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feeling: frustrated
listening to: Arashi - Pikanchi
I knew from the start that bringing my brother's cat here while he's in Georgia for 8 weeks was a bad, bad idea. We already have a cat. An old, fat, spoiled, 13 year old cat who hasn't had to share this house with another animal since 2005. And now she's slinking around the house scared to walk around the next corner, never knowing where the temporary invader is lurking, despite the fact that said invader is also so scared that she won't set foot outside the master bedroom during the day when Ginger's inside. They've both always been friendly cats, but now they're both so stressed they growl and hiss and go into defensive posturing whenever even one of us tries to approach. Ginger, my closest friend for 13 years, won't even look at me without growling now, and Spotty absolutely hates me ever since she saw me sitting with Ginger petting her and trying to calm her down during their first yowling match.
This all frustrates me way freaking more than it should. For reasons even I don't entirely understand, and wouldn't feel like spelling out here even if I did.
Instead, since in the process of downloading Kamiki Ryunosuke's 2007 drama I was reminded that I still never wrote a review for Ryusei no Kizuna, I'll try to do that now. Can't promise it'll be as thorough (read: gushy) as my other reviews, but I'll try. Just to work out some frustration and tire myself out enough to go to bed.
Ryusei no Kizuna
This drama was... not the best I've ever seen, not the worst, but interesting. When I first heard the synopsis before it aired - three siblings whose parents were murdered grow up and vow to find the criminal together and kill him themselves - I was expecting a dark suspense-ish revenge story, kinda like Maou but with more of a... family feel? But watching just the first episode proved how very wrong I was.
It was hilarious.
I mean, with a synopsis like that, who would've expected humor? Which is probably what made the humor in it extra-funny, I guess. Element of surprise and stuff.
Anyway, let me expand that synopsis a little more. Koichi, Taisuke, and Shizuna are the children of parents who own a little restaurant, and one night they decide to sneak out to watch a rare meteor shower together (hence the title, which roughly means "meteor bond")... but when they return home, they find their parents stabbed to death. They're placed in foster care and the police, of course, can't seem to figure out who the killer was. Meanwhile the three kids promise to each other on a shooting star that when they grow up, they'll find the killer and kill him themselves. Years pass, they grow up, eldest brother Koichi has taken over the family restaurant (kinda) and Taisuke lives with their little sister Shizuna. Shizuna, as it happens, becomes a victim of fraud and loses... like, 30,000 yen or 300,000 yen or something, I forget... and that event inspires the siblings to get together and form a little swindling operation of their own to get her money back from various gullible people - all of whom remain tied to the story later, of course. Anyway, eventually they single out a young guy as their next target, and Shizuna starts to lure him into security while the brothers coincidentally find out that this young guy's father is the same man they saw leaving their restaurant/house after their parents were killed years ago. So they set out trying to prove this man's guilt, but meanwhile, Shizuna ends up complicating things by developing feelings for his son, her intended fraud target.
Wow, that came out long. But yeah... doesn't sound like it'd be particularly humorous, does it? But oh, the little side stories on their fraud victims are so random and disturbingly hilarious... among other moments. Ahem. Post-its? CONDOMS! ...yeah, I rest my case.
Anyway... yeah. It's weird. The drama was so confusing in the sense that it bounced between vengeance and suspense and comedy and etc, and to be honest it wasn't nearly as gripping as Maou (why I'm using that as a yardstick, I'm not sure), but it was interesting. All the random crazy stuff thrown in, all the dorky cuteness of the eldest brother Koichi (guess who played him? Ninomiya Kazunari, of course. orz), the unexpected twists and wrenches thrown in to their search for the killer... I found that every episode I watched seemed to fly by, and at the end of each one I was quite bouncy for the next to arrive. And even after all this babbling about it, I still can't pinpoint exactly why.
Ok... gonna stop there. Guess my next review will be that Kamiki Ryunosuke series, Tantei Gakuen Q, since I'm hoping to finish that before Uta no Oniisan starts on Friday.
...You know, if I were to make a list of all the dramas I still have yet to acquire and watch, it would... um... be really long. Sorry, my brain died and ran out of amusing segues. Must be time for bed.
[edit: I just realized that I never wrote a review for Kiken na Aneki. Darn it.]
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 1/11/2009 03:14:00 AM
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