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dangermousieHave finally got Tatta Hitotsu No Koi ep 2 to work by dling from a different source. All glorious 45 minutes present, this time. In the final analysis, I spent 3+ hours trying to get this ep to work AND getting up early to watch it.
Was it worth it, for a 45 minute ep?
HELL YEAH.
THnK, if it keeps on going the way it has, is going to replace Majo No Jouken as my favorite jdorama. I haven’t been that upset at the whole only-one-ep-a-week thing since I was mainlining Silence a few months back (hmmm. Serious gorgeous young men and doomed love. I seem to have a thing for it).
Also, I think I’ve created a new record for myself, as I was crying the second ep in. It’s ridiculous too, because no huge angst hit as of yet or anything, but it’s the very ordinariness and small-scale of the issues that makes it more realistically relatable. And the scene I was sniveling at? It’s completely ridiculous: it’s the one where Hiroto goes to bring the cleaning money to Nao’s apartment and before entering the building he just looks in awe at how big and shiny her building is (compared to his wreck of a place). I have no idea why, but I just started bawling.
The thing that kills me about Hiroto/Nao, and makes me want to protect them and bake them cookies and just send them to a tropical island for a fun getaway is that they are both so young and decent and tentative that it hurts. There is something incredibly fragile about both of them. It’s an odd phrase to use, but somehow that’s the word that comes to mind when I think of them.
For Nao, it’s probably because not only does she come across as physically very slight and slender and contained, but because in so many ways, she is such an unworldly innocent. She comes from a loving family, has been sheltered and has (as the dorama ominously hints) have been very sick in the past, so it all made her avoid the rougher edges of life. It gives her a certain purity, and I think that is why she is so straightforward: she is not jaded or sophisticated enough not to be. She has the pure directness of childhood.
As for Hiroto? He’s someone who’s had to grow fast in some fairly unpleasant circumstances. It’s clear he is the one who runs the house and is the caretaker. His mother (who seriously must be found under ‘slattern’ in the dictionary) is clearly useless. Hiroto runs the factory which is falling apart, Hiroto takes care of Ren, his younger brother (his scenes with Ren just KILL me. I can also see why![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
winterspel is worried Hiroto is going to die as he tells his little brother he’d give his heart to him if he likes it so much and the camera does all these close-ups). But that’s the thing. He is what, 18,19? He should not be acting like a mother to a 10 year old. His mother should be doing that instead of dumping the burden on him (and where is his father, anyway?) He is someone much too young to be dealing with all these burdens and yet he comes across as such a quiet, gentle person (in fact, he reminds me of Mike He’s character in Love Contract in that respect. Hiroto is probably the quietest dorama character except for Ken I’ve come across). He has this shell that he tries to protect himself under mainly because he has a beaten-down air about him and doesn’t want to be disappointed yet again.
I don’t really think he has much self-esteem and can be hurt so easily because he IS sensitive and caring (see him with Ren) and he doesn’t seem to expect anything good in life. Which is why it took such an act of courage for him to come and meet Nao in the first ep. And which is why after Nao finds that he lied about Uni and calls him a liar, he shuts down on her. She is the one who ends up giving her address to the friend of his to pass to him. And he pretends he doesn’t want it but he wants it desperately. And then he goes to her apartment but doesn’t go in after all and just leaves $$$ with the receptionist because he’s afraid to face her again. Hiroto is that rarity among dorama characters: he’s shy. Not shy, precisely, but someone acutely conscious of his lack (whether real of imaginary). It makes sense to me why he is so much more obsessed about the fact that he is one step away from broke and Nao is from a rich family: it’s easy to overlook it and be magnanimous if you are well off. It’s a lot harder to forget if you are the ‘lower status’ one as perceived by society.
Nao is someone who is really good for him. She is straightforward and not afraid to make the first move. He needs that. He needs the reassurance that he is wanted, he needs to feel safe to open up emotionally. And he has enough burdens without a high-maintenance gf. And yet she is someone who instinctively brings out his protective side and someone hw can take care of.
OMG. I just realized something. This is Love Contract done RIGHT. Oh my God. (And yes, this time the friends are cool and interesting in their own right, and not annoying).
I loved the scene at the fair: they are both stealing glances and there is awkward sweetness and when he went back to win that orange thing for her, I just died. And then he stretched out his hand for her. OMG OMG OMG OMG. It’s such a big deal. And she put the orange thing into his hand because I don’t think she realized he wanted to hold hands and he smiled and gave her the orange thing back and extended his hand again.
She can make him open up and feel secure. The reason he felt OK doing that, after all, was because right before she told him she wanted the toy so badly because he won it for her (and that got him to say that is why he wanted to win it).
And they run through the crowd and they smile. And they do the quick little phone call from his building to hers and it’s adorable.
He needs to believe that he is allowed to be happy. And Nao might just be the person to do that. Except for the whole ‘this is a tragedy’ thing. Which is going to kill me.
In other news, I started Satomi Hakkenden and it’s the best thing in a long time. The prologue is a bit slow, but once the princess dies and the story starts going with Takki and his katana and his hair and his angst and evil family, it gets EXCELLENT. I need to see more to meta, but I definitely will.
