Drowned in Danmei

As written in the title, yes. I've been into Danmei lately. Basically danmei is similar to Yaoi a.k.a Boys Love (BL). Correct me if I'm wrong coz I'm pretty new to this. Not super new. But definitely not pro hahaha.

During college years, it's very popular to copy anime from friend's hardisk. So one day le friend gave me Yaoi anime called Gravitation. I guess that's my earliest encounter towards BL world. If you know that yaoi anime then I guess we are similar in age lol.

Anyway, it doesn't have big impact since it's hard to differentiate gender inside an anime. As you can see, the pink-haired character resembles a girl. Minus boobs of course LOL. That's why I just watch it with ease like how i watch other romance anime.

Didn't really watch lots of BL anime. But somehow along the years I did watch several other BL anime. To name a few that I can remember : Junjou Romantica, Love Stage!!, Hybrid Child, Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu, Super Lovers (only S1), Sekaiichi Hatsukoi and Yuri!!! On Ice.

Then I think around few years ago I accidentally came across one Donghua called Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi) and I'm HOOKED! Tbh I didn't realize that it's an adaptation from a BL novel. Till I go and google on it right after I finished watching the anime hahaha. And that time I was so happy coz soon enough they released the live action version.

At first I was skeptical since the ML didn't really resemble the anime character. Turned out I was wrong. I really liked how Xiao Zhan acted inside the drama. I thought I would be bored watching it since I've already know the whole storyline considering that I've watched the donghua version. Again I was wrong. I enjoyed the drama version as much as I love the donghua version. I cried several times. You watch then you know.

Guess my love for it runs deep till I promoted it to my bro. Of course without informing him beforehand that it's actually adapted from a BL novel. HAHAHAHA. Sure enough he watched the entire drama and loving it. Only then I revealed to him that it's BL related *insert smug smiles here lol

If you wanted to try watching BL but can't accept anything super BL at the moment then this drama is the best choice. It's called The Untamed (Chén Qíng Lìng). I assure you it only felt like bromance in this drama. Just like the closeness between Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook in K-Drama Goblin. 

Not long after that, I was once again treated to another BL drama that is also considered as subtle. But this time with more BL content. At least got tiny skinship HAHAHAHA. Yes. It's none other that Word Of Honor.

This drama got me so obsessed with Gong Jun. Guess he shines so well in this drama. Compared to his other drama I've seen before this. Bless the drama, his acting and the visual team hahaha.

In fact I was really looking forward to the next BL drama from China called Immortality (Adapted from the web novel "The Husky and His White Cat Shizun"). Unfortunately good things doesn't come that often. Apparently the drama follows up the novel that much that it doesn't pass censorship in China. So oh well. Let us just all pray that one day it'll get pass through censorship. If not then maybe just publish it online? *hopeful

PLS PLS PLS released the drama already. I really love the cast chosen for this drama so much that I imagined them as I read the novel lololol. Bless whoever chose the cast for the ML of the drama. Both Chen Fei Yu and Luo Yun Xi resembles what I pictured in mind!

Apart from China, Thailand also came out with a few of BL dramas which I enjoy these past years. One of it is called 2gether: The Series. Very sweet I tell you! Please notice that Thai is more open towards BL. So there's kiss scenes for this drama. But only kisses la. Not as BL as other Thai BL dramas. Still within subtle IMO. This drama got me into Vachirawit Chiva-aree (Bright). He's the ML of this drama. Look so handsome!! His smile is cute too! Not to forget how much i love the OST of this drama that I repeat play dunno for how long. HAHAHAHA. Only watch if you are ok watching 2 guys kissing each other ok. If not then don't watch la.

Last one comes from the recommendation of my gay friend and online friend, Furi. LOLOLOL. According to gay friend, this drama felt more real to RL compared to 2gether. Don't ask me if it's true or not coz I'm not gay. So I can't really answer. It's called I Told Sunset About You (ITSAY). Even the name also already so "jiwang" right? HAHAHAHA.

This one definitely not my kind of drama. But no doubt it's a good drama. The whole lighting and mood is reallyyyyy good! Not to mention their acting. Like wahseh. Can cry so deep ah? And tbh some scenes made me cry so deep too. Again, you watch then u know. HAHAHAHA. I won't spoil anything la. Btw this one is MORE BL compared to 2gether. So definitely make sure you are ok with deep kisses and such then watch. If not then it's better to skip. Didn't watch S2 so I have nothing to say for that one. I heard S2 resolves on cheating. Since I can't handle cheating, so I don't feel like I want to watch it. LOLOLOL.

