Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

It does really look like that the digital age can provide a lot of distractions, right? Yup, I decided to give Zenkaiger yet another pause to explore other stuff that I haven't watched last decade. I remembered watching Pride and Prejudice some time ago  which was a combination of romance and legal drama. How does Suspicious Partner hold out in that regard? Some may think about the J-Drama and Anime-style humor entertaining here. After all, much of Korean entertainment is Japanese-inspired, right? At first glance, it may seem Mio Kudo and Erika Toda had a project together last 2017. Instead, we have Nam Ji Hyun (who looks like Mio) and Kwon Nara (who really LOOKS LIKE Erika) with the cast. I was thinking about how the show seems to a richly-flavored cake in contrast to how Pride and Prejudice was run. For some Filipinos, they watched it badly-dubbed sometime in 2019.  The opening doesn't seem to focus on legal drama. Instead, we have the tale of cheating that opens it up. Eun ...

I guess fanboyism can affect your grades right? I could remember having this weird fanboyism going on and how it affected my final exam grade. I could remember it was the 2000s when I was nearing my graduation year. It was the finals week and I didn't flunk in any of my midterm subjects. I wasn't outstanding but I didn't get bad grades either. It was time to review for my finals exam. It was really mandatory to study, don't watch TV, and GET SOME REST before taking the exam. Well, I had a closet fanboyism at that time. ABS-CBN and GMA-7 were airing certain Koreanovelas. There was  Forbidden Love  on ABS-CBN and  Love Story in Harvard  on GMA-7 - both having Kim Tae Hee on it. What I actually fantasized about back in college was marrying the 25-year-old actress while I was a 20-year-old student .   It was one day before the final exam for that particular subject on ethics. I guess I got complacent with my good midterm grade that I didn't care too much about...

Back in 2001(that would be 20 years ago) - the Taiwanese adaptation of Hana Yori Dango or Meteor Garden was made. I was thinking about the comments on the chemistry of Jerry Yan and Barbie Xu-Wang as Doumyoji Tsukasa (Daoming Si) and Makino Tsukushi (Dong Shan Tsai) in the said TV series. I still feel Barbie has been the best Tsukushi ever and Jerry portrays every side of Doumyoji (an insecure bully who changes for the better) oh-so-well. Meteor Garden's first season aired in the same year as the remake of Romance in the Rain which the 1986 version starred Chin Han and Leanne Liu . I decided to try watching the 1986 version (even without understand almost all of it) and decided to only see the similar scenes between the 2001 and 1986 versions. So, I wonder was Chiung Yao trying to make her 2001 remake a high budget or what? I even wonder what if Jerry and Barbie were Shuhuan and Yiping instead of Daoming Si and Shan Cai back in 2001.  Meteor Garden got so popular that a second seas...