Mortals with manpain, Fruits Basket, and some Bolly tight pants...

[dangermousie]

ETA: meganbmoore, I just bought first ten volumes of Basara.

I am feeling better, thanks everybody.

I finally caved and got Little Fairy which is a wuxia/fantasy/fairy-tale Chinese drama about a mortal man falling in love with a goddess who is temporarily banished from heaven. I was dubious as to whether to get it, despite finding Ariel Lin adorable as a button and having nothing against Hu Ge (the male lead, I had no opinion on him as I've never seen him in anything). I am not big on fantasy in dramas, incredible wuxia jumps being about the most I can usually tolerate. However, tricksy calixa lured me in by promising manpain. Lots of manpain, and torture/slavery/attempted suicide/screams of despair (I take it her family isn't keen on him).

Yay. Let's see how it goes.

Oh and a bunch of scans and vids.

Here are one of my favorite secondary OTPs of Fruits Basket, the hyper-dramatic, crazily oblivious Ayame (think a grown up Tamaki) and Mine, his shop assistant. They run an 'exotic clothes' stoer together. If they have any kids, I bet they will rebel by being stodgy accountants:





Awww. Ayame told Mine how he was a prat to a girl who asked him out in high-school. The thing that I love about Ayame so much, is that drama queen that he is, he actually grew up. He knows he was an inconsiderate brother to Yuki when they were kids, he knows he was self-absorbed in general, and he is actively trying to make up for it. It's kind of an awesome sub story.







I need to find the scans with the semi-hugging.

Here are some Capital Scandal vids. Hats, angst, dancing!

And after seeing Partner yesterday, which deserves its own post, as I laughed so hard I almost died, here are some Govinda vids.

Comments

[calixa.livejournal.com]

Well, I suggest getting through the first 10 eps as fast as you can (FF if you must, but they're pretty cute). Once you hit the scene with the carriage (first signs of incredible manpain), you know you're heading into good angst territory.

My favourite scene is when Ariel tries to make Hu Ge remember her (the manpain was too much for him to bear so he got amnesia), but he won't because if he remembers her, he has a reason to live (and he wants to die). And she starts beating herself because it's all her fault, and he's staring at her like 'who is this crazy strange girl and why is she beating herself' and suddenly his heart starts ACHING for no reason and then manpain settles in again and he runs away screaming while Ariel cries like it's nobody's business. VERY good angst right there. I've watched it about 4 times and it still delights me.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh, you wicked wicked girl :D Stop tempting me :) I have ten dramas to finish before I get to this one. At the very least, i should finish ROCH first :D

I decided I love period cdramas. No matter how fluffy they start out, you know that soon enough everyone will be hit by a giant trainwreck of ANGST. And manpain. Only thing better than manpain is screaming manpain, and apparently we get that too.

and he wants to die

But why does he want to die if he doesn't remember her? Surely, then he is single, ready to mingle, thus has reason to live :D

[calixa.livejournal.com]

*grins*

No matter how fluffy they start out, you know that soon enough everyone will be hit by a giant trainwreck of ANGST.

This is very true. Back in the day they knew how to break each other's hearts and do it good.

Surely, then he is single, ready to mingle, thus has reason to live :D

Drama heroes never mingle when they are single... they are required to mope and angst all over the place. This is tradition!!

He wants to die because he has no family and friends and is a slave. And he has started remembering her but is pretending he doesn't in order to go on with his miserable existence. I assume because he doesn't want to have to hate her (because when she went away the first time in the carriage, she had to lie to his face about never loving him in order to stop him from fighting back and getting killed by the heavenly guards). All this is confusing to me too... it is not very clear because they are trying to shove at least 5 different kinds of angst at you all at once. JUST REMEMBER: LOTS OF SCREAMING MANPAIN.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

He wants to die because he has no family and friends and is a slave.

It's the little things that make me happy :D


she had to lie to his face about never loving him in order to stop him from fighting back and getting killed by the heavenly guards

Ooooh, the whole 'pretending you never loved your otp for their own good' is my fave thing ever (see Snow Queen).

JUST REMEMBER: LOTS OF SCREAMING MANPAIN.

Oh yes. Makes every drama better...

is that Hu Ge in your icon? Whoever it is, he is hot.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

He wants to die (aside from other truly awful non-otp but extremely angsty things) because his heart is empty and his soul is dead because he gave it to her.

Or something.


It is wuxia. Do not demand logic, just enjoy the visuals, and and flying. And wuxia logic. Wuxia logic is pure crack.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The question is...when will you read them? (and get caught up on SDK)

*makes note to watch capital scandal vids when she gets home*

[prismatic-star.livejournal.com]

I think you might like this:
It stars Govinda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Pjo0WjBcs

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! *dies*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heee. Probably in August :)