J-movie:Kurosagi
US-Movie:She’s The Man
The American version of Hana Kimi
J-movie: Sky Of Love
aka Koizora
J-Movie:Hinokio
K-drama:Hwang Jin Yi (’06)
Way too interesting and graceful to be considered a period drama! OMG, loving this…
J-Drama:Sensei wa Erai! (’08)
I just read about this drama (new one actually) over at Drama Wiki…will do review later…
LOL, I wanted to see this drama because of this YouTube video about [Yuto and his Pants]..cuteness over funniness i think…Now, that I think about it, from the likes of the first episode..Yuto reminds ppl a lot of…CHIBI Yamapi! And plus, SEVENTEEN model Asami starrs here too! So much joys <33
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This should have been a 2 in 1 post, but since I’ve already tagged the Japanese version, I’m too lazy to do this one along with it and make it even more confusing than before. Although, technically I watched this version of the manga first, I haven’t really been able to post this one before today. With that said… the torture must begin! xD For me, I mean. xDxD
To clear up any confusion, I have to make a point first. This is the Taiwanese adaption drama of a Japanese manga story. This one was broadcasted on Janurary of 2007 and the Japanese version of this same story soon followed; with a drama of its own. That one was broadcasted later in the year; July of 2007. Both of these dramas have been praised very highly and each have its own outrageousness of comedy-useage. Watch them both preferably, but I recommend this Taiwanese version (i love their hilarious antics here!).
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Doesn’t sound very interesting, right? 命中注定我愛你. Boring!
At least that was my first impression of this Taiwanese drama. I was watching They Kiss Again; of course – the sequel of my all-around favorite ISWAK drama; on YouTube (last week). That’s when I noticed this new title popping up correspondingly with the episode parts of TKA from the uploader. I was annoyed, to say the least. Especially annoyed to see Ethan Ruan again; starring as the “prince” of the female lead. He looks so much like Ming Dao, who annoyed me in Prince Turns To Frog drama back in 2006. So I did what I could – by carefully ignoring every video of 命中注定我愛你. To be honest, I don’t blame it all on the title (which also annoyed my conscience because it is already so OBVIOUS that since this is a Taiwanese drama, it already tells me what the ending would be – but they think it’s not all that obvious yet, so they actually have to have the title ANNOUNCE what is going to happen – LIKE someone’s gonna need medication from a sudden lack of romance! ROFL..)
Turns out I was wrong, because this drama is really refreshing to watch and has a rather pleasing storyline (although a tad inappropriate). After I finished the first episode, I ached to start on the second one (that’s how good this was!). I originally thought Taiwanese dramas were starting to run out of decent plots and were going down one by one, but so far, I haven’t been disappointed with this one. Well there were some minor disppointments of course, like I didn’t understand why in the first episode, they had 2 copies of the female lead (Qiao En); one to introduce he life, and one to act in it. Those parts could be done better if they actually acted them out alone, that way letting the audience experience and absord more into the story.
Now, I’m off to watch episode 2, so stay tuned! Or not, cuz I am wayyy slow in reporting any new stuff..but you can catch the drama via YouTube or PPLive (i recommend pplive if you understand Chinese!) but I don’t think there are any subs in English out yet. Oh wait, there is, on Veoh! SO, after you watch the first episode of 命中注定我愛你 – you better like it just as much as I did!^^
tw-drama:Fated To Love You(’08)
[review and synopsis will be here soon!]
This contest was held in early-mid 2007 on a site for Yamaki fans – in the Yamaki forum, where contestants had to post up Yamaki fan-media they created; music videos or trailers went on YouTube, fanfictions and manips went on the forum. The basic rule was for the media to be related to the theme “Hatsu Koi” or “First Love”.
One entry for a Hatsu Koi Yamaki fmv gave me fabulous reminiscence of that time. And that was from this really great video-maker; who went by the name, Jazky. I couldn’t help but feel a need to share the amazing music video she made.
DISCLAIMER: No copyright infringement here. I do not own any part of the media. Credits are given to appropriate creators of the media.
Credits TO: Jazky, TBS, and uploader to TuDou; hzs3344 (who is NOT me)
Forbidden Oasis 
