Soulmate 01 - “This Is Not A Love Song”
The concept of a soul mate is almost laughable these days. Yeah sure, there are some extreme romantics out there who do think it exists (believe me, I know of one personally). But what if you know that the ‘one’ is right there under your nose? How would you react? Well, this sitcom explores the complicated situations of love through four couples. If I said anymore, it’d ruin the surprise. Even though it’s a sitcom, it feels like a drama. A really refreshing and brilliant one that you’ll gobble up into bits.
Nouvelle Vague - This Is Not A Love Song
The Theme Song for this episode. And one of the songs I cannot get enough of.
Is it just me or doesn’t Phillip look a lot like Bae Yong Joon?
Now, recap’s ahead!
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Soulmate = Love!
Gah, I’m mesmerized and hooked by the kdrama Soulmate. I’m seriously losing sleep. From amazing choice of music, nice paced storyline and stellar cast, it is too full of OMG. For the past two days I’ve got Nouvelle Vague’s This Is Not A Love Song and Lasse Lindh’s Comon’ Through stuck in my head. It even got me too distracted while on my biking routine and almost crashed into this poor old Lebanese woman. Why oh why isn’t there a season two?
It’s too much. I haven’t been this hooked since the first 12 airing episodes of Hong Gil Dong.
Thank god for limited internet (stealingwifi from neighbour) and summer vacation. I remember skipping breakfast and running straight to the internet streaming channel trying to get a tiny glimpse on the next episode before I head off to school.
Okay, I’ve gone mad.
At least on the plus side, the series is complete. No more anxious feelings or mixed emotions. :)
Now I’m gonna hunt down the Soulmate OST.
Fantasy Couple : Episode One
I’ve got three words: I love this.
Bear with these nicknames. The names are revealed gradually and I’m typing this up as I watch.
Deok Ku - Younger guy.
Jang Chul Soo - Older Guy.
Anna Jo - Lady in Red/Lady of the Damned/Lady From Hell
Billy - Anna Jo’s Hubby
Head Butler - Mr. Gong
Two men are cruising along the highway. One man looks fairly nervous. Cue eerie music. Something’s clearly not right. He nervously asks his partner if he’s got the ‘weapons’ and they shouldn’t be doing this. It’s not right. The older man hints that he can’t betray him now. They’ve got to use this opportunity to expand their scope and do this abhorred task together. It’s now or never. The duo reach their destination of doom and both look at each other one last time.
Koizora & Fantasy Couple: Sneak Peek
To be honest, I’ve read couple of Japan’s master storyteller Yoshi’s works before. And none of them were as bizarre as Mika’s Koizora. I’ve watched the movie too and I still don’t understand the fanfare behind it except that it has some stunning visuals but oh dear, it stretches the limits of realism. Seriously, is rape all that attractive in Japan? Ugh, that mole on Haruma Miruma’s chin bugged the hell out of me!! And how is this based on the true life story of the author?
Koizora’s so bad, it makes Dumb and Dumberer Smart by tj_han
Above link is a cracktastic review on the movie. Word of caution for some intense swearing but you get the gist of it.
Anyways, this movie somehow made 1.2 million people weep with fangirlish sorrow and now the producers are hitting the bandwagon to make a drama series out of it. Probably trying to milk some more profits on the franchise.
Let’s see how this goes when it’s released in August. I’ll most likely shred this show to pieces.
In other news, I’ll be recapping Fantasy Couple. Why might you ask? It’s just for fun. I know all you kdrama veterans raved this drama before but I haven’t experienced it. I’m praying that it’d better be good. :P
Hikaru Utada - Prisoner of Love (Long Version)
Nothing special about this video despite the amazing theme song for Last Friends. It’s mostly scenes of the singer either struggling to compose a song or in deep thought.
Proposal Daisakusen Special
It’s finally over. Sorry for the long hiatus! In other news, Illjimae’s on tonight! I can’t wait! If you’d like Illjimae recaps, you could head over to Sevenses’s blog. She’ll be recapping the series.
The special takes off from where we left off in the series with Rei chasing after Ken in her wedding dress. Luckily for Rei, she doesn’t have use so much energy to run in her high hell shoes since the cab’s run out of gas (Still, did she need to pant so much after only running for one minute?). After filling up, the cab driver drops them off at a nearby beach wishing them good luck on the two for their married life. Kenzo and Rei look at each other with hesitation and doesn’t bother to correct him.
Last Friends: Sneak Peek
At last! I was waiting anxiously for this drama to come out. No seriously, as soon as I entered my room, I dropped my 20-something kg backpack and ran towards the computer, knocking anything that came in my way. All for Juri Ueno (Nodame Cantabile) and Manami Nagasawa (Proposal Daisakusen).
So what’s the big deal, you say? Last Friends highlights on the problems affecting today’s Japanese generation. Well, not all problems (obviously, or we’d be glued to our seats for hours). From what I understand, there’s a tomboyish girl who falls in love with a feminine girl but there’s a boy who likes the girl who is in love with the other girl but can’t accept her love because he has a sex phobia from a really really angsty trauma in his earlier years. Oh, and the feminine girl is a domestic violence victim.
Uh, I can see you are bilwildered and shying away from the potential angst overload. Admit it.
The intro is quite beautiful even though it reeks of angst. Check it out.
About Idabi
Clearly I’ve got to introduce myself properly. The last introduction was harsh in my opinion so here’s another failed attempt to describe myself.
I am a Canadian-born Bengali who dropped into the whole spellbinding world of Asian dramas by accident. If it weren’t for my otaku anime obsession, I would have totally missed out on the whole shebang and remain obsessed to 2D pixelated motion. Yarrh. Despite the garbage that the Bollywood industry is spewing out recently, I am still attached to them since birth. It’s sad no? Who knows, maybe the Bollywood industry will do a 180 and go back to its glamour and charm. Whenever that happens, I intend to chronicle whatever catches my interest. As of right now, Asian soap operas, movies, Youtube videos and digg are my sole reasons of flailing.
When I’m not blogging or surfing the net, I could be found stressing out in your local exam room, singing my happy heart out as if I were a cast in Broadway, meditating in your library with contemporary classics on one side while videogaming or just lazying around under a tree.
I’m a champion at lazy blogging too.
What can I say.
