Today was the first day back for Fall semester. I have class everyday, but while I get out in the afternoons 4 out of 5 days, I got work right after for 2 of those days and the other days I'll be using as studying days. I'll be able to update stuff on the weekend, if I'm not doing anything, or if I'm feeling up to it (XD). I'll still continue doing Ouran up until the last episode regularly, but for the others are going to be on halt or I'm going to bulk post them together in one post.
Anyways, Good Luck to all those going back to school this week and those who will be starting within the next couple weeks. It's going to be a tough semester, but let's all push through it :D
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Drama: Ouran High School Host Club ep04
Official Site: TBS - Ouran High School Host Club
This episode gained a 2.3% viewership, a couple points lower than the week before, but its not like I care about viewership anymore haha. The episode 4 of the drama coincides with episode 4 of the anime. I may be biased when I say this, but this wasn't particularly my favorite episode, only because I think Renge (in general) is really annoying. I know a lot of people like her character because she comes out of no where and is a hilarious addition, but she's just really annoying since she butts in a lot, but whatever, that's just how I feel.
Story:
In her home in France, Houshakuji Renge is absorbed in her RPG-like dating sim game. Her father arrives back from a business trip from Japan and shows her daughter a picture he took with his client's family. She freaks out and takes an immediate flight (and I do mean IMMEDIATE) flight to Japan.
At the Host Club, guests are greeted to an indoor Japanese garden theme with the hosts dressed in kimono's (they say Kimono, but I wanna call it a Yukata, but it's most likely a Kimono lol). Kyouya had told Haruhi that another guest had picked her as her choice host. Haruhi asked how expenses were made since guests don't pay and it turns out that the host club sells private photos of themselves to guests, but that there's a limit to their sales and need something new. As Tamaki was bothering Haruhi, like always, they notice someone standing at the door peeking in, Renge. As Tamaki tries to bring her in, she freaks out and hits him in the face by insulting him with multiple put-downs until he knocks out. When Renge eyes Kyouya, she happily runs and gives him a hug and declares herself the host club's manager.
Renge tells everyone that she is Kyouya's fiance and that she traveled all the way from France to see him. She explains she fell in love with him at first sight (despite never having met him until that day), that he "pity's the wildflowers that no one cares about" , he'll "warmly hold an injured kitten in his arms" and also he's "pure and white as freshly washed sheets." A bit surprised, he looks at the other host club members and they all disagree. Renge tells them all that the guy she fell in love with is in the "Ukidoki Memorial" game and that Miyabi-kun and Kyouya are the same. Because she's the daughter of one of Kyouya's Father's business partners, they must treat her kindly. The host club leaves it up to Haruhi to spend time with her. They bake cookies for Kyouya [and the rest of the host club], but with Renge's lack of skill, made burnt cookies.
Renge freaks out again and tells the host club that their characters are out of place and gave them new persona's. In order to incorporate their new persona's she films a movie using a crew sent all the way from Hollywood. For an unplanned scene, Renge wanted Haruhi to film with 3 random students that seemed to fit the antagonist roll (yankee students... bullies). As one of them shoved Renge, Haruhi blocks her from hitting a trash pileup of some sort. Haruhi who looks to be injured, Tamaki comes and saves her, but turns out her contact had fallen out. Renge who was happy about how the film went, was surprised when Kyouya smashes the lens of the video camera. Angered, he tells her to stop what she's doing since it's endangering the host club members. She believes Kyouya should be treating her like she's a princess, but Tamaki ensures her that that is definitely not him.
She runs off and stares a the picture of Miyabi-kun, but it blows away from her hands into a closed off area. Asking for the keys, she is denied, but of course Kyouya ends up having all the keys to the school. Haruhi lets Renge know that she needs to live through reality and fall in love slowly (naturally) and that she needs to get rid of her one-sided thinking. Renge writes a letter back to her father to tell him she has had a revelation. In the end, the host club ended up keeping what was salvaged of the movie they filmed and put them on DVDs to sell to their customers. Haruhi realizes that Kyouya had planned this all along.
