in the sumer but got sidetracked by these things called "doramas"...) It was a filler, but an entertaining one. Downside? It was a Shippo-centric ep. Bah. Don't passionately hate him like some I know, but easily my least favorite of the main cast, and I prefer a fair number of the supporting cast to him, too. I mean, couldn't it have been a Sango/Miroku ep, or one with Sesshomaru or Koga? Ah well.
I've had the first three seasons of Charmed in my backlog for a while and finally got started in on them(finished season 1 today) While still quite fun, it isn't as engaging as I remembered it being back when I first discovered it and Angel on TNT a few years back...but then, before finding those 2 shows, my main exposure to urban fantasy was Jim Butcher and Mercedes Lackey, so maybe I just have different expectations for the genre now. I AM enjoying it quite a bit and will start season 2 shortly(likely after a few more eps of Inu Yasha) but I doubt I'll get the later seasons. If I were obsessively loving it like when I rewatched the Gargoyles, Angel, Dark Angel(will not admit to "EEEEE!!!"-ing when Michael Weatherly-aka, Logan Cale-showed up here as a warlock born to be evil who was trying to escape his destiny and be good) and Hercules episodes I'd already seen, yeah, but at just the "enjoying" level...well, I'm one of the few people who VASTLY prefer the show with Prue than with Page...not so much because of the characters themselves as the change in tome they bring with them.
But most importantly, I have a bright new shiny to fill up the Dresden Files sized hole that just opened up in my life: the jdorama, Liar Game. Liar Game is about Nao, a sweet and VERY dim girl(and well aware of it) who receives a package with 100 million yen, a note, and a videotape informing her that she's been chosen to participate in a game where two opponents are each given 100 million yen and have to swindle the other out of theirs. They have to give back the original money at the end, but anything over the 100 million they get to keep...anything underm though, is a debt they owe. Nao's opponent is a favorite teacher from middle school, and she assumes he'll help her get out of the game, but instead she finds herself taken within about 5 minutes. When she asks the police for help, she's told there's probably nothing they can do one the record, but off the record, the best way to get a swindler is with another swindler, and is told about a con artist, Shinichi, who's about to get out of jail.
Now, they BEST way to get me to check something out is to tell me it has an angsty guy with a sword, but the second best way is to promise me a GOOD romantic mystery/thriller, preferably with logical and mind games and so far, this is one. It's being referred to(including by me when asking if anyone was checking it out) as "Kurosagi-lite," and that's pretty accurate...and is far, far from a bad thing. Toda Erica is seriously doing her best to be the most adorable thing ever in doramas, and Matsuda Shota...well, I swear, that boy found some sort of magic pill or something between Hana Yori Dango and Hana Yori Dango 2, and he kept taking it for this. It's more about why Shinichi is doing what he's doing in his games than any actual mystery in this episode(and I like that, unlikeKurosaki in Kurosagi, Shinichi fills us in on what he's up to by telling poor lost Nao, instead of voiceovers and recaps after...which is not to say that one is better than the other, just that the different type of story makes explaining things easier)
Shinichi and Nao are, seriously, the most squishable dorama OTP I've come across since Remote(which, come to think of it, also has an insanely cute heroine and a removed-from-the-world(though much more so) hero who tells us what he's up to by filling the poor lost girl in...bah, now I want to rewatch Remote, which ranks right beside Kurosagi for me...) I love how she was viewing him as her bright and shiny savior before she even met him(girl was getting a head start on that "blind faith" thing) and how he looks at her like this stray kitty he doesn't want to take in, but keeps checking up on, asnd then keeps, because only a big old meanie would leave a poor little kitty out there alone after it waited all night for him
But, seriously. New shiny. Happy Megan.
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Date: 2007-04-20 11:25 am (UTC)YOu MUST tell me if the ending is good or bad. :D
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Date: 2007-04-20 04:38 pm (UTC)Some people hate it because they don't like its type of anime ending, but it's the right ending for the series, and close to what you should expect from the start.
How far are you now?
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Date: 2007-04-20 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-20 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-20 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-21 02:44 am (UTC)Erika is ridiculously adorable. You're right, she is a stray kitty, and like the rest of us Shota just can't resist ;)
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Date: 2007-04-21 02:58 am (UTC)You just want to squish them together.
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Date: 2007-04-20 06:04 pm (UTC)I do too! It sucks that they chose Alyssa Milano over her, actually. They were doing some cool things with Prue in a leadership position, she was really coming into her own. Then she's gone.
It left a huge power vacuum that three seasons of establishing Piper as the middle and passive sister, and Phoebe as the irresponsible youngest, had a hard time overcoming. The struggle for the girls to come into their own after Prue was gone could've been handled much better.
I stopped watching somewhere in season 5, after the <b>20th time</b> the girls decided to not kill Cole. I was so sick of that damn story, and Julian McMahon was so hot. I love him on <i>Nip/Tuck</i>.
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Date: 2007-04-20 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-22 12:05 am (UTC)And your description of Liar Game & kitty's is too cute. Now I want to watch 10 times more than I already did!
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Date: 2007-04-22 01:06 am (UTC)And Liar Game is a blast.