Romantic Princess: pure giddy sugar
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dangermousieThere are few ways to cope with jetlag better than spending 5am in a bathtub, watching Romantic Princess, the delicious Taiwanese drama tale of a modern-day Cinderella, Xiao Mai (Angela Zheng) who turns out to be a long-lost grand-daughter of a gazillionaire who wants her to marry his chosen successor, the icily displeased Jin (Wu Chun).
I wanted something incredibly fluffy and only with a smidgeon of angst, and so I remembered I started this and loved it. See post here with summary and pics.
Angela Zheng is pretty, Wu Chun is gorgeous (and now I crack up every time I see him, because I remember total Wu Chun mania in Thailand, including a giant painted portrait of him up for sale on the streets, next to paintings of towers and holy monks). The production values are cool, the story funny, and the relationship between Angela and Wu Chun bristles with snappiness and chemistry. It's like the perfect shoujo manga adaptation :P
Also, the OTP reminds me, a very little, of what would happen if Rui and Makino hooked up. My favorite was Angela's thought that 'Barring his rotten character, [Wu Chun's character's name] is a perfect man. Good-looking, rich, and capable.' LOL, girl, you are ready to move to Thailand.
Here is the the perfect MV for this:
I love the intercutting, the song, the filters, everything.
ETA: Ep 3's adorable fluffiness makes bunnies look brutally uncute by comparison. I nearly died LOLing when Angela invites Wu Chun for dinner with her crazy hilarious adoptive family and there is a chopstick fight. LOL. And heeee, he totally is beginning to like her. I know the whole 'rich boy comes up for dinner to poor girl's family and is all envious of family warmth and cookiness' is such a cliche, but it's a cliche for a reason :P
I wanted something incredibly fluffy and only with a smidgeon of angst, and so I remembered I started this and loved it. See post here with summary and pics.
Angela Zheng is pretty, Wu Chun is gorgeous (and now I crack up every time I see him, because I remember total Wu Chun mania in Thailand, including a giant painted portrait of him up for sale on the streets, next to paintings of towers and holy monks). The production values are cool, the story funny, and the relationship between Angela and Wu Chun bristles with snappiness and chemistry. It's like the perfect shoujo manga adaptation :P
Also, the OTP reminds me, a very little, of what would happen if Rui and Makino hooked up. My favorite was Angela's thought that 'Barring his rotten character, [Wu Chun's character's name] is a perfect man. Good-looking, rich, and capable.' LOL, girl, you are ready to move to Thailand.
Here is the the perfect MV for this:
I love the intercutting, the song, the filters, everything.
ETA: Ep 3's adorable fluffiness makes bunnies look brutally uncute by comparison. I nearly died LOLing when Angela invites Wu Chun for dinner with her crazy hilarious adoptive family and there is a chopstick fight. LOL. And heeee, he totally is beginning to like her. I know the whole 'rich boy comes up for dinner to poor girl's family and is all envious of family warmth and cookiness' is such a cliche, but it's a cliche for a reason :P
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Date: 2008-04-01 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-01 03:18 pm (UTC):)
Wu Chun is so gorgeous it's unreal. I took photos of his posters in Thailand btw :) I wanted one but I think Mr. Mousie would have minded. So I bought a mag instead.
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Date: 2008-04-01 02:55 pm (UTC)ps. I totally love Hong Gil Dong!
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Date: 2008-04-01 03:18 pm (UTC)And as to HGD? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! It is one of my fave dramas ever. Who is your fave character?
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Date: 2008-04-01 03:30 pm (UTC)I think HGD, if it keeps being this good, will be my favourite kdrama. My fave is a tie between Gil Dong and Yi Nok, I love them both. Though maybe I am a teeny bit more partial to Yi Nok because she's so cute... but Gil Dong has father angst! And it's so well done by the actor!
The other characters - Emo Prince makes me laugh. And other girl is so psycho with her birds cage thing...
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Date: 2008-04-01 03:34 pm (UTC)HGD is awesome. I love Gil Dong the best, partially because I am mad for Kang Ji Hwan (you simply MUST watch Capital Scandal. it's set in the 1930s and is hilarious and good and has angst).
Yi Nok is totally adorable though.
Some of my flisters loved Emo Prince but I never warmed up to him. Probably didn't help that his face and hairdo reminded me of one of my female cousins so it was disorienting.
Other Girl? I want her to die.