Comments:
I rewatched the anime version just to see how close they followed the story and they did pretty well There were only a couple minor changes, but it didn't detract from the storyline (but didn't enhance it). Some changes were, of course, having Nekozawa there, Haruhi and Renge baking cookies, Renge losing her picture of Miyabi-kun, the location where Haruhi telling Renge to stop thinking one-sided and when Haruhi told Tamaki that she likes him better just the way he is.
I thought the baking scene was a cute addition, and you can tell that the twins are starting to fall for Haruhi as well. I keep saying this, but having Nekozawa really is pointless to have in every episode, but it's great a great comedic addition, and it doesn't hurt to have another ikemen in the cast ;)
One thing that bothered me about this episode was when Kyouya broke the camera lens. The sound effect didn't match the action... REALLY fake, but other than that not a bad episode. I was hoping Renge would only make this one episode, but I think she's going to be in episode 6?
Picspam:
This episode gained a 2.3% viewership, a couple points lower than the week before, but its not like I care about viewership anymore haha. The episode 4 of the drama coincides with episode 4 of the anime. I may be biased when I say this, but this wasn't particularly my favorite episode, only because I think Renge (in general) is really annoying. I know a lot of people like her character because she comes out of no where and is a hilarious addition, but she's just really annoying since she butts in a lot, but whatever, that's just how I feel.
Story:
In her home in France, Houshakuji Renge is absorbed in her RPG-like dating sim game. Her father arrives back from a business trip from Japan and shows her daughter a picture he took with his client's family. She freaks out and takes an immediate flight (and I do mean IMMEDIATE) flight to Japan.
At the Host Club, guests are greeted to an indoor Japanese garden theme with the hosts dressed in kimono's (they say Kimono, but I wanna call it a Yukata, but it's most likely a Kimono lol). Kyouya had told Haruhi that another guest had picked her as her choice host. Haruhi asked how expenses were made since guests don't pay and it turns out that the host club sells private photos of themselves to guests, but that there's a limit to their sales and need something new. As Tamaki was bothering Haruhi, like always, they notice someone standing at the door peeking in, Renge. As Tamaki tries to bring her in, she freaks out and hits him in the face by insulting him with multiple put-downs until he knocks out. When Renge eyes Kyouya, she happily runs and gives him a hug and declares herself the host club's manager.
Renge tells everyone that she is Kyouya's fiance and that she traveled all the way from France to see him. She explains she fell in love with him at first sight (despite never having met him until that day), that he "pity's the wildflowers that no one cares about" , he'll "warmly hold an injured kitten in his arms" and also he's "pure and white as freshly washed sheets." A bit surprised, he looks at the other host club members and they all disagree. Renge tells them all that the guy she fell in love with is in the "Ukidoki Memorial" game and that Miyabi-kun and Kyouya are the same. Because she's the daughter of one of Kyouya's Father's business partners, they must treat her kindly. The host club leaves it up to Haruhi to spend time with her. They bake cookies for Kyouya [and the rest of the host club], but with Renge's lack of skill, made burnt cookies.
Renge freaks out again and tells the host club that their characters are out of place and gave them new persona's. In order to incorporate their new persona's she films a movie using a crew sent all the way from Hollywood. For an unplanned scene, Renge wanted Haruhi to film with 3 random students that seemed to fit the antagonist roll (yankee students... bullies). As one of them shoved Renge, Haruhi blocks her from hitting a trash pileup of some sort. Haruhi who looks to be injured, Tamaki comes and saves her, but turns out her contact had fallen out. Renge who was happy about how the film went, was surprised when Kyouya smashes the lens of the video camera. Angered, he tells her to stop what she's doing since it's endangering the host club members. She believes Kyouya should be treating her like she's a princess, but Tamaki ensures her that that is definitely not him.
