Tokiblog

Welcome to TokiBlog…..

…….the blog portion of Shujin Anime Forums.

If you’re wondering about the name, we think Toki is like tokidoki or dokidoki, that is, the beating of the heart. =3

We’ll be writing about many things, but as our main love is anime, we will be giving you (the reader <3) episode by episode thoughts, opinions and (hopefully) mostly spoiler-free summaries.

To spice things up a little, reviews of manga, OST’s, etc…, and news articles will be featured now and then too.

We have 2 bloggers right now, myself, and my best pal Smackle. .

Be sure to come back for updates as we go along!

Cyborg 009 – Episode 2 – The Escape

Would just like to remind everyone I do take review requests.

So episode 2 gives us more insight on the Cyborgs. They were not just created from scratch. They were actually once upon a time humans. The episode begins with a tiny flashback of Cyborg 009, who still remains unnamed, holding the body of a dead priest.

Cyborg 009 holding the dead body of a priest.

I’m glad the episode does not slow down with flashbacks and origins. The writers stuck to the rules and moved forward with the story instead of moving backwards.

Thankfully, the action continues!

There is a small escape sequence and we seen learn that the corporation behind the cyborg plants the seeds of wars and sells weapons to either side.

The Cyborgs eventually go back to base to save the other scientists who are revealed to be the “good guys” and not the bad guys which is a nice little plot twist. It turns out the scientists are behind held against their will. Unfortunately, this reverts back to episode 1 where security is rather weak.

Cyborg 006 melting down a wall to escape while others fight in the background.

I think the one problem I have with this episode is that they try too many great plot points into a single episode. Causing a portion of the series to become filler episodes. We learn that one of the scientists is a good guy, we then later learn the rest are good, then they try to rescue the scientists, and then the cyborgs are captured, and then the evil henchmen is killed by his boss.

Evil henchman realizing he's about to be disposed of.

This episode really outdoes the pilot episode but a lot this material could have been expanded over the course of the season, or at least the first few episodes. It did not quite feel rushed, but there were many twists and turns that should have been expanded. Because the plot twists keep happening every few minutes you keep forgetting about the last one not realizing how good of an episode this really is.

Overall I give the episode a 8/1o. Here is the dual-audio Cyborg 009 episode: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3I6UT67Q

Cyborg 009 – Episode 1

Decided to drop Shaman King for a while since no one found it to be to popular and the first few episodes kind of bored me. If by request someone wants me to review the rest of the series I will. I saw Cyborg 009 a long time ago on Cartoon Network but had only caught a few episodes here and there. The series seemed somewhat interesting although I wasn’t a big fan of the goofy and over exaggerated animation. I could only find subbed versions of the episode or bad quality dubs but with a thorough search I finally found a high quality dubbed version of the series. The episode begins with 009 waking up on table.

This is where it gets a little tricky to watch because it immediately goes from a serious tone to a goofy tone as the scientist yells “What? I didn’t wake him up” in probably the goofiest voice I have ever heard. I’m not sure if this is a dub issue or if it’s intended to be that way. I’m going to guess it’s intended judging by rather childlike animation.

Cyborg escapes rather effortlessly taking out quite a few of the security drones the lab has.

009 fighting the 'police robots'.

The scenes are more manageable knowing Joshua Seth is the primary voice actor here. I mainly recognize him from the voice of Tai in ‘Digimon’. At least we know the dubbing company is hiring quality voice actors.

With the help of a mysterious voice in his head Cyborg 009 finally escapes only to have to fight an entire army outside the laboratory. We then discover 009 has a power called ‘Acceleration’ where time slows down because he moves at an accelerated speed.

009 slows time to evade his attackers.

Now if you’re watching the pilot and you don’t find 009 too likable, which frankly I didn’t. You’ll be glad to know there are many other characters to pick from. 009 is then introduced to his “brothers and SISTER” who are all cyborgs who have also escaped from the facility. (You’d think after the 8th cyborg escaped they would have beefed their security a bit…)

But either way the story continues and we meet his fellow cyborg friends who all have special abilities to name a few: far sight, shapeshifting, super strength, flight and a few more I’ll go over in my later reviews of the show.

