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feeling: good question...
listening to: Dreams Come True - Thank You (sort of >.>)
HaHA! I have disk space again! And of course the first thing I do is fill it up with Maou, Ryusei no Kizuna, and the Hana Kimi special! *pets brand new spindle of 100 DVD+Rs*
Yeah, this is weird... there are three J-dramas on this season that I want to see. Only actively watching one, though. I had missed the first episode of Room of King by the time I heard of it, and I could've started watching Bloody Monday but it was on at some yegads-awful hour like 8:00 in the morning in this time zone. So I decided to just download them later and focus on Ryusei no Kizuna, which is on the exact same channel and schedule that Maou was. Of course, I got up at 9am Friday to see it, and the channel wasn't coming in on my streaming player... so I had to download it anyway. Oh well, hopefully it'll work next week.
Anyway, yeah, no one cares~ So here's a review of my most recently completed drama...
Yoiko no Mikata
A short drama (9 episodes), and a simple one; also cute and happy and fluffy, which is something I've needed recently. The title means "ally of good children," and it's about a young guy named Suzuki Taiyo who has dreamed since childhood of being a preschool teacher. He finally achieves his dream by landing a substitute position in place of a teacher who's gone for maternity leave, and he has three months in which to win the hearts of the kids and the all-female teaching staff of his preschool. Yes, apparently in Japan it's expected that preschool teachers are supposed to be female, and at least in the world of this drama, there's a HUGE prejudice against male teachers like Taiyo. But though he lacks maternal instinct, he has something just as important: a heart that sympathizes with those of the children.
As I said, it's a simple drama, obviously not as high-budget as newfangled stories like Hana Yori Dango and Hana Kimi and etc... and sort of overly cheesy and exaggerated and more than a little predictable... but darn it, it's cute. I don't even like kids and I still found it cute. More because of Taiyo than because of the kids, though... he's just so bumbling and eager and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and *cough* played by a young shaggy-haired Sakurai Sho. Who, by the way, performed MUCH better than I expected in this. And the actress who played his fellow newbie teacher has always annoyed me before (i.e. in Bambino and Yamada Taro Monogatari), but in this role I actually liked her. Oh, and three of the other Arashi members made little pointless cameo appearances throughout the series. >.> The best was Ohno... "Depressing... so depressing..." Ahem, anyway, that's pretty much all there is to that.
I should go to bed considering I have to get up in 5 hours...
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/19/2008 02:48:00 AM
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