She runs off and stares a the picture of Miyabi-kun, but it blows away from her hands into a closed off area. Asking for the keys, she is denied, but of course Kyouya ends up having all the keys to the school. Haruhi lets Renge know that she needs to live through reality and fall in love slowly (naturally) and that she needs to get rid of her one-sided thinking. Renge writes a letter back to her father to tell him she has had a revelation. In the end, the host club ended up keeping what was salvaged of the movie they filmed and put them on DVDs to sell to their customers. Haruhi realizes that Kyouya had planned this all along.
Comments:
I rewatched the anime version just to see how close they followed the story and they did pretty well There were only a couple minor changes, but it didn't detract from the storyline (but didn't enhance it). Some changes were, of course, having Nekozawa there, Haruhi and Renge baking cookies, Renge losing her picture of Miyabi-kun, the location where Haruhi telling Renge to stop thinking one-sided and when Haruhi told Tamaki that she likes him better just the way he is.
I thought the baking scene was a cute addition, and you can tell that the twins are starting to fall for Haruhi as well. I keep saying this, but having Nekozawa really is pointless to have in every episode, but it's great a great comedic addition, and it doesn't hurt to have another ikemen in the cast ;)
One thing that bothered me about this episode was when Kyouya broke the camera lens. The sound effect didn't match the action... REALLY fake, but other than that not a bad episode. I was hoping Renge would only make this one episode, but I think she's going to be in episode 6?
Picspam:
(Left: Poor Honey lol, Right: Kyouya eating Haruhi's cookie instead of Renge's)
(Why is he in the sun anyways?)
Tamaki Appreciation
Scenes from the Movie
Friday, August 19, 2011
Drama: Meitantei Conan ep05 + 06
Official Site: YTV - Meitantei Conan
Episode 05:
When the timer hit zero, the lights went out, but a spotlight was focused on the monitor. The answer had been inputted stopping the timer, but no one in the room had put it in. As Shinichi looks at the date, he realizes that the last time he drank tea was the case of the death of a movie director.
Shinichi, Ran and Sonoko were at the house of the famous movie director Nagata Akihiro. Shinichi was practicing a scene with a new actress, Ikusuki Saori, when he was asked to kiss her, but didn't want to. The director kissed Saori with passion. His wife, actress Nagata Chisato, walked through the door and interrupted. The director admitted that Saori was his lover and that he was going to use her for her next movie.
They went to drink some tea in the other room. The director had a huge tea cup collection and allowed each of his guests pick their own tea cup. Chisato placed some sugar into her husbands tea cup. Saori assumed it was something bad, so Chisato look a sip from the cup. When the director went to take a sip, he collapsed and died from poisoning.
Chisato passed out from finding out her husband had died and was taken to her room. Downstairs, Saori went to grab her bag, but it turned out to be Chisatos, so she tossed it away and out came a bottle of Cyanide. Saori and Chisato both have the same bag because the Director had bought it for them. Chisato comes downstairs after she wakes up. It seems she has amnesia which was caused by the huge shock of her husband being murdered. Shinichi does some research, observing and analyzing in which makes him realize who the real murderer was.
The real murderer was the house assistant (maid, house caretaker, whatever you wanna call it). Her boyfriend was caught in a scandalous relationship with Chisato which was documented in a gossip magazine. Shinichi realized this when the paparazzi picture of the boyfriend had almost the same bracelet as the assistant. It was an anagram for their name. The boyfriend had committed suicide as Chisato was using him and he had lost his chance for acting gigs and even lost Chisato. The assistant wanted revenge and tried to make it seem like Chisato was the murderer. It also turned out that Chisato did not have amnesia but was faking it when she found out they were going to pin the murder on her. Shinichi realized it when she went into a room and found the lightswitch immediately.
After Shinichi inputs the password "JOYUU" (ACTRESS), the next door opened up. As they checked the monitor, Ran was shot in the leg with a poison and unless they could answer the question in 5min to get the antidote, she'd die.