Cyborg 009 meets his fellow cyborg friends.

Probably what amazed me the most about this show was the amount of diversity there was. You literally have a cast of many different ethnic and cultural backgrounds something you rarely see in anime. While the majority of anime unfortunately feature characters with the same exact background there are a few that tend to branch out with different cultures or ethnic groups but it is usually in the form of a “token” character.

The episode ends with 009 choosing to remain with the cyborgs versus the alternative of going back to the facility. There is a nice little moment between him and 001 (the baby with telekinetic powers who awoke him in the first place) and he boards their ship which is the end of the episode.

Little moment between the two.

Overall, it looks like it’s a nice little show but I honestly think it could have been much darker. The writing is really held back by some of the goofy animation:

Yes, this really happens.

I know the show gets a bit better for the episodes I caught a few years ago but I’m not sure if I would have continued watching the show based on the pilot episode alone. The episode seems to take 2 steps forward then suddenly 3 steps back. It is a pilot episode and those are often rarely above average so I will give this a 6/10.

Here is the episode. High Quality Cyborg 009 Dual-Audio: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QY9Q6OIM

You’re Beautiful: Episode 3

I think I’ll do this a little differently today. More pictures!

Mi Nam is just starting to feel some relief after her near shower “trauma” when Tae Kyung faces her and tells her that she’s been found out by him.

She’s trying to stop him from going to Presidnet Ahn. Jeremy sees this and of course he gets the wrong idea. He starts thinking that Mi Nam is forcing himself on Tae Kyung and Tae Kyung is trying to get away from him lol.

As the elevator door was closing, Mi Nam snatched his cellphone from his hand and ran away. Tae Kyung chased after her upstairs, and unfortunately she hit a dead end because a door was locked, and she doesn’t know how to delete the video from his cellphone either! So now she’s trapped and Tae Kyung is ready to strike lol.

They’re playing tug of war with the cellphone and Tae Kyung manages to pull it from her hands but the cellphone charm snaps and it cellphone lands on top of truck down below. He tells Go Mi Nam to go get it so he helps her up the truck. She hands him the cellphone and he’s too busy examining it to notice that the truck has started moving in reverse, it’s about to him him,  and Mi Nam is still on it! He finally turns around and notices that the truck is a closer than before. Just as he’s thinking about it, the truck starts moving forward and Mi Nam starts screaming for help, but he’s still trying to process what the heck is going on. Haha!

Tae Kyung’s sprinting face XD

Safe landing…sort of.

Mi Nam’s scared to death and tries calling for help but the driver can’t hear her because he has headphones on.  She’s starting to slip and to make things worse they’re about to enter the highway. She then hears someone calling her name and telling her to hold on tight. It’s Tae Kyung to the rescue! He keeps chasing the truck yelling for it to stop, but of course the driver can’t hear him and he’s getting tired. He starts falling behind and ultimately stops because he can’t run anymore. Luckily, the truck stops due to a red light. Tae Kyung gather’s all his energy and sprints toward the truck. He gets to the truck and tells Mi Nam to get down, but she’s too scared to even let go. She slowly starts to stand up as the stop light is turning yellow. Tae Kyung yells at her to jump, and she jumps just as the light turns green. Phew! I must say this had me on suspense seriously!

So Tae Kyung is tired, sweaty, sore, ripped his shirt, and scratched his back when he tried to catchy Go Mi Nam. Still he’s find it all too ridiculous and wonders if there’s a hidden camera or something… but no such thing. lol at how he says it though. He’s so cute!

Manager Ma thinks of ways to keep Tae Kyung quite like: Locking him up somewhere

Convincing him that the person he met wasn’t Go Mi Nam that SHE (note the mole) was Go Mi Nam

Or by apologizing. LMAO they’re doing the dance to Super Junior’s “Sorry, Sorry”. I thought this was freaken awesome!

