Sunday, September 25, 2011

Drama: Bull Doctor ep05-11 Final

Official Site: NTV - Bull Doctor

I have decided to discuss all the episodes together instead of doing individual posts.  At least now I can discuss the drama as a whole, especially since there are a couple different plots.


Story:
(in no particular order)
*Plot A - Tamami and her family:
Tamami is trying to juggle her family and work at the same time, but usually its her family that gets the backseat.  It's not that she doesn't care about her family, she worries about them as well, but with her passion for forensic pathology, she wants to know the truth.  In ep06 her son was kidnapped, and here she shows another side of herself to her colleagues.  Ep07 and onwards, you see the marital problems she endures with her husband and how she overcomes them.  Tamami needed to understand where her husband was coming from and not just rely on him for everything.

*Plot B - Chika and Nakura-sensei:
From ep05 and onwards, Chika has to choose whether or not her and Nakura-sensei are meant to be together or not.  She finally tells him she loves him and he does so as well, but as the series progressed, he never showed his affection or even acknowledges their relationship.  Ultimately they break up along the way, but in the end, they realize the love that they have for each other and end up together.

*Plot C - Takeda Family problems:
While the drama is about following Tamami and her, I guess shenanigans, the whole backbone of Bull Doctor is about the Takeda family and their past.  The story about Nobuo's drinking problem unfolds as we learn who's been sending him the texts messages.  Yashiro-sensei was paid to antagonize Takeda-sensei about his criminal past.  Takeda-sensei had for years, forged death certificates under the advisory of the head of the hospital.  It all started with the transplant surgery from his wife to Mia.  A medical error had occurred and his wife had lost her life while on the operating table.  If they were to investigate, Mia wouldn't have had her transplant and would have passed away as well.  The doctors in the room had all agreed to cover it up and claim she had passed away after the surgery in order for Mia to get her kidney.  The cover was blown and Takeda-sensei was being blackmailed in order to forge death certificates since then. 

He was pushed down the stairs and endured severe head trauma.  During recovery, he felt it was finally time to tell the public truth, with Mia's permission.  When preparations were ready, the head of the hospital beat him to it and announced Takeda-sensei's leave from the hospital and that an investigation will have to go on at the hospital.  Because of his leave, Nakura-sensei was now the head professor of the forensic department.

Chika and Tamami commit a crime by stealing the body of the assistant in the hospital department, and examining it, when a forged certificate was written for his death without a primary examination.  In a confrontation, it turned out Nakura-sensei was actually helping the department by recording the conversations he had with the Head.  Before something serious had happened, the Head was arrested.  Takeda-sensei was also arrested for his part in this investigation, but Chika and Tamami were on probation for about a year before coming back to work.

Comments:
While the ratings fluctuated for the rest of the series, the finale gained more than 3% above it's first episode gaining the highest rating of the series ending with 16.4%.

I anticipated each week for episodes to get released and I really liked how the series turned out.  While I don't think the drama name matches the series in its entirety, I think it done a great job following Tamami's life and the work that revolved around her.  Adding in the sub plot with her family was kind of boring, but while I didn't care for it, it was necessary in order to give Tamami more than one-dimension. 

I didn't like that not all the other forensic doctors got a chance to have a storyline.  In fact, none of them had any relevance to the story but just to be fillers and make it more realistic in the department.  The only other person that had a story that involved the main cast was Yashiro-sensei.

I do like how Mia had her relevance in the story, finally, as it revolved around her transplant surgery as a child.  At the cliff hanger, we knew that Takeda-sensei had committed a crime, but I didn't think it would have evolved his family.  It wasn't like it was a twist ending, but it was a shocker at how it started.

I think overall I can give this drama a 7, maybe a 7.5 out of 10. It was a great series to go through, but it's not one where I'm compelled to rewatch it over and over again.

Drama: Ouran High School Host Club ep06

Official Site: TBS - Ouran High School Host Club

An actual short summary, and I even capped this episode with the least amount of pictures than I have for the other episodes.  I guess you can say that I've gotten lazy to do so, even though this is supposed to be a priority of mine, but with the amount of studying I had to do in the last 2-3 weeks for my classes I've gotten used to not doing any of these reviews and just kind of forgot about them :/

But I've gotten a break from studying, so here is the next episode of Ouran.


 Story:
Hikaru and Kaoru challenge the host club customers to a "Which one is Hikaru?" guessing game.  Haruhi points out to the girls that they picked the wrong.  Hikaru and Kaoru pester Haruhi about letting them visit her house, but refuses.  The girls ask Haruhi how she knew which one was Hikaru and she said it's because he's 10% more evil than Kaoru.  Because of Haruhi's comment, it caused a fight between the twins.