Anyway this drama also have really really good OST. Do check out "Skyline" and "Can't Translate". So much feels and definitely addictive!

As there's no other BL drama that captures my attention for the time being, somehow I came across BL novel enthusiasts online as I order my 2ha Minidoll. That's how I became a BL novel reader too now. Thank You Furi and Nana LOLOLOL (Udah kaya SKSD ya panggil nama pendek).

Below is the some of the fruit of their "poison":

Too lazy to upload other photos I have. Guess that's all for now. Just an update on what I've been doing these past few years. HAHAHA.

Last but not least...

I really recommend reading The Husky and His White Cat Shizun and Heaven Official's Blessing. Have a nice day y'all!

Kidnap Ding Ding Don (綁架丁丁當)

I just Google-d and found out that this movie was released last year. I kinda like this movie. Maybe it's also due to what happened in le country recently. So it's giving me the right amount of laughter that I needed.

Hmm...I think this Hong Kong movie is RomCom? (with a little bit of family touch). It began with this guy (male protagonist) who woke up (with injury on his head plus amnesia) in a room where he saw Ding Ding (female protagonist obviously) tied up on a chair. Since he can't remember what happened or his real identity, our female protagonist told him a story to which I think it's better if I don't spoil much...Hehehe...towards the end the story will revealed why is he in her room, so on and so forth...Recommended if you like comedy! I'll leave the it to the movie's trailer to do the "luring"...hahaha!

There's a number of famour actor and actress starred in this movie too: Alex Fong, Ivana Wong (I think I know her more as a singer instead of an actress. But it's refreshing to see that she dived into acting industries too. I think her acting is pretty good in this movie!), Mimi Chu ( LOL my fave auntie actress~), Elena Kong and Hui Shiu Hung (one of my fave too!).

PROCEED WITH CAUTION:

SPOILER AHEAD~

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There's a couple scene that got me laugh so hard...below are some of them...

1. BIG BANG

As one of Bigbang's fans I am happy to see them appeared on any drama/movies. Especially if there's GD...which we will soon see below...LOLOLOL~

2. KOREAN WORDS

Seriously didn't expect these two words to appear in the movie. I'll have to agree that people who watch K-dramas could at least know a few famous words like Saranghae, Babo, Eotteokhae, etc.

3. RANDOM ENGLISH WORDS

Laughed the most during this scene. That nice "lousy acting" part screaming "Save me, Daddy save me" was so hilarious!! Plus that epic simple English "If you don't come, daughter bye bye" was one of a kind! HAHAHAHAHA...I still laugh when I think back of this particular scene. If I have to choose then this one is one of the best scene in the movie. 

4. INDONESIA

As an Indonesian, I also love to see our country name appears on any media. And this time we have this maid called Julianna who was once a martial artist in Indonesia. Though to be picky I'd like her use "silat" move or something like that. And to use Indonesian traditional songs as the background while she's doing her moves instead of using Indian instrumental? as background songs. Unless she's doing Indian martial art lah...then it would be perfect.

Next...did you see the last picture? YESSS!!! Finally GD appeared...HAHAHAHAHA!!

Conclusion I had a good time watching this Hong Kong movie. It really is entertaining and funny. But there's some part where I'd hoped for it to be explained much further...Maybe more on the father and daughter relationship after their reconciliation and such...I feel like this movie focused more on the love part instead of the family part. However I'd still recommend watching this...Hehehe.

Buruzon Chiemi (ブルゾンちえみ) with B

Recently, I've started watching Mirei Kiritani's (桐谷美玲) new dorama called Hito wa Mitame ga 100 Percent (人は見た目が100パーセント). There I saw this interesting actress whom I've never seen before. But since I was too lazy to Google at that time, so I didn't really find out who she is...until much later...which is today...LOL.

While searching for the dorama on Google, I came across this video called "Buruzon Chiemi, The Next Big Thing in Japan?". I clicked on it immediately upon seeing her on the video's thumbnail. Only then I found out that she's a rising comedian in Japan.

I tried looking for more of her videos but failed...Perhaps it's due to the fact that's she's new...So there's not much videos uploaded yet. Hopefully there's more soon coz I'm already addicted to them videos~

Career Woman (キャリアウーマン)

I just LOOOVEEEE people brimming with charisma. Plus I loveeee her jokes!! Especially that part where she asked "Do flowers look for their own bees? No it doesn't. They waits". Not to forget the way she throws them papers...LOLOL...Throw with style one ok! 

