Kurosagi: What do you mean it's only 11 eps?

I have long meta on Kurosagi (end of ep 5 killed me DEAD) and resplies to posts and I will get to all of it ASAP but for now, a bunch of cool Kurosagi MVs I found on youtube:

If this one doesn't make you want to check it out, I give up:

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Kurosagi: What do you mean it's only 11 eps?

I have long meta on Kurosagi (end of ep 5 killed me DEAD) and resplies to posts and I will get to all of it ASAP but for now, a bunch of cool Kurosagi MVs I found on youtube:

If this one doesn't make you want to check it out, I give up:

( More vids )

Kurosagi: What do you mean it's only 11 eps?

I have long meta on Kurosagi (end of ep 5 killed me DEAD) and resplies to posts and I will get to all of it ASAP but for now, a bunch of cool Kurosagi MVs I found on youtube:

If this one doesn't make you want to check it out, I give up:

( More vids )

Kurosagi and Satomi Hakkenden: Our Angst is Hotter than Your Angst

Kurosagi continues to be so good as to make it almost criminal for this thing not to have a sequel. I have only 6 eps left and am dreading the fact there won’t be more.

( Thoughts on ep 4 )

But then we get to ep 5 and I think it’s my favorite Kurosagi ep so far. In fact, if I metaed everything I liked about it, I’d just be discussing every scene, step by step.

( Ep 5 meta )

In between watching Kurosagi, I dled the first part of Satomi Hakkenden. I am not going to start it until I finish with Kurosagi but I checked to see whether the files got joined OK and OMG. It is so amazingly WHAT I LOVE. I mean, historical fantasy with sword-fighting? YES. A story about 8 warriors with supernatural powers who have issues and fight to save the kingdom? YES please. This is the closest I’ve seen to a live-action Fushigi Yuugi and guess what? Takizawa Hideaki is in this one as the main character. Takizawa Hideaki Takizawa Hideaki Takizawa Hideaki Takizawa Hideaki!!!! With long hair, and issues and a sword. I am DEAD. One of the random bits I spot checked had him being taken care of as a result of some wound/illness/whatever and SO HOT. Seriously.

I know his OTP in this one is played by the girl who is playing Kame’s OTP in THnK and now, all she needs is to act opposite Yamapi to get the triple crown of jdorama hotness (at least the junior version. I think Takuya Kimura and Takeshi Kaneshiro are probably a bit too old to be romantically paired with her). I mean, talk about luck!

So, my dorama watchlist is set: finish Kurosagi, then finish KMSD (I finally got replacement discs), then Satomi Hakkenden, then Pride, then Nobuta Wo Produce. After that I’ll watch some kdrama (My Girl most likely) as a change of pace.

There goes my lunch break, spent typing. I am going to really lose weight at this rate.

Kurosagi and Satomi Hakkenden: Our Angst is Hotter than Your Angst

Kurosagi continues to be so good as to make it almost criminal for this thing not to have a sequel. I have only 6 eps left and am dreading the fact there won’t be more.

( Thoughts on ep 4 )

But then we get to ep 5 and I think it’s my favorite Kurosagi ep so far. In fact, if I metaed everything I liked about it, I’d just be discussing every scene, step by step.

( Ep 5 meta )

In between watching Kurosagi, I dled the first part of Satomi Hakkenden. I am not going to start it until I finish with Kurosagi but I checked to see whether the files got joined OK and OMG. It is so amazingly WHAT I LOVE. I mean, historical fantasy with sword-fighting? YES. A story about 8 warriors with supernatural powers who have issues and fight to save the kingdom? YES please. This is the closest I’ve seen to a live-action Fushigi Yuugi and guess what? Takizawa Hideaki is in this one as the main character. Takizawa Hideaki Takizawa Hideaki Takizawa Hideaki Takizawa Hideaki!!!! With long hair, and issues and a sword. I am DEAD. One of the random bits I spot checked had him being taken care of as a result of some wound/illness/whatever and SO HOT. Seriously.

I know his OTP in this one is played by the girl who is playing Kame’s OTP in THnK and now, all she needs is to act opposite Yamapi to get the triple crown of jdorama hotness (at least the junior version. I think Takuya Kimura and Takeshi Kaneshiro are probably a bit too old to be romantically paired with her). I mean, talk about luck!

So, my dorama watchlist is set: finish Kurosagi, then finish KMSD (I finally got replacement discs), then Satomi Hakkenden, then Pride, then Nobuta Wo Produce. After that I’ll watch some kdrama (My Girl most likely) as a change of pace.

There goes my lunch break, spent typing. I am going to really lose weight at this rate.

Kurosagi and Satomi Hakkenden: Our Angst is Hotter than Your Angst

Kurosagi continues to be so good as to make it almost criminal for this thing not to have a sequel. I have only 6 eps left and am dreading the fact there won’t be more.

( Thoughts on ep 4 )

But then we get to ep 5 and I think it’s my favorite Kurosagi ep so far. In fact, if I metaed everything I liked about it, I’d just be discussing every scene, step by step.

