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If you want something ridiculous, lighthearted, and amusing, then this is the drama to watch. It's not to be taken too seriously, the acting is rather over dramatic, and at times, cringeworthy, but for some reason that makes it highly entertaining.

The drama follows three guys who one day, while going about their normal lives, are kidnapped and taken to a remote building, where they are forced to each create delicious dish, on the promise that should the judges be satisfied with what they make, they will be allowed to go free. Unfortunately for them, their dishes not only pass the test, they are so good that the three of them pass the entrance exam to Delicious Gakuin, a top-class cooking school, and are immediately enrolled as students.

Kitasaka Rouma is a food addicted farm boy, who carries around a frying pan in memento of his mother, despite the fact that he completely hates cooking, and in fact, only actually manages to do it when bribed with food and with the thought that he's creating something delicious. This is coupled with a rather ranger-esque transformation sequence where he goes from his normal stubborn self to someone who can create a delicious meal out of seemingly normal ingredients.

Takasugi Rin is vain, somewhat arrogent, and obsessed by anything that he considers beautiful, including himself. He likes to wear the best clothes, keep his hair immaculate, and the tool of his trade seems to be a pair of scissors, that apparently creates the beauty he seeks.

Matther Perrier has a French father and Japanese mother, and is rich parents have taken him all over the world; he is very proud of the fact that he is fluent in five languages, and has a habit of combining them into sentences, causing everyone around him great confusion. He also has what I can only call a "pet" spoon, which sparkles, which he frequently talks to as if it were human, and with which he can create the delicious meals required.

Katsuragi Shugo, the first year's class president, is, as he so frequently tells everyone, the law in the school. He likes to stand around and grin in that evil way of his, fan himself a lot, and ensure that the guys follow the rules. He also hates to lose, and isn't afraid to hold a grudge against anyone who wins against him. Unfortunately, skilled as he is, the new boys have something special, so it looks like he'll be holding a lot of grudges.

The group, with the help of their teachers, a group of four of the best chefs in the world, begin to deal with learning a whole selection of recipes they've never seen before, while in the process, also focusing on thoughts of love, friends, and intentions.

And if all of that hasn't convinced you to watch the series, then under the cut, is the first episode in picspam and commentary.

( BEWARE, LOTS AND LOTS OF PIC!SPAM UNDER THE CUT )

[One warning I do have about this drama, is that not all episodes are subbed yet, so if you need subtitles, you may have to wait to get past the 6th episode!]

I've made this post mostly for a_brokenangel's benefit because she knows nothing and so I said I would hunt down as much stuff as possible. XD But also, because of that I couldn't rely on her to spam me with stuff, so I had to do my own search, and what is in this entry is basically the results of an evenings worth of hunting, because I knew nothing before either. :O And I hope nullspace (because it's kinda your fault... 8D) and other people will appreciate this as well, if only for the vast amounts of pretty involved.



Firstly, lets introduce the subject in question~ Zhou Mi (周覓) is a member of Super Junior's sub-unit Super Junior-M, and one of the band's Chinese members. :D He was born in China's Wuhan City on April 19th 1986, making him 23 currently (and he looks his age as well, unlike certain other people who permanently look like they ought to be in school still XD) He wrote the Chinese lyrics to some of the bands songs. :D He had an undeserved bad time along with his bandmate Henry when they joined from fans who didn't take kindly to the extra members. :[ Poor guy.

( Come under the cut for more prettiness~ )

Thanks for much of the content in this post go to princeofsound, carmendove, and lots of Youtube and Google images spammage. I leave you with the following:



Enjoy~

I spent the evening on Friday finishing watching this drama. It's one I picked up because both Ryo Kimura and Kei Tanaka were in it (and for some reason, every time I mention Kei Tanaka anywhere, people go, "oh, he was in Cat Street", even though he doesn't have a huge role).

Cat Street is based on the manga of the same name and follows the story of a girl named Keito, a child actress who after a traumatising experience on stage, locks herself away for years and years, until one day she happens to meet the founder of a free school, that she decides to give a chance.

There she meets three people who come to be her friends, Kouichi, a moody ex-soccer player, Momiji, a girl with a very unique fashion sense, and Gota, a guy obsessed by hip hop who barely speaks due to his stammer, all of whom have lost their way like Keito and need a second chance.

