J-drama is back!!

For a while there, I thought the run of good J-dramas saw its end nearly after the Boys before Flowers boom was over. There weren't a lot of strong, captivating storylines surfacing and nearly everything was trying to milk the teen romance/comedy theme until the dead horse was just  a bloody pulp.

So I guess it explains the few Korean culture and drama posts I had written. Korean dramas are always good to fall back on when nothing good is on tv or I've exhausted my Youtube surfing. But now awaiting the next Korean dramas (Secret Garden, City Hunter with Lee Minho!!OMG, and trying to work on Fugitive Plan B with Rain), I delved back into trying out some new season premieres of J-drama this fall~ it looks like the writers in Japan realized they needed to work on better plots and characters and they did deliver!



First up is ギルティ 悪魔と契約した女。 Besides having Tamaki Hiroshi in it which is always a total sell for me no matter how bad the drama is... well, hmm, no, I wouldnt finish the bad drama but I'd still like to see his work; This drama is all about revenge! yes, good old revenge 12 years in the making. And any revenge story that takes over 10 years to craft, should always be good. Let's hope...




Then, just today as I was refreshing the Mysoju site, I saw  獣医ドリトル which stars Oguri Shun and Inoue Mao (both stars from Boys before Flowers) and i just love Oguri Shun because of his chill personality! After blogging this, I am gonna go watch the first episode! heh!




And lastly, or thirdly really, is 黄金の豚 which stars Shinohara Ryoko, the heroine from the popular Unfair series and movie. I'm not really a fan of her, well, somehow I don't think she's really star material because she just doesn't seem unique or beautiful to me but maybe that's the attractive point about her to people in Japan. Well, nonetheless, as far as acting skills I think she is better than the average J-actor and for females out there, she certainly does a good job with the masculine tomboy type. So I'm curious to see how she will do in this drama. The story is interesting but not sure where it will go. (long story short: Ex-con woman hired by gov to catch ppl who cheat on taxes, etc.)

I'm so happy about having some good stuff to watch and kill time with again! (since the failed ffxiv doesn't keep me as occupied as I would have liked... but that's another blog post for another time)
And so happy Tamaki is playing sexy, badass and cool!!! <3 XoXOoxXOXXoXx drool....

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Conan O'Brien, American Express: Extended Cut

I do enjoy Conan O'brien over that 'other tv dude' and am so glad he's back in the business and using what happened to him in the last year to his advantage! I think he's in a higher and better place this time than if he had stayed host of the Tonight Show to this day. And he gets to be his own creative now too! Now creativity! that's the best stuff!

This commercial just rocks!

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