Death Note! A popular manga series. A popular anime series. A popular movie series. Now it’s a live action drama series! I really have no idea how popular the drama is in Japan (and among international fans of the franchise). Strangely enough, when I first tried reading the manga, I hated it (now I own the entire series), but for
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Kinkyo Renai, aka Close Rang Love/Short Distance Love, is a 2014 movie starring ex-News member Yamashita Tomohisa and Komatsu Nana. This movie is based on a manga series of the same name by Mikimoto Rin which was serialized from 2008 to 2011. I do not think this was one manga series that I read, so I wasn’t really expecting anything
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While not an Asian drama, the Netflix original series Sense8 does have Hallyu actress Bae Doo Na as one of it’s central characters. Since she’s living in Seoul we get to see a lot of Korean actors we’re familiar with (Yun Yeo Jeong/Yoon Yeo Jung, Hong Suk Chun, Cha In Pyo, Lee Ki Chan, Lee Kyung Young). So the story
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Vampire dramas. I have no idea why, but if it involves vampires, I’m game to sample a drama or watch a movie or read a book. There’s a lot out there – good, bad, ugly. This drama revolves around a male doctor infected with a virus that makes him a vampire. He inherited this disease from his parents. From the
Read moreI’ve been avoiding a lot of new dramas and just kind of doing what I want. Then I saw the trailers for Kill Me, Heal Me and was intrigued. Then I saw episode clips and previews and was intrigued some more. I was also kind of happy to see Hwang Jung Eum working with Ji Sung again. While this drama
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The first movie in the live action Kenshin series was pretty awesome. The next two movies (Kyoto Inferno and The Legend Ends) both ratcheted up the awesomeness even more! The acting was superb (for the most part) and the action sequences are great and not as bad as some movies with the overly obvious wire work that defies the laws
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There are tons of dramas and movies that are based on manga. Say “I Love You” is another manga turned into a live action that was released in 2014. Unfortunately, this is a manga that I have read and rather enjoyed. I haven’t finished the series, but I’ve read up to the arc where Megu (more on her later) was becoming
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Boy…who would have thought I would be happy for war scenes to come! In this section of episodes I was really happy as Xin Yue finally got away from Jian An and Jiu Ye. If we are honest, yes, we know why Jiu Ye did what he did. He is not a person who can provide Xin Yue with a
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OMG. This episode was hilarious! It also introduces a plot formula that can get redundant fast, though. See with episode two we saw Aoishi going crazy wondering why a 21-year-old college student would bother liking her, going crazy wondering if he’s playing her for money, and going crazy because he greeted a same-age female friend so casually. Since she had
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Wow. Yet another younger-man-older-woman drama. Not really all that original, is it? Nope, not at all. These romances are very common in dramaland. The plot of Kyo wa Kaisha Yasumimasu (translated to something like taking the day off of work) revolves around Aoishi Hanae (Ayase Haruka) who is on the cusp of turning 30, has never been in a real
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