Mi Nam promises him that she’s going to quit being Go Mi Nam, and she really is! However before she goes and tells Mr. Ahn the truth she receives a “fan” letter containing a picture of her, her father, and her brother. She’s finally found someone who might know where her mother is!! But when she goes outside to see who it was that sent the letter the person is no longer there. All she knows is that it was a lady wearing a red suit (her aunt). She asks the president of the A.N.JELL fanclub is she saw there this lady went and she tells Mi Nam that to the station. She goes to the stationbut unfortunately misses her aunt. She tells Tae Kyung that she can’t leave now because that person might come back again. She begs him to let her stay and he just tells her that he’s had enough and that he’s not going to get involved anymore.

Mi Nam gives Tae Kyung the ring that Mother Superior gave her and her brother, it’s her most precious possession. She asks him to keep it and to trust her. However he takes the ring and throws it into this pond outside the hotel where he’s staying (I think). How mean!! He tells her that she’s never going to find it,;she tells him that she is, and that if she does then he has to let her stay. She spends all day and night looking for it. Meanwhile Tae Kyung can’t sleep because he keeps wondering if she’s still out there looking for it (feeling a little guilty are we?). The next morning he goes out on his usually run and passes by the pond. He doesn’t see Mi Nam and assumes that she gave up. He’s not surprised because he assumed she would, and as his finishing that last thought Mi Nam comes out from behind a rock. She’s dead tired and cold. He feels bad tells her to come out, that she doesn’t have to look for it anymore. He then takes out her ring from his pocket. Mi Nam looks furious and looks like he’s about to hit him. She yanks the ring from his hand and says “I found it.” And instead of hitting him she hugs him and thanks him, because she can now stay as Go Mi Nam. So sweet!

(I’m typing this as I’m watching) - The next day he’s in a suspiciously good mood. He just has this suspicious look on his face plus he asks Go Mi Nam if she’s happy, and tells her to try her best in their upcoming recording… in a very suspicious manner lol. It’s just suspicious because he’s never talked to her that nicely before! Haha of course there was something suspicious. It turns out that they’re going to be recording in a pool! DUN DUN DUN!!

I love it when he makes this face lol, it’s his “neener” face!

Luckily for Go Mi Nam, the were shooting with his clothes on. Haha.

Tae Kyung’s “you got lucky” face. lmao.

Tae Kyung does teaser her a bit though. He tells her that it’s too bad that they’re at the pool but he wont get to see her with a bathing suit on. That if only she would be brave and wear one piece, it would be worth it. She crosses her arms over her chest and he asks her if she’s lost her confidence. LMAO, I found this hilarious. I suppose you need to watch it to see the funny XD.  Of course Jeremy saw this and starts getting the wrong idea again lol Ahh Jeremy you are too cute lol. Poor guy, doubting their orientation, including his. lol.

The shooting went well, no major mishaps.That is until it was time to get changed. Neither the manager nor the coordinator were with her so she couldn’t go up and change in the girl’s dressing room. She had to wait until all the guys went to the men’s dressing room to get changed. She was changing by the pool where the lights were off, however one of the staff forgot some equipment at the pool and they went out to look for it. The lights went on as she was changing, she panicked and didn’t know where to hide. The only thing she could of was to jump into the pool and wait for them to leave. Tae Kyung “NOT” getting involved like he said he wasn’t (lol) went to look for her. She saw her bandages by the pool and assumed she jumped in the pool, but there wasn’t much he could do really since the staff were still looking for the equipment. Will her troubles ever end?! Seriously!

Korean boy bands are taking over my life and I love it!: SS501

SS501

The other band I found out about is SS501 (pronounced as Double-S 501 in Korean). Well… to be honest I had heard of SS501 many times before but I never looked into it, until now. And now I can’t get “Love Like This” out of my head. I love that song! It’s an awesome song! It makes me wanna get up and dance. I seriously recommend you give this song a try.  ^_^ Can’t wait to hear more!

More info:

SS501 debuted on June 8, 2005 with their first single “Kyeonggo”.  The leader Kim Hyun Joong (he’s so cute :3) was part of the cast for the Korean version of Hana Yori Dango. Their second mini album titledRebirth, with the limited edition being released on October 20, 2009 and the normal edition on 22 October. Their comeback song “Love Like This” was well received, winning two Music Bank awards and one Inkigayo Mutizen in November 2009.

