Of Swords and Parasols

Frankly: I feel cheated.

I love the thing, but the ending, and lack of resolution to virtually every major plotline makes me mad.

As I apparently am not going to finish the last Bifrost Guardians book tonight for various reasons(well, I may yet...but it's not ilkely as work things have me in a bad mood and make me want to go around singing "Why Can't We Be Friends?")  I shall go ahead and post a little on the TW Hana Kimi.  As I'm off tomorrow, I'll likely finish it then.



Also, random pic I really like:



"I will protect the pretty girl from the rain or die trying.  And if I stand back here, maybe she won't notice my hair."

No really, it will.  It is so giddy and chipper and energetic that it should make you want to rip your eardrums out to escape, yet it's bizarrely appealing and addictive.  VERY addictive...I think the last song I listened to over and over that was absurdly giddy and hyper yet too addictive for my own good was the opening theme to the Spiral anime.

The music video of the song in question:

 

Still not really watching anything...bits and pieces of Monk s5, but, like most mystery shows, I can either binge on Monk or watch it slowly(mysteries are really the only thing where my bingeing or not bingeing is no indication of my level of liking it...don't know why)  What I WANT is to get engrossed in a big wuxia(yeah, I have some taigas in the backlog, but the best way to some up various dorama period pieces is that China does fantasy, Korea does epic and Japan does history, and I want wuxia squees) but since I don't have any on hand at the moment(2 are now on their way, though) I'm still just watching the first episodes of various dramas that will likely be in my next dorama order on crunchyroll(yes, I will shell out money to watch it on my TV when I can watch it for free on the computer...)

I wanted to watch Fantasy Couple, but it was taken down because it was licensed, so I started Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang, but it didn't hold my attention aside from the opening sequence(I think that's more due to mood that it is to like/dislike, so I saved it for later) and I moved on to the tw Hana Kimi.

I've only seen raws of the first episode of the j Hana Kimi, so I'm mostly comparing it to the manga.  So far I quite like it.  In fact, the only other tw drama I've liked this much this quickly is It Started With A Kiss(I think because both realize that with their set up and events, and they need to do is have the actors get to it for us to see the crack...no needs to keep making sure we realize how cute/cracky/funny/etc. it is.)