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maggie33: (strumiłło mandale 2)
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 05:50 pm
I want to sign up for RMSE, but my writer’s block right now seems to extend to writing exchange letters, too. :) I want to request two new fandoms and my mind goes completely blank every time I try to think up prompts. I also worry that I won’t have anyone to write for. I still have a few days to make up my mind, so we’ll see.


I finished Not Me. It was a very good drama – well written, well directed and very well acted. I’m especially impressed with Gun Atthaphan Phunsawat. He was great here. I’m thinking about trying one of his other dramas later. Maybe Theory of Love? But first KinnPorsche. And then Why R U for Zee Pruk. And then two Japanese BL dramas, because I find it so amusing that three main actors from Kamen Rider Build went and did BL dramas later. Inukai Atsuhiro of course did A Man Who Defies the World of BL. And Kei x Yaku if you count it as BL. And then Akaso Eiji (who was so wonderful and funny and cute as Banjou Ryuga) did Cherry Magic, which I previously wasn’t interested in, but now I am. And Takeda Kouhei (Sawatari Kazumi) did Old Fashioned Cupcake, which will premiere in June. This drama has a trailer released by Rakuten TV channel on Youtube, so it will most likely be on VIKI. The trailer is here. It looks sweet (pun intended :)).

I also would like to say that Kamen Rider Build itself was very shippy. And I ship Kiryu Sento/Banjou Ryuga hard. They are a great example of antagonists (or at least guys who don’t like each other much at first) to best friends, who love each other and motivate each other, and inspire each other to be a better person. It’s seriously so touching and adorable. As soon as I have a bit more time (maybe on weekend) I plan to dive into AO3 and read some fanfic.


And one more things – a fascinating article on MyDramaList about the processes and techniques of forensic art in the drama Under the Skin. And if you watched it and thought that what Shen Yi did in the drama was exaggerated or impossible – it wasn’t. It’s based on real accomplishments of real life police profilers and portrait artists in China.
maggie33: (infanta margerita 2)
Sunday, May 15th, 2022 08:45 pm
Fanvid rec

A fantastic Hanabusa Shiro (Kei x Yaku) fanvid – Criminal


Max and Tul’s cameo in Triage

It was super cute and I watched their scene three times already.

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Cutie Pie

The finale was very sweet. All the drama from the previous episode was solved in the first 15 minutes by Lian and Kuea finally having the talk they should have had in like episode 3 or 4. :) The rest of the episode was devoted to fluff and sweetness, and a heartfelt appeal for marriage equality in Thailand.


Kamen Rider Build

It’s a Japanese drama I started some time ago when I was going through Inukai Atsuhiro withdrawal after Kei x Yaku.

To quote Wikipedia: “Kamen Rider is a Japanese media franchise consisting of tokusatsu (a Japanese term for live action film or television drama that makes heavy use of practical special effects) television programs, films, and manga, created by manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. Kamen Rider media generally features a motorcycle-riding superhero with an insect motif who fights supervillains.”

There are a lot of dramas in this franchise, but every drama is basically a stand-alone, so I can watch this one without knowing anything about previous dramas. Inukai Atsuhiro plays the main character - a genius physicist Kiryu Sento, who becomes a superhero called Kamen Rider Build. I expected a silly and entertaining show and it is that for sure (I mean one of Kiryu Sento’s superhero personas is called RabbitTank Sparkling :D), what I didn’t expect was for it to give me so many feelings, and even make me teary-eyed once or twice. It’s an adorable and funny, and at times very touching story about friendship and found family, and people trying to do what’s right in difficult situations. It also has a lot of noisy fights between superheroes and supervillains in ridiculous costumes. And they break the fourth wall during the short segments at the beginning of each episode when they recap what happened in the previous episode, which I love. Those scenes are always hilarious and usually make me laugh out loud.


Killer and Healer

Lately I was in the mood for a Chinese crime drama again. First I tried a modern crime drama Be Reborn, but the younger of the two main actors was really bad. He’s an idol I think, but IMO he can’t act at all. I managed maybe 20 minutes and I dropped it.

And then I started Killer and Healer, and that one is more to my taste. I watched 6 episodes for now and I like it. It is a historical crime drama taking place during the Republican era, around 1930. The two main characters are a violent and impulsive police officer Jiang Yuelou and a gentle doctor Chen Yuzhi. It’s based on a BL novel and yes, it’s very shippy right from the start. There are quite a lot of fics on AO3, so I will have something to read when I’m done watching the drama. :)