( Ep 5 meta )

In between watching Kurosagi, I dled the first part of Satomi Hakkenden. I am not going to start it until I finish with Kurosagi but I checked to see whether the files got joined OK and OMG. It is so amazingly WHAT I LOVE. I mean, historical fantasy with sword-fighting? YES. A story about 8 warriors with supernatural powers who have issues and fight to save the kingdom? YES please. This is the closest I’ve seen to a live-action Fushigi Yuugi and guess what? Takizawa Hideaki is in this one as the main character. Takizawa Hideaki Takizawa Hideaki Takizawa Hideaki Takizawa Hideaki!!!! With long hair, and issues and a sword. I am DEAD. One of the random bits I spot checked had him being taken care of as a result of some wound/illness/whatever and SO HOT. Seriously.

I know his OTP in this one is played by the girl who is playing Kame’s OTP in THnK and now, all she needs is to act opposite Yamapi to get the triple crown of jdorama hotness (at least the junior version. I think Takuya Kimura and Takeshi Kaneshiro are probably a bit too old to be romantically paired with her). I mean, talk about luck!

So, my dorama watchlist is set: finish Kurosagi, then finish KMSD (I finally got replacement discs), then Satomi Hakkenden, then Pride, then Nobuta Wo Produce. After that I’ll watch some kdrama (My Girl most likely) as a change of pace.

There goes my lunch break, spent typing. I am going to really lose weight at this rate.

Jaan-e-Mann: Bollywood goes Baroque

Today's pic-spam are stills from Jaan-e-Mann, a Bollywood movie that opened last week, starring Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta. Yes, it's the love triangle so beloved of Bollywood. However, it's also apparently a bit of a tongue-in-cheek, phantasmagoric fantasy, with some surreal imagery thrown in. And huge points to Salman Khan, the wild child of Bollywood, to be so willing to poke fun at his persona and image. I was going to post it last week and had the images ready and everything, but then it slipped my mind. Oh well, better late than never.

Salman plays a narcissistic, immature, big-headed actor-wannabe failure, who, through a crazy twist of events, ends up helping the socially awkward Akshay Kumar woo his ex-wife (and the mother of his child!!!) played by Preity Zinta. And he grows up in the process, too. Mix in crazy hijinks and angst (mmmmm, crying Salman=HOT) and we get the movie in a nutshell.

I am planning to see this within the week, if it's still playing. Any takers? It doesn't look like any other Bolly movie so far, visually. And Preity and Salman always have rocking chemistry (this is their third movie together and I really hope they finally end up together in this one), and, if you are still not convinced? How can you not want to see the movie where someone can really put something like the following in his review "Anupam Kher is funny as the midget" and mean it. (Some IMDB reviewer). Come on!

My favorite still from the movie. Salman Khan and Preity Zinta:



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Jaan-e-Mann: Bollywood goes Baroque

Today's pic-spam are stills from Jaan-e-Mann, a Bollywood movie that opened last week, starring Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta. Yes, it's the love triangle so beloved of Bollywood. However, it's also apparently a bit of a tongue-in-cheek, phantasmagoric fantasy, with some surreal imagery thrown in. And huge points to Salman Khan, the wild child of Bollywood, to be so willing to poke fun at his persona and image. I was going to post it last week and had the images ready and everything, but then it slipped my mind. Oh well, better late than never.

Salman plays a narcissistic, immature, big-headed actor-wannabe failure, who, through a crazy twist of events, ends up helping the socially awkward Akshay Kumar woo his ex-wife (and the mother of his child!!!) played by Preity Zinta. And he grows up in the process, too. Mix in crazy hijinks and angst (mmmmm, crying Salman=HOT) and we get the movie in a nutshell.

I am planning to see this within the week, if it's still playing. Any takers? It doesn't look like any other Bolly movie so far, visually. And Preity and Salman always have rocking chemistry (this is their third movie together and I really hope they finally end up together in this one), and, if you are still not convinced? How can you not want to see the movie where someone can really put something like the following in his review "Anupam Kher is funny as the midget" and mean it. (Some IMDB reviewer). Come on!

My favorite still from the movie. Salman Khan and Preity Zinta:



( The rest behind the cut )

Jaan-e-Mann: Bollywood goes Baroque

Today's pic-spam are stills from Jaan-e-Mann, a Bollywood movie that opened last week, starring Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta. Yes, it's the love triangle so beloved of Bollywood. However, it's also apparently a bit of a tongue-in-cheek, phantasmagoric fantasy, with some surreal imagery thrown in. And huge points to Salman Khan, the wild child of Bollywood, to be so willing to poke fun at his persona and image. I was going to post it last week and had the images ready and everything, but then it slipped my mind. Oh well, better late than never.

Salman plays a narcissistic, immature, big-headed actor-wannabe failure, who, through a crazy twist of events, ends up helping the socially awkward Akshay Kumar woo his ex-wife (and the mother of his child!!!) played by Preity Zinta. And he grows up in the process, too. Mix in crazy hijinks and angst (mmmmm, crying Salman=HOT) and we get the movie in a nutshell.

I am planning to see this within the week, if it's still playing. Any takers? It doesn't look like any other Bolly movie so far, visually. And Preity and Salman always have rocking chemistry (this is their third movie together and I really hope they finally end up together in this one), and, if you are still not convinced? How can you not want to see the movie where someone can really put something like the following in his review "Anupam Kher is funny as the midget" and mean it. (Some IMDB reviewer). Come on!

My favorite still from the movie. Salman Khan and Preity Zinta:



( The rest behind the cut )