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Episode 06:
As the time is counting down, Shinichi is trying to answer the question on the monitor. He realizes it was the case at a cabaret (hostess) club.
The beginning of the story shows some of the hostess girls getting into a fight with the #1 girl, especially the #2 girl. The #1 girl threatens that the Professor is her "trophy" and no one elses.
In the club, Shinichi and Ran are in disguise spying on Kogoro who's flirting with hostesses again. The hostess girls were going to play a kiss/drink game [[rules: there are 20girls in a row. you alternate turns. can pick 1-3 girls per turn. whoever gets to the last girl, gets a kiss from #1. Every girl you pick, pours a decanter of wine into the huge wine glass you're carrying.]] . Kogoro goes first and picks 3 girls. The Prof picks 1, Kogoro picks 3, etc.. when it came down to the last pick. no matter which number Kogoro picked, the Prof would end up winning the game. Kogoro took his wine glass and drank it all while #1 drank all of the wine that the Doctor collected. #1 collapsed after drinking all the wine, dying from poison.
Shinichi and Ran exposed themselves in the cabaret club (theyre underage), calling for detectives to come in and stopping anyone from leaving. They find it suspicious that none of the hostesses are sad that the #1 girl had died. When testing the decanters, it was tested positive for a poisoning in the #16 bottle, which belonged to the #2 girl. She is suspected of poisoning, but she isn't at fault. She just happened to be in the #16 position in the line up. It didn't matter who ended up in that position, but that the #16 spot would have the poison despite who was holding it.
With a small hint from an unranked hostess, Shinichi was able to figure out who the murderer was and how they got the poison into the decanter. It really didn't matter who was the one in position #16, as long as they were the one passing out the poisoned wine. The unranked hostess unknowingly gave away her cover when she quoted the philosopher Descartes. She used her high blood pressure as a way to hide the poison by carrying capsules (with the poison in it), instead of her regular pills. She poured it into the decanter and passed it on. The reason she did so was to protect the Prof, not necessarily because she hated the girl. She loved the Professor while the #1 was just using him for money. So she did what she did.
Shinichi inputted "DE-KA-RU-TO" (Descartes). When the door opened, it revealed a syringe with the antidote. Kogoro went for it, but the door was closing. He tossed it to Shinichi before being locked in. He used it on Ran and was able to save her in time. Instead of the next monitor showing, a huge balloon was filling up their room.
Comments:
I liked the 6th story more than the 5th. The 5th one was pretty boring, and made me cringe when the actress lady revealed she was faking the amnesia. I seriously wanted to punch her in the face. She seriously was the lowest of all people. In the 6th story, I felt bad for the girl who murdered the #1 hostess. She seemed sweet and she had good intentions, but as Shinichi says, murder is murder.
When the timer hit zero, the lights went out, but a spotlight was focused on the monitor. The answer had been inputted stopping the timer, but no one in the room had put it in. As Shinichi looks at the date, he realizes that the last time he drank tea was the case of the death of a movie director.
Shinichi, Ran and Sonoko were at the house of the famous movie director Nagata Akihiro. Shinichi was practicing a scene with a new actress, Ikusuki Saori, when he was asked to kiss her, but didn't want to. The director kissed Saori with passion. His wife, actress Nagata Chisato, walked through the door and interrupted. The director admitted that Saori was his lover and that he was going to use her for her next movie.
They went to drink some tea in the other room. The director had a huge tea cup collection and allowed each of his guests pick their own tea cup. Chisato placed some sugar into her husbands tea cup. Saori assumed it was something bad, so Chisato look a sip from the cup. When the director went to take a sip, he collapsed and died from poisoning.
Chisato passed out from finding out her husband had died and was taken to her room. Downstairs, Saori went to grab her bag, but it turned out to be Chisatos, so she tossed it away and out came a bottle of Cyanide. Saori and Chisato both have the same bag because the Director had bought it for them. Chisato comes downstairs after she wakes up. It seems she has amnesia which was caused by the huge shock of her husband being murdered. Shinichi does some research, observing and analyzing in which makes him realize who the real murderer was.