Members

Kim Hyun Joong

Heo Young Saeng

Kim Kyu Jong

Park Jung Min

Kim Hyung Joon

I don’t really know much about the members, only that Kim Hyun Joong was in the Korean version of Hana Yori Dango ^_^ and that’s he’s adorable.

Click the link to check out their video.

SS501 – Love Like This

Korean boy bands are taking over my life and I love it!: BEAST

The other boy band I found out about is

BEAST (Boys of the East Standing Tall)

I really don’t know much about them either other than that they released their first mini album “Beast is the B2st” on  October 14, 2009… and that’s pretty much it actually >_<  I’ve only heard one song of theirs “Bad Girl” It’s catchy, fun, and reminds me of Janet Jackson songs lol. I guess they have this old school sound going on. It’s pretty good, not complaining. Lyrically I suppose they’re better than MBLAQ in that they’re not as repetitive however I’m basing this on the ONE song I’ve heard. Besides each group has their own style and they both rock! But I guess… I find them less appealing than MBLAQ for some reason, but that’s just me… Lee Gi Kwang is pretty adorable though. All bias and whatever aside, I really like this song. It’s really fun to listen to. I also have high hopes for this group and can’t wait to hear more. I totally recommend you give them a try!

Members

Jang Hyun Seung – member of Big Bang

Son Dong Woon

Yoon Du Jun

Lee Gi Kwang – solo artist knows as Ace Junior

Yong Jun Hyung

Yang Yo Seop

BEAST – Bad Girl

Korean boy bands are taking over my life and I love it!: MBLAQ

So I pretty much spent my Christmas watching music videos on Youtube. And thanks to Facebook, Super Junior’s new music video, and Youtube I’ve discovered new boy bands that are sure to become my new obsessions and will distract me from my scholarly duties. ^_^

First boy band is:

MBLAQ short for Music Boys Live in Absolute Quality

I don’t know much about them other than they debuted in October 9, 2009 under Rain’s label – J. Tune Entertainment. Also, they released their debut mini album called “Just BLAQ” on October 14, 2009. And their fan club name is “A-Plus”

Members (copied from wiki ’cause I’m too lazy to retype it myself)

Seung Ho (승호)

• Full Name: Yang Seung Ho (양승호)
• Date of Birth: December 21, 1987 (age 22)
• Position: Leader, vocalist

G.O (지오)

• Real Name: Jung Byung Hee (정병희)
• Date of Birth: November 6, 1987 (age 22)
• Position: Main vocalist

G.O. is a former member of Korean group, TYKEYS, a 3-member band that debuted in 2007.

Joon (준)

• Real Name: Lee Chang Sun (이창선)
• Date of Birth: February 7, 1988 (age 21)
• Position: Main Vocalist

Cheon Doong (천둥)

• Real Name: Park Sang Hyun (박상현)
• Date of Birth: October 7, 1990 (age 19)
• Position: Rapper, vocalist

Cheon Doong (Korean term for Thunder) is the younger brother of 2NE1 vocalist Sandara Park. Having trained under Leon Entertainment, Cheon Doong transferred to J.Tune to then replace member Sang Bae (상배) after he left before the group’s debut. Like his sister, he lived in the Philippines and is fluent in Tagalog and is conversational in English.

Mir (미르)

• Real Name: Bang Chul Yong (방철용)
• Date of Birth: March 10, 1991 (age 18)
• Position: Main rapper

Mir is the younger brother of Korean actress Go Eun Ah.

Being the fangirl that I am, I already have a favorite member It’s Lee Joon and the reasons he’s my favorite is because he sort of looks like (to me) Jung Yong Hwa from You’re Beautiful, he’s adorable, and has really nice abs Also, he plays the teenage version of Raizo in Ninja Assassin ^_^

Aww, would you look at that face. So cute! :3

I suppose he really doesn’t look like Jung Yong Hwa at all, but I thought he did in the very first pic I saw of him.