( Review of the drama, including some picspam and a few spoilers~ )

ANYWAY, yes, watch this drama. <3333

I've been planning on doing this for ages but I got distracted by several things/people and have only just had chance to come back to it. This guy deserves so much love that I just had to choose him next to spam on. He deserves it because he is one of my top favourites (probably second only to Matsuken) and he doesn't have the popularity behind him that many other actors I like do, even though in my opinion, he should. :[

# Name: 田中圭 (たなか けい)
# Name (romaji): Tanaka Kei
# Profession: Actor
# Birthdate: 1984-Jul-10
# Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
# Height: 178cm
# Weight: 58kg
# Star sign: Cancer
# Blood type: O
# Talent agency: Tristone Entertainment

( More under the cut, picspam included~ )

RELATED LINKS

♥ Official site
♥ D-Addicts Profile

It's taken me so long to write this, and it's really long (over 1000 words for a movie review?), and I still haven't finished the screencapping but I'm going to post the pic!spam tomorrow because it's Tatsuya Fujiwara's birthday, but I figured I'd post the review at least.

Basically, I watched this movie for Tatsuya Fujiwara. However, for once, it wasn't because I'd liked him in something and wanted to see him in something else. It was more the opposite, when I watched Death Note, I started to love Kenichi Matsuyama, and yet Tatsuya Fujiwara didn't really impress me in the slightest. I'm not sure why, really, because I like villains and I also like Light in the anime version, but something just didn't work for me. However, because the majority of interviews on the movies were with the two of them together, I saw a lot of videos of him off-screen and I actually found him quite nice and amusing in real life.

Moonlight Jellyfish came up on jdramas and the fact that he was in it along with something else, drew me to it straight away. I'll say this first of all because it probably makes my opinion of the movie make a lot more sense. One of the things I like most in stories is sibling relationships, particularly brothers. It's why three of my original male characters have brothers who I write alongside them. I particularly like brotherly relationships when one is younger than the other, and where the older one has to look after the younger one for one reason or another. The fact that it's a main theme of this movie was the other reason I immediately downloaded it instead of hunting other and newer things he'd been in.

And I'm glad I did. I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH. ♥



The movie follows the story of two brothers, Seiji (referred to mostly as Terasa, after their surname Terasawa) and Michio. Seiji has looked after his younger brother since their mother died, and somehow manages to juggle this and his job, working as a respected member of a yakuza gang. If that wasn't difficult enough, not only does Michio suffer from Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), a real disease afflicting over 500 Japanese who cannot go out in the sun and be exposed to ultraviolet light, his mind is equivalent to a six year old child.

It is primarily a character study of the two, following their shadowed life, as Seiji saves a woman from being assaulted, a woman who coincidentally turns out to be Michio's nurse. Due to his kind act, Keiko falls completely in love with Seiji, who lets her into his life and begins to realise that the world is not as dark as it appears. Unfortunately, just as he starts to learn this, his two very different worlds begin to collide.

Visually, the movie was amazing. Lots of shots of the city at night, bright lights surrounded in darkness, shots of the jellyfish in the tank, fireworks, the ocean, lots of images of the moon huge in the sky, night turning to day, etc. etc. And I really benefited from plugging the laptop into my huge TV and watching it on there instead of on the laptop screen, it wouldn't have been the same otherwise. If nothing else, it's worth watching for the beauty of the whole thing.

The only other thing that bothered me a little were the subtitles. They could have done with being a little bit better, some of the grammar and spelling was a little awkward. I think I'm going to solve that problem by buying an official copy on DVD - that way, I also get the added bonus of the extra features (trailers, making of, interviews, etc.).

I guess the important thing is did it change my opinion of Tatsuya Fujiwara? The answer is yes. I didn't fall in love with him or anything, but I like him a lot more than I did and I'd definitely look for other things he's in in the future. I think the only problem with this movie was that he spent most of the time acting alongside someone who had to do some real full on acting - honestly, I was more interested in Kimura Ryo's performance and in seeing him in something else. To be fair though, Fujiwara didn't have loads and loads of scenes where he was alone, so it was hard to judge; I liked him when he was, though.

( Some of my spoilerish thoughts on the movie, and there are some serious spoilers. :O )

The Quiz Show is a drama starring Sakurai Sho and Yokoyama Yu, and is based, as the name suggests, around a TV quiz show hosted by Sho’s character Kamiyama. The quiz involves seven questions which the contestant must get correct in order to get the chance to play an extra question in order to make one of their dreams come true. It soon becomes apparant however, that it isn’t a normal quiz show; although the questions start off normally, they gradually get more and more personal, until the contestant is torn before revealing a dark secret, or winning their dream.