The real murderer was the house assistant (maid, house caretaker, whatever you wanna call it). Her boyfriend was caught in a scandalous relationship with Chisato which was documented in a gossip magazine. Shinichi realized this when the paparazzi picture of the boyfriend had almost the same bracelet as the assistant. It was an anagram for their name. The boyfriend had committed suicide as Chisato was using him and he had lost his chance for acting gigs and even lost Chisato. The assistant wanted revenge and tried to make it seem like Chisato was the murderer. It also turned out that Chisato did not have amnesia but was faking it when she found out they were going to pin the murder on her. Shinichi realized it when she went into a room and found the lightswitch immediately.
After Shinichi inputs the password "JOYUU" (ACTRESS), the next door opened up. As they checked the monitor, Ran was shot in the leg with a poison and unless they could answer the question in 5min to get the antidote, she'd die.
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Episode 06:
As the time is counting down, Shinichi is trying to answer the question on the monitor. He realizes it was the case at a cabaret (hostess) club.
The beginning of the story shows some of the hostess girls getting into a fight with the #1 girl, especially the #2 girl. The #1 girl threatens that the Professor is her "trophy" and no one elses.
In the club, Shinichi and Ran are in disguise spying on Kogoro who's flirting with hostesses again. The hostess girls were going to play a kiss/drink game [[rules: there are 20girls in a row. you alternate turns. can pick 1-3 girls per turn. whoever gets to the last girl, gets a kiss from #1. Every girl you pick, pours a decanter of wine into the huge wine glass you're carrying.]] . Kogoro goes first and picks 3 girls. The Prof picks 1, Kogoro picks 3, etc.. when it came down to the last pick. no matter which number Kogoro picked, the Prof would end up winning the game. Kogoro took his wine glass and drank it all while #1 drank all of the wine that the Doctor collected. #1 collapsed after drinking all the wine, dying from poison.
Shinichi and Ran exposed themselves in the cabaret club (theyre underage), calling for detectives to come in and stopping anyone from leaving. They find it suspicious that none of the hostesses are sad that the #1 girl had died. When testing the decanters, it was tested positive for a poisoning in the #16 bottle, which belonged to the #2 girl. She is suspected of poisoning, but she isn't at fault. She just happened to be in the #16 position in the line up. It didn't matter who ended up in that position, but that the #16 spot would have the poison despite who was holding it.
With a small hint from an unranked hostess, Shinichi was able to figure out who the murderer was and how they got the poison into the decanter. It really didn't matter who was the one in position #16, as long as they were the one passing out the poisoned wine. The unranked hostess unknowingly gave away her cover when she quoted the philosopher Descartes. She used her high blood pressure as a way to hide the poison by carrying capsules (with the poison in it), instead of her regular pills. She poured it into the decanter and passed it on. The reason she did so was to protect the Prof, not necessarily because she hated the girl. She loved the Professor while the #1 was just using him for money. So she did what she did.
Shinichi inputted "DE-KA-RU-TO" (Descartes). When the door opened, it revealed a syringe with the antidote. Kogoro went for it, but the door was closing. He tossed it to Shinichi before being locked in. He used it on Ran and was able to save her in time. Instead of the next monitor showing, a huge balloon was filling up their room.
Comments:
I liked the 6th story more than the 5th. The 5th one was pretty boring, and made me cringe when the actress lady revealed she was faking the amnesia. I seriously wanted to punch her in the face. She seriously was the lowest of all people. In the 6th story, I felt bad for the girl who murdered the #1 hostess. She seemed sweet and she had good intentions, but as Shinichi says, murder is murder.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Stories..
I've been neglecting something that I love to do. Back before I got a smart phone, I would love to write stuff down in spiral bound notebooks (and yes they have to be spiral bound!). It could be just about anything. Story ideas. Character names. Chapter ideas. Character development. Fanfiction to a whole new story. I love writing stories, I really do. I have tons of ideas for stories and where I wanted to go with it. My only problem is writing dialogue to get to the point I wanted to make and how to develop a story/character. This is probably the worst thing for a writer. You may have your ideas all in your head, but how to tell the story to others is the worst.