I can’t really elaborate on how awesome, or sucky they are since I’ve only heard one song of theirs so far, but it’s really catchy although a bit repetitive. I personally don’t mid the repetitiveness of it since it only makes it easier for me to sing a long to and the beat is pretty nice. I’m all about upbeat catchy songs. I have high hopes for this group, can’t wait to hear more!

Click to watch their music video. It’s catchy!

MBLAQ – Oh Yeah

You’re Beautiful Episode 2

Episode 2

Mi Nam wakes up to Tae Kyung, a shirtless Jeremy and Shin Woo laying next to her. She also has a busted lip and a very dirty shirt on. At first she doesn’t realize she has a busted lip but when she does she also remembers falling the night before and starts to wonder who she bumped heads with. She goes into denial mode and decides it’s all a dream and tries falling asleep again. However Jeremy interrupts her and demands that she go apologize. Confused she asks him if it wasn’t him then. He tells her that if had been him, he would have thrown her off the balcony lol. She sees Shin Woo making tea and tries to hide, but he sees her and tells her to sit and have tea. He starts saying how last night was crazy and completely absurd, and as he says it he rubs his lips. She takes this as a sign and starts apologizing… as she’s apologizing Jeremy walks in and starts yelling at her because even though he told her to go apologize she’s there calmly drinking tea. Haha so it wasn’t Shin Woo either! It was Tae Kyung! So the night before the one who Mi Nam landed on was Tae Kyung and to make things worse she threw up on him, on his face! Gross!! So he fainted .

Believing it’s all a dream

Being scolded by Jeremy

It was Tae Kyung!

Gross!

At the same time some videos have surfaced the web showing both Tae Kyung and Mi Nam fainted being carried by Jeremy and Shin Woo. People then start assuming they were fighting each other out and the crazy fangirls start protesting against Go Mi Nam.

Mi Nam goes to Tae Kyung’s room to apologize while he’s taking a shower. She decides to leave the scented candle and tea she brought him in his room, and as she’s looking for a place to put the tray disaster strikes! She decides it would be a good idea to put it on the floor and as she’s bending down, wax from the candle falls on the floor. She remembers how much of a neat freak Tae Kyung is and as she’s bending down to clean it up, she bumps into one of his selves. The self tips over and starts to fall; she manages to catch it but not without making a mess. To make things worse the AC remote falls off the shelf turning on the AC when it lands. So papers start flying around the around and very close to the lit scented candle on the floor. She tries to extinguish the flame by spitting on it, and as she’s about to spit a big one, Tae Kyung walks out of the shower and sees it. He’s really pissed off and has her pinned against the shelf when one of his trophies falls over and hits her in the head. She faints, Tae Kyung grabs the trophy and is leaning over her asking if she’s ok. At the same time, the manager, Shin Woo and Jeremy walk into what looks like Tae Kyung hit Mi Nam with the trophy. Lol!

Cornered!

I didn’t do anything!

Mi Nam goes back to Tae Kyung’s room to try to clean up the mess. As she’s cleaning up she finds a lot of movies by the same artist. Mo Hwa Ran. She also finds a picture of a little boy with the artist.

Tae Kyung decides to leave the dorms because he can’t stand Mi Nam anymore. He goes to a hotel where he has an unpleasant encounter with his mother, Mo Hwa Ran (dun dun dun!!).

And now for the climax of this episode!!!

So President Ahn and Tae Kyung are having a video call when the president has to leave for a moment. While Tae Kyung is waiting for the president to return he sees the coordi shoving Mi Nam into the president’s office. She has Mi Nam pinned against a wall and tells her to hurry up and drop down her pants, and starts unbuttoning them. Tae Kyung nearly chokes on the water he was drinking when he sees this lmao. Then they turn off the lights and all Tae Kyung can see are two glow in the dark balls, ehem… lmao.  They turn on the lights and Go Mi Nam says, “Thanks to you, nobody’s going to think I’m a girl.” *facepalm* And to make matters worse he recorded it! So now Tae Kyung knows she’s a girl! Not only that, but earlier that day Shin Woo over herd her, the manager and the coordi talking, so he too knows that she’s a girl!