( Spoilers under the cut for the first three episodes )

The good thing about watching a drama that is still airing and only currently has 2 episodes released is that I can watch it and still watch other things while I'm waiting for episodes. This evening I watched the first two episodes of the second season of The Quiz Show, starring the lovely Sakurai Sho. :]

Anyway, the point of this post is to say this:

I ship this~ ♥

I haven't posted this in adayinmylife yet because there's too many pictures and I need to cut it down, but I figured I'd get on with posting it for you guys. ♥ This is what happened on May 2nd 2009 when I decided to dedicate my day to the wonder that is hide. :] It also includes my tattoo pictures, of course, for those who were interested in that. xD



( Lots and lots of pictures under the cut! )

I'm taking a break from the actor!spam today because there's someone else I want to spam on instead, and I wanted to post this before I head off to the tattoo place and then to Nottingham for hide related randomness. This took me aaaages, by the way. xD

( Lots and lots of stuff under the cut! )

This is the first of what will be picspam and random information about my favourite actors, and first up is the genius Matsuyama Kenichi~ I'm planning on one of these every week, except that next week I'll be spamming on someone else very special instead, but anyways, lets get on with it~

# Name: 松山ケンイチ
# Name (romaji): Matsuyama Kenichi
# Profession: Actor
# Birthdate: 1985-Mar-05
# Birthplace: Aomori, Japan
# Height: 180cm
# Weight: 60kg
# Star sign: Pisces
# Blood type: B
# Talent agency: Horipro Square

( More under the cut, pic!spam and icons included~ )

RELATED LINKS

♥ Official site
♥ D-Addicts profile
♥ Fanlisting
♥ matsuyama_love

Any questions, feel free to ask!

I have a queue of about 9 posts I needed to write (reviews, actor!spam, etc.) over a period of time so I figured I ought to do one of them before I get distracted and watch something else that's new and that I'll then want to review that as well. xD

I've had Detroit Metal City downloaded for a while, but I only got round to watching it a couple of days ago. It's a movie starring Matsuyama Kenichi, and follows the story of a guy called Soichi who studies music at University and dreams of one day singing cheesy pop music that makes people happy. He accepts an offer to join a band in the hope of following his dream, only to find once it is too late to back out, that he has actually joined a death metal band, and that his manager would prefer to beat him up than see him being anything less than completely evil.

( Review continues under the cut, there's really no spoilers. <3 )

I really need to finish this entry so I'm going to stop rambling and end with the most amusing gif ever. Bless his little heart. xD <3 (by the way, all the gifs were made by thsisyoursignal and posted at matsuyama_love and I take no credit for them)

You know that thing where you have so many useful things to do and instead you spend an hour or two creating icons of Ohno? Yeah, that's what happened. Except, spot the deliberate non-Ohno icon that was made out of amusement. I mostly made these for my own use, to be honest, so I didn't have to keep thieving. xD I don't usually make icons.



On the plus side, I did also make Matsuyama icons earlier for my upcoming spam post, as well as watching Detroit Metal City, so overall I've been rather productive. Shame I'm supposed to be working on my dad's website for him, really.

I was up far too late last night finishing watching Voice and it was so so worth it. The last few episodes were amazing. <3

( Spoilers, rambling, picspam and ridiculous amounts of ugly puffy jacket under the cut... )

So to end, here are my top ten reasons you should watch this drama (in no particular order!):

1. Endo Yuya. Full stop, no explanation needed. <3
2. Tanaka Kei (Fujio), blink and you'll miss him. D:
3. Daiki's weird tendancy to not like his food mixed together.
4. Kanako showing up the four guys on occasions.
5. The ending theme song.
6. Trying to find a scene where Ryosuke isn't wearing a puffy jacket.
7. Akira randomly beating his friends up every few minutes.
8. That moment when Daiki figures out exactly what the hell is going on in every episode.
9. Teppei's ping pong ringtone and the thought of Teppei ever managing to play ping pong properly.
10. That scene at the end where Daiki sticks stickers on Kanako. Which is adorable.

Voice follows five students all studying Forensic Medicine. I'm a fan of medical dramas in general (I've been watching Casualty, a British long running medical drama, religiously since I was about 12!) so it struck me as being something I'd enjoy, and so far, I most definitely am. The main synopsis of the story is the group of students taking on the task of conveying the 'voices of the dead' through their forensic work and a bit of unauthorised investigation.

( Read on, spoilers under the cut~ )

It's taken me a while to do this review because it's been a while since I've had the chance to sit down and watch the episode again in peace and quiet as I did the first time. :]

( Spoilers under the cut )

I meant to review this when I first watched it but ended up doing icon!spam instead. However, I watched the movie again and figured I should write something about it.

Antique is a Korean movie based on the manga series "Antique Bakery", which has also spawned an anime and Japanese live action drama.
( More review under the cut, no spoilers here... )



( A few thoughts, very light spoilers... )

( As usual, review and spoilers under the cut... )

Just in case anyone is intersted in checking out this series by the way (and if you are, I wouldn't read any of my reviews until afterwards) I've been watching it here. I highly recommend it, even if you've never watched JDrama before. Just be warned, it's very dark and angsty, so if you don't like that kind of stuff, you may want to avoid it. There's only 9 episodes altogether, only 7 of which are currently released, so it won't take up too much of your time.