Jdorama ramblings 12/3/12

Someone suggested I change the blog to white. Which do you prefer? White is too white for me and yellow is not white if that makes sense. Lots of blogs and web pages are white but the formatting of the template makes it seem like there's too much space. I'll see how I feel in a couple of days. Probably due to using the same template for 5 years.

6-jikan Ato ni Kimi wa Shinu

Eiji from KDO walks up to Maki Yoko one day and tells her that she has only six hours to live. Pretty fun to watch story with the drawbacks being the usual ones for prediction stories. If the prediction was that you would die in a dark area somewhere, why not go to a brightly lit karaoke room and sing for six hours instead of looking for your potential killer?

Great cast and they made it work with limited budget. Not must watch but its more than watchable. With this and Lupin, I'm really enjoying the Wowow dorama specials. Need more Maki Yoko. She certainly has potential.

Shaken Baby!

Some story about some uni students trying to do Shakespeare plays which is just an excuse to put a lot of young actors in a dorama special cobbled together with not that funny gags. Shaken Baby! lost me in the beginning when this dude with Mick Jagger lips, make up and half a can of gel in his hair is trying to convince the audience that he is a normal/futsu guy. Avoid.

Kyogu

Very watchable TV Asahi special about two women who grew up as orphans and have always been best friends. Matsuyuki Yasuko plays the wife of a politician and Ryo is the best friend who works as a journalist. One day Yasuko's son is kidnapped and she receives a ransom note demanding that she reveal the truth. Pretty fun show about friendship though the ending was not as impactful as it needed to be.

Seinaru Kaibutsutachi ep 6

Nakatani Miki kept me watching but everything else in this dorama doesn't work for me. The main problem is the audience knows the truth since the beginning. Its mostly about this boring main character uncovering what the audience already knows and acting all shocked and angry at every discovery.

Bunshin eps 2-3

Huge drop off. I don't really care about the personal life of the other Masami character. Ep 3 finally gets into what we want to know but its just about the obvious stuff that the audience would have guessed. Hopefully episode 4 gives us what we want, Masami talking to Masami and why all the secrecy and deaths.