DUN DUN DUN!!

Haha! Tae Kyung has to go make sure is true, so he goes to the studio where everyone is practicing their choreography. He walks straight over to her, and gives her a hug. He’s about to say “You’re a girl” when they see a flash. It’s the president with a photographer. He mistakes this as Tae Kyung and Mi Nam being friendly and asks the photographer to take more pictures. Well at least people won’t say that they’re fighting anymore.

Haha after practice Mi Nam is taking a shower upstairs, but due to some circumstances the rest of the dances have to take a shower there too. So she’s surrounded by naked men and doesn’t know what to do. She then hears Mother Superior’s voice telling her to not be afraid and to pretend they’re little angels like the ones at the cathedral. So she imagines the as little naked babies running around as she walks through to get to the exit lol. However her illusion is broken when Jeremy calls her name and takes off his towel right in front of her lmao. She freezes! Thankfully Shin Woo covers her head and pushes her out. Her troubles are not over yet however….

This drama just keeps getting better and better!!

Korean Drama: You’re Beautiful

You’re Beautiful

Alternative Names:

미남이시네요

Minami Shineyo

You’re Handsome

Episodes: 16

Broadcast period: 2009-Oct-07 to 2009-Nov-26

Broadcast Network: SBS

Episode 1

Today is not a good day for Sister Gemma (I’m watching the Spanish subs so I’m not really sure what it would translate to in English) . She was late for mass and she had to wrestle this little girl into turning off her tv/video player thingie. In the process of doing this, the headphones became unplugged and the music blasted through the cathedral disturbing mass. To make matters worse Sister Gemma (real name Go Mi Nyu) seems to be rather clumsy and causes a commotion as she’s trying to retrieve the device (what in the world are those things called? Anybody?).

On her way to pick up her plane ticket to Rome she realizes she’s being followed by a somewhat suspicious someone.  It turns out to be her twin brother’s (Go Mi Nam) manager. He’s supposed to sign a deal with a record company to become the 4th member of an idol group called A.N.JELL but has had an accident. The manager needs Gemma to pose as her brother Go Mi Mam until he recovers. Gemma of course refuses, however the manager is very persistent and she finally agrees to go. She dresses up as her brother Mi Man and signs the contract for him.

Suspicious Person

Suspicious Person Down

As she’s signing the contract, the  leader (Tae Kyung) of A.N.JELL walks into the room and declares that even though (Gemma, I’m going to refer to her as Mi Nam or Go Mi Nam from now on) Mi Nam has signed the contract, he wont accept him until he hears this “angelic” voice, Go Mi Nam is supposed to have. He drags Mi Nam to the studio and tells him to start singing. Mi Nam doesn’t know what to do and starts to panic while Tae Kyung just glares at her. Finally Tae Kyung grows impatient and decides that Mi Nam can’t do it as is about to rip the contract when she suddenly starts singing.

*Glare*

It was a very angelic voice. Both the leader and the other members of A.N.JELL (are in awe as Mi Nam sings a hymn in Latin. Her voice was so angelic it gave them chills. So Tae Kyung reluctantly, rather, unhappily accepts Mi Nam.

Ahh, so all went relatively well and Gemma is feeling a bit relaxed now since it’s all over, and she can go back to the convent and Rome as planned. Wrong! The manager needs her to stay for at least a month. Apparently her brother had eye surgery and now he can’t close his eyes… she runs away.

So she’s at the airport spacing out when she accidentally bumps into Tae Kyung. She panics and thinks that he might recognize her and grabs his mp3 player by mistake and runs away. She also forgets her plane ticket in the process. Tae Kyung runs after her trying to give her, her ticket which makes her panic even more.  They chase her around for a while as she tries to avoid them until it’s finally time for them to go, so Gemma remains ticketless. As she’s sulking on an airport bench she  remember what the manager told her earlier that day. He told her the reason Go Mi Nam, her brother, wanted to become famous was to find their mother who is also a famous singer. And after some pondering and more sulking she decides to do it, and pose as Go Mi Nam!

Retreat! Retreat!