Hikaru changes his hair to blonde so people are able to tell them apart.  Throughout the day, the two keep having fights causing trouble for the host club.  Haruhi learns that the twins have never had any other friends but each other, which makes their fight heartbreaking, yet it'll expand their world just a bit.  While it's good for the twins to have a fight for once, they go too far when Hikaru challenges Kaoru in the courtyard.

Karou announces that Hikaru has feelings for Haruhi, but denies it.  He tells Kaoru that he hates him, causing Kaoru to pull out a Beelzenef curse doll that he got from Nekozawa.  Before getting the chance to use it, Haruhi comes up to them and punches them, stopping them from fighting anymore.  In the end, the twins were only playing around in order for Haruhi to let them come over to her house.

Comments:
I was hoping the twins' hair colors would have been pink and blue.  Not because it fit the anime, but because it would have been hilarious to look at.

Always with the small details that I find interesting.  This time it was Honey and his reaction to the chocolate fountain in the cafeteria.  The look on his face, and also all the chocolate that ended up on his face.

Also how Renge just randomly shows up.  It was a nice addition since she tends to show up whenever she wants to and it happened in the drama as well, not that I really care for her, but still :)

[No image *GASPS* I didn't capture that?! ;)]
Also, Kyouya's reaction to when Kaoru said that Hikaru liked Haruhi.  It was obvious they would show Tamaki's reaction, but they also showed Kyouya... why is that?  DOES he like her? the drama is making it seem that way.

Last, that dance that Tamaki was doing in the cafeteria reminded me of Tumbling when his character, Wataru, was trying to follow along with the hip hop choreo (ep9) but he ended up doing Bon Odori haha.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Update: School

neglecting everything right now (even Ouran, even though I HAVE watched them all to date) because school is getting hectic and there's like a party every weekend haha.

I got HALF of episode6 of Ouran capped, but I cant do the rest until maybe Friday afternoon.
Got quizzes and 2 midterms this week and then a midterm and quizzes next week to study for (and I'll be out on Sunday leaving Sat as a study day).  I really wanna post up ASAP just so i can get them out of my queue list and move on, but it's unfortunate that I cant.  Can't I have another vacay please? :)

When You Think of Johnnys...

I came across this on the aramatheydidnt LJ.
So basically people were polled to see what was the first, erm.. group (I guess..) they thought of when they think of Johnny's.  The poll came out as:

1. Arashi (18 791 votes)
2. SMAP (11 098 votes)
3. Kanjani8 (1437 votes)
4. KinKi Kids (1402 votes)
5. TanoKin Trio (1304 votes)
6. Hikaru GENJI (1252 votes)
7. Kiss-My-Ft2 (1162 votes)
8. KAT-TUN (953 votes)
9. Hey! Say! JUMP (902 votes)
10. NEWS (843 votes)
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11. Other (712 votes)
12. Shonentai (674 votes)
13. Johnny's Jr (466 votes)
14. V6 (442 votes)
15. TOKIO (411 votes)
16. Tackey & Tsubasa (392 votes)
17. Ikuta Toma (294 votes)
18. Shibugaki Tai (124 votes)
19. Otokogumi (98 votes)
20. NYC Boys (63 votes)

I'm surprised, but not really about the first 3 choices.
1) SMAP may be popular still, but Arashi has been seriously gaining some way in the last 2yrs or so.  They are really following the footsteps of their senpai doing huge concert venues, massive amount of cms, acting, TV-variety, etc. 
2) The fact that Kanjani8 is #3 seems odd to me.  I haven't been in the fandom for a long time, so I'm not sure how big groups really are, but I would have thought that a different group would rank at #3.  Much that Kanjani8 would be AFTER KAT-TUN.
3) Kinki Kids at #4.  I knew they were gonna be high up, but I would have guessed #3.
4) KAT-TUN is below Kisumai.  That's shocking to me.  I would have suspected them higher, but I guess after Jin left, their popularity isn't as high as it used to be?
5) Hikaru Genji is in the top 10!!! Glad to see that even a group from the 80's can still be recognized that well.  Though if I could choose, I would think that Shounentai would have been up there as well, especially since they're still active!

This is a really interesting poll.  Even though I'm not so much of a Johnny's fan anymore, it really shows me how much the fandom has changed since I first got in (2004) to when I started losing interest (2008-09) to now.

Credit: aramatheydidnt   - Original: Goo Ranking