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Greed1914
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Hey, I actually recognize one of the actors in there since he is in Kamen Rider Zeztz.
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quoss
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Indeed as mentioned in this one, there was some intense lauding of HanaYori in a previous article that finally got me to check it out too. First impression was fantastic; it was gorgeous, had some great scenes, beautiful music by the woman who would later compose for Sound of the Sky (One of the best anime OSTs~) I ended up dropping it around episode... I'm not sure, 19 or so?
The reason I personally don't get into much dramas is predictable, isn't it.. Because the relationships are so often formed on hateful premises which cannot or do not believably become healthy, and the characters spend most of the time anguishing over a contrived/juvenile failure to communicate... The dude whose name I have already forgotten in HanaYori, with the hair, is so violent he's feared to murder people when he goes on rampages. that isn't a love interest, that's a case study. But he stays the love interest! "it was the nineties." I, too, am from the nineties and it was shit back then too; soap operas and dramas, all with these awful people masquerading as desirable. Without even novelty, is the appeal only "drama" and hotness? Surely anyone can agree the lack of merit in that. If it's your visual equivalent of eating an entire bag of fatty snacks, of course have fun we need that, or if it was seminal in someone's life, same thing wonderful thing, but guilty pleasures and personal relevance aren't reasons to say something's good. Someone might hook onto my saying "juvenile" about shows which star kids; no age group is always that dumb or cruel; and for the pockets of people who did act like this.... the only reason to write shows celebrating it... is for guilty pleasure drama, I guess. The very vapid/young may take life lessons from it, when Makino does a correct thing, otherwise I'd hope everyone else already knows.. On HanaYori, I'd say: It was a massive sensation, your typical rich, pretty brats in a boarding school for the same where there's no authority but theirs, the better to entrap our ~commoner~ heroine and make it impossible for her to avoid interacting with them or getting them arrested. But it isn't a crime show, it's a romcom, the kind with vapid villains, contrived misunderstandings, attraction to awful and questionable people, and coming of age~ The resolution of classes featuring assault~ You have your choice of manga, anime, and a ton of live-action dramas. It meant a lot to a lot of people, like I said, it was huge. Definitely worth viewing in part if you're interested in the history of anime but a poor show as far as romance and comedy go, not worth a general "This is good," type recommendation. Ah and for the the lovely art and music in the anime, they became repetitive. Like, objectively; there's not much of it and it was just reused so that too became uninteresting. There's much better shoujo. |
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Ming Yi
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There are also plenty of Kamen Rider actors in the series they reviewed!
Incurable Case of Love shows Takeru Satoh, who played the lead character in Kamen Rider Den-O. Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo shows Honoka Yahagi, who played Mezool (villain) in Kamen Rider OOO. Good Morning Call shows Shunya Shiraishi, who played the lead character in Kamen Rider Wizard. Others not seen include Hiro Mizushima in the 2007 Hana Kimi (leas character in Kamen Rider Kabuto), etc. |
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Takkun4343
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Personally, it was Tsukushi getting a worse treatment from Sakurako's scheming than she ever did from the F4's red card that convinced me to hiatus Boys Over Flowers after 15 episodes. Well, that and the burnout that came with doing MAL's yearly watching challenge, balanced with grad school and writing my hypo-anime at peak efficiency.
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enurtsol
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Meteor Garden is the bestest
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