Debut

So she’s now living at the dorms with the other group members. As she’s unpacking she finds Tae Kyung’s mp3 player and think’s it’s a good idea she returns it. As she’s trying to find the best place to put it she hears him coming and runs for cover. The only hidding place she could think of was the bathroom however. Tae Kyung is a very meticulous person so he notices that something’s off on his desk right away. He also notices that the bathroom door is slightly ajar. He goes to check out the bathroom and finds Mi Nam sitting on his toilet. She panics and presses the buttons that squirt water (not sure how to word this properly lol). She fight with the toilet stream for a while ’til it finally shuts off. This of course makes a very bad first impression.

Let the disasters continue! So she’s at Mi Nam’s welcoming party and she gets completely drunk. She tries to find the restroom but goes into the women’s restroom instead of the men’s since she’s now a guy. However Jeremy pulls her out and sends her to the second floor where the men’s restrooms is. She’s on the second floor and starts feeling kind of hot. Shin Woo tells her to out to the balcony to get some fresh air. She’s finally outside stumbling all over the place and talking to herself when Tae Kyung sees her. As she’s talking to him, she starts feeling sick. Tae Kyung tries to find something she can throw up in and finds a pot. He holds the pot as she’s throwing up, which in turn makes him want to throw up.

Now they’re all reunited in the balcony and she’s feeling a lot better. She stands up on a bench to try to reach the sky when she starts feeling dizzy and starts falling. All three of them rush over to catch her and…. End of episode 1.

Who will catch her??…

I really liked this episode, it was funny and cute in my opinion! This looks like a good drama!

Otomen Live Action Drama: Episode 1

Announcement: I’m back! After what… 2 months? School kept me busy. So I’m back for three weeks yay!

Otomen: Episode 1

Synopsis: The story centers around the popular high school boy Masamune Asuka, the top kendo fighter in the nation. However, beneath his cool exterior, he is actually fond of sweets and shojo manga, and is skilled in sewing and cooking. When he instantly falls for the transfer student Miyakozuka Ryo, his secret is in danger of being exposed. – DramaWiki

I finally got to watch episode 1 and I must say that it was awesome! At first I wasn’t very happy Okada Masaki as Asuka but after watching the first episode I think they made a good choice. In my head he still looked how he did in Hana Kimi so I wasn’t sure how manly he would look. Of course, now he’s older and in my opinion looks pretty manly but not too many that he can’t play an otomen.

Episode starts off with a flashback of Asuka playing with dolls and cute things, and his dad confessing that he’s always wanted to be a girl. His mother faints and as she’s being rushed into the hospital, she makes Asuka promise that he won’t turn out like his father, that he will be the manliest of men;  And this is how it all begins!

In episode 1 Asuka meets Ryo after his Kendo match as she’s trying to defend a guy ( Yamato) and immediately starts to feel something toward her.  She’s a new transfer student who is interested in Kendo because her father also does Kendo. Classmate Juta decides to tag a long, and if you read the manga you know that he is a mangaka and is basing his manga on Asuka and follows/spies on him.

Asuka hears some girls talking about Ryo and Juta being alone in Home Ec. Asuka rushes over to see what’s happening and as he gets to the door he hears Ryo say “No stop” in as you can imagine, a “suggestive” way, so he busts through the door to find Ryo and Juta trying to bake a cake. However they’re doing such a horrible job that his girly side takes over and offers to help Ryo bake a cake. They end up making a beautiful cake before Asuka realizes what he’s doing and runs away.

The next day the guys he scared away come and destroy his kendojo. Apparently one of the guys and him know each other (a fellow otomen perhaps?) and they have a kendo fight.One of the guy’s friend steps in and hits Asuka from behind. Asuka’s on the floor and the guy is about to hit him again when Ryo steps in and kicks major butt! So the bad guys are on the floor, Asuka is staring in awe, and Ryo says “You are cute. When I see you, I want to protect you.” Kyaa~ (or something like) So cute! :3

Over all it was a pretty good episode. Sadly the subs take quite a while to come out so I don’t know how long it’s going to take before I watch episode 2. Hmm I guess I’ll keep reading the manga to compare!