Apart from that, I also like the chosen beat and their movements...it's so catchy and matches with the overall performance! I don't know why but she looks so cool, entertaining and sexy at the same time during these performances~~ LIKE!!!

Here's the original song if you'd like to give it a listen or more...Hehe.

Austin Mahone - Dirty Work (Official)

Thanks for coming~ I hope you'd like her as much as I do. You can also follow her IG @buruzon333.

Happy weekend all! :)

Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu

GOOD NEWS to Gakky's fellow fans!! She starred in this new Japanese drama called "Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu" (逃げるは恥だが役に立つ).

Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu

Somehow it feels like more and more manga turned into live actions movie or drama. To some extent I'm happy coz it feels like it'd be a bridge between a manga reader and non manga reader. It helps to bring a message that manga can be enjoyed by any age. Of course I'm happy for the mangaka/writer as well. Means that their work got noticed, have a chance to spread their hardwork to wider viewer and of course...royalties? That way they can continue to do more and more awesome works! Win win solution~ *throws confetti

So what's good about this drama? Hmm...If you enjoy light comedy, marriage contract themed storyline then give this a go. Above all...if you like Aragaki Yui like I do...then PLEASE WATCH THIS DRAMA! Hahahaha...that's more than enough reason ok!

Personally I find this drama to be pretty interesting despite the overly used "marriage contract" concept. How to say this ah...hmm...apart from the well chosen casts, the storyline itself also kinda fresh. It's not the usual RICH MAN x POOR WOMAN marriage contract.

This story is about a woman called Moriyama Mikuri (25) who isn't able to land on a job despite having a graduate degree in Psychology. The story starts when Mikuri's father asked her to work as a housekeeper for his client called Tsuzaki Hiramasa (36). Everything was smooth till Mikuri's parents decided to move to another area to live. She thought of an idea of something like marriage contract where she would get married to Tsuzaki, handles all the housekeeping job around the house and earns salary from it. That way she could continue doing the job, earn salary and able to stay at the current city she's living at. Luckily Tsuzaki was able to accept the idea and that's how the story starts...Hahaha. Geezz...I think I'm pretty bad at explaining. But I believe you guys get the rough image of what this drama is all about. Bubbly female character + Nerd guy = Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu!

At first glance, the main male lead might look pretty plain. But all hail to glasses! It makes every character all the more interesting! HAHAHAHA...what do you think? Glasses YES? NAY? *Please excuse this female who love glasses...trololololol* Not to forget his manly voice...so soothing to the ear!

Oh one more thing as we talk about voice!! As I was reading through Asianwiki, I found out that the main male lead...Hoshino Gen (星野 源) was the voice of Buddha in Saint Oniisan (聖☆おにいさん). Fyi, it was one of my favourite anime/manga. Small world I thought...I didn't see that coming!

A scene from Saint Oniisan anime

Makes me more eager to watch this drama even more...LOLOLOL! Must support le beloved Aragaki Yui (新垣結衣) as well as the voice of Buddha, Hoshino Gen (星野 源).

If this wasn't enough, I must add that the ending song was GOOD too! So catchy, happy and niceeeeeeeeeee! And guess what? It was Hoshino Gen (星野 源) who sang them! Out of a sudden I'm visualizing that Buddha chara from the anime dancing to that song. Trololololol~~~

Here's the MV if you're interested to give this song a try...

Hoshino Gen (星野 源) - 恋

That's all for today's share...Hope you'll enjoy them! HAPPY WEEKEND! :)

[J-DRAMA] FRAGILE

When I first saw Tomoya Nagase name on the main lead section, I wanted to watch it right away!! Been his fans ever since I watched "My Boss My Hero" (Highly recommended if you enjoy watching comedy drama). Not to forget there's Emi Takei as the female lead. I think most of you already know her if you've watched Samurai X Live Action. She's the main female lead there.

Fragile

フラジャイル

Tomoya Nagase as Keiichiro Kishi

Emi Takei as Chihiro Miyazaki

I just realized that this drama is adapted from a manga too! Found out about it from ASIANWIKI. So perhaps if you wanted to know more about this drama you can try reading its manga~

フラジャイル～病理医岸京一郎の所見～

Fragile - Byourii Kishi Keiichirou no Shoken

Fragile - The View of Keiichirou Kishi, a Pathologist

This drama right here is about a man called Keiichiro Kishi (Tomoya Nagase) who is an excellent Pathologist and a Neurologist Chihiro Miyazaki (Emi Takei) who later on decided to transfer to Pathology Department. The storyline resolves around these two solving different cases and making diagnosis. 