I have so many unfinished stories, and I tend to neglect them when I get new ideas and end up never going back. The thing is, those ideas never get away from me. If I come across it and read what the story was about, I'll be able to tell you what was supposed to happen. I know the story from beginning to end, but how to get from the beginning to end has never been written and probably will never. I know my stories, but I feel bad for never finishing them.
The most recent one that I came up with (which was a few months ago btw) hasn't been touched in maybe a month, and I would LOVE to be able to work on it. This one is probably the most developed story I have.. in my head at least.. it's just trying to get it in writing is frustrating.
That's the end of my rant. What's sad about writing this rant is, it came out differently than what I intended to write!! I can't even get my OWN thoughts down in writing.
I have so many unfinished stories, and I tend to neglect them when I get new ideas and end up never going back. The thing is, those ideas never get away from me. If I come across it and read what the story was about, I'll be able to tell you what was supposed to happen. I know the story from beginning to end, but how to get from the beginning to end has never been written and probably will never. I know my stories, but I feel bad for never finishing them.
The most recent one that I came up with (which was a few months ago btw) hasn't been touched in maybe a month, and I would LOVE to be able to work on it. This one is probably the most developed story I have.. in my head at least.. it's just trying to get it in writing is frustrating.
That's the end of my rant. What's sad about writing this rant is, it came out differently than what I intended to write!! I can't even get my OWN thoughts down in writing.
Movie: GS Wonderland
I just watched GS Wonderland. It's been sitting in my external for months now and while I got into the excitement of Summer Dramas, I forgot I had a couple movies waiting to be watched.
GS Wonderland was very.... oldies to me. Which means this movie had done its job since it was based in the late 60's up to 1970. Really retro. Really Brady Bunch. Really..... Austin Powers! I had no idea what GS stood for (apparently its Group Sound), even after watching the movie. I'm not even sure if they mentioned what it meant. All I knew was GS were people who can sing AND play instruments (group sound.... lol).
So the story is about a guy (Masao played by Ishida Takuya) who can play the guitar that wants to start his own GS band (like The Beatles, who was referenced 2 or 3 times) and be able to perform on the Grand Stage (grand stage? cant remember the name). By fate, he meets 2 guys who can play the Drums (Shun played by Mizushima Hiro) and Bass (Kenta played by Asari Yosuke). They are discovered one day while playing on the roof of a building, but aren't able to form a group, not until they find someone to play the organ. Miku (Kuriyama Chiaki), a female looking to get a recording contract, had come to Kaiji Ryosuke's agency in hopes of getting signed. She mentions that she has been able to play piano since she was young and has even won competitions, but ultimately he rejects her because GS bands are what's in at the moment. After discovering the band, it occurs to Kaiji that in order to sign them, he needs to disguise Miku as a boy and have her play the organ. The guys are suspicious that HE really looks like a SHE and aren't believing it. After a few sessions together, they decide to follow Miku to "his" apartment only to find out that he really is a girl.
Their popularity rose when they changed their gimmick as a GS band from Military with the name "The Diamonds" to fairytale men in tights called "The Tightsmen" (LOLLLL!!!!!). Mick (Miku) was their ikemen of the group, girls loved... him. Shun didn't like the idea of having a female in the group, but went along with it because of their popularity. At the height of their popularity, the Tightsmen was threatened that if they don't stop before the chorus of their song on national television, The Knuckles (another band that went from GS to Hendrix), was going to reveal that Mick was a girl. As they stopped before the chorus, Mick revealed that he is in fact a girl and that was the end of the Tightsmen's career.
