It’s a gloomy and cold start to the week. So how about a beautiful Japanese ballad? Dream, if I’m recalling correctly, is a unit of the larger group E-girls. The song is ダーリン [Darling] from the mini album of the same name. I really do love Dream! E-girls as a whole aren’t bad, but they do more dance songs and
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I said I wasn’t going to post about this and what did I do? I decided to post about it after all. I don’t watch many Chinese or Taiwanese dramas. I just don’t. Bad me. I figured I’d give a few first impressions of the first seven episodes of this drama (I think there’s like 35 or so total), which
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The more you watch and think about it, the more Anna and Donghae get shafted and the short end of the stick, you know? Because Hye Sook knows her husband too well, she’s throwing it all on Anna’s shoulders to do the right thing. Poor Anna is heartbroken and caught between a rock and a hard place which is her
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It was so nice to be awarded the Sunshine Award from heisui at My Drama Tea and imagine my surprise as getting another from Indigo at Between Wor(L)ds. I say surprise because I’ve been sadly not as actively doing that many things this year. Gomen ne. It’s always nice to know that you’re appreciated.
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There’s just something very pleasing about Roy Kim’s style and voice. It’s like a healthy meal of your favorite comfort foods, a fuzzy soft blanket on a cold night, a ray of sun on a gloomy day. I feel this way about Standing Egg’s music as well. Just listening to it makes me happy. I have a new Album of
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Yay! It seems like it’s been ages since Korean rock duo Toxic has done anything new. That isn’t really true as they have been, like many other Korean rock bands, actively participating in OSTs from Korean dramas, but it’s rare for artists to actually promote those tracks, you know? So I’m happy Toxic is back and “Deja Vu” is classic
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Happy Columbus Day! If you live in the US that is. I’ve been pretty sporadic on this weekly post, due in part to time constraints and also in part due to not finding a song that really spoke to me enough to want to say this is the song to jam to all week. Guess what!? Roy Kim is back!
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Keizoku was a funky Japanese police drama from 1999. It had one season, an SP, and a movie. Much like Japanese series Trick (which actually came after the original Keizoku), the cases delved into mysterious happenings that ultimately ended up being explained scientifically outside the realm of the supernatural. One of the best things about the series was the super
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The first post I ever did about changing feelings towards an idol group was Cross Gene. I do like Cross Gene now more so than when they debuted. “La di da di” grew on me slowly. I also think that this group has a bit more strength in their Japanese versus Korean releases…though both types are really hard to find.
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Yes, it was a Smile, Donghae marathon…of course I only watched 5 episodes, but still… not bad. These episodes really play on situational irony to the max. Anna knows the truth, Kim Jun knows the truth, Sae Young and Tae Hoon know the truth, Pil Jae knows the truth, and even Hye Sook found out. Who doesn’t know? Do Jin,
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Asian Addicts Anonymous 