Live Action J-Drama: Hana Yori Dango [Boys Over Flowers] #1-3

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I swear, if she falls in love with RitchBitch, I'm going to quit this show. Like seriously quit it. Because that kid is so deeply fucked up he makes Veronica Mars's season 1 Logan Echolls look like Mother Theresa. And I can't ship that, I seriously can't.

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[mildmay.livejournal.com]

I can't really blame the actor for taking a job on a show that's based on a popular manga. I don't know that it says anything about him personally. I've never seen him in anything else, though. Hana Yori Dango is really the only J-drama I've watched in full. I started Hana Kimi, but couldn't really get into it.

[mswyrr]

I can't really blame the actor for taking a job on a show that's based on a popular manga. I don't know that it says anything about him personally.

I guess I just come to think that, if a certain theme reoccurs in the work an actor has done it indicates a preference on the actor's part for that sort of work, yanno? One likes to think they're aware of the FEMINIST AWESOME and actively into it, rather than coming to it by coincidence. But! We've all got to make our bread, it's true, and so I should reserve judgment.

I've never seen him in anything else, though. Hana Yori Dango is really the only J-drama I've watched in full. I started Hana Kimi, but couldn't really get into it.

I'd recommend Kimi Wa Petto, if you still feel like trying JDramas; it does some neat stuff exploring the psychology of a non-traditional woman and her relationships and it handles human psychology in a complex enough way that, even though its gender politics aren't something I entirely agree with, the reality of people who don't fit hidebound little gender boxes is never denied or smoothed away. And it's kind of hot??

Gokusen is more weighed down by the conventions of its genre; very slapstick and episodic, though there's good stuff hidden in the filler.