Personally I feel that Tomoya Nagase looked really cool in this drama! Just imagine of having so much probabilities and yet, he alone managed to make accurate diagnosis even without meeting the patients. Merely by examining tissues on a microscope you see! I think that it is awesome! Thinking of the great amount of pressure he must have felt as it has to do with life and death...I just can't imagine being in his shoe...HAHA...That person must be someone who possessed a great amount of wisdom, great observation skills as well as enormous amount self confident!

Yes...Yes...Yes...A Pathologist is a physician who observes all these tissues, check on the accuracy of lab tests and interprets the results in order to facilitate the patient's diagnosis and treatment.

On a contrary, while a Pathologist are able to tell sickness from looking at the cells above, I can only spot a few "face" on the last picture...LOLOLOL!! //slapped

There's Koyuki too in this drama! If you're a fans of her you should watch this~ Long time didn't see her in any drama that I've watched. She still look stunning as usual.

Overall I like the filming style and the colours used. It adds to the overall mood of a medical drama. Hehehe...Interesting casts too! Definitely worth to watch. A plus if you enjoy medical drama! Though you must be patience as this drama is pretty new. So only an episode will be released per week.

As I cannot find the trailer on Youtube, so I'm just gonna share any video related to this drama...*coughs*

Update (26 JAN 2016):

Unfortunately the video that I shared here also gone within a few days of posting it here...So yeah...please search for them on Youtube, I gave up...HAHAHA...Somehow videos with Johnny's Entertainment boys are hard to find...keep missing on Youtube one! D:

[J-DRAMA] From Five to Nine

Looking for romance drama? Then I'd recommend a J-Drama which was based on the manga series written by Aihara Miki Sensei. It is called...

From Five to Nine

 5-ji Kara 9-ji Made: Watashi ni Koi Shita Obōsan

(5→9〜私に恋したお坊さん〜)

As seen from the image above, we have Yamashita Tomohisa a.k.a Yamapi (山下 智久) and Satomi Ishihara (石原 さとみ) as the main lead. The story talks about the love journey between Sakuraba Junko, an English teacher who dream of working in New York and Hoshikawa Takane, a Buddhist Priest who's going to inherit the family temple as the Head Priest (I read somewhere that Priest is the better words to use here instead of a monk...Google about it if you're interested to know more)

So apparently Buddhist Priest in Japan are allowed to get married, eat meat and such. Heard that it began in the early Meiji period. Hmm...something about temple were passed by head of the families to their son for generations to generations...so they need successor and the only way to get a successor is by marriage...soooooo....yeah!

But I'm not 100% sure either. Maybe I'll Google about them later...hehe. It's something new to me since it's always embedded in my mind that monks were supposed to be away from worldly pleasures. So maybe that's why Priest is the more appropriate word since priest are allowed to get married. Correct me if I'm wrong. :)

So yeap...how does it differ from the manga? There's some changes done here and there...but nevertheless I still love the storyline. Minus how Takane locked up Junko. That is just so wrong no matter how much you like someone. And OH! This drama is age safe compared to the manga version. No sexy scene like what appeared in the manga. Except for Yamapi's waterfall scene and lying on the bed scene half naked if you considered these as sexy...LOLOLOLOL!

Her imagination...What's with the words! LOLOLOLOL!!!

Apart from that, everything was ok. Love the acting, love the comedy injected into the drama and I LOVE LOVE LOVE their choice of actor and actress!! Thank you whoever you are! For awhile I thought that I've seen the actress somewhere before and I was right on that as I've seen her as Hanji in Attack of Titan. Personally I love her in this drama ALOT compared to when she's in AOT! She look so beautiful inside this drama! And I just loveeeeee all her working wardrobe! So otona! Her hair looks pretty too!! Not to forget that Yamapi look so good in traditional clothing! HAHAHA~

Looking at the image above I can't help but to think of the reason for why the bottles were put inside the bathtub. What I can come out with is that they are used to elevate the water level. That way you get to raise the water level with less amount of water which is equal to saving money! Might seem like an unnecessary things to think about...but I just can't help to be sidetracked...it intrigues me! There's so many things I didn't know about Japan and I'd love to know more! *happy

Do watch this drama! So much fun and entertaining! Not to forget that there's a lot of funny scenes where you'll ended up laughing like kambing...HAHAHA! Besides there's only 10 episodes and I think it ended nicely with that much episodes! Not too draggy and not too fast in terms of development...

And by the way, Merry Christmas everyone! Am ending this post with this drama's OST! It has become one of my fav song! So much feel! Love the songs and the lyrics as well! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! Enjoy! :D