Miku was offered a job as a solo singer, which is what she wanted all along, but she didn't like the idea, especially after getting along with her group members so well. They supported her and told her she should go ahead and do it. At her debut live, it appeared that the Knuckles were opening for her. Masao ran off saying something about a party leaving Shun behind. The Tightsmen hijacked the Knuckles equipment sending the Knuckles off (and nekkid) chasing after them. When they get there, it turns out it wasn't the Tightsmen, but the Fresh Four (the oldies band that I didnt mention earlier) dressed as them. The REAL Tightsmen did so in order to have a real farewell concert as the Tightsmen. At the end of the movie, Masao is getting his school stuff together, and really.. I had no idea this guy was actually in High School still haha.. with the TV on. Miku was performing on the Grand Stage that he dreamed of doing. The movie ends with him cutting his hilarious moptop wig of a hair.
I actually intended to do a short summary of the movie, but I ended up writing more details than I intended which I ALWAYS tend to do. Whatever. I liked this movie, but it wasn't enough for me to keep it. I deleted it and emptied the recycling :/. I was going to say it's strange to see that Hiro didn't have a bigger role than what he had, but this was from 2008, when his popularity was rising. I don't even know what I was expecting from this movie, I don't even know what prompted me to watch this in the first place but I finally watched it and now I miss watching my dramas which I'm going back to later.
GS Wonderland was very.... oldies to me. Which means this movie had done its job since it was based in the late 60's up to 1970. Really retro. Really Brady Bunch. Really..... Austin Powers! I had no idea what GS stood for (apparently its Group Sound), even after watching the movie. I'm not even sure if they mentioned what it meant. All I knew was GS were people who can sing AND play instruments (group sound.... lol).
So the story is about a guy (Masao played by Ishida Takuya) who can play the guitar that wants to start his own GS band (like The Beatles, who was referenced 2 or 3 times) and be able to perform on the Grand Stage (grand stage? cant remember the name). By fate, he meets 2 guys who can play the Drums (Shun played by Mizushima Hiro) and Bass (Kenta played by Asari Yosuke). They are discovered one day while playing on the roof of a building, but aren't able to form a group, not until they find someone to play the organ. Miku (Kuriyama Chiaki), a female looking to get a recording contract, had come to Kaiji Ryosuke's agency in hopes of getting signed. She mentions that she has been able to play piano since she was young and has even won competitions, but ultimately he rejects her because GS bands are what's in at the moment. After discovering the band, it occurs to Kaiji that in order to sign them, he needs to disguise Miku as a boy and have her play the organ. The guys are suspicious that HE really looks like a SHE and aren't believing it. After a few sessions together, they decide to follow Miku to "his" apartment only to find out that he really is a girl.
Their popularity rose when they changed their gimmick as a GS band from Military with the name "The Diamonds" to fairytale men in tights called "The Tightsmen" (LOLLLL!!!!!). Mick (Miku) was their ikemen of the group, girls loved... him. Shun didn't like the idea of having a female in the group, but went along with it because of their popularity. At the height of their popularity, the Tightsmen was threatened that if they don't stop before the chorus of their song on national television, The Knuckles (another band that went from GS to Hendrix), was going to reveal that Mick was a girl. As they stopped before the chorus, Mick revealed that he is in fact a girl and that was the end of the Tightsmen's career.
Miku was offered a job as a solo singer, which is what she wanted all along, but she didn't like the idea, especially after getting along with her group members so well. They supported her and told her she should go ahead and do it. At her debut live, it appeared that the Knuckles were opening for her. Masao ran off saying something about a party leaving Shun behind. The Tightsmen hijacked the Knuckles equipment sending the Knuckles off (and nekkid) chasing after them. When they get there, it turns out it wasn't the Tightsmen, but the Fresh Four (the oldies band that I didnt mention earlier) dressed as them. The REAL Tightsmen did so in order to have a real farewell concert as the Tightsmen. At the end of the movie, Masao is getting his school stuff together, and really.. I had no idea this guy was actually in High School still haha.. with the TV on. Miku was performing on the Grand Stage that he dreamed of doing. The movie ends with him cutting his hilarious moptop wig of a hair.