Was it worth it, for a 45 minute ep?
HELL YEAH.
THnK, if it keeps on going the way it has, is going to replace Majo No Jouken as my favorite jdorama. I haven’t been that upset at the whole only-one-ep-a-week thing since I was mainlining Silence a few months back (hmmm. Serious gorgeous young men and doomed love. I seem to have a thing for it).
Also, I think I’ve created a new record for myself, as I was crying the second ep in. It’s ridiculous too, because no huge angst hit as of yet or anything, but it’s the very ordinariness and small-scale of the issues that makes it more realistically relatable. And the scene I was sniveling at? It’s completely ridiculous: it’s the one where Hiroto goes to bring the cleaning money to Nao’s apartment and before entering the building he just looks in awe at how big and shiny her building is (compared to his wreck of a place). I have no idea why, but I just started bawling.
The thing that kills me about Hiroto/Nao, and makes me want to protect them and bake them cookies and just send them to a tropical island for a fun getaway is that they are both so young and decent and tentative that it hurts. There is something incredibly fragile about both of them. It’s an odd phrase to use, but somehow that’s the word that comes to mind when I think of them.
For Nao, it’s probably because not only does she come across as physically very slight and slender and contained, but because in so many ways, she is such an unworldly innocent. She comes from a loving family, has been sheltered and has (as the dorama ominously hints) have been very sick in the past, so it all made her avoid the rougher edges of life. It gives her a certain purity, and I think that is why she is so straightforward: she is not jaded or sophisticated enough not to be. She has the pure directness of childhood.
As for Hiroto? He’s someone who’s had to grow fast in some fairly unpleasant circumstances. It’s clear he is the one who runs the house and is the caretaker. His mother (who seriously must be found under ‘slattern’ in the dictionary) is clearly useless. Hiroto runs the factory which is falling apart, Hiroto takes care of Ren, his younger brother (his scenes with Ren just KILL me. I can also see why
winterspel is worried Hiroto is going to die as he tells his little brother he’d give his heart to him if he likes it so much and the camera does all these close-ups). But that’s the thing. He is what, 18,19? He should not be acting like a mother to a 10 year old. His mother should be doing that instead of dumping the burden on him (and where is his father, anyway?) He is someone much too young to be dealing with all these burdens and yet he comes across as such a quiet, gentle person (in fact, he reminds me of Mike He’s character in Love Contract in that respect. Hiroto is probably the quietest dorama character except for Ken I’ve come across). He has this shell that he tries to protect himself under mainly because he has a beaten-down air about him and doesn’t want to be disappointed yet again. I don’t really think he has much self-esteem and can be hurt so easily because he IS sensitive and caring (see him with Ren) and he doesn’t seem to expect anything good in life. Which is why it took such an act of courage for him to come and meet Nao in the first ep. And which is why after Nao finds that he lied about Uni and calls him a liar, he shuts down on her. She is the one who ends up giving her address to the friend of his to pass to him. And he pretends he doesn’t want it but he wants it desperately. And then he goes to her apartment but doesn’t go in after all and just leaves $$$ with the receptionist because he’s afraid to face her again. Hiroto is that rarity among dorama characters: he’s shy. Not shy, precisely, but someone acutely conscious of his lack (whether real of imaginary). It makes sense to me why he is so much more obsessed about the fact that he is one step away from broke and Nao is from a rich family: it’s easy to overlook it and be magnanimous if you are well off. It’s a lot harder to forget if you are the ‘lower status’ one as perceived by society.
Nao is someone who is really good for him. She is straightforward and not afraid to make the first move. He needs that. He needs the reassurance that he is wanted, he needs to feel safe to open up emotionally. And he has enough burdens without a high-maintenance gf. And yet she is someone who instinctively brings out his protective side and someone hw can take care of.
OMG. I just realized something. This is Love Contract done RIGHT. Oh my God. (And yes, this time the friends are cool and interesting in their own right, and not annoying).
I loved the scene at the fair: they are both stealing glances and there is awkward sweetness and when he went back to win that orange thing for her, I just died. And then he stretched out his hand for her. OMG OMG OMG OMG. It’s such a big deal. And she put the orange thing into his hand because I don’t think she realized he wanted to hold hands and he smiled and gave her the orange thing back and extended his hand again.
She can make him open up and feel secure. The reason he felt OK doing that, after all, was because right before she told him she wanted the toy so badly because he won it for her (and that got him to say that is why he wanted to win it).
And they run through the crowd and they smile. And they do the quick little phone call from his building to hers and it’s adorable.
He needs to believe that he is allowed to be happy. And Nao might just be the person to do that. Except for the whole ‘this is a tragedy’ thing. Which is going to kill me.
In other news, I started Satomi Hakkenden and it’s the best thing in a long time. The prologue is a bit slow, but once the princess dies and the story starts going with Takki and his katana and his hair and his angst and evil family, it gets EXCELLENT. I need to see more to meta, but I definitely will.
