Did you ever wonder what it would be like if ancient generals were emo school kids? Wonder no more!

[dangermousie]

I am not sure whether to clutch my head in horror or laugh. I have just discovered that K.O. 3an Guo, a twdrama the name of which I've seen here and there, is a modern-day high-school retelling of Three Kingdoms. Yes, Cao Cao, Liu Bei et al are now modern-day high-schoolers with supernatural powers duking it out for supremacy. Dong Zhuo is a (presumably evil) principal, who sends his adopted son to spy on principal of rival school who happens to be Diaochan's father (I sincerely hope they left the TK part about Diaochan becoming Dong Zhuo's concubine out of this version because - ewwwww). Oh, Guan Yu also has a thing for Diao Chan, and they eventually become an otp (!!!), but not above his loyalty to his sworn brother Liu Bei, who is massively hot (this seems to be the only version with a hot and tolerated-by-me Liu Bei, so there is a silver lining?). And Cao Cao is after Xiao Qiao who lurves Zhou Yu. Check out the relationship chart. And they all wear school uniforms. I am agog to find out how they present the battle of Red Cliff.

Oh my God.

OH MY GOD.

I...I...am not even sure what to say except the drugs involved in the scripting session must have been great.

Have a Zhou Yu/Xiao Qiao MV. I guarantee you have never thought of Zhou Yu this way before :P I confess to swooning all over the damn MV. Ummm. It's all my shippy kinks.

There is something incredibly awesome in it - it's as if someone's ff.net fanfic about famous-historical-figures-go-to-high-school got produced. I simply must see if this gem has subs.

I cannot wait.

Comments

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

That principal looks evil. Just look at his grin.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

He probably knows he's about to inflict this materpiece on the world.

[timescout.livejournal.com]

LOL! I think I watched a few episodes online once.

Subs? Oh yes, there is. :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thank you, enabler :)

[timescout.livejournal.com]

You are welcome! Looking forward to cracky re-caps.... unless it eats your brain before you can post that is. ;P

[lady-wu.livejournal.com]

O. M. G.

The fact that it's acted out by real people somehow makes it worse than Ikki Tousen/Battle Vixens (the Japanese manga/anime series where TK characters are incredibly well-endowed schoolgirls in skimpy skirts fighting turf wars for their schools).

Just looking at that relationship chart got me in a fit of hysterics. The mug of "Huang Zhong" in particular made me rofl because in the novel he's this ancient old age pensioner that happened to be still a kickass warrior. I kinda can imagine everyone else as an emo school kid but him.

I simply don't have the courage to watch it, but if you find a subbed version and end up watching it do let us know what you think!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

There is an anime like this? Oh God. I am trying to not youtube it.

Did you know that in KO, Liu Bei's special power is his emo guitar - he can play it to defeat his opponents. Ahahahahahha.

I did find the subbed version and am approaching it with equal dread and anticipation. It's sort of Three Kingdoms meets Tenjo Tenge.

[themadpoker.livejournal.com]

Did someone say historical high school AU? =D This might not be as much as fun as it would if I was really familiar with the Three Kingdoms story but I cannot allow something so designed to pander to my tastes to go unwatched.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL enjoy

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL. I had heard of this but never looked into it because I tried KO One back in the day and about 5 minutes into the first episode, my brain had already thrown up a Blue Screen of Doom because it was just. so. bad.

This one seems to have gone way past bad and moved into the so-bad-it's-good territory. Watching that MV made my brain leak out through my ears, OMG.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

What? You are not smitten by Zhou Yu's puppy-loving self? Blasphemer!

Did I mention that Liu Bei has a special guitar and he can play it to defeat his enemies!

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

...

So will the Battle of Red Cliff be about Zhuge Liang composing some incredible musical masterpiece and Liu Bei using an amazing Riff of all Guitar Riffs to bowl over Cao Cao?

I'm still trying to get my mind around the reason for Zhou Yu's injury in that MV being the result of protecting Xiao Qiao from some kind of Dragonball Z kamehameha wave. I wonder what that General Board of Broadcasting or w/e in China thinks about this, LOL.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL I want to show it to them and make their heads explode.

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

this looks WONDERFul and I loved the cheesy oddbal funfest that was K.O.2 - the Fahrenheit boys with superpowers! Do let me know if this has subs.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It does! Doremii is subbing it and is through ep 27, I believe (this drama has three seasons - I believe they finished first one entirely and are mostly done with subs for s2).

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

hmm. don't like multiple seasons :( but I'll check it out anyway

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I think each season is a separate story arc and they were filmed together so it's more like one long season split up for scheduling reasons based upon smaller arcs in unitary story (i.e. they didn't make sequel seasons).