I actually intended to do a short summary of the movie, but I ended up writing more details than I intended which I ALWAYS tend to do. Whatever. I liked this movie, but it wasn't enough for me to keep it. I deleted it and emptied the recycling :/. I was going to say it's strange to see that Hiro didn't have a bigger role than what he had, but this was from 2008, when his popularity was rising. I don't even know what I was expecting from this movie, I don't even know what prompted me to watch this in the first place but I finally watched it and now I miss watching my dramas which I'm going back to later.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Drama: Bull Doctor ep04
Official Site: NTV - Bull Doctor
Short version of my story/review (because I'm getting tired of this haha):
Kousuke arrives back at home after playing in the park with a surprise in store for Tamami. Chika escorted Kousuke back because of an injury he had endured and wanted to explain thoroughly what had happened. It appears to be a few scratches to the knee, which Tamami dismisses, but Kousuke wanted Chika to stay for a bit. Chika witnesses the closeness of Tamami and her family and feels a bit envious.
The next day, she heads to the shrine for prayer and leaves an ema (prayer/wish plaque) asking for a family. As she leaves, she notices the woman, that had handed her the pen to write on the plaque, lying on the floor. Chika comes along with her as they are rushed to the hospital. The woman had suffered brain damage and her life is quickly deteriorating. The patient's mother is also a patient at the hospital, awaiting a heart transplant. It had appeared that the girl is an organ donor, in which they are entrusting her heart to her mother. Before they could perform a transplant, if there were to be one, they must investigate this matter. If it called a crime case, an autopsy must be performed which will lead her organs to be unusable, however, if this were not a criminal case, it will be possible for a transplant.
Another crime had occured with a woman getting a lariat clothesline from a guy riding a scooter/motorbike. She was concious and able to answer questions. Her belongings were not taken except for her lipstick. Chika understood that this situation was a criminal one, but she knew that if she said something, the organ donation would not be done. She asked Tamami for advise, in return, Tamami had a plan that would stop Chika from calling in an autopsy immediately. After the transplant, that's when the autopsy was done, and even caught the criminal.
Comments:
It was obvious that this was going to be a win-win situation. I actually shouldnt be calling a it win-win since someone had to die for this. The mother was able to have her transplant, keeping her daughter close to heart, literally, and the police being able to to catch the culprit after the autopsy report.
I also liked the little monologue that Mia gave in the patient's room. While she hasn't been a necessary character, as of yet, this is the start of what will arise from the Takeda family. This is the first we hear about her mother and more about her liver transplant, so it's really building a secondary story within Bull Doctor.
Short version of my story/review (because I'm getting tired of this haha):
Kousuke arrives back at home after playing in the park with a surprise in store for Tamami. Chika escorted Kousuke back because of an injury he had endured and wanted to explain thoroughly what had happened. It appears to be a few scratches to the knee, which Tamami dismisses, but Kousuke wanted Chika to stay for a bit. Chika witnesses the closeness of Tamami and her family and feels a bit envious.
Another crime had occured with a woman getting a lariat clothesline from a guy riding a scooter/motorbike. She was concious and able to answer questions. Her belongings were not taken except for her lipstick. Chika understood that this situation was a criminal one, but she knew that if she said something, the organ donation would not be done. She asked Tamami for advise, in return, Tamami had a plan that would stop Chika from calling in an autopsy immediately. After the transplant, that's when the autopsy was done, and even caught the criminal.
Comments:
It was obvious that this was going to be a win-win situation. I actually shouldnt be calling a it win-win since someone had to die for this. The mother was able to have her transplant, keeping her daughter close to heart, literally, and the police being able to to catch the culprit after the autopsy report.
I also liked the little monologue that Mia gave in the patient's room. While she hasn't been a necessary character, as of yet, this is the start of what will arise from the Takeda family. This is the first we hear about her mother and more about her liver transplant, so it's really building a secondary story within Bull Doctor.
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