Did you ever wonder where your favorite drama came from? Well sit tight and find out. I really don’t think there should be a lot of people who don’t necessarily know the origins of dramas, especially those based on manga, but at the same time, I’ve read some comments about the Thai lakorn Kiss Me (reuniting the leading couple from
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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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Welcome to this week’s edition of streaming updates for Asian dramas, movies, and anime. I’m excited. Why? Because I love the fact that Crunchyroll has four live action Japanese dramas in it’s summer line up! Two more titles that were just added over the past week.
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I don’t dislike this drama. I enjoy it. That being said, there really is some campiness and cheesiness baked in. The fight scenes between demons or demons and humans makes me laugh at just how poorly executed they are and just how fake they are. Forget about wire work not being very believable at times, the blocked out fight scenes
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If you think we are out of exposition and back story territory, we’re not. Bit by bit we are getting more and more into the meat of the drama, but they still have to explain how some things happened. This set of episodes introduces even more characters to our cast, demons and humans alike. Since they aren’t following Inuyasha exactly,
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The first episode was an introduction to our heroine and a bit of info about the ancient kingdom of Nan Yue. This episode continues on with exposition so not much happens in it since it’s Rong Di telling Ding Yao about Xian Yue and how this woman he loved came to pass away. That being said, once this stuff is
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We open this drama at an archaeological dig where a new discovery is made. A man has found a zither embedded in a cliff side. After a long time searching, they have finally found something! Professor Ding (Shu Yao Xuan) who is in charge of the dig brushes dirt off the zither and red light shoots out and the sky
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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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Another classic manga which was previously turned into a Japanese drama gets a Korean drama. We have the romantic comedy Nodame’s Cantabile (called Tomorrow’s Cantabile aka Nae Il’s Cantabile for the Korean remake) and we have the psychological drama Liar’s Game. Now, I’m not quite certain just how popular the Japanese drama LIAR GAME was, but I’m fairly certain it
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